On Jan 6, 10:54 am, OzPilot wrote:
Hello everybody.

I am travelling to Las Vegas (from Australia) in March for a work
conference but have three full days in Los Angeles. I thought that I
would use the opportunity to do some flying and maybe even take
advantage of some unusual types that you wouldn't and couldn't find
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It will be pretty hard to rent anything other than a standard spam can
(C172 or Warrior).

Another enjoyable flight I'll throw into the conversation is to go to
KSMO and rent a 172 and an instructor for a local flight. From SMO
you can overfly LAX midfield at about 3000 feet, which is a great view
for an aviation enthusiast, you can watch the 747's taking off below
you to head out over the ocean, then go down to Long Beach, and then
out to Catalina Island (KAVX), which is a fun place to land winds
permitting (warning: landing fee, which is pretty rare in this
country) and eat at the runway cafe, if it's too windy it's still a
cool place to circumnavigate. Then back to Long Beach, back up over
LAX again, then up the coast to Malibu, turn inland and fly next to
the hills to downtown LA then back to SMO.

I did that on a business trip to LA, enjoyed it immensely. Highly
recommend it. Great way to see the LA area.