Garage Guy
Well Known Member
OK, it looks like we have a buyer for our RV-6, but there's time for one last trip while it's still ours. Forecasts say Friday January 21 will be a great day for it, so partner Ralph and I clear our schedules and meet at Montgomery Field (KMYF) to preflight, load up, and launch at 0830 PST.
We took a few photos of the trip, and recorded GPS tracks that we've converted to .kmz files for viewing as tours in Google Earth.
Google Earth tour of this leg: LastTripMYF-CNO.kmz
After takeoff runway 28R at Montgomery, off the left wing to the south is Mission Bay, Lindbergh Field (KSAN), Point Loma, and on the horizon, the Islas Coronados off the coast of Baja California.
And off the right wing, to the north, we have La Jolla Shores Beach, Scripps Pier, UCSD campus, Torrey Pines golf course, and various San Diego County coastal towns and beaches stretching on past the Santa Ana Mountains, and beyond them, on the horizon, the San Gabriel and snowcapped San Bernardino ranges north of the Los Angeles basin. Forecasts were right; it will be a great day for it: clear skies, light winds, and visibility better than 100 miles here.
We cross the northern tip of the Santa Ana range into the LA basin, with the San Gabriels beyond.
Corona airport (KAJO), just to the east, looks well dried out from their big flood in December.
But our first stop will be a little farther on, at Chino (KCNO). Here's left base to final runway 26R:
Now, there are lots of reasons to land at Chino; but for us, this time, it's for breakfast at Flo's Airport Cafe.
At Flo's, you pretty much have to have the biscuits and gravy. Over hashbrowns. With your choice of decorations, like sausage and eggs.
With a Flo's breakfast and a LA terminal area chart, we have what it takes to plot our way over, under, around and through the class B, C, and D airspaces starting the next leg of our one last trip.
--Paul
We took a few photos of the trip, and recorded GPS tracks that we've converted to .kmz files for viewing as tours in Google Earth.
Google Earth tour of this leg: LastTripMYF-CNO.kmz
After takeoff runway 28R at Montgomery, off the left wing to the south is Mission Bay, Lindbergh Field (KSAN), Point Loma, and on the horizon, the Islas Coronados off the coast of Baja California.
And off the right wing, to the north, we have La Jolla Shores Beach, Scripps Pier, UCSD campus, Torrey Pines golf course, and various San Diego County coastal towns and beaches stretching on past the Santa Ana Mountains, and beyond them, on the horizon, the San Gabriel and snowcapped San Bernardino ranges north of the Los Angeles basin. Forecasts were right; it will be a great day for it: clear skies, light winds, and visibility better than 100 miles here.
We cross the northern tip of the Santa Ana range into the LA basin, with the San Gabriels beyond.
Corona airport (KAJO), just to the east, looks well dried out from their big flood in December.
But our first stop will be a little farther on, at Chino (KCNO). Here's left base to final runway 26R:
Now, there are lots of reasons to land at Chino; but for us, this time, it's for breakfast at Flo's Airport Cafe.
At Flo's, you pretty much have to have the biscuits and gravy. Over hashbrowns. With your choice of decorations, like sausage and eggs.
With a Flo's breakfast and a LA terminal area chart, we have what it takes to plot our way over, under, around and through the class B, C, and D airspaces starting the next leg of our one last trip.
--Paul
