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   In winter, the temperature in Abu Dhabi can drop as low as 10 deg C at midnight and at early morning. The dew point also will hover around that temperature, and the result, foggy weather.

 Most of the departure out of Abu Dhabi is at early morning, from 0100 am till 0300 am, right in the foggy time. To maintain the normal operation, Abu Dhabi airport installed the RVR, runway visual range to give to the pilots the actual visibility, or how far they can see infront to conduct a safe take off. For Cat D aircrafts ( B777, A340, A380 ) the minimum RVR for take off is 200 meters and for smaller plane, 175 meters.

   In this video, I was departing for Milan on A340, the taxi out was assisted by the Follow Me car until the end of the runway. Visibility was around 200 meters. Enjoy the show.

CAT3B APPROACH AND AUTOMATIC LANDING

    After long flight, 14 hours from Sydney to Abu Dhabi, arriving at destination descending into thick fog for landing.    Thanks god the runway is equipped with the ILS, Instrument Landing System that can support CAT3B approach, mean the aircraft will lock on via the ILS and fly down to the runway by itself, follow by automatic landing..  So as the pilot, what do we do..?  Just observe and take over in the event of abnormalities..

  This video was my recent flight, in winter of Abu Dhabi, with the reported visibility was only at 200 meters. We can only proceed for the approach when the visibility is at 75 meters or greater. So there we were...  only saw the runway on touch down, all automatic..I took over when the plane was safely on the ground,  and the taxi to the parking had to be guided by the Follow Me car..

NIGHT LANDING AT LONDON HEATHROW

LANDING AT JFK, NEW YORK AFTER THE SANDY HURICANE

The John F Kennedy Airport was just opened when we arrived. Not many planes around, it was still closed for domestic flight, in fact we were the third planes that came in after the airport resumed normal operation , with only one runway opened for landing, 31R. 

On the way to hotel, many cars stalled, out of gas, many places still dark, no electricity, including the hotel that we stayed in.

My First Youtube Upload.

  I captured this while cruising at 36000 feet over the Iraq and Turkish border. In few weeks time, the background will be all white, snow covered.Pay attention at time 01:30.  Enjoy.

Jom Kayuh

Akhirnya, tamat sudah pencarian. Sangat berpuas hati  selepas beberapa bulan buat survey dan window shopping.

BIANCHI Infinito 105 C2C.

C2C to maknanya coast to coast. Minta minta kena lah dengan namanya nanti kayuh dari pantai barat hingga ke pantai timor Malaysia. Beli jauh ni, di New York, sebabnya harga disana murah banyak dari tempat2 lain, tambang free, bolehla, kalau kena bayar tambang ,hmmm tak berbaloi pulak. Boleh al guna untuk riadah semasa berada di Abu Dhabi, sebab kat sana tak ada hutan, ada jalanraya dan padang pasir jer. Ni sempat bergambar semasa buat laps kat F1 circuit di Yas Island Abu Dhabi. Litar lumba ini dibuka untuk orang awam pada setiap hari selasa dari jam 6 petang hingga jam 9. Litar lumba Sepang ada? hehe

CUBE REACTION GTC RACE

Yang ini Germany mari, ringan jer, 10.4 kg, senang sikit untuk panjat bukit. Guna di malaysia masa off days atau bercuti, lagi pun ramai kawan2 yang guna MTB ni.

Do I look Fit ?

SO NEAR YET SO FAR

At this time of the year, the westerly jet stream blowing quite close to the latitude of 30 deg South. To avoid this strong headwind when flying to the West, ie flying back to Abu Dhabi from Australia, the route selected will be further North than usual routing. We flew this route in early October recently, covering over Bali, Singapore and my house in Malaysia. Feel like jumping out of the plane to be homed with my kids ....  So near yet so far....

Another Long Flight

From Abu Dhabi to Sydney. Flight time was 13 hours and 15 minutes. Not bad, picked up jet stream somewhere over Pert with an average wind speed of 130 knots tail over there.

MY NEW TOY

Yes, finally, after considering Giant XTC, Scott Aspect, Coratex and Trek, I found this CUBE Reaction GTC. Carbon bike weight slightly more than 10 kg, hopefully easier to climb up the hill. Have not been riding for some time, only once during Ramadhan and onece after Raya. Looking for off day on Sunday so that I can join my fellow riders.