About midweek my wife found out she had to make a last minute trip to San Diego for work on Friday. Her brother lives down there so she decided to stay the night and fly back late Saturday. My work was quiet so I took a half day Friday and flew the 3 down.
Immediately after takeoff I could see it was going to be soupy and windy down low. You can see part of the Diablo MTB trail network on top of the ridge in this photo.
Look at the traffic heading into Livermore. Been there done that, not fun.
It was windy, bumpy, and hazy down low so I climbed up to 11k. After about an hour I'm over the southern tip of the central valley.
Typical #'s for this plane. Its cold up here! Even with full cabin heat, I had to warm my hands on the bottom of the transponder.
Big mountains off to the right as I make the turn into the basin.
Made it to Palomar!
We got up early the next day to play some doubles tennis at the local courts. 70F and sunny. My mom called me later to tell me she saw chunks of ice floating down the delaware river. I dont miss that one bit.
Time to head out. Palomar is the busiest small airport I've seen in a while. I was #6 in line to takeoff.
Climbing out. You can see the tennis courts and my brother in laws house somewhere in that development in this pic.
I had nice 10-15kt tailwinds the entire ride home. Made the 390 nm return trip in around 2.5 hours and 15.2 gallons of fuel.
Keep pounding those rivets.
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