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Old 5th Oct 2002, 03:40
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Scott Voigt
 
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Yup, LAX has pretty good weather most of the time, however in the summer the ocean fog comes in and things get a bit dicey on the beach. Not to mention that even though the vis reports say 3 miles I quite often couldn't see forward more than a mile due to haze while flying there. Now in SFO the weather quite often was of the UK variety <G>, cloudy or foggy. The rest of the bay area was nice, but not around the peninsula.

As for the not enough resources. I can feel for you. Sometimes we don't have what we need to do everything either and in those cases, we do restrict VFR. However, we have pretty much been raised with the idea that GA has as much in the way of rights to the airspace as anyone else. Now, around the MAJOR places, there are indeed times and places where we don't let the VFR folks tread, just because you can only do so much. But when we can, we let the little folks in too. It's their airspace too... But also, the little guys are quite often going to be the big guys in a not to distant future. Shoot, we seem to be the worlds training ground for commercial pilots over here...

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