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Originally Posted by KathieI
However, this is a simulation, and I have never known a plane to come in over Malibu and through Santa Monica, there's too much traffic from other airports. Usually, if they are coming from the west or north or southern routes, they will fly straight east out over Corona, Watts, Inglewood, etc. and into LAX from the east. I personally have been on 2 aborted landings... other planes were already on the runway... kinda scary,,, but I'm still here to talk about it.
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I have to agree - lived most of my life in Southern California and flew in and out of LAX more times than I can remember. Never made an approach from this direction. I was on 1 aborted landing there, pretty scary, we were almost on the ground when we suddenly were full throttle and climbing. After about 10 minutes of manuvers the pilot came on the PA system to tell us there was another aircraft on our runway. 30 minutes later we were on the ground but a storm had rolled in and it was a rough landing.
I'll be in Southern California in a few weeks as part of my road trip, the only thing I'm flying is my motorhome.
Enjoying Yellowstone now - it's 61 out right now, high of about 75 today. We should have nice moderate temperatures through Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. Will probably heat up again as we head to Vegas.
Never flew an airplane but had a great experience in a small plane over the Andes Mountains. The cockpit curtain was open and we had a great view of the approach and landing. There were 13 of us in our group and we had 13 flights on the trip. One of my "favorite" memories was when passengers would walk around, not through, the security scanners. No one stopped them!