Sending 2008 out with a bit of a different kind of flight. Flying around one of my favorite real-world areas, I wanted to see a lot more than just flying over the areas so I set up a zig-zagging course covering about 859 miles in the Worldwide Airways Q-400. My goal was to perform a touch-and-go at EACH airport (unless otherwise noted).
Departure from Kigali at 06:00 AM
Goma, DRC Runway 18 at 05:22 AM
Real-World lava flows have covered the northern 1/3 of the runway/airport so I only use the southern HALF of Goma airport!
Bukavu, DRC Runway 17 at 05:32 AM
Kindu, DRC Runway 18 at 06:21 AM
Bujumbura, Burundi Runway 17 at 07:08 AM.
I stopped here for breakfast, departing again at 09:00 AM
Gitega, Burundi Runway 12 at 09:13 AM (Only touched/bounced the mains, little room to roll-out at this airport)
Kigoma, Tanzania Runway 16 at 09:32 AM
Kalemie, DRC (Just across the lake) 
Runway 24 at 09:49 AM
Runway 24 at 09:49 AMKasaba Bay, Zambia Runway 24 at 11:35 AM. 
Then I stopped for lunch and a change of aircraft departing again at 15:00 but that's the next post.
Then I stopped for lunch and a change of aircraft departing again at 15:00 but that's the next post.HAPPY NEW YEAR from Central Africa!
and then southwest into Kigali - over some of the most fetile farmlands on the entire planet.
scenic lakes
and beautiful northern Rwanda - some of my most favorite real-world places! I'll be happy to spend Christmas right here .....
to Eritrea
and Ethiopia. I stop for a quick "gas-and-go" in Port Sudan, no even on the ground 30 minutes.
- this area will also be featured next year on 
8,000 feet getting out of the Turkish mountains
and 3,000 along the Jordan River Valley.
of Syria and Lebanon,
then east over the southern Baka'a Valley,
over the Sea of Galilee, then the Dead Sea,
then along the Jordan River to the eastern finger of the Red Sea. Very scenic Flight Today.
597 miles total.
(This will be the location of our feature Flight of the Month in April 2009 at: 
Aircraft: Q-400 Firefighter
189 miles to Elazig
