At 0939, as N72EX was passing west of Van Nuys at 1,500 feet msl, the VNY controller asked
the pilot if he was in VFR conditions. The pilot replied “VFR conditions, one thousand five
hundred,” and the VNY controller advised him to contact Southern California Terminal Radar
Approach Control (SCT) for radar advisory services.
The pilot reported to SCT that the flight was going to Camarillo at 1,500 feet. The SCT
controller advised that he would not be able to maintain radar contact at that altitude and
terminated services. The SCT controller was subsequently relieved by a different controller. At
0945, the pilot of N72EX again contacted SCT and advised he was climbing above cloud layers
and requested advisory services. The second controller was not aware of the aircraft, as services
had previously been terminated, so asked the pilot to identify the flight. The SCT controller then
asked the pilot his intentions, to which he replied he was climbing to 4,000 feet. There were no
further transmissions.