Flying Above the Gulf
One of the pleasures I get from flying is being able to view the world from up on high and over the past few years I have seen some amazing sights from nearly 40,000 feet above the earth. This year I have taken 75 flights and I still have another 8 to go before Christmas with two flights on Monday to Sao Paulo via Paris and then two on Tuesday 2 December back home via Amsterdam. My final trip will be to Qatar via London for the FIA Awards Gala in Doha on the 5 December. Last Sunday I flew to Edinburgh via Doha after the 6 Hours of Bahrain. The flight to Doha was at 5am and as we approached Qatar the sunrise illuminated the Gulf with all the oil tankers lined up below us like toy boats. The second part of the journey home was a 7 hour trip on a Qatar Airways Boeing 787 Dreamliner direct to Edinburgh and as we taxied to the end of the runway our aircraft followed a giant Airbus A380. After take off the sun was reflecting off the waters of the Gulf ...