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| Back at Dubai Int'l on Sunday for the flight to the Maldives | Ready to taxi | |
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| For an A380 those taxiways can never be too wide... especially when you need to make a tight turn | ||
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| Ready to take off from runway 30L | Rotating | Taking off from OMDB at 0620Z |
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| The coastline of Dubai | ||
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| Making a left turn on climbout, passing an oil rig | Above Dubai, now turning to follow the course as filed | |
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| Passing OMDB again | Above 10000 feet, applying more power | Not much to see below anymore - the ground is hidden by the fog as I cross the border of Oman |
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| Now cruising at FL410 | Maintaining 0.85 Mach - some haze appears | Above the Arabian Sea... but with all the haze you can't really tell |
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| Starting the descent slightly over 2 hours later - 100 nm out | The weather improves around the Maldives | Through a cloud layer above 30000 feet |
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| Passing some of the smaller islands | Approaching Malé - the airport is now visible on both scope and HUD | Got visual on the airport |
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| Slowing down for the approach | Passing the island of Malé, turning to start a visual approach | |