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Key Takeaways:

  • A pilot landed at Camarillo Airport (KCMA) on a particularly windy day.
  • Ground control issued an unusual advisory about "tumbleweed all quadrants," emphasizing it was beyond their control.
  • The pilot witnessed numerous large tumbleweeds rolling across the taxiways and runway, likening the scene to an old Western movie.
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I landed at KCMA, Camarillo, CA on a windy day and checked in with ground.

Ground: “18 Sierra Romeo, taxi to the ramp via Foxtrot, caution, tumbleweed all quadrants, not my control”

He wasn’t kidding either; huge tumbleweed balls were passing over the taxiways and runway heading downwind like a scene from an old Western movie.


Stephen Silverman

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