...howwwzattt... a classic example of malaysian enforcement...

My news-clipping. For a better image, go here.

While our JPJ were busying themselves playing hide and seek with the operation of the illegal taxis at KLIA (last week news), nothing has been done to the illegal activities in our airspace.

For sometimes, chartered air services had found their ways on our shore or let say our skies. The main concern is, these air charter service operators had illegally operated by making Malaysia as their hub (see NST Sunday July 5th).

By making Malaysia as their hub, there were certain rules and regulations to be followed. For one, any aircraft that is to be operated from Malaysia as their hub must bear a Malaysian registration and in this case started with 9M and a Malaysian flag must be printed on the rudder section of the aircraft. This is mandatory.

From the above news clipping, we could see that there is a serious breach of regulation that someone must answer for.

“We know the names of the companies which are using foreign-registered aircraft for air charter, and the DCA also knows who the culprits are”, according to a source. (more here)

What the hell is happening to our sovereignty now? The DCA as the authority body of the civil aviation just closes one eye to the culprits you mean? The DGCA even said that the department needs written complaints for it to act. By needing a written complaint, the complainant himself must be someone that knows something about Malaysia air-legislation. No makcik2 or pakciks can make a sound complaint regarding this matter. This means that if nobody complaint, all is smooth sailing.

Flight plans must be submitted to ATC preferably 72 hours or even a few minutes before take-off. Some pilots only give the flight plans when the aircraft is already airborne and what if the same flight plans were used by another plane at that very moment. Disaster could strike.

On foreign registered aircraft displaying Malaysian flags, the DGCA said he doesn’t know whether it is legal or illegal to do so because the law is silent on this.

Now this is serious. The Director General of Department of Civil Aviation doesn’t know on the law which custodian was under him.

And today it was in the news, no complaints were made. The DCA is one of the most feared government agency in Malaysia is now had tarnished its image forever.

As for me, now it is time for us to audit them and let them taste their own medicine.

howwwzattt... lawak bodoh la kejap...

Seorang perempuan berpotongan seksi dan cantik memakai skirt ketat separas lutut dan sehelai blouse lengan panjang sedang berdiri di sebuah perhentian bas. Ketika itu ramai orang sedang memenuhi pondok tersebut.

Apabila bas datang, perempuan tersebut mengalami kesukaran untuk memanjat tangga bas dek kerana skirtnya yang ketat tersebut.

Setelah berfikir seketika akhirnya dia mengambil keputusan untuk membuka sedikit zip skirtnya, namun masih gagal dan dia menurunkan sedikit lagi zip tetapi masih sukar, akhirnya dia terus membuka keseluruhan zip skirtnya kerana tiada apa yang perlu dibimbangkan sebab bajunya dimasukkan kedalam skirt... namun dia masih juga gagal memanjat tangga bas, sedangkan ramai orang sedang beratur dibelakangnya.

Perempuan tersebut telah habis akal, sedang dia berfikir tiba-tiba dia terasa ada tangan menolak punggungnya menaiki tangga bas, dia menoleh dan didapati lelaki dibelakangnya yang melakukan perbuatan tersebut.

Dengan nada lantang dia memarahi lelaki tersebut "Apahal ko pegang punggung aku? gatal!

"Jawap lelaki tersebut "ko pun gatal jugak... yang pergi bukak zip seluar aku tiga kali apasal?"

Dipetik dari LawakJoke.com

...howwwzattt... no frills flight...

LONDON, June 10 — Airlines are reducing the size of spoons and dropping in-flight magazines to make planes lighter and save fuel during the recession, according to the International Air Transport Association.

In the United States, Northwest Airlines has excluded spoons from its cutlery pack if the in-flight meal does not require one.It is not alone, according to Paul Steele, director of the environment at IATA.

Another carrier, JAL of Japan, took everything it loaded from a 747 and put it on the floor of a school gym to see what it really needed.As a result it shaved a fraction of a centimetre off all its cutlery to cut weight.

