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[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 046 - Tripoli (Libya) - Tunis (Tunisia)
08-apr-2008

We pushed back from gate 12 at 11.31Z and are cleared to taxi to RWY 27.
Soon after take-off we can climb to our cruising altitude of 39000 feet.
Flying over the Medeterranian Sea we see a lot of great looking clouds, which fortunately did not give us a lot of problems in the forms of turbulance or precipitation.
arrving in Tunisian airspace we are vectored to our ILS approach and after leaving the runway we taxi to our gate where we shut down the engines and head into town.

[pushed back from the gate and engines started]


[taxi in to position and hold on RWY 27]


[turning on course]


[great looking clouds over the Med]


[leaving the active]


[route so far]


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Flight log:

Time out: 11.31Z
Time in: 13.01Z

Block time: 1.5 hours
Flight time: 1.2 hours

Block fuel: 7510 lbs

Flightlevel: FL390
Arriving IAS: 112 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -151 ft/min

Distance: 289 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 12494 nm
Total Block Time: 56.5 hours
Total Block Fuel: 286922 lbs

[jondownie]

I do wonder why noone ever visits Scotland on these things.  When I get FSPax, I will start in Glasgow.

Edited by jondownie, 08 May 2008 - 10:49 AM.

[yuku]

jondownie, on May 8 2008, 04:48 PM, said:

I do wonder why noone ever visits Scotland on these things.  When I get FSPax, I will start in Glasgow.

you are absolute right, unfortunately I've already visited that region and can't implement it in my schedule anymore.

let's continue with our tour. here is the next leg....

Around the World 07/08 - leg 047 - Tunis (Tunisia) - Algiers (Algeria)
24-apr-2008

The managers aboard our plane had a lot of meetings and wanted to relax after that, thus our stay in Tunis was longer than normal (read: work was extremely busy and I had no time to fly the next legs)
Today however it is time to move on and head for Algeria.
After take-off from RWY 29 we climb to 8000 feet and turn on course.
Flying to Algeria we keep hugging the Medeterranian Sea and the weather is perfect.
After arrving in Algiers we are guided to gate A3 to unload all passengers and enjoy the rest of the day.

[ready for boarding]


[taxi to RWY 29 past some Europian friends]


[lift of]


[climbing to 8000 feet]


[another great day for flying]


[hugging the medeterranian coast]


[flying past our destination to circle around for landing]


[lined up, gear down, three greens]


[taxi to gate A3]


[gate A3, jetway docked, passengers deplaning]


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Flight log:

Time out: 11.19Z
Time in: 12.50Z

Block time: 1.5 hours
Flight time: 1.3 hours

Block fuel: 7496 lbs

Flightlevel: FL390
Arriving IAS: 121 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -291 ft/min

Distance: 337 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 12831 nm
Total Block Time: 58.0 hours
Total Block Fuel: 294418 lbs

[Sam Millar]

Wheres your flaps in the last lift off shot?

[yuku]

they are there but just not visible, I used a flap 5 take-off

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 048 - Algiers (Algeria) - Casablanca (Morocco)
05-may-2008

Let us continu our trip and leave Algiers and head to sunny Casablanca in Morocco to get some Moroccan tea.
We're cleared for startup and push back and fly runway heading, climbing to 10.000 feet.
This leg is about 575 nm long and shouldn't take us much more than an hour and a half to complete flying at a cruising altitude of FL390.
Coming in to Moroccan airspace we are vectored to an ILS approach into RWY35.
Today the captain decides to let the FO land the aircraft which he did relatively good however a bit hard.
After everyone had vacated the aircraft and the crew was finished with all the paperwork it was noon and getting pretty hot. Time to hit the pool.

[jetway connectec and ready for boarding]


[liftoff in a foggy Algiers]


[lift of]


[climbing to 10000 feet]


[turning towards Casablanca]


[this guy popped up out of nowhere]


[leaving the active]


[parked for the day]


[route so far]


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Flight log:

Time out: 09.41Z
Time in: 11.24Z

Block time: 1.7 hours
Flight time: 1.6 hours

Block fuel: 8629 lbs

Flightlevel: FL390
Arriving IAS: 129 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -456 ft/min

Distance: 566 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 13397 nm
Total Block Time: 59.7 hours
Total Block Fuel: 303047 lbs

Edited by yuku, 21 May 2008 - 04:00 AM.

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 049 - Casablanca (Morocco) - Ponta Delgada (Azores, Portugal)
06-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[parked]


[interesting AI :)]


[hold short RWY35]


[cleared from 10.000 ft to a final cruiselevel of FL390


[cockpit shot]


[over the atlantic]


[sun going down slowly]


[descending into the clouds]


[cockpit getting darker]


[over the island, destination hidden by the clouds]


[getting down below the clouds]


[Visible approach into RWY30]


[on the runway, sun almost gone]


[our route so far]


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Flight log:

Time out: 16.35Z
Time in: 20.31Z

Block time: 3.9 hours
Flight time: 3.6 hours

Block fuel: 12862 lbs

Flightlevel: FL390
Arriving IAS: 144 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -175 ft/min

Distance: 947 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 14344 nm
Total Block Time: 63,6 hours
Total Block Fuel: 315909 lbs

[ARanc]

Great shots and great trip. I like how your shots have improved greatly over the trip  

Cheers,

[yuku]

thanks, although it takes far more time to do all the reports than I had thought it would be.

but indeed you're right, during the entire trip I've picked up so much tips&tricks (mainly from the forums here and MetroAir Virtual) which greatly increase the fun and quality of the trip and the shots.

