Corner Talk: ManUtd got their feets back to the title's race after a hard-fought 1-0 win over Stoke City during the Boxing Day, thanks to Carlos Tevez's strike at the last hour of the game. Yeah, Tevez to the rescue. Meanwhile, these few days, I have been a good son, helping my mum around with Chinese New Year shopping here and there. Later on, we are going to search for big vase for decorative flowers. Since Dad has just bought new sofas, new LCD TV, new table, what are we short of now - a beautiful and cheerful vase of flowers in our living room! Mum cooked Laksa Sarawak for lunch today. Will show you these pictures in some other post then ... Haha :)
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My last trip back from KL to KCH was an amazing journey. Although it has been countless time since I used " jump seat " to fly, this has to be the first time I take " jump seat " in the daylight. Most of time, I traveled during night; I have to compliment the night view of KCH city is magnificent, with brightly-lit lights underneath once you viewed out from the cockpit. Ooh, to let you know, " jump seat " is a term used to describe the seat in the cockpit, with the pilots! Special compliments to Mr F a d z ly, staff from F li g hts Op er at ion, Cpt and Co-Pilot of this B737-400 flight (MH 2 5 6 4).
" Good morning, ladies and gentlemen ...This is your pilot's speaking ...! "
He is the Captain of this B737-400
Flight MH 2 5 6 4 .
He is Captain Vi j a y, from Seremban.
Young and friendly,
he taught me some navigational skills during the flight,
such as flight plan, FMC, instruments
and indicators reading, so on and forth.
We chatted throughout the flight.
He is real cool ...
His assistance, F/O Mohd kAbiL ...One of procedure before flight - doing the pre-flight checks.
These include ensuring the
correct functioning and serviceability
of various aircraft systems, flaps configuration,
fuel consumption management,
V1, VR and V2 Speed,
ATC Communication settings and more.
All these are actually done accordingly in a list
that is provided to all flight crews.
Once they are completed,
yeah, we are ready to take OFF!!
Many of the switches, indicators and instrumentson the overhead panel ...
Most of these instruments are based on
various aircraft systems
such as pneumatics,
air conditioning and cabin environment control,
electrical system, lighting
and anti-icing system.
If there should be any defects
on a particularly system,
a warning of sound horn and light annuciation
will be produced to attract the pilots' attention.
Somewhere in Pekan, Pahang ...Located very near to Cameron Highlands,
as according to the Captain
Flow river, flow .. Flow freely to the sea!
30 000 feets above sea level~ Blue sky ~
Woooowwww ...
Main Instrument Panel(Orange) Engine Parameters Displays
(Yellow) Landing Gears Select Lever
(Red) Engine Trottles
(Green) Air Speed Indicator (ASI)
(White) Radio Magnetic Indicator (RMI)
(Blue) Primary Flight Display (PFD)
(Light Blue) Navigational Display (ND)
Bear in mind, different aircrafts will vary
in different configuration, for example,
modern aircraft such as B777 will no longer
uses this type of instrument panels layout.
B777 will use what is termed as "Glass Cockpit",
where majority of its instruments
utilize the LCD displays and complicated computers.
" Glass Cockpit " technology has eliminated the
function of Flight Engieer in the olden days ...
p/s: Dear colleagues, if there is any
mistake regarding the technical aspects,
feel free to correct me. We can share
our experience together.
Got to go now,
cHeErS,
KeithK :)
2 comments:
If you look carefully at any Boeing aircraft, the layout is the same. The only difference being those instruments. The Basic T is still very much in use. Don't believe, come over and I will show you.
I love flying, as a passenger, that is :)
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