Leg 13: Laayoune (GMML) – Agadir (GMAD)
PIC: Etienne
Flying time: 3h24
This time the turnaround at Laayoune was even quicker than the day before. This time because we didn’t need to put our stickers that “we were here” :).
After the strong headwinds on the way to Laayoune, the next leg to Agadir was a bit better, it is around 30 miles longer so any help with wind was wanted.
Everything went very well, visibility was pretty okay. Due to the heat you can see some “smog” and inland you saw the clouds. But the VFR routes (compulsory) are at the coastline so no problems whatsoever.
Arriving at Agadir was a bit of a challenge. First we had to descent a bit to ca. 1000ft since we had to go more inland (field is ca 10 miles out of the coast) and the clouds were there. Going inland we felt quite some turbulence making it quite intensive flying to watch where the plane is going and to stabilize it also. We then saw some blowing sand rolling on the ground (first time to see that). This didn’t really help our visibility, so to say. Fortunately the cloud level let us climb a couple of hundred feet so we could be “VFR on top” of the blowing sand. You can see the ground between the rolling sand clouds below you and the visibility is much better at a bit higher level than being too low here. Also we did not want to put our air filter through all that sand and dust. At the airfield there is hardly any loose sand so landing was quite easy. We had to clean our windshield though, since it had collected some very fine sand.
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