Traffic and the joys of flying

CaliforniaSurfer

CaliforniaSurfer

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After a semi-long day at the airport teaching people how to fly traffic patterns, I was anxious to get home and relax. However, at 1745 you are not moving anywhere quickly on a southern California freeway. So, frustrated, I got off the freeway and headed back to the airportto grab the flight center's 172RG. I flew to an uncontrolled airport about 10 minutes from my house. Landed, called my wife and had her pick me up. It was so relaxing and enjoyable to just fly. Not have to teach anybody anything or talk....just fly!

It was so refreshing. Then the next morning, I left at about 0745 to head back to SNA and it as a clear, beautiful, sunny morning in southern Cal. You could see forever and a mile. Flew out over Huntington for a quick surf check and then back in to 1R.

Anyway, just wanted to share that moment with y'all.

Surf
 
I hear ya. As much as it hurts the pocket book, I still try to get up and fly myself somewhere once a week, preferably in hard imc if there's any around.
 
Sounds like a nice way to go home. How much did you have to pay for this? You get a discount for being an employee? What about tie-down fee at the overnight airport? How long would it have taken you to get home if you had just driven home?

Okay I'm full of questions. I live in a city where owning a car is a hastle. Public transportation is fantastic. I remember hearing somewhere that LA had a great street-car system before WWII. Then the automobile loby convinced the PTB to rip up the tracks. Now socal's a parking lot. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I maybe saved 20 minutes tops, by the time I got off the freeway, pre-flight, runup and such. The block rate is $110/hr., and I get a little discount off of that. The overnight fee was $3.
 
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