AZ Boomer

Flying DOH-JNB on 18 May on QR 1367. Flight tracking has the routing off the African coast near Mobassa (174 mi., 280 km) usually, but I have seen some routings inland.

Has any veterans of this route seen the mountain in the distance?

Work-Shy

I am a veteran of this route but always catch the overnight flights (so pitch black outside/am fast asleep at that stage of the flight). I have seen Mount Kenya many times on flights to and from Nairobi.

ph-ndr

I do both DOH-NBO and DOH-(ZNZ)-JRO and getting a glimpse is hard as it is often shrouded in cloud.

But once in a blue moon you do get lucky:



-A

andrewboj

Stunning photo ph-ndr!

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Wow! Always enjoy flying on clear days over mountain ranges, even from 35K one can get some spectacular views like ph-ndr's. Flying along the US/Canada west coast can produce similar images. The last half hour flying into YVR from the east brings you down over the Coastal/Cascade range and flying a Q400 between SEA and PDX presents wow-some sightings of Mts Hood, Olympia, St. Helen's (active volcano in past 30-years). Flying over southern Europe (France, Italy, Austria) often gives good views of the Alps, but most flights over Afghanistan, Pakistan, India tend to be at night so on a clear night the only thing to be seen are the lit up demarcations lines between the latter two countries, which is itself an interesting phenomenon.