Wow, this is stunning!

Finally I found the time for the next flight - planned duration was around 4h, but ... wait and see. Starting in Tel Aviv.

 

 

 

The landscape isn't very varied here ...

 

 

The Dead Sea and Jericho

 

 

"Behind" the wheels - Amman, the capital of Jordan

 

 

The border between Jordan and Saudi-Arabia - not very spectacular ...

 

 

 

A "lost" street in the desert - it connects Turaif and Arar (Saudi-Arabia).

 

 

Al Uwayqilah (the greenish spot) - an hicktown in the middle of nowhere in the desert

 

 

Some boredom arises, not much to see here

 

 

Still the same road as 3 pictures above, but the leg from Arar to ...

 

 

... Rafha (not to be mixed up with Rafah in Israel)

 

 

The border Iraq/Saudi Arabia - equal exciting to the one from Jordan to Saudi Arabia

 

 

 

Again a border - from Iraq to Kuwait - great

 

 

 

Some signs of a (bigger) civilization - Al Jahra, northwest of Kuwait city

 

 

Kuwait city

 

 

Almost over ... this long flight

 

 

Finally, after 5:20h - aircraft parked and time to relax. Why? The route was hand flown and not very thrilling for a long time (deserts simply look boring).

 

 

Love the topic title, reminds me of something, just cant think what it is . Some real cracking shots X-Plane is looking real tempting with the shots you took, marvelous shots I must admit, the autogen visible at high altitudes and some of your angles are amazing, honest it looks real. Please show us more of your Caravan..

Love the topic title, reminds me of something, just cant think what it is . Some real cracking shots X-Plane is looking real tempting with the shots you took, marvelous shots I must admit, the autogen visible at high altitudes and some of your angles are amazing, honest it looks real.

 

Thanks.

 

Please show us more of your Caravan..

 

Don't worry, I will ... B)

You might find this very helpful considering your doing a lot of hand flying

 

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/451582-vfrflight-new-free-vfr-flight-planner/

 

Have a nice trip !

Looks quite nice, but ... does it work with X-Plane?

Nice!!

Ok guys ... this is the next leg.

 

Starting in OKBK (Kuwait City)

 

 

We're leaving Kuwait city behind - heading 89° towards Iran

 

 

The Iranian island Kharg (and it really is "karg" = German for "meagre")

 

 

The Iranian coast with the Bay at Bushehr city

 

 

Many people may think that Iran consists mainly of sand and desert - far from it! These mountains are around 3,000 m (me flying at 12,000 ft)

 

 

The Bakhtegan lake - which can be desiccated at times. The mountains behind are around 2,800 m high

 

 

Again high mountains (3,000 m) standing in my way, but not high enough to not overfly them ...

 

 

... as can be seen here -_-

 

 

The road from Sirdjan to Kerman (2 of my waypoints). In reality it looks like this.

 

 

The plateau south of Kerman - 2,500 m high

 

 

The Hezar mountain. The visible peaks are around 3,000 m high, the ones more in the south even up to 4,500 m.

 

 

A mountain chain along the street from Karman to Bam - up to 2,800 m. Reality check ...

 

 

And again mountains ("low" mountains :rolleyes:) - "only" 2,000 m high. I knew beforehand that Iran is somewhat mountainous, but this much ... You learn a lot with such a world tour ...

 

 

The hills near the city of Zahedan, from here on turning to left (heading 18°) for the final leg to Zabol (still Iran, but only about 30 km from Afghanistan)

 

 

Descent towards Zabol

 

 

Airport of Zabol

 

 

 

End of a flight after 4:38 h, 1500 km and 673 kg of burned fuel