meleagertoo well said.... pink string pilots versus blokes that know how to look out the window and 'figure it out' without recourse to flight directors and whatnot.
Go northeast of the airfield and you're immediately adjacent to the city itself... which is not a good place to be if you're averse to extra holes being shot / blown into your aeroplane or yourself.
Last time I landed in MGQ there were no instrument approach aids, no PAPI's, no runway lights, a vigorous dust storm blowing, the vis was approx 1 mile, with Presidential pax in the back of our Classic (
non-GPS) B737, along with a sodding great map shift just to add to the fun (
as no en-route navaids in Somalia for the FMC to update itself against)... thus revert to mk.1 eyeball, airmanship and experience.
Likewise on take-off there was none of that Jepessen rubbish. One followed the other chart (
the colourful one shown above), i.e. as soon as one lifts off, crack it hard over to the right (
making sure to miss that big sand dune) and bugger off out to sea (
directly away from the city) as fast as one can go and at fairly low level, then climb to a good height before heading back towards the coast.... ergo pretty much precisely what you've described.
