Originally Posted by
n5296s
It's slightly to the right of 101, which makes a perfect visual ILS (if you see what I mean).
It's at 692 feet (according to caltopo), so IF the ceilings being given were correct, it would have worked. But your suggestion of hitting a fog bank seems highly probable, so the ceiling info would be wrong in that case.
As for taking a car from KCMA - it's only 3 miles or so but if they were already hitting a deadline... we all know that "just taking a car" easily adds half an hour to the journey time.
There is no pad in Newbury Park. They were heading to CMA. Then a car back.