The YouTube videos on the CAT-1 exercise do exactly that, and unsurprisingly the sim pilots involved in all four of the videos that I’ve watched run into high elevation weather problems. Of course, if one is bound and determined to use radio navigation, hey, fly right over the mountains, keyed to the Fellows VOR/DME, and hope that you don’t run into clouds/mist or have a serious engine or mechanical problem. How much more time would this route take? Not more than about four minutes, and possibly none due to less time climbing and descending.
Certainly better than the surrounding mountainsides and trees of Los Pedros National Forest. Indeed, the lazy course of the Cuyama River, which SR 166 follows, is a hint.Īt this point, there are YouTube videos on just about everything, and it turns out that the videos on this highway show that SR 166 itself, and many places alongside it (lots of flat scrubland and in places agricultural land), would make a pretty good landing strip. Similarly, my view that following SR 166 is the smart way to fly from Océano to New Cuyama is fundamentally based on the fact that SR 166 is not the twisty road that one might think from a quick glance at the aeronautical chart. Low tide and an extended beach could come in very handy in the event of an engine/mechanical failure on takeoff. Looking at the geography, and knowing that this area was at one time famous for its Pismo clams, I suspect that the slope of the beach just beyond the end of the runway is very gradual. When is low tide and how far out is the low water mark? If I was planning a flight from Océano Airport, there are two pieces of marine, rather than aeronautical, data that I would want. Re my reference above to using a marine chart to help plan a flight across Long Island Sound, here’s a related observation about the CAT-1 exercise.
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