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| For the early-bird fly-in I flew to Cape Town in a South African Airways 747 from Maya Maya Airport in Brazzaville, Congo |
Turning onto runway 05 |
Back-taxiing along the runway |
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| Accelerating for takeoff |
Taking off |
Departure from FCBB |
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Turning south |
Passing Ndjili Intl in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (not to be confused with the Republic of the Congo, where I took off from...) |
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| Through the clouds at 10000 feet, accelerating to 300 KIAS for the climb |
18000 feet and climbing |
As you can see, X-Plane doesn't model solar eclipses :D |
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| 30000 feet |
Maintaining 36000 feet - the plane is still quite heavy and can't fly any higher |
Where does all this hail come from? I'm way above the clouds! O_o |
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| Quite a few cloud layers there |
Making a left turn along the airways, trying to get the plane to cruise a bit higher |
Passing 38000 feet during a right turn |
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| Cruising at FL390... |
...but the plane is slowing down, forcing me to drop to a lower altitude. Coast of Angola visible below. |
Descending to 35000 feet |
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| Passing Windhoek, Namibia and continuing south |
Arriving in South Africa |
Less than 150 nm to go - time to start the descent |
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| Below 15000 feet |
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Crossing some mountains at 8000 feet |
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Using speedbrakes and descending after passing those mountains |
Making a right turn towards Cape Town |