When you edit out the missed balls and the wickets and what not, batting at the nets can be cool.
31 August 2018
Batting @ Seroja
When you edit out the missed balls and the wickets and what not, batting at the nets can be cool.
17 August 2018
Unpressurised Joy
Subang Sky Park
My boss (my former classmate at Glasgow University), had just had his new General Aviation hangar inaugurated yesterday. After the long prayer and sumptuous kambing bakar and what not, he asked me whether I would like to ride on his Cessna 172 aircraft for a quick KL city tour.
"You don't have to worry bro, if anything happens, your wife will be compensated at least RM200k."
Wow, that's very reassuring indeed, especially when knowing that the wife will be a new 'janda kaya' and will get the posthumous two hundred thousand compensation plus another one million from my EPF, while my duly-departed self could be making the next day headline in the news, and somebody will obviously post viral photo/video via WhatsApp or IG.
Anyway, back to the Cessna 172, it is one of the most successful aircraft in history with more than 44,000 units built since 1956 and remains in production until today.
It has a crew of one (the pilot) and can carry three passengers. Its length is about 8.28m and its wingspan is 11.00 m. The Cessna 172 cruising speed is 226 km/h with a range of about 1,289 km. Unlike normal civil aviation aircraft that we normally took, the cabin is not pressurised. Similar to the scary helicopters during my offshore going days and the British Aerospace Jetstream 41 during my aerospace engineering undergraduate study.
The pilot of the day for the Cessna 172 was Captain Azrin, a young and talented flying officer at my company. We took off from Subang Sky Park runway and flew from Subang up to KL City Centre passing the TRX and KLCC and came back to Subang.
During the landing approach, we have to wait for quite sometime loitering in the air while waiting for the runway to clear because of heavy traffics.
Captain Azrin safely landed the aircraft, and thanks to the Almighty, my wife's not yet a rich widow.
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| Cessna 172 with Registration No. 9M-JOY |
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| Captain Azrin the pilot of the day |
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| Passed by the almost completed TRX |
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| Yours truly giving a thumbs up |
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