{"id":566,"date":"2009-11-23T23:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T07:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2009-11-23T23:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T07:08:13","slug":"lunch-at-corona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Lunch at Corona"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like Brenda and I will be flying East this year for the holidays, which means I’ll be finding extra excuses to go out flying this month.\u00a0 Today’s excuse was a trip out to Corona<\/a>, a small uncontrolled field out near Chino<\/a> and Ontario<\/a>.\u00a0 Corona strikes me as a good community airfield and it’s usually a good trip, though it does get busy there.<\/p>\n

The flight out through the LAX special flight rules corridor was pretty uneventful.\u00a0 The Inland Empire had some haze in place, but nothing too bad.\u00a0 I heard some people land at Corona ahead of me, but as I came in, I had the pattern to myself.<\/p>\n

I tied down and moseyed over toward the restaurant, and spotted this cool Ercoupe on the way.<\/p>\n

\"Ercoupe<\/a><\/p>\n

There are so many cool Ercoupes running around these days that there must be some kind of Ercoupe hot rodder’s club or something.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I like Corona because it’s the kind of little field where you can see the planes along the town’s roads near the airport.<\/p>\n

\"Main<\/a><\/p>\n

Of all the things at Corona that I liked in the past, the restaurant made the least impression on me.\u00a0 It was fine, but I don’t remember it fondly.\u00a0 And now I’ll have to remember it. A new place has opened up in the old restaurant’s place, called Bobby A’s.\u00a0 I talked briefly with Bobby when I was there and he says he’s only been open since mid-September.\u00a0 He should stay open for a while – the food is good and priced reasonably and the place feels like it’s run by people who care.\u00a0 It’s pretty much a 50’s diner, but there were vegetarian options, and the breakfasts looked good.\u00a0 I’ll definitely be back.<\/p>\n

\"Bobby<\/a><\/p>\n

On the way out I passed this little vehicle outside the airport security office.\u00a0 I don’t think I’d mess with a security guard riding it.<\/p>\n

\"Gator<\/a><\/p>\n

As I walked up to the place to move on, I saw this gorgeous Stearman running up and departing.\u00a0 Boy do I love the old biplanes.<\/p>\n

\"Stearman<\/a><\/p>\n

As I was getting untied and ready to go, I’m pretty sure I saw two planes almost meet in the middle.\u00a0 A Cessna was in the pattern doing touch and goes arriving behind me and going into the wind.\u00a0 I saw him land and heard an engine run up, which I assumed was the Cessna following through.\u00a0 I looked up, though and saw an airplane that was coming toward me and turning right to the downwind. Then I saw the Cessna follow through.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure they were headed right at each other, though they were never very close.<\/p>\n

Not a good thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I cruised over to Chino and got some landing practice in.\u00a0 I was going to do a few at Corona, but honestly the pattern was pretty busy, and though some people were ignoring it, there was<\/em> a sign saying no touch-and-goes on the weekends.\u00a0 I try to be a good neighbor, so I flew the 2 miles over to Chino.<\/p>\n

After a few trips around the patch, I filed an instrument flight plan back to Santa Monica just for the chance to drill procedures and practice working in the system.\u00a0 The trip back went very well.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to a few more before the big trip in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Brenda and I will be flying East this year for the holidays, which means I’ll be finding extra excuses to go out flying this month.\u00a0 Today’s excuse was a trip out to Corona, a small uncontrolled field out near Chino and Ontario.\u00a0 Corona strikes me as a good community airfield and it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-blogbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}