Mohd. Afiq A.

Straight after SPM I joined MAS cadetship right after SPM, that was almost 4 years ago. I waited almost a year (inclusive of tests, interview and medical) before they sent me to MFA. While waiting for MAS to call me up, I was doing my diploma. Just incase if I didn't make it thru the selection process, atleast I still have my diploma to fall back on. Completed my training in 16 months. When I joined MAS, I was only 18. I flew the 737 for about a year and then got promoted to airbus just recently. Been flying her for about 3 months now. Btw, you could always do part time studying later on so you can fall back on that too! But, at the end of the day, it's all up to you buddy! Cheers!

Capt Radzi, atleast now I have company whenever I do India runs. Hehehehe

No la bro, I think the operating crew for that flight will bring her back. I brought some spares for MKW tho that day I went to DXB, the spares got jump seat all the way! Just a small box, can't remember what's inside. Btw, nice explanation Nik

Hi guys, just came back from DXB this morning and guess what, brought back MKJ! She came out of maintenance about 2 days after we brought her back. She's doing well now. Yeap, we ferried the aircraft back with landing gears down all the way. As for the fuel calculation, we had to do it manually using the manuals on board. Headache! Spent about 2 hours calculating. Various limitations had to be observed, mainly concerning the take off weight. We didn't uplift max fuel, but on the way back we crosschecked over and over again the remaining fuel. FMS fuel prediction cannot pakai, because we obviously had more drag with the gears down. No problem with the FMS time prediction tho. Azmir, more towards LGCIU fault, and yes it was a code share flight with CX

Couldn't get the spare from Cathay nor MAS. So rather then leaving the aircraft in HK for quite sometime and paying for the parking fees and all, they decided to ferry the a/c back to KL.

Ahhhh good question... Usually we burn around 20T of fuel if we fly at FL380 or FL400 using the normal routing. Flight time around 3hrs 30. That day we flew back via inland because we couldn't meet with the MEA for the usual routing airways, we flew at FL200 only, and burnt around 43T!!! Took us an extra hr to reach KL. Btw, cockpit was very noisy, nope on the airbus once A/P engaged, the stick is dead, so no vibration there. Not really hydraulics, more towards the landing gear systems itself that caused all of these.... Ian, extra night but stay airport hotel only but got go kai kai at the terminal la... syiok! Cheers

We couldn't retract the landing gear after taking off, even ATC asked us if we had a problem because tower actually saw our gears were down and obviously that's not normal.Anyways, they were very professional and vectored us south of HK to carry out our checklists. A few ECAM message appeared not long after take off too, nothing major. Coincidently, we lost both our reversers ... strange... Came back for overweight landing into runway 07L , ferried the aircraft back to KL the next morning with landing gears down all the way!! No pax onboard of course. Only us tech crew and cabin crew.

Hi guys, my 1st post on MW. But been visiting here often. Anyways, took us some time to carry out the checklists and briefings and setting up of the FM before we could land back in HK. Didn't wana rush things and making sure we got everything correct. All in all, about an hour. Btw guys, I was the F/O of that flight