64th RTW Flight -- Lisbon, Portugal to Madrid, Spain

[philliptan]

Hi, guys!

Apologies about the huge number of shots but Spain is so beautiful I can't help it. :D Lovely dawn flight. A lot of turbulence upon landing made it very difficult.

Date: 1 May 03
Dep: LPPT Lisbon Int'l (Rwy 21) -- 06:35
Arr: LEMD Barajas Int'l (Rwy 18R) -- 07:53
Dur: 1.3 hrs
Dist: 284.7 nm
Cruising: FL250
Route: LPPT-LIS-MAGUM-MOMAS-PORLI-RODAP-RAKOD-ZORBA-DIPOL-KALMA-DOLES-LEMD
Weather: Cloudy
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Early dawn flight
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Taxiing to the active
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Zzzzzz....taxiing behind a Dash 8, not a good thing at dawn
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Holding short runway 21, while the Dash takes off
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Lined up... visibility quite poor
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See ya later
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Gears up
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Turning eastwards
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Beautiful dawn over Portugal
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Cruising at FL250
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Still firmly heading east
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Beautiful Spanish farmlands
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Over the Sierra de Gredos near Madrid
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The Sa De Guadarrama mountain range north of Madrid
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Gears down
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Coming in
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Strong, turbulent winds
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Bad windshear
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C'mon, c'mon...
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About 20 ft to go...
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Nearly there...
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Taxiing to the gate
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Parked next to an Air France B737
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The route maps
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The route so far...
01. (WSSS) Changi Int'l, Singapore
02. (WMKL) Langkawi Int'l, Langkawi, Malaysia
03. (VTBD) Bangkok Int'l, Bangkok, Thailand
04. (Z28Q) Korat Air Base, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
05. (VVTS) Tansonnhat Int'l, Ho Chin Minh City, Vietnam
06. (VVNB) Noibai Int'l, Hanoi, Vietnam
07. (ZGHK) Meilan Airport, Haikou, Hainan Island, China
08. (VHHK) Kai Tak Int'l, Hong Kong, China
09. (RCKH) Kaohsiung Int'l, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
10. (RCTP) Chiang Kai Shek Int'l, Taipei, Taiwan
11. (ZSFZ) Changle Int'l, Fuzhou City, China
12. (ZSPD) Pudong Int'l, Shanghai, China
13. (ZBAA) Beijing Capital Airport, Beijing City, China
14. (RKSS) Kimpo Int'l, Seoul, South Korea
15. (RJOO) Osaka Int'l, Osaka, Japan
16. (RJAA) Tokyo Narita Int'l, Tokyo, Japan
17. (RJCC) New Chitose Int'l, Sapporo, Japan
18. (UHWW) Knevichi Airport, Vladivostok, Russia
19. (ZYHB) Taiping Airport, Harbin, Manchuria, China
20. (ZMUB) Buyant-Ukhaa Airport, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
21. (ZLXY) Xianyang Airport, Xi'An, China
22. (ZUUU) Shuangliu Airport, Chengdu, China
23. (ZPPP) Wujiaba Airport, Kunming, China
24. (VYMD) Mandalay Int'l, Mandalay, Myanmar
25. (VGZR) Zia Int'l, Dhaka, Bangladesh
26. (VNKT) Tribhuvan Int'l, Kathmandu, Nepal
27. (VOHY) Hyderabad Airport, Hyderabad, India
28. (VOMM) Chennai Int'l, Chennai, India
29. (VCBI) Bandaranaike Int'l, Colombo, Sri Lanka
30. (VOBG) Bangalore Airport, Bangalore, India
31. (VABB) Chhatrapati Shivaji Int'l, Mumbai, India
32. (OPKD) Hyderabad Airport, Hyderabad, Pakistan
33. (OAKN) Kandahar Airport, Kandahar, Afghanistan
34. (OAKB) Kabul Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan
35. (OMDB) Dubai Int'l, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
36. (OERY) Riyadh Air Base, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
37. (ORBS) Saddam Int'l, Baghdad, Iraq
38. (OSAP) Aleppo Int'l, Aleppo, Syria
39. (LLJR) Jerusalem Int'l, Jerusalem, Israel
40. (HECA) Cairo Int'l, Cairo, Egypt
41. (HSSS) Khartoum Airport, Khartoum, Sudan
42. (HHAS) Asmara Int'l, Asmara, Eritrea
43. (HDAM) Ambouli Airport, Djibouti, Djibouti
44. (HCMM) Mogadishu Airport, Mogadishu, Somalia
45. (HKJK) Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Nairobi, Kenya
46. (HRJR) Gregoire Kayibanda Airport, Kigali, Rwanda
47. (HTKJ) Kilimanjaro Int'l, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
48. (FMCH) Prince Said Ibrahim Airport, Moroni, Comoros
49. (FMNN) Fascene Airport, Nosy-Be, Madagascar
50. (FMMI) Ivato Airport, Antananarivo, Madagascar
51. (FQBR) Beira Airport, Beira, Mozambique
52. (FAJS) Johannesburg Int'l, Johannesburg, South Africa
53. (FACT) ape Town Int'l, Cape Town, South Africa
54. (FYLZ) Luderitz Airfield, Luderitz, Namibia
55. (FNHU) Albano Machado Airfield, Huambo, Angola
56. (FNLU) 4th of February Airport, Luanda, Angola
57. (FPST) Sao Tomé Int'l, Sao Tomé, Sao Tomé and Principé
58. (FKKD) Douala Airport, Douala, Cameroon
59. (DNMM) Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, Nigeria
60. (DFFD) Ouagadougou Airport, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
61. (GABS) Senou Airport, Bamako, Mali
62. (GOOY) Leopold Sedar Senghor Airport, Dakar, Senegal
63. (GCXO) Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
64. (LPPT) Lisbon Int'l, Lisbon, Portugal
65. (LEMD) Barajas Int'l, Madrid, Spain

Cheers,
Phillip
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[Peer]

Bad winds, happy landing!
Wow, the mountainshots:perfect, also the one over Spain:9
Very well done Phillip!
btw, Florian (PHCO is looking for you at the Canary Isles, I told him to look in some obscure pubs!)
Bye buddy!

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[philliptan]

Oops... I must apologise to him for not waiting for him... it was err...company requirements since they are sponsoring the flight...:-roll

Sorry, Flo2! :D

Cheers,
Phillip
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[PHCO]

And again hallo,

I also have missed this leg - shame on me ! :-)

I really like your depature-shots - the poor visibility ! GREAT !

greetings

FLO the 2nd (Forumname: PHCO) :-lol :-wave

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[philliptan]

"I also have missed this leg - shame on me !"

No, you haven't... I just posted this leg...:D Thanks for the kind comments!

Cheers,
Phillip
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