> For a Northerly route a leg betwen Palm Springs a Pomona seems to be
> through a nice mountain pass.Yep. Banning Pass. Gets quite windy there. In real life there are acres and acres of wind generators there. It's going to be interesting to see what FS has.
> The leg betwen Pomona and Santa Monica
> seems to barely skirt the main approaches to LAX.
Consider flying outbound on a SMO radial and joining a POM radial inbound until you cross. You can avoid LAX Class B that way.
> At less than 100 nm we could fly a helicoptor or a Piper Cub!
Considering the weather has been clearing up, and there's a lot to see on this flight, taking it slower might be a treat.
> I'm thinking an altitude of 6500 over and west of Pomona with and an
> altidude of 2000 on most of the leg betwen Santa Monica and Pomona to be
> under the northerly section of LAX's airspace (100/25).
See above.
> Desert Resorts
> has 6800 and 5000 ft (approx) runways so stoping shouldn't be a problem
> for the propeler powered planes.
Ah, don't speak too soon!
> Shall we go for the slightly longer trip using Desert Resorts? Which
> direction, Eastbound or Westbound?
I'll leave that up to you. Either works for me.
Thanks!
Ben
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