Hi folks!
Another beautiful day in California! And fathers day to boot... I took my dad for a "Bay Tour" out of Hayward Airport. Wow!
Started out with a usual instructor checkout, which was kind of half-a-Bay-Tour, getting a transition through Oakland's Class C, over the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, over Alcatraz, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and then doing airwork and coming back via Mt. Diablo. NorCal Appch was talking to a lot of Bay Tourists today. That is some flight. If you like the Hudson River Corridor, then you'll LOVE the Bay Tour. Urban wonderment! I'll post pictures if they get downloaded... San Francisco is the most beautiful skyline in the world (well, I grew up there, so I'm not biased in the slightest! ).
My instructor was satisfied with my flying and my baby-soft landings, even to the point of accusing me of "showing off." So I bought a TAC and we took off again but this time just my dad and I. Followed the same route around the Bay Bridge & Golden Gate, only continued toward Half Moon Bay (a traditional chowder lunch stop). The bay microclimate had its own ideas, however... Half Moon Bay was fogged in, so we turned around and headed north up the coast to Pt Reyes. I let my dad take the wheel for a while (he's always been a bit of an aviation nut and plays a lot of MSFS), and we flew to Petaluma and had lunch there at a cafe called the "Two-Niner Diner". My landings were horrible. I blamed it on the fact that it was a little windy.
A few people had recommended California Airways, and sure enough, they were great. Very nice aircraft (a bunch of new 172SP's, a couple of Grummans, a Diamond... some G1000 stuff for the more ambitious... good variety), very reasonable prices, and nice people. They waived the monthly fee for me because I was going to be in town for so short a time and only able to fly with them basically once.
--Kath
Another beautiful day in California! And fathers day to boot... I took my dad for a "Bay Tour" out of Hayward Airport. Wow!
Started out with a usual instructor checkout, which was kind of half-a-Bay-Tour, getting a transition through Oakland's Class C, over the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza, over Alcatraz, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and then doing airwork and coming back via Mt. Diablo. NorCal Appch was talking to a lot of Bay Tourists today. That is some flight. If you like the Hudson River Corridor, then you'll LOVE the Bay Tour. Urban wonderment! I'll post pictures if they get downloaded... San Francisco is the most beautiful skyline in the world (well, I grew up there, so I'm not biased in the slightest! ).
My instructor was satisfied with my flying and my baby-soft landings, even to the point of accusing me of "showing off." So I bought a TAC and we took off again but this time just my dad and I. Followed the same route around the Bay Bridge & Golden Gate, only continued toward Half Moon Bay (a traditional chowder lunch stop). The bay microclimate had its own ideas, however... Half Moon Bay was fogged in, so we turned around and headed north up the coast to Pt Reyes. I let my dad take the wheel for a while (he's always been a bit of an aviation nut and plays a lot of MSFS), and we flew to Petaluma and had lunch there at a cafe called the "Two-Niner Diner". My landings were horrible. I blamed it on the fact that it was a little windy.
A few people had recommended California Airways, and sure enough, they were great. Very nice aircraft (a bunch of new 172SP's, a couple of Grummans, a Diamond... some G1000 stuff for the more ambitious... good variety), very reasonable prices, and nice people. They waived the monthly fee for me because I was going to be in town for so short a time and only able to fly with them basically once.
--Kath