Originally Posted by
kenish
Thanks for the clarifications to my post. You were very close to the location and time of the crash. It was unusually damp here in Orange County too; as mentioned I was mountain biking. We started in dense fog around 1000MSL and broke out of the top at around 1300 where it was 20+ mile visibility but under a higher broken layer. Sounds like the ground fog layer was a lot thicker in your area.
It was foggy and quite grim and had been that way since dawn, so it wasn't a case of the weather deteriorating since the pilot left SNA.
VNY and BUR were IMC. I would have expected CMA to not have been much better as it sits in the Camarillo plain. Scud running would not have been wise on that 15 mile stretch of the 101 with 2000 foot peaks so close..