A big WOW moment for me I have reached Africa !!! Another milestone in the trip and an image I have visualised for many years.
Life starts to get slightly more complicated, and very strict. My sky demon gps unit does not have maps available for North Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia) and VFR maps don’t exist for these countries. I will need to use the hi/low IFR maps that the airliners use that show few ground features just points in space along pre prescribed routes along with a Garmin GPS that has these IFR points preloaded into it’s data base. Although I will be tracking at lower altitudes than the airliners I will still have a minimum height requirement of FL085 (approx. 8,500 feet). At this height flying over mainly desert there will be few ground features to navigate by so VFR maps would not have added much additional benefit had they been available.
