Joint SFLA Ground Survey — City Tour + RYA 5

Thursday 20 August 2026, from 06:00 · Will Lawrence + Capt. Abdullah Qaisi (GACA)
⚠️ Reconcile the pad count before the drive. The 1 Jul email to Capt. Qaisi said 65 candidate City Tour SFLAs; the tracker holds 114 City-Tour-tagged pads after Lindsay Pentz's recce adds. Confirm which figure his KMZ contains — he is planning the day off that number.

The drive — your order, right turns first

Start  Riyadh Park Mall, first leg  west, then clockwise.
⤢ Fit the whole drive on screen
your 11 stops · ≈23 km · ≈1.7 h +19 optional 57 pads if all run ≈77 km · ≈5.2 h all in

Clockwise is the right-turn direction in right-hand traffic, so your sequence holds: west out of Riyadh Park, north up the west side, back east across the top, then south. The tail after your last stop is appended right-turn-first too — it costs a left turn 55% more than a right one — so it keeps circling rather than cutting back across traffic.

Stops are clusters — pads within 450 m are assessed from one vantage point. Distance and time are estimates (straight-line × 1.35, 35 km/h, 6 min on each stop); the drive line is stop order, not the road. Use the Google Maps links for turn-by-turn.

⚠️ The ↻ / ↺ marks on each stop are the bearing change between stops, not road turns — the junction-by-junction turns come from Google Maps. Across your 11 they run 6 right, 4 left; the lefts are the two climbs up the west side and the hop east off #7, where the grid gives no right-turn alternative.

Highlighted — unsurveyed pads

Will's City Tour adds — unsurveyed (15)
Lindsay Pentz — City Tour recce (unsurveyed) (31)
Lindsay Pentz — RYA 5 east side (unsurveyed) (10)
Vantage stops you added — already Suitable (2)

Highlighted pads carry status New SFLA — added to the tracker, never ground-checked. Will's set is City-Tour-tagged and within 1.5 km of the route family. The two green ones are the stops you called from the road — M326 just east of old #14, and M373 southbound off old #3 (11.6 ha, the big one south of there). Both are already surveyed Suitable; they are on the route as viewpoints, not as new candidates.

All pads in the tracker

Suitable — surveyed (303)
New SFLA — elsewhere (110)
Unsuitable — retired (18)

Routes

City Tour · Tour Ext 1 · Tour Ext 2 (proposed)
RYA 5 — approved alignment
RYA 5 — proposed +0.5 NM E shift
RYA 5 south leg — not approved
NAJD 2 / NAJD 4 — context

The same drive ground-truths the shifted RYA 5 section — the orange line is the proposed alignment, the green one what is approved today.

Navigation — 4 legs

▸ Google Maps — Riyadh Park Mall → stop 9▸ Google Maps — stop 9 → stop 18▸ Google Maps — stop 18 → stop 27▸ Google Maps — stop 27 → stop 30

Stop list

  1. 1N143
    · was #1 · was 1
    24.75309, 46.62248
  2. 2N175N182N185
    ↻ right · was #20 · was 20
    24.75952, 46.60755
  3. 3N125N126
    ↻ right · was #19 · was 19
    24.76541, 46.60837
  4. 4N178
    ↺ left · was #16 · was 16
    24.77207, 46.60079
  5. 5N177
    ↺ left · was #17 · was 17
    24.77199, 46.59625
  6. 6N190N191
    ↻ right · was #12 · was 12
    24.79390, 46.58980
  7. 7N176N203N204
    ↻ right · was #14 · was 14
    24.78509, 46.60784
  8. 8M326
    ↺ left · NEW — just E of 14 on the same road
    24.78510, 46.61633
  9. 9M367
    ↺ left · was #4 · was 4
    24.80879, 46.62750
  10. 10M371M372
    ↻ right · was #3 · was 3
    24.79201, 46.64362
  11. 11M373
    ↻ right · NEW — southbound from 3, 11.6 ha
    24.78000, 46.64584
  12. — end of your order —
    below: the remaining 19 clusters, appended right-turn-first. Cut from here if the morning runs short.
  13. 12N128N129
    ↻ right · was #2
    24.76656, 46.61904
  14. 13N179
    ↻ right · was #15
    24.77757, 46.60908
  15. 14N181N183N184N192N193N194N195N196N197N198N199N200N201N202N212
    ↺ left · was #13
    24.78450, 46.59310
  16. 15N189
    ↻ right · was #11
    24.79556, 46.58414
  17. 16N186
    ↑ straight · was #10
    24.80413, 46.58203
  18. 17N188
    ↑ straight · was #8
    24.81590, 46.57977
  19. 18N187
    ↺ left · was #9
    24.80700, 46.56826
  20. 19N122
    ↺ left · was #18
    24.76079, 46.59226
  21. 20N133N138
    ↺ left · was #21
    24.75555, 46.60045
  22. 21N141
    ↻ right · was #22
    24.74471, 46.60658
  23. 22N205
    ↺ left · was #23
    24.74433, 46.61884
  24. 23N206N207
    ↺ left · was #24
    24.74692, 46.62500
  25. 24N208
    ↻ right · was #25
    24.74063, 46.62525
  26. 25N209N210N211
    ↺ left · was #26
    24.74341, 46.63226
  27. 26M364M365
    ↻ right · was #27
    24.72614, 46.66470
  28. 27M366
    ↑ straight · was #28
    24.72238, 46.66848
  29. 28M355
    ↺ left · was #5
    24.81767, 46.63495
  30. 29M354
    ↺ left · was #6
    24.82014, 46.62800
  31. 30M351
    ↻ right · was #7
    24.82768, 46.62536

Deliberately not on this drive

1 unsurveyed pad north of 24.83°N sit up the Malham corridor — a separate drive, not a morning add-on: M349.

Pad geometry, status and area tags from the THC SFLA tracker (geometry.json / data.geojson). Batch attribution from the tracker repo's history. Generated for the Thursday 20 August 2026 survey — not a controlled document.