Abu Tunb & Abu Musa
This brings back memories of getting airborne from Sharjah in 1971 in the venerable Shack 2.3. After take off (0700 hrs), the first task was a "flag" check on the tiny islands of Tunb & Musa, situated midway between Sharjah & Iran just inside the straits.
Sometimes the local flag raiser overslept so we used to wake him with a noisy low fly by. 5 minutes later he could be seen dashing madly to the flag pole to raise his flag. We always received a cheery wave (I think he was waving??).