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Returning Home From Passover Vacation

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Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Passover week is over which means massive flux of Israelis returning from their Passover vacation in Eilat back home to Tel Aviv which means that El Al could not use narrow body 737-200s or Britannias hence decision to use exciting brand new 707-300 to handle heavy holiday passenger traffic back home from LLET Eilat Airport located in the center of Eilat adjacent to Route 90 (The Arava Road) to LLBG Ben Gurion Airport located 12 miles southeast of Tel Aviv

STOP  the sign says you need authorization from airport tower before passing!!

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Attention!!  The sign says that ATTENTION you are attending aerial zone Please drive extremely carefully

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Passengers get surprise and excited by presence of brand new plane that is going to take them back home to Tel Aviv

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Nice engine view of the airport terminal

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Got to do pre-flight inspection of left engines

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Got to do same thing for right engines

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Got to do pre-flight inspection of the tail

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Time for me to board my captain seat

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Checking all gauges to be sure they look very kosher

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Time for me to open fuel lines as you can I am middle of doing that where you can see I finish opening 4th engine fuel line and now concentrating other engine fuel lines

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Time for me to open fuel flow knobs!

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Time for me to put on battery power so necessary for starting engines!!

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Time for me to flip the engine air bleed switches from off to on

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Making final inspection of all knobs and switches to be sure everything is kosher

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Drat drat  I forgot to take screenshot of switches and knobs for engine start in overhead panel but you can see from gauge readings that the engines are coming alive

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Now you can see the engines fully powered in gauge readings and you can check to be sure the flaps are properly extended for take off

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Facing runway 01 for take off

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Excuse me but the Eilat airport demands commercial interruption for all of you viewers

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Starting take off run!

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Now airborne retracting landing gear to start climb to fl200

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Because of regulations not permitting more than 20 screenshots per post, please be kind enough to go to this hyperlink seen below to view rest of exciting trip

Here is the hyperlink:

https://calclassic.proboards.com/thread/10359/returning-home-passover-vacation

Thank you for viewing and stay tuned for next exciting flight.

Regards,

Aharon

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Chag Sameach Aharon! Hope you had a good Yom Tov and enjoyed your Matzo balls! 🙂

I first visited Israel in 1965 arriving in a wonderful B727 from Heathrow. We made 620mph over the Eastern Med according to the Captain and it took 4hr 20 mins.

Later I went to Eilat by bus but had be flown back to my Uncles and Aunts in Kfar Blum via Rosh Pina airport. I was 12 and had a bad case of sunstroke.

But those experiences gave me areal taste and love of aviation for the rest of my life. It was remarkable because I think the route must have been relatively recent at that time.

Only 2 years earlier it’s interesting to note my Grandma had to travel out to Israel by train and boat from Victoria station in London to Haifa, and I think that took at least 3-4 days!.

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@rayharris108,

Thanks for very kind words and it is interesting to hear your fantastic experiences in my native country Israel.

Regards,

Aharon

 


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Very nice shots. Wonderful plane, and the airports look pretty good too. If the background were MSFS I'd say these would be about as good a set of shots as it would be possible to see anywhere.


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Shalom,

Great to see the 707 once again Aharon, well done! 

 

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I have been to Caso DO Brasil in Eilat!  Left in a meat coma LOL!!!  Just put your flag up on the table and someone magically shows up with more meat!  

Great shots


Have a Wonderful Day

-Paul Solk

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Andy1252,

Thanks for kind words and I agree it is tough for me and my FSX screenshots to compete against MS2020!!

Admbar,

Thanks for kind words. Is that you the famous Adam I know from Orbx and Flightsim forums?

Psolk,

That is AMAZING coincidence!!!! Glad that you visited my native country Israel!! Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon

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4 hours ago, Aharon said:

Andy1252,

Thanks for kind words and I agree it is tough for me and my FSX screenshots to compete against MS2020!!

Admbar,

Thanks for kind words. Is that you the famous Adam I know from Orbx and Flightsim forums?

Psolk,

That is AMAZING coincidence!!!! Glad that you visited my native country Israel!! Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon

Same one Aharon. 😁


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