Amman/Jordan - Hail/Saudi Arabia

After beeing for dinner with Red Bull Jordan people last night (thanks a lot folks!!) we got up early this morning to get ready for our day three. Sunshine and springtime-temperatures made it easy to get out, a perfect day to fly VFR through the dessert. Customs, flightplan, quickly. The costs of landing and fueling was incredible high...to much to mention here :-). Flight from Amman to Hail was great. Straight up to 9.000 feet above the first broken cloudlayer, it was a dream. Just 10 minutes out of Amman, the dessert begins. There is not much to say about the dessert, there is not much going on, but: there are more people, houses and roads than I thought. Flying 20 minutes with 180 kts GS, nothing...and suddenly a car in the middle of nothing. Not to imagine where this guy came from...

Flight time ws 2:30, half an hour faster than planned, due to tailwind.

see:

Seems like there is some airport over there to the right...

Take off in Amman, do you see Hannes?

Amman City...

dessert...dessert...dessert...

in the middle of nowhere...green cirles, what do they do here?

good shot of Hannes, I like that picture!

Do you want to live here?

I have never been on the moon...but it must look like this!

Tigerbaby aviating over Saudi FL100

Approaching Hail, very nice airport, for flightplan go to Tower and drink a tea with them!

Saudi Military, they liked Tigerbaby, even if we did not understand a word from each other :-)

Two drums of sealed Avgas, clean! Hannes refueling with our hoses, otherwise we would have needed a spoon to get the fuel out of the drums...

Happy Hannes!

Picture of the day...both babes ready for Jeddah!