Although today’s flight was quite short, Phil was anxious to meet up with his family who had arrived on the night flight from a cold and snowy London, so we made a prompt start and were airborne at 0530Z – 9:30 am local time.
Essentially we were routed direct but with high intervening mountains to cross, FL150 was required, which was a bit of a struggle for Juliet Bravo in the heat.
Once over these, the Indian Ocean appeared with a let down and straight forward approach into the airport. We had had some difficulty in persuading the airport authorities to let stay there for a week; not quite sure why this was as there appeared to be acres of empty tarmac to park on.
Entry formalities were quickly completed and then we were off in the limo to firstly drop off Phil to go and find his family before depositing us at the start of our Omani tour.
Abu Dhabi to Muscat 225 nm in 1 hour 35 minutes.