Israeli C-130 Carrying New Recruits

[Aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice flight from LLHA Haifa Airport located to the east of Hafia to LLOV Ovda Airport located in the Uvda region of southern Israel about 37 miles north of Eilat.

New recruits leaving their cars to run to board that plane



Plane waiting for the new recruits to board



New Recruits boarding the plane via rear and side doors



Rear door closing



Starting left engines!!



Starting right engines spewing black smoke and blasting off engine start flames



Taxiing to short of runway 34



Entering into runway 34 for more taxi and backtracking



You can see oil refineries located on Hahistadrut Avenue ahead of you



Backtracking with background view of oil refineries




Airborne on climb to FL200



Nice view of waters of Mediterranean sea



Still making left turn toward south via Tel Aviv



Still climbing to FL200 with background view of entire city landscape of Hafia including Kishon Port and Israel Shipyards



Wing view of Atlit, Israel where salt factories are and waters on bottom of screen is called Salt Island



Wing view of Mediterranean Sea



Cruising at FL200 across Israeli landscape



Cruising past suburb of Tel Aviv



Making right turn on north tip of Dead Sea



Cruising across Dead Sea



Descending above Negev desert





On final runway approach to runway 03R



Seconds before touchdown blowing some desert sand dust



TOUCHDOWN spewing desert sand dust





Front landing making ground contact



Thank you for viewing and stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon

[sjimc2000]

I actually checked on google about that oil refinery being so close to the airport ,, and it is.
Unbelievable is the only polite word that comes to mind.

Nice shots again Aharon.

Jim

[Aharon]

SJIMC2000,

Thanks for your kind words.

I actually checked on google about that oil refinery being so close to the airport ,, and it is.Unbelievable is the only polite word that comes to mind.

I agree. It is too close to the airport BUT runway approaches above oil refineries is not allowed anyway. Approach to runway is from sea and take off is to sea.

Here is nice picture for anyone to see distance between the Hafia airport runway and the oil refineries



Regards,

Aharon

[sjimc2000]

.
Thanks Aharon.
That makes perfect sense so now I can rest easy.

Keep the flights rolling Aharon ,, your doing a great job.

Jim

[Splitpin]

Great post more C-130 stuff please

[Aharon]

.Keep the flights rolling Aharon ,, your doing a great job.

Sjimc2000,

Once again, thanks for your very kind words

Great post more C-130 stuff please

Splitpin,

Thanks for your kind words and I shall try more C-130 stuff flights.

Regards,

Aharon