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We had a great online flight today with Par and Christian; a flight that took around 8 hours.
The flight took us from FQMA; Maputo, Mozambique to GGOV; Oswaldo Vieira Intl located in Bissau, Guinea.

First, map of the flight
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Par and Christian were flying the MD11 with a precious cargo load, and I was escorting them with the F-111.
I left last... taxiing to the departure runway in a wet Mozambique
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... and soon climbing out above the cloud layers to meet up with Christian and Par.
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OK, we've got Par in sight
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...and pretty soon afterwards I got in formation with Christian
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Some enroute shots from Christian
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And one of the three of us when Par closed in later on
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Arriving at Bissau for a visual approach
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Closely followed by Christian
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Once parked at the ramp, Par was getting ready to come in also
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... Par landing and needing quite some rollout... just stopped before the end of the runway :-)
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The three of us at the apron of Bissau
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OK, I also took some pictures of the flight today.
I started to prepare the aircraft long before Pär was there and alter I discovered the reason for that: I forgot to log in to the Session.
Here you can see the the MD-11 in air Namibia colors standing on the ramp at Maputo.
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Some time later after preparing the aircraft we departed from Maputo's runway 05 and climbed out.
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After downloading and installing the free version of Screenhunter I got rid of this ugly message box in the left corner, which I had cut out in the first two pictures.

Traffic at 9 o'clock.
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More traffic: Stefaan and Pär.
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Pär overtook me, but this wouldn't last for long as he had to struggle with some computer problems again.
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The remainder of the flight Stefaan flew in close proximity to me causing some TCAS messages, so I flew 5 NM off Track to the right.
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The moon was 'watching our flight as well...
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We are close to our destination right now and Stefaan and me are already descending.
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Parked on the ramp.
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Pär is approaching.
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After a flying time of 7:59 and a block to block time of 8:16 we arrived at Bissau. That was only 9 minutes longer than predicted in the flightplan, but I used less fuel.
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That was indeed a great flight and i think most of us had some special in-flight entertainment