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Join me on this flight through the LA Special Flight Rules Area. It's a really cool and unique area which allows transitioning over the top of LAX without talking to ATC at all! If you pull up a LA sectional TAC chart you will find the various transitions including the SFRA - https://skyvector.com/ - center mouse over KLAX - press the Los Angeles TAC button and scroll to the far left of the chart. Requirements are to squawk 1201, and in my case be at 4500 ft, not exceeding 140 KIAS, and be established on the SMO132R inbound. Pilots are highly recommended to use 128.55 to call positions to other aircraft (similar to CTAF) I depart Long Beach, turn out to the south to clear the bravo shelf, then climb and align myself on the radial, enter 1201, turn on my lights and proceed NW towards the Santa Monica vor exit point. There I turn north and transition the Van Nuys delta and Burbank class C. Then I continue through the mountains (and below the clouds) towards Agua Dulce L70 Untitled-2 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-3 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-4 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Port of Long Beach Untitled-5 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr LA just off the wing, but we first must clear the bravo shelf, and climb to join the radial at 4500 Untitled-6 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Established on the SMO132R Untitled-7 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Approaching Imperial Highway Untitled-8 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr All of this without legally requiring communications with ATC - so cool Untitled-9 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A heavy landing 25L Untitled-10 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr SoFi Stadium Untitled-11 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr We've passed KSMO but must remain under 5000 to stay clear of the class B Untitled-12 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Clouds are remnants of the tropical storm Hillary Untitled-13 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Burbank's RY 8 to our east Untitled-14 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-16 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Clouds gave us little room to manuever Untitled-17 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Straight in for RY 04 at L70 Untitled-18 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr A beautiful rendition of this airport by @vbazillio Untitled-20 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-21 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr Untitled-22 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr I'd hang my head in shame too if I weren't able to fly a T-6!! Untitled-23 by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

Occasionally I'll fire up FS9 and do a little plane spotting, here was a project I completed a few years ago when I finally learned how to set up AI traffic from scratch. Tedious but well worth it and great for taking those old Historic Jetliner Group birds out for a spin. All timetables are from around 1993 to 1994. Taken at default LAX with sweetfx and enb nothing too fancy.

Has anyone found a scenery for KLAX that is very detailed? I would love to purchase the best on the market. Also KIAH, PHNL, KJFK. I have searched to no avail Thanks for your help. Mike Bartils, Houston, TX

So recently i found out that ive been flying around with this problem without me noticing: I recently Bought FTX Palm Springs and i didn't notice this problem before i bought it. I also have some Scenery installed for the Los Angeles area but I have no idea where the location of it is and can't find it to remove it. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. thanks