Monday, March 30, 2009

Flight 53 : Al Hoceima to Kalamata

Date: 26-Mar-2009
Departure: 06:00 AM local Moroccan time
Routing: North African coast, Italy's boot and into Greece.
Aircraft: Flight Club Mediterranean Q-400
Altitude: 5,000 feet for 95% of the flight
Miles: Total Mileage was 1,282 miles
Arrival Stats: Arrived to lingering AM fog about 11:35AM. That's 1,282 miles in 4.5 hours is about 285 mph average.

Notes: I left Morocco just before sunrise and followed the North African coast over Algiers and Tunis before heading northeast over Sicily and the "boot" of Italy, then over into Greece. I had some fog below enroute to Algiers - obscuring the coastline. Then I had some lightning enroute to Tunis. Then there were some big bumps coming over Reggio in southern Italy but all-in-all, this was a GREAT flight - albeit a little long .....

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