New Airbus Cabin Seats.

Diamond First Class

Pearl, Business Class

LONDON HEATHROW ARRIVAL.

For any destination, according to the regulation, alternate airports must be planned in the event of unable to land at the destination airport due to bad weather, runway closer or any other reasons. This was for my flight last week to London Heathrow Airport. Nominated destination alternate were Alternate #1 EGKK Gatwick Airport, Alternate #2 EGCC Manchester, Alternate #3 LFPG Paris and Alternate #4 EBBR Brussel. The flight plan will take into account the amount of fuel required to fly to the destination plus fuel required to the alternate and that figures will be the Minimum Sector Fuel to be carried for the flight. The final figure will take into consideration of 30 minutes holding before landing( reserve fuel )and 3-5 percent contingency fuel . If the weather forecast is bad, additional reserve fuel may be carried. So as a passenger,nothing to worry about whether the plane has enough fuel or not to reach the destination and or to divert to the alternate airport.

Landing at runway 09L London Heathrow Airport.

Another record broken !!!

On my recent flight yesterday night, Chicago to Abu Dhabi. Flying over Canada Airspace, riding on the jet stream at 33000 feet. Look at the top left hand corner of the Navigational Display ND. I was flying at 478 kts True Airspeed TAS, the wind was blowing right from behind bearing 278 deg from the North at 175 knots giving resultant Ground Speed GS of 651 knots. That was the actual speed that we travelled over the surface of the Earth, 1205 km per hour !!!



Not so busy flying over the Atlantic, waiting for the time for me to rest and Team B crew taking over. Total flight time was 12 hrs 50 min, and the rest period calculated was 5 hrs 50 min each.

These are the beds for the cabin crew. Total of 13 onboard, half will be working and the other half will be sleeping in this Crew Rest Bunk Compartment.

This one, nearest to the door is the bed for First Officer and the bigger one with the bedsheet pillow and blanket is mine, I mean for the Captain hehe..

Closer look at the Captains bed.

Good Nite ! I will wake up one hour before landing at Abu Dhabi becouse I have to prepare

and freshen up , have to do the landing.

MELBOURNE, AGAIN..

Flying over Australia, just East of Perth. During
hot summer, the shallow river and lakes dry up
as can be seen here, become whitish.

Melbourne city from the birds eyes view. Good visibility, nice

25 deg C temperature but sometime can be very hot and humid

with a lot of clouds formation overhead.

Approaching the runway to land, runway 16 Melbourne Airport.

The hotel where they put us for the night after 14 hours of
flight. The Crowne Plaza.

Beautiful view from my room.

LATEST VIEW OF DUBAI

Departing from Runway 31R AUH, EMERU 1P Departure will bring us directly over Dubai on the Northeast bound track. As can see on the picture below, almost the whole Dubai is visible especially The Palm Jumeirah, the not completed yet The World and the newly completed Burj Khalifah, the tallest building in the world. Good visibility during the winter, can expect haze coming soon as the temperature rises.

CHICAGO Part 2

My second trip to Chicago, KORD Ohare International Airport on the 13th Jan 2010.

Arrived late evening, already dark when we reached the hotel, so stayed in the room till morning the next day. At 10 am local time, braved myself to take a walk along the Michigan Avenue towards Millennium Park.

This scupture situated infront of the Millennium Park, shining

bean, could see the refection of the city on it.

The water in the river still in the iced form, breaking up.

This one I took while standing infront of the Chicago Tribune.

Descending over Abu Dhabi city during approach to land,back from Chicago.

Home sweet home.

NO 12 SQUADRON

My glorious years with No 12 Squadron, RMAF Butterworth.



Top Gun Squadron 1987


Left to right, Coolie, Gary, Batu, Taipan and Ashburn

TAMING SARI

The very first LIMA , in Dec 1991 . I was the soloist, No9. We lost one of our buddy during training near Alor Setar Airport.

My First Flight To Chicago

The flight from Abu Dhabi to Chicago, Ohare International Airport took 14 hours and 40
minutes, flying over Iran airspace, Turki, Europe, over the North Atlantic and Canada. We took off at 1010 am Abu Dhabi local time and landed at 1540 local time Chicago, same day. This is becouse Chicago is -6 hours of UTC or GMT and Abu Dhabi is +4 of UTC. So at the time we landed, at our point of departure already 0140 am the next day. We landed using runway 14R of that busiest airport in the world.

Chicago, viewed from my hotel room, which is just beside The John Hancock Tower.

The temperature was around 3/4 deg celcius, I was just wandering around the hotel, afraid of catching cold.

John Hancock Tower. I was there on Saturday, a lot of tourist lining up to buy tickets to get up to the top.

Of all the places in the world, I had Tilapia Fish n Chip for lunch in Chicago. No choice, that was the only halal food I could find in that restaurant.
( masak lomak cili api sodap jugak)

On the way back, broke my record,the fastest ever in commercial planes. Doing 627 knots of groundspeed or 1160 km/hour. That was due to the jetstream we were riding on, wind speed of 148 kts directly on our tail, somewhere over Canada, near Toronto.

CASABLANCA

Nama terlebih indah dari rupa. Mula mula dengar nama Casablanca, sebuah bandar di Morocco cukup exotic. Sampai ada filem bertajuk CASABLANCA. Saya tak pernah tengok lagi pun cerita tu. Morocco, sebuah negara yang paling utara di Benua Afrika, pernah dijajah oleh Spain, France dan British, sebab itulah penduduknya boleh bertutur berbagai bahasa, bahasa utama adalah Arab dan kedua French.



Mula mula sampai, nak masuk sikit punya susah sebab kena stamp passport walau pun kita orang menggunakan crew lane, still kena beratur celah celah penumpang yang lain yang tak peduli menggunakan crew lane sesuka hati dia orang. Jadi sebagai Captain, terpaksalah saya pergi berjumpa pegawai immigration dia orang minta priority, tu gunanya pakai kot dengan empat bar yang berkilat di lengan... Pada keseluruhannya, bandar ini tiada yang menarik , cuma sedikit bersih dari Mumbai atau Delhi. Berbeza dengan Maraketh, satu lagi bandar yang terkenal di Morocco yang sememangnya cantik dan menarik.



Casablanca dari udara







Waktu pagi di Bandar Casablanca, masih lagi sunyi, tak banyak kenderaan, mungkin sudah ramai yang bercuti kerana pada masa ini adalah sehari sebelum Aidul Adha.

Lagi pemandangan di Casablanca, berhampiran dengan Central market.

Ini adalah pemandangan di dalam kawasan Central Market. Ada banyak lorong lorong dan kedai kedai yang menjual berbagai bagai seperti pakaian, barang barang kulit, electronic, perhiasan dan macam macam lagi. Yang meluatnya ada ramai peminta sedekah yang melekat macam lintah selagi tak dapat habuannya.


































Sempat masuk kedalam kedai ini untuk membeli set tagine, konon kononnya nak masak sendiri nanti kat rumah. Satu set harganya kira kira RM20.






























Makanan tradisional Morocco, Tagine. Yang ini saya order room service di pagi raya Aidil Adha. Sedap juga tagine ayam ni, walaupun tak sesedap rondang ayam kampung yang pedas.