SINGAPORE

During lay over at Fairmont Hotel, Singapore. View from my balcony, on the left , taken during day time and on the right taken during the night.

SURFERS PARADISE, GOLD COAST

It was a paid holiday for me, tq to Etihad Airways, haha. 4 days in Brisbane and they put us at the Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast. Was enjoying the sun and the sea.

This one I found somewhere nearby our hotel at the beach front. A monument for the Ozzy Coast Guard I guess.

At 10 am, bright sun in the early summer, but the temperature still consider cold at 25 deg C.

No wonder they called it surfers paradise.

A place for me to eat, a halal restaurant nearby, few more outlets around the corner.

And a teh tarik for me after the spicy mee goreng, mamak style.

SOMEBODY WATCHING ME !!

I took over the control after waking up from my sleep in the bunk, and find this thing left by my colleague. What is it for?

EFB, Electronic Flight Bag

Another use of iPad, as a replacement for the Electronic Flight Bag, where all the navigation and the airport charts were kept, and can be access easily by a matter of tapping.

Firstly, Jeppesen application called JeppTC and JeppFD must be available ( with licence ofcourse ) . With the Licence Number, all the charts and Jepp manual can be downloaded, as good as having Jepp paper manual.

On the JeppFD, fill up the origin, destination, alternate and the routing as per the FMS.

The routing and the SID of the departure airport.

The enroute airport, once tapped on the screen.

Runway length, elevation, freqeuncies, all available.

The Jepp manual if you want to read or refer can be recalled, and the approach chart for the destination.

Airport layout , parking position etc etc all available.

RIDING THE JETSTREAM

Cruising at 650 knots ground speed or equivalent to 1204 km per hour.

The wind pushing from behind at 169 kts.

Cockpit view, with the lower ECAM selected to Taxi video so that we can see what is underneath the plane.

MILAN, ITALY

Jalan jalan sekitar Milan pada 24 Jul 11.

Bandar Milan, tak banyak terdapat bangunan bangunan tinggi, masa ni weekend, orang ak ramai dan kedai kedai belum buka lagi.

The Central Station, tempat nak naik keretapi untuk ke bandar bandar besar lain seperti Rome, Venice dan lain lain lagi.

Terjumpa satu park yang besar, warga Milan mengambil kesempatan untuk berjemur dalam panas summer di park ini.

Halal food available here.

Good bye Milan, pemandangan dari atas semasa berlepas pulang dari lapangan terbang Milan Malpensa.

ABU DHABI TO KUALA LUMPUR

Sebab selalu sangat travel as a passenger dari Abu Dhabi ke KL, lebih kurang 2 ke 4 kali sebulan, maka sempat la observed the moving map on the screen kat seat depan kita tu, itu pun bila dah habis tengok movie dan mata tak mengantuk lagi.

Yang di sebelah kiri, saya ambil sewaktu pesawat diterbangkan olih juruterbang berbangsa Arab dan di sebelah kanan, juruterbang orang Malaya. Kalau kita perhatikan, juruterbang Arab ni memang takut nampak awan, ada nampak walau pun sikit, terus elak jauh jauh, jadi bentuk penerbangannya macam ular kena palu, bengkang bengkuk. Yang sebelah kanan, lurus jer, sebab juruterbang dari Malaya, including me off course sudah biasa dengan udara yang berawan, boleh tau yang mana bahaya dan yang mana jinak.. so elak bila perlu jer. Tak salahkan juruterbang Arab tu, sebab dia orang jarang jarang dapat jumpa awan.

JALAN JALAN ATAS JAMBATAN

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Lorong jalan kaki

Yang berminat, boleh naik ke puncak, I am too old for that, hehe.

View from the bridge, we were staying at Marriott

The Opera House view from the bridge.

FLIGHT OVER HIMALAYA

Semasa melintasi pergunungan Himalaya, sempadan Pakistan dan Monggolia.

Sungguh indah kejadian tuhan.

WIND BENEATH MY WING

Cruising at 35,000 feet over the Indian Ocean, Abu Dhabi to Melbourne.

Airbus A340-600.

Landed back at Abu Dhabi International Airport after 3 days away, sunrise in the morning. That funny looking building is the new tower of the airport.