It was a beautiful day leaving Gillespie field, KSEE with a straight out departure and climbed high enough to remain under the nearby Miramar class Bravo airspace. The altitudes were 2500-3500' based on the airspace in KAVX and lower around San Diego.
I attempted the long hike across the trans Catalina trail and made it about 4 miles there and decided to head back due to the incredible high heat and humidity. A nice view on the trail.
Before that, we flew over the town of Avalon before landing at KAVX.
While on the trail, we saw deer and wild buffalo!
The cool hangar greeted us after we landed.
Flying there and leaving we saw the large armada of sailboats.
The reward for surviving the hike on the trans-Catalina trail:
View of the back side hill of airport
It was super busy with lots of cool airplanes coming and going on the field!
The airport KAVX is like a carrier deck terrain and water on all sides. It is similar to flying into Shelter Cove airport.
Back to the airport lots of unique planes like this Maule:
Cessna 182 Skylane
Entrance to the trail:
It took us about 45 minutes to arrive from KSEE due to headwinds in the Piper Archer we cruised at 95-100 kts and amazing tailwinds on the return flight we had 142 knots!
