The weather in San Diego finally cleared today, so I woke up early and took the RV up for a flight.
I really had nowhere to go, so I decided to fly along the coast, down to Coronado, and then reverse course and head back to Fallbrook to do a few landing before putting the airplane back in the hangar.
A short video out the side window as I did the 180? turn..
https://youtu.be/rPxkA9gzXnU
Interesting flying right now .. SoCal approach had one controller for the entire San Diego area. I know that the facility has limited staffing now due to less traffic, and also to help reduce the chances of a controller getting COVID-19, and getting the entire shift sick. So, they've reduced the shift size so as to have a backup team if one shift gets sick.
This was likely to be my second to last flight before converting the panel from this:
To this:
I really had nowhere to go, so I decided to fly along the coast, down to Coronado, and then reverse course and head back to Fallbrook to do a few landing before putting the airplane back in the hangar.
A short video out the side window as I did the 180? turn..
https://youtu.be/rPxkA9gzXnU
Interesting flying right now .. SoCal approach had one controller for the entire San Diego area. I know that the facility has limited staffing now due to less traffic, and also to help reduce the chances of a controller getting COVID-19, and getting the entire shift sick. So, they've reduced the shift size so as to have a backup team if one shift gets sick.
This was likely to be my second to last flight before converting the panel from this:
![N789-BT-Panel.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2FhG6b7frB%2FN789-BT-Panel.jpg&hash=67ab2726697d6a30561d9fdc5ae2ffae)
To this:
![N94-JP-Panel.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2Fc4Bm51sR%2FN94-JP-Panel.jpg&hash=d3fb7f20d9c17e135f1bcc2e84267af5)