Articles about 'Oman'

Our journey over the past week or so has been over and in some places you would never think you could as an American pilot. From Luxor, Egypt we flew across Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Tunisia as well as skirting by Libya to the country of Oman. Did we have any problems? Absolutely not. All the controllers spoke fairly good English (some exceptions of course) and all treated us the same...

We flew into Muscat, Oman, not really knowing what to expect. It was planned as a technical fuel stop for a few days on our way to India. I had no idea what Oman was about other than I'd heard the name before and knew it was 'somewhere over in the Middle East'. I had hazy memories of watching some old movie with guys wearing robes waving swords on horseback across the desert. I was...