Hello everyone!
I recently flew a glorious route from London Heathrow 🇬🇧 to Ethiopia’s Bole Adis Ababa 🇪🇹. It was by far the busiest airport I’ve been to because of a Sunday event going on, and it caused some chaos! It was really fun to be able to simulate a true rush hour at an airport!
The flight took us over the stunning morning Alps 🏔️, the blazing hot Sahara, and the Ethiopian Rocky Mountains.
Hope you’ll enjoy!
- Server: Expert
- Aircraft: A350-900
- Livery: Ethiopian
- Flight duration: 7 hours 22 minutes
- Route: London Heathrow - Bole Adis Ababa
- Call sign: Ethiopian 701 Heavy
- Departure: 4:30am scheduled (simulator time)
- Arrival: 13:45pm scheduled (simulator time)
After loading cargo and passengers, we taxi and line up on runway 27L.
Take off! It was a super calm morning with only 2 knots of wind, so we got off the ground smoothly!
We leave London as the morning sunshine reflects the beautiful A350.
A stunning view of the morning Alps!
Flying into the boiling Sahara desert 🏜️
The incredible Ethiopian scenery 😍
Since Adis Ababa was at its peak on arrivals & takeoffs at the time, the ATC controller literally forgot about me and made me fly right above the airport! 😂
The ATC controller forgot about me AGAIN, this time on final lined up with runway 25L.
I had to go around because:
- I was too high and fast for an appropriate landing
- The ATC forgot to give me landing clearance (probably because there was a controller change a few moments before)
- There was another aircraft on the runway
So, I increased my engine power, set up the flaps, pitched up, and went for a go around.
Second try! I successfully landed this time, but take a look at how busy it was! So many planes were waiting to take off!
After landing, I parked myself at terminal 1 with other Ethiopians from Toronto, Washington, New York, and more!
I had trouble finding a parking space as well because there were too many planes!
This was another superb flight! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Europe to Middle East / East Africa routes always are brilliant with fantastic scenery, so I’m hoping to do it again someday!
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