October 11, 20214 yr One of the oldest strategic roads in the world goes from the Indian Sub-Continent to Afghanistan and further west to Central Asia and the Middle East. To pass the mountains, there is legendary notch in the relief, the Khyber Pass. For millennia, dromedaries and mules and now trucks and trains have been carrying their loads through it. It was a strategic choke point for the Brits, all the more important that they never really controlled Afghanistan and were wary of Russian plans to invade "their" India. More here on the Khyber Pass - Wikipedia. I was not lucky enough to see it myself in real but MSFS gives me a taste of it with a good aircraft. So I did a flight from Peshawar to Jalalabad. Jamrud, a suburb West of Peshawar : the notch on the left of the wing is the entry on a sinuous road... ... which climbs to the Khyber Khyber Pass A town has been prospering around this milestone of this intercontinental trade road . There were several British forts to contain the turbulent Pashtun tribes. The end of the pass in view The descent to Afghanistan, we are at the border Afghanistan : Jalalabad is behind the far way rocky hill Edited October 11, 20214 yr by Dominique_K Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
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October 12, 20214 yr Magnificient, Dominique. Many thanks! Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
October 12, 20214 yr Author 6 minutes ago, bernd1151 said: Magnificient, Dominique. Many thanks! Have you been there ? Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
October 12, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Dominique_K said: Have you been there ? I wanted to, but the missus wouldn't allow, she was too scared of the Afghan tribes (although we bought many carpets from them in Lahore). 😃 So we took the other direction and went to the Hunza valley instead, north of Gilgit. Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
October 12, 20214 yr Author Just now, bernd1151 said: I wanted to, but the missus wouldn't allow, she was too scared of the Afghan tribes (although we bought many carpets from them in Lahore). 😃 So we took the other direction and went to the Hunza valley instead, north of Gilgit. She would have been in good company, Kipling was shot at by some tribal warriors in Khyber 😉. Hunza is on my list. I tried a flight but the weather was really nasty. Another time. Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
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