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Cairo to Cape #6, Aden to Addis Ababa


andy1252

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Still at it. Leaving Aden to head for Djibouti, then on to the Rift Valley

 

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Coming back into Africa via the Gulf of Tadjoura, over Djibouti city. This is the default FTX/FSX/P3D version, but I subsequently found that Richard Bui has done a freeware version of the area and I reshot a couple of these and stuck them at the end of the topic

 

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Heading on up the Gulf towards the upper end of the Eastern Rift Valley itself

 

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This is Lake Basaka. A few tens of km over to my left at this point is Addis Ababa, and I'll take a little detour there to have a look round next.

 

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Addis should be just beyond the heights showing in the distance, so I'll swing round here and head off

 

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Addis Ababa (HAAB) just ahead on my left

 

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Unfortunately, the default HAAB seems to have elevation issues (sunken runways). I tried messing with the Vector AE adjustments, but it wouldn't come good however I did it.

 

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But after a bit of nosing around the web I found a freeware HAAB that looked promising, so I plugged it in, went back to a save point, and re-approached Addis. The weather conditions weren't an exact match but hey . . .

 

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Coming up ahead

 

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This looks a bit better

 

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So - a few shots around the airport and the city surroundings, via a couple of borrowed rides -

 

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And finally back at the airport

 

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To finish - a couple of shots of the Djibouti overfly using Richard Bui's freeware Djibouti

 

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Sorry about the amount of shots - OCD again!

 

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An absorbing set of shots Andy, I am really enjoying following your progress through Africa which reminds me of one of Michael Palin's travel docs.

Some wonderful freeware too, would never have thought of it. I like the green buses behind the Chipmunk at Addis Ababa but what a great looking scenery for freeware.

Djibouti comes up so well too.

 

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