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Take a look at the map, AVX is an island well off the coast.
You will spend more than 1/2 the flight beyond gliding distance.

I found an online sectional. AVX is about 15nm off the coast of San
Pedro. That's no less distant than Nantucket is from the Massachusetts
mainland, slightly more than for Martha's Vineyard. Yet every weekend
many singles make the trip back & forth, myself included.