A Journey With Wings

Training the next generation in the family business.

We had a great aerial ash scattering over the Santa Monica mountains yesterday. The family witnessed it from Solstice Canyon.

Had an interesting flight for a scattering off the coast of Malibu today. The client hired a banner to plane to fly as well. Took some coordination. As hard as I tried to get a picture of the banner tow plane, it eluded me. But got some really cool pictures including one of our shadow during the release.

Had a great flight today off the coast of La Jolla. We met the family in Ramona and a few of them participated in the scattering and flew as crew on the Private Scattering flight.

On Sunday we had a scattering flight at sea off the coast of Laguna Beach at a hard set time. What to do if it’s overcast? The family and I decided I would do it above the clouds and the would follow us on a flight tracker. Well to get above the clouds you need to do an instrument departure and an instrument approach. ATC had a lot of traffic so we got some good flying in.

On Saturday we had a flight to the Santa Ana Mountains, known locally as Saddleback. The family was not able to strand in person, but did watch the flight track live.

On Saturday we had a wonderful flight to Oceanside. It was overcast the entire flight until we got to Oceanside, then it cleared. I had one of my favorite copilot’s with me; my 14 year old son, who is taking flying lessons.

Friday evening scattering over Chino Hills. The low sun just made the hills pop.

Friday afternoon flight over Chino Hills State Park. The low sun made the colors of the hills just pop. Love it.

We had a beautiful flight over the Santa Ana Mountains “Saddleback” on Sunday. Although it was unwitnessed, a member of the family was able to come to the Fullerton Airport to watch as the plane departed. We love what we do to accommodate the families we work with.

A beautiful flight for an ash over release Mt. San Jacinto.

A wonderful flight today for a witnessed scattering off of Seal Beach

This little plane doesn’t have an autopilot, but who needs it when your co-pilot can hold heading and altitude this well.

Here are some pictures from our flight over Kings Canyon yesterday. The family hike out to a lookout point to view the release. The weather was perfect for the 3 hour round trip flight from Fullerton Airport.
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On this flight we went back to scatter some rose petals were we had previously done a scattering over Boundaty Cone Peak near Bullhead City AZ. I love how the video captured the pedals.

We had a great weekend of flying. Morning clouds that burned off to clear blue skies. These pictures are from a scattering we did off the coast of San Clemente. San Clemente can be a bit tricky as it’s very close to the restricted airspace near Camp Pendleton. It all worked out and we got these great photos.

Had a great flight to scatter at sea off the coast of Palos Verdes. The family witnessed from the Terranea Resort.
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Today we flew to Fabulous Las Vegas, NV. The family wanted us to scatter their parents cremated remains where the could see the Las Vegas Strip. So we scattered them over Red Rock National conservation Area. They will forever have a view of Las Vegas. The family watch the release from the visitors center while they too had a view of “the strip”.

I know you can’t tell, but Catalina Island is under those clouds. We have permission from the Conservancy to to scatter over the island. It amazes me sometimes what we see when we emerge from the clouds on a glum day.

We had to dance around some broken clouds in order to do this scattering over the Santa Monica Mountains. Luckily one of the breaks was right over the scattering location. The family watched from Kanan Dume Rd.

Rain yesterday and rain tomorrow. But today…..today was a pretty day for flying. The sky gave us a fun palate of colors.

With the recent weather we have been lucky to have flexible clients. Waiting one day can be the difference between dark and dreary and sunny and beautiful. This is a scattering we did over the Santa Monica mountains one day after having to cancel the flight due to low visibility and rain.

This was a special flight. The deceased served our country and his family’s wishes were to have him scattered near a military base. We just so happen to have the Los Alamitos Joint Forces training base and the Naval Weapons Station Seal beach in our Backyard. We flew over both of these and the off the coast to scatter.

Getting to dance with the clouds in order to make this scattering happen.

The family wanted a sunset scattering while they watch from the pier. Today’s weather had me a little worried, but there was just enough holes in the overcast for the sun to peek through. Then we used one of the holes and climbed above it.

This is our latest video as of 12/2/21. The scattering was performed over the beautiful White Tank Mountains in Arizona. The family of the deceased chose the location of the scattering as well as the music for the video.

Cremated Remains Release above White Tank Mountains INFORMATION CONCERNING OUR SCATTERINGS IS BELOW This is our latest video we made for a client of a cremated remains scattering we performed over the Arizona ...

This is our newest video. The scattering was performed over Palomar State Park. The family of the deceased chose the location of the scattering as well as the music for the video.

Ash Scattering over Palomar INFORMATION CONCERNING OUR SCATTERINGS IS BELOW This is our latest video we made for a client of a cremated remains scattering we performed over Palomar Stat...

This is our newest video on the 22nd of November. The scattering was performed over the Laguna Mountains. The family of the deceased chose the location of the scattering as well as the music for the video.

Cremated Remains Scattering over Laguna Mountains INFORMATION CONCERNING OUR SCATTERINGS IS BELOW This is our latest video we made for a client of a cremated remains scattering we performed over the Laguna M...