Yasser’s Flying Blog

I went up to San Francisco last weekend and did a bay area flight and a few circles above the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge. Takeoff was from Palo Alto in a Piper Warrior.

Below are a couple of videos of my flight to Catalina with my friend Tim. We took off from Santa Monica airport. I was a little nervous about landing there at the top of the cliff again but managed it ok. We stayed at Catalina for a mere hour relaxing before deciding to head back to Santa Monica. I checked the weather beforehand and we were meant to have clear skies all day, but we found out shortly after takeoff that forecasts just don’t cut it sometimes. We found the entire west coast suddenly covered with overcast cloud. I decided to make it back to the mainland, and diverted to Torrance airport to land east of the clouds.

I decided to take baby steps first to make sure I was comfortable going in and out of Santa Monica airport on my own. I did a few trips with some friends up along the Malibu coast and then flying back over downtown LA.

Here’s a video landing in Santa Monica with my friend Tim and his wife Bonnie:

Here’s a video where I duct-taped a video camera to the inside window of the plane and did a loop around Downtown Los Angeles:

Here’s a video flying along the Malibu coast with my roommate Marissa:

I got my Credit Card type US Private Pilot Certificate in the mail yesterday!! I’m so excited to finally do some fly away trips around the US!