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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Dec 3, 2013
Description: Last year while the SuRi was getting longer its SeaRey got to fly around California. It was based out of Santa Monica and Lake Tahoe. For a Florida boy it was like flying in a different country.
Date Taken: Dec 3, 2013
Place Taken: Santa Monica Airport, California
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 541, Yacht Tending CA
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Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The first thing to get used to was people packed into small spaces surrounded by wide open places. Crossing a sea of concrete was disconcerting. There was no place to put down if the engine quit. A local flight instructor suggested following the concrete rivers. He was talking about the congested highways. There were, however, concrete encased rivers that looked a lot better.      Attachments:  

Over LA.jpg
Over LA

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The concrete encased rivers even had a bit of water for SeaReys. You do gotta watch out for those concrete trees.      Attachments:  

Concrete River.jpg
Concrete River

    
  
Bruce McGregor - Dec 04,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    How did you happen into that visibility? During thirty years living in Northern CA, I flew into the LA basin perhaps twenty times. Not once did I see the mountains that clearly. Most of the time I did not even see the mountains in the "about three miles" horizontal visibility in the smog.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->     
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The LA pilots whose engine quit have to be really good to fit into the flow of traffic when landing on the curvaceous roads. Best not to fly during rush hour.      Attachments:  

Unders and Overs.jpg
Unders and Overs

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    There were flood control structures that might have been good for an emergency splash after a big rain.      Attachments:  

Not Holding Pond.jpg
Not Holding Pond

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Mining in Los Angeles County? There are several quarries and three gold mines.      Attachments:  

Future Foundations.jpg
Future Foundations

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    The Chino airport has a ramp full of great old airplanes, including a Consolidated 40 Privateer (PB4Y-2) and a Curtiss-Wright CW-20B-4 Commando (C-46F); all part of the Yanks Air Museum collection.      Attachments:  

Two Classics.jpg
Two Classics

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    This big bruiser just busts through the air. There is a good book about the Fairchild C123 Provider, “Flying Through MidNight” by John T. Halliday. It describes the aircraft as it was used during secret missions in Laos. It is a fine book highlighting a remarkable airplane and one of its decorated pilots.      Attachments:  

Brute Flyer.jpg
Brute Flyer

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    A B-25J owned by Aero Trader’s owners.      Attachments:  

Pacific Princess.jpg
Pacific Princess

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    A choice of fields for imaginary battles or training for something more real? Last year a couple of guys arrested on terrorism charges were alleged to have trained at Corona-area paintball/airsoft facility.      Attachments:  

Battlefields.jpg
Battlefields

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    It may take nature millions of years, but a bit of strip mining can tear down hills in just a few million minutes.      Attachments:  

Instant Erosion.jpg
Instant Erosion

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    A suburban playground.      Attachments:  

Ah Suburbia.jpg
Ah Suburbia

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Tucked in the brown mountains are some pretty colorful estates.      Attachments:  

Purple Dressing.jpg
Purple Dressing

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    On the steep hillsides terracing provides the platform for a lot of agricultural variety.      Attachments:  

Varied Terracing.jpg
Varied Terracing

    
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Pretty stuff, unless you have to weed it!      Attachments:  

Garden Spotting.jpg
Garden Spotting

    
  
Don Maxwell - Dec 03,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Great shots, Dan! (But so concrete! If that's southern California, I won't apply for a visa.)     
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 04,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Hold on to your visa application, Don, as there are some less concrete perspectives in the offing.     
  
Steve Kessinger - Dec 04,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    If you fly over Mt. Tam I will be incredibly jealous....<br /><br />Wonder what it would take to do a seaplane fly-in at the former NAS Alameda, maybe for the 80th anniversary of the China Clipper? (Nov 22, 2015)     
  
Frank A. Carr - Dec 07,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan, thanks for these pictures that I never was able to take when I flew around LA. Come to think of it, that predated digital cameras. <P>I purchased my Archer at SMO and was based there for five years in the late 80's. I got checked out by an Air Alaska DC-9 pilot who taught me to fly in the LA basin. After that experience I felt I could fly anywhere in the USA. (Or, at least anywhere ATC would permit.) <p>Which reminds me that Barry Schiff helped a great deal by recognizing that Sectionals and TSA charts from the Feds concentrated on where you couldn't fly, so he got together with some folks and published LA Fly Charts (I forget now the precise name), that showed flyways in, around and over LA, LAX, etc. They were great help.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or &gt; missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->     
  
Bob Kerrigan - Dec 09,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Earned my private pilot cert in the San Diego area. Flew all over SoCal... Mountains, deserts, Mexico, Vegas... VERY different flying there....     
  
Bob Kerrigan - Dec 09,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    Dan, did you fly the LAX VFR corridor? It overflys LAX in the middle of the runways, then a quick descent into Santa Monica...Did that in my first cross country as a student pilot...It was very cool     
  
Dan Nickens - Dec 09,2013   Viewers  | Reply
    I did use that corridor, Bob, but only after being denied the helicopter route that flies low along the coast. Being helicopter-like wasn't enough to convince the controller's supervisor.     


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