I like the sound of that runway - I guess it makes a late go-around a bad option?
Unfortunately, more important than the weather is the fact that the CAA hasn't authorised any California schools to offer JAR CPL training, so that's not an option. I did have the pleasure of flying through California a couple of times when I was hour-building though (I was based in Arizona, so it was just next door), and all I can say is that whoever designed the airspace around LA must have been on some pretty good drugs at the time - I thought the London airspace was complicated enough!
Would love to go back - I never got to visit the Bay area or San Diego, and I gather that both are well worth a visit.
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