Sister City Flights - week 13 - Cairo (Egypt) - Books and Tombs

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Join me for this flight around the Nile Delta - first in the 155 kt aircraft of your choice, then in helicopters!

Cairo became the sister city of Stuttgart in 1979.

Start	overfly	1st stop	2nd stop CHANGE AIRCRAFT!	Last stop
HEBA	HEAX	HE28	HECA	GIZA
Borg El Arab Intl Alexandria	Alexandria	Gebel El Basur	Cairo International	Pyramids

Flight plans: https://is.gd/StormsFlightPlans (both .PLN and .FMS files available)
If these become unavailable please look at the end of our Discord channel #group-flight-info on the day of the flight.

Cruise: 155 knots indicated, 5,000 ft a.s.l. to Cairo. Thereafter 80 kts max below 2,000 ft.

Aircraft:
‣ Alexandria to Cairo: Any that can maintain 155 kts. Any fixed wing or fast rotorcraft is good.
‣ Cairo to Giza: Rotorcraft with hover capabilities only.

Scenery:
‣ FSX/P3D: Default is OK.
‣ XP11: Download HEBA and Pyramids (ignore run-time warning).

Server: SimLink AU server: 101.165.150.139

Simulators: All welcome: FS9, FSX boxed, FSX Steam edition, Prepar3D, X-Plane.

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Reminder (and ancient trivia questions!): Join us at HEBA at 9pm eastern in ANY aircraft that can maintain 155 kts. You'll need a chopper later too!

Awfully hard™ trivia questions:

1. Who set fire to his own ships, but ended up burning 400,000 books?
2. Who met the gods Thoth, Anubis, and Bast in Cairo?
3. He was god of craftsmen and architects, and his wife was lioness. What did he give his name to?
4. Taller than anything else for more than 3,800 years, it was finally topped when and by what? (There are two possible answers to this question!)

Answers during the flight only please (not below!).

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Just four pics. Firstly, on approach to HE28 in my LET L-410 in XP11, with far more agriculture and less desert around than in FSX (as in real life). Click on the pics for full size/detail.




Next flying to the pyramids in my Bell 429...






Landed by the Sphinx...