Flight Plan - Dubai to Vienna, August 14th 2016

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Our flight from Dubai to Vienna, a total distance of 4,228km (2,841 miles), seemed like an interesting opportunity to capture some aerial shots of parts of the world I'd never seen.
The challenge I knew I would face was how will I be able to geolocate my shots as my Canon EOS D60 camera had no facility to enable satellite co-ordinates to be recorded. Its Sigma 17-70 lens however was ideal for this purpose and allowed me to zoom in on the landscapes/towns below.
The best I could do was photograph the planes' trip location screens as we progressed along our flight path but this was still likely to be wildly inaccurate. However, I figured that if the initial flight plan had any semblance of accuracy at least these screenshots might give me a clue at least as to what country we were flying over.
Anyway, I'm up for the challenge, but I'll admit, I'm very likely to be unable to geolocate some, if not many, of the images to follow. 
Google Earth and Google Maps are going to be very intensively used in the weeks ahead as I scan and compare landscapes between Google Earth and my own image looking for landform and other man-made features which might match with my image and provide me with an identifiable location name.  A difficulty in this process is that sometimes no name can be located on the map so my practice in the past has been to search other map websites for possible names of the place in question. I was able to geolocate many of my images taken in the USA in 2018 via this method when Google Earth failed to deliver.
Of course, the other very real problem is that although my images were taken in August 2016 Flickr's map it seems is very much older, so many of the buildings in my image are not present on the Flickr map. This can make comparing my image with an older map quite difficult at times. If I then go to Google Earth I usually find the map is a closer approximation of my image.
I would though be very grateful for any assistance received from anyone else who might recognize places shown in the images or, who might be interested in trying to geolocate any of the images.
I'll upload all images sequentially, as the flight progressed along the flight path. I do also have some flight path screenshots taken at various points along the route which may help give a ball park position. I'll include them in the aerial photo sequence.
   

Taken in: United Arab Emirates / Dubai / Al Twar First (show map)

Taken on: August 14, 2016

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Dubai to Vienna

Dubai Vienna

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Canon 60D

Flight EK127

United Arab Emirates

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