Kuwait -OKBK?

[icefr8dawg]

Anyone have experience or words of wisdom for a flight from Cyprus to Kuwait. ATC, etc? We're going to use Air Routing as the primary handling company.

 

[Waldom]

Air Routing will take good care of you.

Before you depart, take the time to study the enroute charts. Pay particular attention to the ball notes associated with the fixes at the F.I.R. boundries along your route. Those spell out the requirements for contacting the next control facility prior to crossing the fix.

Other than that, no big deal flying in those parts.

 

[Gearmunky]

yo rob!

 

[JohnnyP]

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We used to do that route quite frequently (maybe once a week, etc).

Always used UAS, 98% of the time everything went smoothly. Make sure you have all your permits!!!

Kuwait will give you the highspeed approach almost everytime you ask for it, so you can stay fast down low. (at least that was our experience).

Are you spending any time in Larnaca?

The SwissPort girls in Larnaca are cute and will take good care of you.

 

[icefr8dawg]

I like the high speed deal, I hope it's not to prevent someone drawing aim on us!

Larnaca is entirely in the realm of possibilities, especially if Swissport girls are involved

 

[JohnnyP]

Drawing aim, in Kuwait?...Nah...

Spent a lot of time wandering around Larnaca, we use to always go to a little dive-bar sorta place, across from the Lordos Beach hotel/Golden Bar Hotel....called Spyros Bar & Grill......run by a local cypriot with a jerry curl hair due, ask for a single gin, you get a triple, for the price of a single, all night. Tell him Jon from America sent you, he'll know.

Ocean front is nice, lot of cafe type places, good for people watching. Have fun.

 

[stupidpilot]

Make sure you get some fried Haloumi cheese, It's awesome!!!!

Also, if you happen to actually shoot an approach to Kuwait, be aware that they have an approach ban.

 

[JohnnyP]

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mmmmm, fried Haloumi....mmmmm.....and pork kebobs.

 

[icefr8dawg]

Yea, the Greek part of the trip is going to be the best part. Hopefully a night or two there on cyprus.

 

[G100driver]

Also, if you happen to actually shoot an approach to Kuwait, be aware that they have an approach ban.

I am obviously stupider than you, because I am not sure what you are saying. Are instrument approaches not authorized?

 

[stupidpilot]

An approach ban is a term for not being able to continue the approach if you are above 1000' agl and you receive a new report, that the field vis has dropped below mins for the approach. If you are below 1000', and you determine that inflight vis is adequate, then you may continue. Similar to the FAA reg w/ a small twist.

 

[oldxfr8dog]

Anyone have experience or words of wisdom for a flight from Cyprus to Kuwait. ATC, etc? We're going to use Air Routing as the primary handling company.

I don't know how much wisdom is involved, but ten years ago, it was recommended to keep the wx radar on. It's like a white flag.
Take it for what it's worth, it's old info.

 

[X man]

cypruss- Kuwait

You will be doing alot of radio work leaving Cypruss, talking in advance to Lebenon,Beirut and Jordon airspace, so know those reporting points in advance, after that it is all easy, good ATC, two long runways, you will probably be VFR, nice time of year, and no body is going to shoot at you. The Saudi's will have a weak signal at first, but after two handoffs from Jeddah ,you will be talking to Riyadh.

Spend as much time as you can in Larnica, Kuwait is like standing in an underground parking lot below Disney land with no way to excape.

Cheers

 

[414Flyer]

Are you spending any time in Larnaca?

The SwissPort girls in Larnaca are cute and will take good care of you.

Is there a Larnaca woman that isnt hot? Last time I was there, I walked around the town that night, and I dont think I saw any women that did not rate a 1 on the 0/1 binary scale.

 

[JohnnyP]

Is there a Larnaca woman that isnt hot? Last time I was there, I walked around the town that night, and I dont think I saw any women that did not rate a 1 on the 0/1 binary scale.

You would be correct. And actually Limosol (sp?) is a tad better than Larnaca. But you really can't go wrong with either city. They are all filled with girls that just don't need makeup at all, and thats saying something.

The only heffers I saw were the British tourist women, jeesh.

 

[414Flyer]

You would be correct. And actually Limosol (sp?) is a tad better than Larnaca. But you really can't go wrong with either city. They are all filled with girls that just don't need makeup at all, and thats saying something.

The only heffers I saw were the British tourist women, jeesh.

Yeah, I almost said the exact same thing. The only unattractive woman I saw in Larnaca, was the Brit hotel clerk hitting on me.

Does Larnaca airport still have that mandatory bus they send to ones plane, that they charge a whole lot of money for, to take you about 100 meters across the ramp to the terminal?

As for the original question, flying in that part of the world is not hard. Just have a handling company that works out any overflight issues and visas beforehand. When bringing a Cheyenne II back to the US, I was able to overfly Syria and Beirut, before landing in Larnaca.

 

[JohnnyP]

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Yeah, I almost said the exact same thing. The only unattractive woman I saw in Larnaca, was the Brit hotel clerk hitting on me.

Does Larnaca airport still have that mandatory bus they send to ones plane, that they charge a whole lot of money for, to take you about 100 meters across the ramp to the terminal?

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Do you mean the "Cobus 3000"..?....They didn't charge us anything (well maybe they put it on the swissport bill), but that huge bus that would probably hold half a 737, maybe more, would pull up to our little jet and get the 2 of us and take us to the terminal to get stamped in. We actually arranged a permanent parking spot on the general aviation ramp alongside the runway because we were there so much.

Cyprus even stamped us in/out of the county to do a training flight one day (actually on several occassions), and then on another occassion just to walk out to the airplane to gather some belongings!!.....They are nuts about stamping the flight crews in/out.

 

[414Flyer]

Whats even funnier, is that each plane that comes in, has to get its own bus sent to it. Our two Cheyennes, required two of those huge busses, for two of us, and we were charged around 100 dollars for each bus I think, for that very short trip across the ramp to the terminal. You were charged for it somehow, maybe it went to the handlers first.

 

[icefr8dawg]

Thank's for all in the info on OKBK, just got word the trip got canceled because all meetings were re-arranged to Cypus via Airline, bummmer. After planning and ordering thousands of charts...
We still have Moscow and Yekaterinburg to contend with in the spring.