John and Emmy volunteered themselves to be my first non-pilot passengers in 7 years! After spending a good deal of time explaining the various parts of the airplane and taking pictures, we took off from Hawthorne in "standard" summer conditions, with moderate smog and a 10-15 mph sea breeze plus light thermal turbulence as we headed inland. I had an ice hockey league game to make later that afternoon, so instead of doing a standard "under and over LASFR" tour around the LAX Class B Surface-10,000'MSL airspace, we went over to Downtown, South Pasadena, and Alhambra instead.
View of L.A. Downtown in smog:
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