Gavin Andrew David

Today???? Hmmm I didn't have much luck convincing the authorities to let me take some photos =(

That damn lamp post....... Very handsome captain there

The airbus will let you do the same

Trying to stir a media frenzy

Caught this one in the most beautiful light

They lost airspeed.... Great outcome

it used to be customary to edit the EK photo's first otherwise Imran K. will go mana EK ! Its become habit

Great shots KH..... The resolution doesn't do the photo's justice......

Lets get the ball rolling !

Coming out of the dark ages of nil spotting for the past 6 years and trying to be ambitious.....

it seems so sad that the ' low cost airline ' terminal looks somuch better than the premium carrier terminal, give AK the MTB and premium carriers take KLIA2

If pilots cannot land without ILS. We have bigger issues

love the last one

The comments below the article is so colorful

While I don't believe Skytrax is a good indicator, I agree that MH is just 'meh' QR is nothing fantastic either. Their service upfront must be top class. I've always been ' at the back of the bus ' in QR. But I always stick with SQ. Website is a breeze, FFP is a breeze. It just works for me. [ Don't ask for refunds, takes forever ]

Did KUL - BKK - KUL run twice this year. Once on the MLx series. One MXx and another MSx. While I wanted to be on the BSI fleet, I never really watched the PTV. Emer exit row on MLx series much better than the MSx series. MXx series J class. nothing exciting. In conclusion, there is no pull for me to fly MH. This BKK run was the first time I started flying MH, and the boarding process on a Narrow Body is so damn frustrating, especially when they don't do it right, and everybody just makes a run for it.

Capt Ariffin Bakar. Great chap, name got sold MAS - GOOD PR MOVE. Once again, proof in Malaysia, you got kawan somewhere, sure can settle. To put it simply, if the next day, she got the medical certificate, she still can fly airasia. just buy another ticket. =) but no.... need preferential treatment. If that kid sat next to me, and I didn't know whether her chicken pox was still contagious or not, I'd be damn pissed!

Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence Sdn Bhd contributed RM1.9 million. - Their training center is making a decent amount of money!

I thought the poll shows KUL/SZB by a narrow margin ?

Hi ChrisJong, This particular device is owned by Thai Airways. The going rate to fly in a Level - D simulator is amazingly high. The best price I've seen is the one by Malaysia Airlines, which lets you have a go at it for RM500. There are no more than 15 A380 simulators in the world, and with each of these costing a cool 20 - 25 mil USD, its not easy for an airline to own one either. To run the visual system, we have , as you can imagine, ample amount of processing power and graphic generating equipment in the background. Rockwell Collins have built their own ' Scene Processors ' that are specifically suited for only these sort of simulation visuals. To run the simulation itself, approx 16 computers, a mix of Single Board computers and 3U workstations running the entire simulation. I can't say the A350 is much nicer.. But you'll see it eventually

Yes they are track balls and just above it is a a scroll wheel to scroll through pages ..

Very disturbing outcome, I have so may things running through my head right now about what could've been done, or what should've been done. It is disturbing. We should see the vertical approach profile... I bet they probably winged this VOR approach. but this just my 2 cents

Here we are in Kuala Lumpur, lined up, RWY 32R, PULIP A Departure, for a very eventful two hour flight. On the Primary flight display, we observe we have the Flaps in 1+F configuration, the Trimmable Horizontal Stabilizer is set at 39.5%. On the Navigational Display, we see the vertical profile of our climb out at the bottom, and on the top, it shows us our Standard Instrument Departure out of KUL, which is the PULIP A Departure. Check list is seen on the Engine / Warning Display in the middle. And below, is a quick peek outside. Staring down RWY 32R Curious about whats on the pedestal ? One thing that is amazing about the A380 is its Brake to vacate system which is part of ROPS [ Runway Overrun Prevention System ] = Runway Overrun Warning (ROW) + Runway Overrun Protection (ROP) In the following example, I've landed way past the Touch down zone [ TDZ ], the the Flight computers are calculating in real time, what is needed, to come to a reasonable speed to vacate the runway. During the roll out, When the aircraft landing gear is firmly on the runway surface, the BTV combines audio and visual prompts to the flight crew in order to achieve the calculated required deceleration to achieve the designated turnoff point. If BTV senses that the aircraft will overrun the runway end, it automatically applies maximum wheel braking, and it sends an aural message (to the flight crew) to apply maximum reverse thrust, along with a red message in the primary flight display. It continues to call out keep max reverse until the computer figures the desired turnoff point can be achieved at a safe turnoff speed Apply Max Reverse ! Apply Max Reverse ! Apply Max Brake ! Before we come in for the approach, we select our desired exit during the roll out. With our current performance figures, the system calculates our Runway length, in this case 4000m, how far along our desired exit is, B10, 2247m down the runway, and lastly our Runway Occupancy Time [ ROT ] , which is 60 seconds Interested in anything in particular about the A380 ? Or about these simulators ? Drop a comment and I'll try to answer your question, to the best of my knowledge

Greetings, I've a few photo's to share from the flight deck of an A380 flight simulator, to show you some insight on how things work, on one of the most advanced commercial aircraft to date. Most of these photos are 1000px wide, for you to clearly see the markings in the cockpit and the labels of the individual buttons. Excuse the noise as these were not taken with a DSLR.... The overview.... A different perspective OANS - Onboard Airport Navigation System FCU - Flight Control Unit The overhead panel.... count the number of buttons! The center pedestal At a take off weight of 480,000 KG, it takes only 140 knots to get this marvel of engineering into the air Skimming the bottom of a storm cell here. Navigating around the airport with ETACS [ External and taxiing camera system ] The 380 has a beautiful 'Macbook' like keyboard Before take off checklist on the E/WD [ Engine/Warning Display ] Another great feature about this aircraft. I can use the weather radar and point it in a particular direction, and see what chaos is going on over there. Thats all for now folks!

“During the final approach but we could not establish clear two-way communication. Loss-of-communication procedure was followed and we continued our approach." important sentence there. true or not true.... thats the question. Did he set his transponder to indicate he had loss of communication. If he did, I wouldn't really put the blame on him ......