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| Ready to continue the tour from Cairo to Dubai on Friday morning | Reversing away from Terminal 2 | Starting to taxi |
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| You can see the Pyramids through the haze | It was hard to keep the A380 on the comparatively tiny taxiways during turns | Turning onto runway 34 |
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| Rolling | Airborne | |
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| Climbout above Cairo | Above the Nile | |
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| Turning on course to Dubai... | ...while passing right above the Pyramids at 18000 feet | |
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| Now departing Cairo | 25000 feet above the desert | Leveling out at FL370, passing the Gulf of Suez |
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| Arriving over the Sinai Peninsula | The Sinai desert | Maintaining 0.85 Mach, cruising well above the clouds |
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| The Gulf of Aqaba | Now flying above Saudi Arabia | Half an hour later, still above the Arabian Desert |
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| Dammam, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia | Bahrain | |
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| Above the Persian Gulf, now heading for the United Arab Emirates | Starting the descent into Dubai - visibility is very low | Slowing to 240 knots |