> I am not familiar with what SFRA stands for Special Flight Rules Area
> I hadn't realy looked at the Catalina to San Luis route before today,
> but on the "poster" from the back of Ben's FS 2000 book the 310° radial
> outbound from Santa Catalina along victor airway V-37 looks like a good
> first leg.
I actually had a flight to and from Catalina originally for that book, but at the last minute, Microsoft made me pull it because the Catalina that shipped had a phantom runway there.
> There are a lot of VOR labels in that part of the map, and
> I'm not completely sure which label goes with the other end of V-37
> (Ventura?).
Ventura is correct.
> I'll check in the FS 2004 flight planner later. From that
> VOR the route over Fellows then to San Luis looks promising.
Flying a hi-perf multi-engine aircraft over V-37 seems OK. (I wouldn't try it in a single.)
> Of couse, since we know the controler we shouldn't have any problems
> getting clearance if we want a better look at Los Angeles
>
> I don't have a Los Angeles terminal area chart.
You don't really need one if you have my book. The flight to Zamparini covers the (now termed the "LAX mini-route") procedures. Just reverse them to fly northbound and change the altitude to 4,500.
Here's a picture of the latest LAX mini-route info:
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