The flight to Phoenix was great. 3.3 hours out and 3.2 back, with the following legs and missed approaches:
The leg from Montgomery [KMYF] to Yuma [KNYL] as filed: Flightaware.com to the VOR RWY 17 approach into Yuma. Runway 17 was actually closed, but ATC still allowed us to shoot the approach and go missed.
The leg from Yuma to Casa Grande [KCGZ] and onto Gateway Mesa [KIWA] as filed: Flightaware.com. Shot the GPS RWY 23 into Casa Grande and went missed and then ATC vectored us to the ILS or LOC RWY 30C approach into Mesa.
Mesa Gateway was a pretty neat airport, 3 parallel runways. I believe it was an old military base gone half civilian. William and I walked into town for a bite to eat before returning home.
The flight back was really neat. Flying over the mountains near Palm Springs in the dark was a new experience for me. We did have a near full waning gibbous moon which offered some neat shadow effects on the terrain below. We landed at French Valley Airport [F70] and Ramona [KRNM] to satisfy a VFR cross country flight requirement for my commercial rating. We landed in Montgomery sometime after 1 AM.
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