[Peter797]

Rambie2006, on Oct 26 2007, 09:38 AM, said:

looks sweet!!

i don't have the patience to do a whole world tour

and we have a life? I guess?

[MD11 Quinn]

sounds fun!

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 050 - Ponta Delgada (Azores, Portugal) - Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)
06-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[pushed back]


[early morning departure]


[sun coming out while climbing over the atlantic]


[already burning on full power]


[flying over the old and dangerous tenerife airport]


[back over the atlantic preparing for the approach]


[turning of at the high speed]


[top down view of the island]


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Flight log:

Time out: 06.20Z
Time in: 08.16Z

Block time: 1.9 hours
Flight time: 1.8 hours

Block fuel: 9325 lbs

Flightlevel: FL410
Arriving IAS: 126 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -591 ft/min

Distance: 741 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 15085 nm
Total Block Time: 65,5 hours
Total Block Fuel: 325234 lbs

Edited by yuku, 10 July 2008 - 09:20 AM.

[Pilot James]

A very interesting tour!

Really starting to like this and do 1 of my own  

[yuku]

thanks Pilot James

let's continue...

Around the World 07/08 - leg 051 - Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) - El Aaiún (Western Sahara)
08-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[parked, waiting for the airstairs]


[taxiing out to RWY 08while a finnair bird takes off]


[leaving tenerife behind]


[into the clouds]


[wing shot]


[bye bye tenerife]


[over the African continent again]


[parked at gate 2]


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Flight log:

Time out: 13.48Z
Time in: 14.36Z

Block time: 0.8 hours
Flight time: 0.6 hours

Block fuel: 4375 lbs

Flightlevel: FL120
Arriving IAS: 131 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -641 ft/min

Distance: 186 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 15271 nm
Total Block Time: 66,3 hours
Total Block Fuel: 329609 lbs

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 052 - El Aaiún (Western Sahara) - Nouakchott (Mauritania)
15-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[pushed back]


[taxi to RWY 03]


[climbing to FL390]


[vectors to final ILS 05]


[over the water heading to finals RWY 05]


[busy parking]


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Flight log:

Time out: 10.39Z
Time in: 13.29Z

Block time: 2.8 hours
Flight time: 2.7 hours

Block fuel: 8387 lbs

Flightlevel: FL370
Arriving IAS: 127 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -238 ft/min

Distance: 564 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 15835 nm
Total Block Time: 69,1 hours
Total Block Fuel: 337996 lbs

[.Kevin]

Awesome flights!!

Edited by .Kevin, 10 July 2008 - 11:24 AM.

[yuku]

thanx, expect some brilliant sunset wingshots in the next leg

Edited by yuku, 10 July 2008 - 11:44 AM.

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 053 - Nouakchott (Mauritania) - Dakar (Senegal)
16-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[parked, waiting for passengers to come aboard]


[roundabout @ RWY 05]


[seems like a cloudy day today]


[wingshot with the sun going down behind engine #2]


[engine #1 shows the ground and clouds below also bathing in the warm sunlight]


[i just love this shot - click it to get the original 1920x1200 resolution]


[on the glideslope for ILS RWY 36]


[taxiing to gate J6]


[shut down for the night]


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Flight log:

Time out: 18.24Z
Time in: 19.22Z

Block time: 1.0 hours
Flight time: 0.8 hours

Block fuel: 5453 lbs

Flightlevel: FL240
Arriving IAS: 141 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -490 ft/min

Distance: 220 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 16055 nm
Total Block Time: 70,1 hours
Total Block Fuel: 343449 lbs

Edited by yuku, 11 July 2008 - 03:57 AM.

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 054 - Dakar (Senegal) - Amílcar Cabral Airport (Cape Verde)
22-may-2008

again a short report only due to time constraints

[parked in front of the terminal]


[waiting for the passengers]


[taxi to RWY 36]


[cleared to backtrack the runway and then this happens, with nowhere to go for me, the AI did a Go Around :)]


[into the still cool air]


[passing by our origin on our way to Cape Verde]


[cruising at FL390]


[descending into the clouds]


[shut down in front of the terminal]


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Flight log:

Time out: 06.47Z
Time in: 07.59Z

Block time: 1.2 hours
Flight time: 1.1 hours

Block fuel: 6056 lbs

Flightlevel: FL390
Arriving IAS: 119 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -110 ft/min

Distance: 366 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 16421 nm
Total Block Time: 71,3 hours
Total Block Fuel: 349505 lbs

[yuku]

Around the World 07/08 - leg 055 - Amílcar Cabral Airport (Cape Verde) - Banjul International Airport (The Gambia)
25-june-2008

[parked in front of the terminal]


[pushed back]


[right turn after take off from RWY 01 as instructed by ATC]


[climbing up through the clouds to FL400]


[cruising with the moon on our back]


[descending over the African main land]


[established on final for ILS approach on to RWY 32]


[slowing down]


[shut down in front of the termina]


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Flight log:

Time out: 11.59Z
Time in: 13.30Z

Block time: 1.5 hours
Flight time: 1.3 hours

Block fuel: 7704 lbs

Flightlevel: FL400
Arriving IAS: 114 kts
Landing Vertical Speed: -674 ft/min

Distance: 417 nm

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World Tour Totals:

Total Distance: 16838 nm
Total Block Time: 72,8 hours
Total Block Fuel: 357209 lbs