{"id":772,"date":"2010-07-05T18:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T02:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2010-07-05T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T02:03:22","slug":"lunch-and-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Lunch and Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The June gloom in LA has extended itself to July, and I was hoping to take advantage of it and get some time in the clouds today.\u00a0 As usual, as soon as I went up, the clouds began their retreat, but I did get a tiny touch of actual in and grab lunch at Riverside Municipal<\/a>.\u00a0 The flight out was a good refresher for IFR procedures even though I didn’t spend more than a minute or two in the clouds climbing out.\u00a0 Juggling the radios, GPS, and other navigation aids is always good practice, even when I’ve cleared the layer.<\/p>\n

The flight out wasn’t very eventful for me, but a Delta flight crew was having a pretty tough time of it, to the point where they managed to tick off an Approach Controller.\u00a0 Everyone’s had a bad day, but when you hear someone having theirs, it makes you determined not to have one of yours at the same time.\u00a0 Fortunately, my number wasn’t up; my flight was routine.<\/p>\n

Riverside Municipal is a nice little towered airport with an old school diner on the premises.\u00a0 I enjoyed a patty melt with my Pacific Flyer<\/a>. I took a couple pictures of the airport and the planes, including the apparent Texan who’s modified the Bible verse on his horizontal stabilizer.<\/p>\n\n\t\t