A smooth trip
The other day I took some folks all the way down to San Diego County from the Chico, dropped them off and came back. Piece of Cake. I really don’t think I have ever seen such picture perfect flying conditions. At 10,000 feet there was virtually no wind and the air was as smooth as glass. This was the case the entire 1000 mile trip (about 500 miles each way). Even over the notoriously rough high desert near Mojave there was nary a ripple. Not only that, but there seemed to be no traffic in the skies either. As I was coming down over the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge just before landing at Willows Airport at sunset, I noticed the water on the ponds was rippling, with calm water on the south shores, indicating a south wind kicking up. Looks like low pressure moving in, the dry spell is over.