Scramble Egg

My favourite breakfast, the scamble egg and the toast. Been missing
nasi lemak and roti canai banjir since 2007. But it is okay, feel
healthier now. This breakfast was taken at 40000 feet above Istanbul
on the way to Europe.

The new diamond first class seat. just trying it out. Feel like

sleeping in a hotel room up in the air.

Proud Malaysian

This is the cabin of Airbus 340-600. The 75.3 meters long metal tube, this picture taken at the rear most seats.

And below is the list of crew that were on board on Flight EY 455 departing from Sydney to Abu Dhabi, 27 June 2010. The Pilot In Command, PIC is the only Malaysian on board.

UMRAH 2010

Alhamdulillah, telah selamat mengerjakan ibadat umrah dengan isteri pada 2 hb Mei sehingga 8 hb Mei 2010.
Bertolak dari lapangan terbang Abu Dhabi menuju ke Jeddah.







Setelah selesai saie, bergambar di bukit Marwah.












Didalam masjid sementara menunggu masuk waktu maghrib.
























Pemandangan dalam masjid diwaktu tengah hari selepas waktu zohor.




















Isteri saya selepas selesai tawaf dan sembahyang sunat di dalam hijir Ismail.

Masjid Tanaim, Miqat yang paling hampir dengan kota Mekah untuk berniat ihram .

AUTOMATIC LANDING

Sometimes, the weather at the destination airports not always good. During winter the visibility can be as low as 100 meters only in fog, especially in the early morning. At this visibility the runway will not be visible until the plane is just a few feet over the runway. As an airliner, we can't just divert to more suitable airport for landing as that actions will cost the company a lot of money. The modern aeroplanes are now equipped with automatic landing capability whereby the pilots do not have to see the runway for landing even though the visibility is at zero !! It is fully automatic, the pilots job is just to monitor the flight path, the systems working normally and to take over manually in the case of any abnormalities occurred. Take over mean not necessary to land the plane, it could be to bring the plane up again and land somewhere else which has a better weather for safe landing visually.



In order to carry out the approach, the flight computer must be programmed to follow the standard published procedure as per the chart below. This eg is for the arrival into Geneva Airport, following the BANKO TWO ROMEO arrival for runway 23. Once programmed, the autopilot will fly the plane according to the route in the chart, starting from BANKO (which is just a few miles from Mont Blanc ) following the track and the vertical path accurately.





Then the plane will intercept the final approach path, which is 3 deg descend angle towards the runway 23 as per the Instrument Landing System (ILS) chart below, following the exact track and vertical path. On the lower side of the chart, the vertical profile is shown, which the distance and the height the plane should be.




The pilot should be scanning the Primary Flight Display (PFD) , letting the plane fly by itself, just standby to take over in case any malfunction occurs. CAT3 DUAL mean the airplane will land by itself and the pilot will take over when safely on the ground .
ps : This PFD picture is just a sample as it does not show the approach for ILS runway 23.





Normally the pilot will take over to stop the plane or to taxi to the parking bay if the taxiway is visible. Minimum visibility to taxi the plane is 30 meters. Airport chart must be read before coming to land so that the pilot will be familiar with the layout and the parking bay, to avoid getting lost on ground.

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.