This "bush flight" is special because it takes up a large part of a car rally, the "Dust Race" organized in 2019 and reserved for old Peugeot 205s driven by non-professionals, often very young (photo below from a crew from Rennes, Théo and Dany 20 years old).

Only navigation equipment authorized in the car rally: a roadbook.

Our flight will depart from Gibraltar towards Tangier, with the conjunction with the car rally being later towards Meknes.

The aircraft used is the Zlin Savage Cub, a light aircraft equipped with a 100 hp Rotax engine that can cruise at 165 km/h and climb to more than 10,000 ft.
It has no directional, just a compass. Fuel gauges are located at the top of the cockpit near each wing.

After a short sea crossing and the flight over northern Morocco, this flight will take you several times over the Atlas and you will cross fertile areas at the beginning and end, the other stages being desert and mountainous with many oases along your route. journey.

This "bush trip" has 9 stages and 13 "waypoints". Each stage ends at an airport with a special stage, that of Merzouga which does not have an airport and for which we had to build a hard runway. It has GMMU for "pseudo" ICAO code (image below).

The stage towards Ouarzazate being very long, we have also installed a temporary track near the small oasis of Tinghir. Its "pseudo" ICAO code is GMMT.

Your roadbook (NavLog of FS2020) will be provided to you step by step with indications of heading, distance, estimated time (ETE), a photo to recognize the turning point and some tourist and practical information including the minimum recommended altitude. The altitude is one of the important criteria of this often mountainous rally.

The weather forecast has been fixed for very good weather but can be changed.

     Some tips :
     be careful to take fuel in the stages where it is possible by going to the pump
     watch out for icing at altitude especially if you have changed the weather to add clouds
     bush flying is a stage rally, you can stop the simulator between two stages.

Have a good flight and remember that the Peugeot 205 rally has indeed passed on the small tracks that you see under your wings and congratulations to our young student friends, Dany and Théo, who achieved it on the Peugeot 205 n°80.