Bill Goddard (my IFR and CPL instructor) and I did a VFR flight from Hawthorne to Flabob airport near Riverside. The weather was goregous – raining and sunny patches. The rain looked like a cascading waterfall and ATC called us a few times to check advice us of the weather ahead. I was perfectly lined up to go around the rain, till Bill told me to take a 20 degree left turn to hit the rain head on. Why? Well, Bill is an instructor and a simple VFR flight would not be any new training for me – he needed to make it worth his time I guess. A little rain flying never hurt.
We flew threw the rain and made our way to Paradise VOR (PDZ). From there the flight got more interesting. Flabob has a mountain next to it and to make your base leg for Runway 24, you need to get as close to the mountain as possible and then drop down to final.
You can see it here
Watch for the mountain on the base leg of Runway 24
It is a long enough runway for a Cessna 172, about 3500 ft – so no real issues, but just to have fun we did a short field landing.
