Hi,

 

just a few shots from my recent flights with the Tu-134 in Arabia and Northern Africa. I posted already shots from Bagdad here and Dubai here, now here come just some more from my other destinations.

 

I started from Bagdad...

 

... passed Kuwait...

 

... made stopovers in Dubai...

 

 

 

... and Khartoum (extremely different to Dubai)...

 

 

... crossed the Nubian Desert towards Cairo.

 

 

 

 

Then the last "real" leg lead towards Yerevan.

 

Soon after take-off I was shocked: What a mess! This shot shows a rather unfortunate mix of sceneries, but beside the remarkable difference between FS9Evo textures and Armi's phototerrain of Cairo it is interesting insofar as it shows - in addition to the two texture types - the probably last one of Toni Agramonts sceneries (or better: remains of it) that I still have installed. Not to forget - more than 10 years ago Toni's sceneries filled quite some gaps of the virtual world.

 

Suez channel

 

Galilea (Gennesareth) Lake

 

Overflying Damascus. This is quite hard - what a tragedy that goes on 33,000 ft below! And the more one wonders that some guys from Syria found encouragement to build this fine Damascus Airport scenery...

 

And then - well known terrain: Yerevan and Tbilisi.

 

 

Still I didn't have heart to erase Armavia from my AI traffic - even the returned Superjet, here parked behind the checkerhut, has not been removed yet.

 

And what should I say - it was a pleasant tour, even although my favourite parking stand at UGTB (the one with the red carpet) is already occupied.

 

For the Tupolev it is now time for some resting at her home airport; and for myself it is time for some GA flying. I hope you enjoyed the journey.

 

Best regards,

Harald

Great shots and resonating comments. Thanks for this. 

Very exciting locations...north Africa is like no other place on earth...many cinder cones lava flows, metamorphic rock and massive Ergs,

 

HLJAMES

Tsk... those upstart little Boeings, eh?  :smile:

Enjoyed the tour of these sceneries Harald - isn't it extraordinary how garish are the liveries on so many Mi-8?  

Super duper set again Harald!  :Applause:  Love the Khartoum Ai ....esp the Mil-8 livery.

 

​Your An-12 shot reminding me to add lots of black smoke to the port side of the paint I'm making right now.   

 

 

...and behind the Hip, a lonely Su-25 Frogfoot.

Awesome! You overflew my home which is pretty close to the Sea of Gallile in Israel.

Many thanks, Hans, HLJames, WingZ, Ed, Mark and Bar for commenting!

 

Yes, northern Africa: one should have comprehensive phototerrain at least for the mountain massives being isolated inside the Sahara, but unfortunately I don't know one for FS9.

 

Regarding the Mi-8: There are so many of them, that surely one or another has painted by some childs. In this case, the Sudanese AI traffic is rather a product of my fantasy than of real flightplans (there are only vague information). But the Mi-8 schedule indeed came with the SBAI package as UTAir livery and flightplan. And the Su-25 was part of one of the very good military AI plane packages by Michael Pearson (from the file library). It has a simple flightplan for one or two visits a week at HSSS, coming over from Wadi Seidna AB (fictional Afcad also in the library).

 

Bar, I hope the Russian engines weren't too loud when passing your home :smile: . Strange enough, I downloaded a very nice Israeli scenery pack at the Russian Avsim. It contains this good landclass that gives, in my opinion, a very good impression of the landscape. I wish I could visit this area in RW once.

 

P.S.:

 

 

add lots of black smoke to the port side of the paint I'm making right now

Good luck for the repaint, Ed! Yes, the smoke is absolutely necessary:

Great RW shot Harald. Look at the clouds..wow.

 

 

the clouds

 

In the totale view, they looked this way.

 

What an amazing flight, Harald!!! Thanks a lot for taking us along

Thanks Bernd.

It was indeed amazing to fly there - but somehow there's always a strange feeling due to the real world events occuring in these areas...

Many thanks, Hans, HLJames, WingZ, Ed, Mark and Bar for commenting!

 

Yes, northern Africa: one should have comprehensive phototerrain at least for the mountain massives being isolated inside the Sahara, but unfortunately I don't know one for FS9.

 

Regarding the Mi-8: There are so many of them, that surely one or another has painted by some childs. In this case, the Sudanese AI traffic is rather a product of my fantasy than of real flightplans (there are only vague information). But the Mi-8 schedule indeed came with the SBAI package as UTAir livery and flightplan. And the Su-25 was part of one of the very good military AI plane packages by Michael Pearson (from the file library). It has a simple flightplan for one or two visits a week at HSSS, coming over from Wadi Seidna AB (fictional Afcad also in the library).

 

Bar, I hope the Russian engines weren't too loud when passing your home :smile: . Strange enough, I downloaded a very nice Israeli scenery pack at the Russian Avsim. It contains this good landclass that gives, in my opinion, a very good impression of the landscape. I wish I could visit this area in RW once.

 

P.S.:

 

 

Good luck for the repaint, Ed! Yes, the smoke is absolutely necessary:

 

 

 

Well, you can visit here in the RW , you just need to buy a ticket to Tel Aviv  :smile:

you just need to buy a ticket to Tel Aviv

 

Not that I didn't know that :smile: , it's rather real world obligations that do not let me think of journeying in 2016 and perhaps also 2017.