Lunch and Inspiration
The June gloom in LA has extended itself to July, and I was hoping to take advantage of it and get some time in the clouds today. As usual, as soon as I went up, the clouds began their retreat, but I did get a tiny touch of actual in and grab lunch at Riverside Municipal. The flight out was a good refresher for IFR procedures even though I didn’t spend more than a minute or two in the clouds climbing out. Juggling the radios, GPS, and other navigation aids is always good practice, even when I’ve cleared the layer.
The flight out wasn’t very eventful for me, but a Delta flight crew was having a pretty tough time of it, to the point where they managed to tick off an Approach Controller. Everyone’s had a bad day, but when you hear someone having theirs, it makes you determined not to have one of yours at the same time. Fortunately, my number wasn’t up; my flight was routine.
Riverside Municipal is a nice little towered airport with an old school diner on the premises. I enjoyed a patty melt with my Pacific Flyer. I took a couple pictures of the airport and the planes, including the apparent Texan who’s modified the Bible verse on his horizontal stabilizer.
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- Riverside Tower and Flight Line (the helicopter reads “Engine 58”)
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- The D&D Cafe at Riverside
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- A Texan Piper
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- The Tail of the Texan Piper
After lunch and pictures, it was back to Santa Monica under instrument rules, but without any clouds.