- Dato' Ahmad Rosli is my friend, colleage , studying together in Royal Military College. Presently he is a judge, Industrial Court in KL.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Mind Over Matter
LAST FEW FLIGHTS WITH ETIHAD AIRWAYS
I like this company. There are about 4000 crew, came from about 200 nationalities. Communication during work all done in English but sometime when they were chit chatting, the most common languages that came out other than English were French, Italiano, Arabic, occasionally Tagalog and Malay.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
RAMADAN KAREEM...
Dah nak habis pun Ramadhan, tak puas rasanya berpuasa dan bertawarikh, kerana tugas yang tak mengizinkan boleh berpuasa setiap hari dan bertarawikh disepanjang Ramadhan. Kebetulan banyak penerbangan di bulan puasa tahun ini yang kena buat menghala ke Barat, bermakna tempoh berpuasa lebih panjang, ada yang sampai 22 jam kalau di kira dari pada tempat masa berlepas dan sehingga waktu berbuka di destinasi. Semasa di dalam penerbangan, tugas juruterbang untuk menentukan waktu imsak atau waktu berbuka. Terima kasih kepada application untuk iphone seperti Muslim Pilot atau SuninFlight.
Selamat menjamu selera di paras 40000 kaki dari paras laut. Memang terbukti, application yang digunakan ini sangatlah tepat..
Selamat Hari Raya.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Landing at the busiest airport in the world..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki-BfTfIaXc
My last landing at the John F Kennedy Airport, as for now. This sector will be taken by the B777 fleet, so now the Airbus pilos looking for the Sao Paulo route...
My last landing at the John F Kennedy Airport, as for now. This sector will be taken by the B777 fleet, so now the Airbus pilos looking for the Sao Paulo route...
Friday, June 21, 2013
SUNSET
Taking off from runway 25L at Hongkong International Airport, during the sunset.
A330
Enjoying the sunset at 34000 feet, over the Australia during my flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi.
A340
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
AL FORSAN, THE UAE NATIONAL AEROBATIC TEAM
The UAE Airforce sent their pilots to Itali , attached them to the Frecce Tricolori Aerobatic Team, bought 12 MB339A and formed up Al Forsan..
I have 300 hours on this plane, while serving the RMAF. Easy to fly, good aerobatic performance, high G tolerance.. sadly, our MB339A planes are in the museum now..
SPEED
Abu Dhabi to Sydney, 09 June 13, Airbus A340-600, registration A6 EHJ, the one with the F1 livery.
On the ground still, using the camera to see the body and the wheels, to ensure the plane is on the hard surface all the time, not on the grass..
TAS is the speed of the plane piercing through the air at that particular atmosphere or piece of air, another word, the speed of the plane in relation to that piece of air at that particular moment..
GS is the speed of the plane in relation to the surface of the earth or ground, measurement of how much the plane covered in one hour over the ground, in Nautical Miles, kts. Why the value between TAS and GS
are different?
Here, the TAS is 474 and the GS is 580.
There are another numbers, 269/108 below the TAS and GS. This is the wind vector, bearing , or direction of the wind coming from 269 deg on the compass at the speed of 269 knots.Since the plane's heading is at 095 deg, the wind direction is coming from behind the plane, as indicated by the small arrow below the numbers.It means, the wind is pushing the plane from behind at the speed of 108 knots. The pane already travelling through the air at the speed of 474 knots, and now the wind help to push it from behind at roughly 106 kts ( not 108 because the wind direction is not exactly from behind, slightly offset) giving the total speed the plane
travelling over the surface of the Earth at 580 knots.
The result will be the opposite if the plane is flying the other way round, the GS should be 474-106, 368 knots. This is why the flight time of a particular flight always varies, not the same all the time. It is depending either the plane is subjected to tailwind or the headwind.. not because the pilot fly purposely flying faster or slower...
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