Back in March, I met piperboy84 in Santa Monica and we went for a jaunt around the Los Angeles Basin in a 172:
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...-glens-la.html
This time our paths crossed again and he took me for a flight in his lovely M4:
We decided to go to Camarillo for lunch. So a westerly departure from SMO and a climb out over Santa Monica pier:
and a cruise along the coast, past expensive Malibu beach houses and then Malibu Colony:
before passing through Pt. Mugu NAS's zone (staying high because of an active small-arms range) and then descending towards Camarillo:
Taxying in, we passed the Camarillo CAF's hangar:
and then past this oddity, which I knew I had seen before, but couldn't place:
After a bit of research, I discovered it is the one and only 1984 Avtek 400. It looks like it hasn't been moved for a long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avtek_400A
After lunch at the lovely Waypoint Cafe (no bacon sarnies here):
we walked back onto the ramp, admired the other aircraft, including these two immaculate Nanchangs:
and then departed. While taxying out, we heard ATC gave some avoidance instructions to a just-landed aircraft:
Ground: Cessna 1234, taxi behind the yellow Cub.
Cessna 1234: Taxi behind the, er, little yellow plane
Of course, what do you expect if you are flying a bright-yellow taildragger!
On the way back, we stayed inland and flew up the Simi Valley and over the Santa Susanna Pass into the San Fernando Valley. On the way, pb84 pointed out the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the rather incongruous F-14 in the grounds.