For a Northerly route a leg betwen Palm Springs a Pomona seems to be through a nice mountain pass. The leg betwen Pomona and Santa Monica seems to barely skirt the main approaches to LAX.Betwen Desert Resorts and Santa Monica via Palm Springs and Pamona VORs is 122 nm. Since Palm Springs VOR is NW of Palm Springs Airport, Santa Monica to Palm Springs via Pamona looks several miles short of 100 nm.
At less than 100 nm we could fly a helicoptor or a Piper Cub!
I'm thinking an altitude of 6500 over and west of Pomona with and an altidude of 2000 on most of the leg betwen Santa Monica and Pomona to be under the northerly section of LAX's airspace (100/25). Desert Resorts has 6800 and 5000 ft (approx) runways so stoping shouldn't be a problem for the propeler powered planes.
Shall we go for the slightly longer trip using Desert Resorts? Which direction, Eastbound or Westbound?
Robert
Near KORF