Introduction

Fès via Girona and Almeria

1. Sion - Girona

3. Girona - Almeria - Fès

At the time we were there, it was necessary to file a flight plan 24 H to Almeria before crossing the Gibraltar straits. This is why we stopped at Almeria, to sign the necessary papers, get the MET reports  and put on our life jackets. Below, the rif mountain  (Er Rif), quite impressive range of mountains before to reach the plain to  Fès. Control was OK although some aircraft had ask commercial airline to relay their messages due to terrain barrier.

Fès has some marvelous buildings and worth a vist, below a medersa (coranic school).

Fès airport is OK, MET information not so easy to obtain but helpful people anyway. Refueling was not a problem.

One of the day we spent in in Fès was too cloudy with too low ceiling for the flight we wanted to make to Ourzazate, our plane remained on ground, a little bit lost but under close   guard by policeman due to the next visit of HM Hassan II a few days later. 

4. Fès - Valencia

Take-off at Fès was made pretty fast as the plane with HM was about to land. 

Passing abeam Al Hoceima (ALM VOR) on the way back to Valencia, next report is ALB a tiny island equipped with a NDB.

Long and somehow boring flight along the coast heading back  to Valencia .

From Valencia back to Sion, we could benefit from a IFR level for transit through Barcelona TMA although we are VFR pilots and were under VFR flight plan.