Phoenix Sky Harbor to San Diego Lindbergh
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Over Interstate 8, Dateland airport which despite being closed as an AAF in 1957 still has good runway and concrete parking, a series of developers have tried to turn it into a live at destination as recently as 2015
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Approaching El Centro with the Holtville airport off the canard to the right, one runway is still active, the other gets used by SCCA and other auto racing events. I have a 1/2 hour of logged flying time in a RAF C130 thanks to an event I attended there!
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Another shot of Holtville off the nose
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The sand bar just West of Yuma AZ (on the CA side) is where my father and I would take our drag buggy in the early 1980's. The part South of I-8 is called Buttercup and the part much further North gets called Glamis, I've duned in both. Trivia fact, the Buttercup valley is where the Return of the Jedi desert scenes were shot. I would drive around the fenced and guarded set and Lucas actually tried to privately reserve the State Park over the Labor Day weekend to which he was told NO!
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RNAV Y 27 Lindbergh, hand flown since I don't use the Working Titles GNS430 (it will negate the ability to use the GA on the flight director which I deem more important).
