Thanks Mutt
We'll keep you posted. My Paramotor is still "confiscated" here in the Science Club so will retrieve it on exit. Any flying is good flying though and if it involves leaping off a 2 metre sand dune strapped to a lawnmower engine then so be it !
Jeddah sounds good, nice beaches and quite relaxed from what I remember there. Drove everal times from from Jedda to Sharourah, via Taif, Nejran and then back via Khamis Mushayt and Abha - spectacular and very nice people. Went to a small aerodrome on the Sharra Gayr Muslimeen (non muslim) road skirting Mecca and wonder if it is still there ? Had a Pawnee and a few Pipers etc but didn't see too much flying going on. Didn't even ask for a cabby, being so close to Mecca might have been too troublesome for the very friendly people at the field there.
Problem in the UK when I go back is that I have a narrow window of opportunity and the weather is invariably crap; out here the weather is superb but, no aeroplanes
Tinstaafl,
""""Use a/c that have a few more seats than you need. Just don't put any bums on them eg a C172 but limit to 2 POB, or a 6 seat twin limited to 2 POB etc""""""
Thanks for your advice too, but all my friends out here are itinerant bums !
And they are beginning to look pretty, scars an' all