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Mediterranean Hopping on EK108


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Hi lads, its been a while since I last posted shots, due to being busy with stuff. Now it's the holidays I've got time to do some more flying, and here is the first flight I have done. A quick hop from Malta to Cyprus, followed by a slightly longer hop to Dubai.

Leg 1: Malta Luqa (LMML) to Cyprus Larnaca (LCLK). Flight time: 2:15 hours.

The flightplan, basically a straight line from Malta to Cyprus, passing Crete.

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At the remote gate at Luqa, there are no gates here.

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Pushing back.

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Back tracking down runway 14...

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...Before blasting down runway 23.

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Airborne.

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Climbing steeply, initial climb rate was around 6000 feet/min.

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Banking for the 180 degree turn to head East.

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Turning out over the Med.

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The cockpit view as we climb.

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The weather radar as we climb. The pink is turbulence, the magenta shows severe turbulence.

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Cruising at Fl410, high above the clouds.

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Severe turbulence in those clouds, according to the radar.

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Seriously bad weather ahead, seat belts on.

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Steadily cruising above the sea.

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Getting dark now.

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Heading West into the Dark.

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Lights on in the cockpit, we have now passed the bad weather.

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Darker...

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Last look at the sun.

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Dark now as we pass over Crete.

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Sun has set now.

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Commencing the descent.

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Reached Cyprus, the city that we can see is Paphos, the alternate.

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Below 10,000, lights on.

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Touchdown!

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Slowing rapidly.

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Parked up, setting up the FMC for the 2nd leg and waiting for the pax to board.

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Leg 2: Cyprus Larnaca (LCLK) to U.A.E. Dubai (OMDB). Flight time: 2:40 hours.

The flightplan for the second leg.

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Pushing back, ready to go again.

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Taxiing out.

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Accelerating.

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And airborne again.

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Climbing away.

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Doing another turn to head South East East.

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Climbing to Fl400, heading towards Lebanon.

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The office as we reach the TOC.

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Cruising over the Arabian Gulf.

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Descending towards Dubai.

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Spoilers up as we descend towards the approach fix, Dubai is in the background.

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Finals.

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My view, we are slightly high.

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Touchdown, welcome to Dubai.

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Slowing.

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And turned off the runway, lights off, flaps up, chrono off, APU on.

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Taxiing in, ignore the weather radar, it's set to Test mode as per the checklists.

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Turning into the gate, taxi light off to avoid blinding the ground marshallers.

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The might 777 parked up.

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Shut down, looking at the architecturally stunning terminal.

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Thanks for looking guys, hope you enjoyed them.

Total Flight Time: 4:53 hours. Block time: 5:45 hours.

Aircraft - Posky/PSS merge

Scenery - Ground Environment Pro, FlyTampa Dubai, Freeware LMML and LCLK from Avsim.

Miscellanious - FSBuild, ActiveSky, AISmooth, Snapper.

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Very nice!

FYI here are the 'real' plans.

LMML-LCLK

N0461F390 AGARI UM978 OMARA/N0466F410 UM978 RUBIK

LCLK-OMDB

N0475F390 LCA R655 CAK J222 BASEM R785 ZELAF UR785 RASLI UP559 KAVID/N0471F410 UP559 VUXOR Y505 DESDI

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I looked at these shots a couple of days ago and forgot to comment. They look fantastic!

I really like these flight screenshot reports and also the commentary was great too! :thanks:

Cheers

George

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