Originally Posted by
treadigraph
Real location...? Or Soldier humour?
For Firq-Saiq you’d better believe it.
Firg at the bottom of the Jebal Akhdar, Saiq about 6000 Ft above on a plateau.
The Skyvan was originally the primary method of moving just about anything up to the SAF Camp and village at Saiq.
As I mentioned in a past post spent many hours unofficially flying the Skyvan, with the late Kerry Drew and Barry Fullerton before he went to 4 Squadron on Viscounts and 1-11s.
Thanks to Kerry Mrs TCAS also had a very entertaining morning out on the Firq- Saiq shuttle, including an excellent breakfast on Saiq Camp.
Many years later a road was cut up the jebal to Saiq. Took advantage of it to locate our VHF transmitters/ receivers near the top for our then new Muscat FIR.
Understand that things have moved on further with now an asphalt road up the jebal to a five star holiday resort.