2005/10/30 San Francisco Bay Tour Flight | |
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2005-10-30 21:50
by Merlin
in Flying, Nflying
I didn't get to fly Saturday due to bad weather (very low ceiling, which means that the clouds were way too low and that I would have needed a special authorization and a rated instructor to fly through the clouds and end up on top).
But sunday was a lot better, so I went for my bay tour flight, which is really a flight into class bravo (San Francisco airspace) to San Francisco, the golden gate and so forth. While I learn from each flight of course, this was more a leisure and sightseeing flight. No complaints on the sightseeing, I got to fly around the golden gate itself, and then through oakland airport (well above), and back to San Carlos and Palo Alto. I used the rest of the flight to do some training (steep turns and navigation). See the rest of the pictures there (in higher resolution) The plane waiting to takeoff on Runway 19L is doing an engine runup test (see the water) |