EL AL Dealing With Bad Weather In Two Countries

January 9, 201412 yr

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Here is typical EL AL flight accompanied by challenging weather from LGAV Athens International Airport about 12 miles to the east of central Athens to LLBG Ben Gurion airport is located near the suburb of Lod in the southeast outskirts of Tel Aviv 12 miles from Tel Aviv's city centre

Disconnected from jetway at terminal A1

Waiting for taxi clearance from LGAV controllers

Booming thunders!!!

Taxi clearance was granted as the plane taxied to short of runway 03R via taxiway D

Entering into taxiway D to taxi to short of runway 03R

Holding short of runway 03R waiting for some Greek airline plane to land

Entering into runway 03R for take off

Airborne passing Rafina suburb on climb to FL350 via VARIX departure

Battling heavy thunderstorm rain

Making right turn toward VARIX during the climb to FL350

Positioning to intercept VARIX to head to RDS via UL995

Cruising at FL350 across Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea

Cruising along UL995 can be FUN as this route passes through lots of Greek islands as seen on this plane passing view of island of Syros, its city Ermoupoli, and its airport Syros National Airport "Demetrius Vikelas"

Greek island waters can be pretty

Cruising at FL350

Passing island of Kos and its Kos Island International Airport or "Hippocrates" airport

Intercepting RDS where you can see below island of Rhodes and its two airports Diagoras Rhodes International Airport and Rhodes Maritsa Airport

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