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I was recently visiting family in southern california and every FBO wanted a minimum 2 hour checkout, and a minimum 1 hour of ground school covering the LAX/SNA
by film42 7y ago
I was recently visiting family in southern california and every FBO wanted a minimum 2 hour checkout, and a minimum 1 hour of ground school covering the LAX/SNA airspace. There was an additional checkout process to visit Catalina Island, and the FBOs "strongly discouraged" flying with pax and instructor before the checkout process had been completed. All to fly a C172. Crazy amount of friction. I'm grateful OA tried to solve this problem even though they weren't in my home area.
- bsder 7y ago> There was an additional checkout process to visit Catalina Island Normally, I'm with you on this but isn't Catalina somewhat unusual as an airport? I don't completely remember what the issues were from my tour, but I thought it was somewhat treacherous. This is similar to people wanting to fly into Burning Man. They explicitly discourage it unless you have significant desert flying experience and even then they discourage quite a few of the lower powered planes. (Deserts can be particularly bad for generating enough lift.)
- dmitrygr 7y ago> but isn't Catalina somewhat unusual as an airport? pretty typical table-top style mountain airport. Anyone with a mountain checkout should be able to fly into there safely