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Santa Paula should have been included. It's definitely small but a great community there.

And to think, he could have just rented a 172 and seen the same thing all while avoiding turning into a lawn dart.

This is common for toll road enforcement where automated systems read license plates and send you a bill. Many people have gotten major run-arounds trying to dismiss the fine only to get multiple additional notices. Give them a call and tell them to provide proof showing both the tail number...

The restaurant at KCMA is really popular and the field often gets really busy around lunchtime. The runup area turns into a parking lot with planes waiting for arrivals. I've sat there for 20 minutes waiting to get out. Ground will often instruct planes in the runup area to contact them once...

Interesting. I’ve wanted to fly the mini route for quite some time but never gotten the chance to.

Bryan, I think your material is ****ing hilarious. Even my non-pilot wife laughs at your antics. Keep it up as this world needs your humor and for the rest of us to give a big finger to those who can’t pry that stick out of their asses.

I love working on wiring so I would consider DIYing something like this to be a fun challenge, all while under adult supervision, of course.

I was flying at KCMA that morning shooting approaches. Regardless of route or altitude, this guy was going IMC that day. The reported 2,400ft tops at Burbank is deceiving because it was more than likely higher the further west you got. The reports of them “within 100 feet” of breaking out is...

Based on my own flight observations 20 miles to the west that morning, the ground observations were optinmistic at best. One I was 500ft agl the visibility dropped to 1 mile or so. By 800 agl it was half that. And that was in an area not surrounded by close mountains.

The only similar route I went was to get checked out IFR in a DA40 w/ G1000 after I passed my IR checkride. The transition to glass IFR was interesting. Other than that, the things to get used to are the seating position and having that stick between your legs. The controls are nice and...

I was being vectored around to the RNAV Y approach into Camarillo the moment the crash occurred. Unfortunately, the limitations on their operation and possibly the pilot's currency may have prevented that. If they were going to CMA given the conditions that I witnessed that day on the...

I was up shooting approaches out of KCMA and KOXR on Sunday morning and the ceilings were reported at 1,500. It went IFR in haze well below that. By 500, visibility dropped to half and by 800 you could only see the ground out to about half the wingspan as viewed from the cockpit. Often times...

I hate when they talk about knowledge of something like this. I'm extremely knowledged of my own home but if I go through it fairly quickly while blindfolded I'm going to run into a wall or two.

Sometimes it comes down to not who the better pilot is but who the better decision maker is.

I have a few questions, number one is what the actual landing point was going to be. If they were going to land at or near the camp, then scud running was the only way to do it. If they were going to KCMA like they apparently did on Saturday, then how the heck did he plan to scud run it past...

Is it possible it’s both? Got disoriented then tried a 180 to GTFO of there then right into the hill?

Why not just file IFR if the destination is CMA? I was shooting approaches in the area at that time and it was easy least today.

It doesn't matter how good a pilot you think you are, there is always someone better...unless you're Bob Hoover. That being said, I'm sure even Bob Hoover screwed up a landing here and there. We are all learning and you don't get better are anything unless you screw it up a time or ten.

I took and passed my written three days before officially starting my flight training for the IR. While you don't have to have all the knowledge, it sure helps when your instructor puts you into a situation or asks you a question in the air about an approach or other requirement. I figure the...

Oh, yeah. That's the stuff. Nothing like a good dose of LD-4 to clear up that congestion. This just sounds like a bunch of whiny garbage and a waste of public resources. I've had a face full of Jet fuel sprayed in my face. Just wiped it off and kept working.