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Old 17th May 2007 | 15:06
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denhamflyer
 
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I agree I didnt mean the airport but the place. Each airport does have a copy up on the wall so we just studied the points and copied them down. Interestingly the chart does NOT go as far south as Marrakesh so an old chart is usually patched below it! I dont believe mandatory VFR routes are new but I didnt want people to think that you can just bimble about in Morocco, and that they DO check the plans! In fact spain did a fair amount of check of VFR routing since they have introduced a huge number of restrictions.

The staff at Tangier were very helpful. The staff at Marrakesh dont always do change so make sure you have small notes available typlically you are given 100 and 200's which most people wont take, so it can get expensive with all the rounding up they do!

It appears that they dont know all of them and it is best to stand by the chart and assert what YOU want an not what they suggest. i.e. we wanted the mountains and they are used to taking people up the coast.

Another minor point is that Marrakesh is having a new building built and that Vol Prive/Departure flights go from the left hand side of the building underconstruction and cant be reached from the RHS (primary walkway).
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