Day 6
Jeddah-Riyadh
Apologies for the missing log yesterday.. No Internet in the Riyadh Sahara Hotel! A bit of a tired hotel, but very convenient to the airport and the beds are huge.
Jet Aviation were efficient and we were airbourne just about as planned. 7500ft was not as comfortable as it might have been. The L2 hates that sort of turbulence so we had to reduce speed and there was also a significant head wind so our planned 3hrs 35mins turned into 4hrs 40mins. We had planned for this contingency so were not embarrassed for lack of fuel. For most of the route we were out of touch with ATC but they monitored our progress and already had us identified when we got hold of Riyadh.
They accepted our request for a visual approach so we did not have to waste any fuel on long downwind ILS legs.
Jet Aviation had arranged fuel for our arrival so we filled her up to the gunwales in anticipation of our longest sector Riyadh - Muscat.