"When you are talking about a jumbo jet with 400 people on board, being served two to three meals, this can save a few kilos," he said.You work out how much fuel that consumes over a year, and you can be talking about a considerable amount of money".

Other carriers have come up with all sorts of ingenious initiatives to shift the flab off their aircraft.

In-flight magazines are going and carriers are even putting their duty-free catalogues onto the seat-back televisions."Airlines are going through what they put on a plane. They are now saying that if we are only carrying 100 passengers, then only load what they need," said Steele.

Catering trolleys are becoming lighter and less water — both bottled and in the tank — is being loaded.The next generation of aircraft seats are likely to be up to 30 per cent lighter than the current generation, with composite replacing aluminium.

Reinforced carbon fibre is used for the shields for the in-flight televisions, cutting the weight by as much as half.Many of the initiatives were triggered by the soaring cost of aviation fuel. But are now becoming important for airlines who are coming under pressure to cut their carbon emissions.

In Kuala Lumpur, 226 leading airlines pledged that they would achieve "carbon-neutral growth" by 2020, meaning that their emissions would be capped — even if the number of planes in the sky increased.

At the same time the industry is looking to step up the use of alternative carbon-free bio-fuels, which should account for up to six per cent of the industry total by 2020.A number of carriers, including Virgin Atlantic, Continental and Air New Zealand, have carried out trials of alternative sources of energy such as algae.

It is anticipated that such fuels, which have appear to have performed as well — if not better — than conventional kerosene, will get safety approval as early as next year.

But, given the high initial cost, they are unlikely to be in widespread commercial use before the middle of the next decade. — Daily Telegraph

...howwwzattt... stormy flight in a stormy weather...

Flying Into Storms To Be Avoided - Pilots

June 3, 2009
Airline pilots are well known for a sense of calm confidence, but when it comes to flying through thunderstorms, they tend to have the same reaction -- don't.

Aviation experts are debating whether lightning or turbulence may have caused Air France Flight AF447, an Airbus A330 with 228 passengers and crew aboard, to crash into the Atlantic Ocean early on Monday.

Two veteran pilots said they would take pains to avoid flying into storms, even though modern aircraft are designed to withstand them.

"My personal record was a diversion of almost 300 nautical miles just to circumnavigate a large area of showers over the western Atlantic Ocean near Florida," said Evert van Zwol, president of the Dutch pilots' association VNV.

The Air France A330, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, encountered heavy turbulence about four hours after takeoff, and around 15 minutes later sent an automatic message reporting electrical faults.

It vanished shortly after it was due to have flown through a belt of turbulence and frequent storms at the Equator.

"You don't go into this sort of weather lightly. It's nasty for the passengers and can be alarming for us," said Tim Armstrong, a former 747 captain for Singapore Airlines.

"Flying actually into the top of one of these storms is pretty alarming, especially in that area where storm clouds are very high and active. There's a lot of moisture and uplift in the cloud, so you try your level best not to do it," he said.

Van Zwol, who has flown Boeing 747-300 and 777 jets for 20 years for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, a sister airline to Air France, said pilots are trained to do whatever is necessary to avoid thunderstorms.

"I think most pilots when asked will confirm that it is very unlikely to fly through a thunderstorm cell," Van Zwol said.

"If you experience, and all of us have one time at least, severe turbulence, it is very uncomfortable. It is difficult to read your instruments," he added.

INVISIBLE THREAT

Turbulence is invisible, so pilots have to rely on some detective skills, using what they can pick up on their radar.

"If there is a line of (storm clouds) you will generally go for a gap in the line. But the radar only senses water vapour. It can't see turbulence, so you have to tilt the radar down to get return from the water vapour in the clouds," Armstrong said.

"At night it's very important because you can't see the clouds at all."

The Air France plane vanished in pitch dark some time after 0214 GMT. It is the worst disaster in Air France's 75-year history, and the worst ever for the A330 model from EADS' Airbus unit.
Experts say crashes caused by turbulence are still rare.

Of 14,220 incidents in the Aviation Safety Network database dating back to 1943, some 73 have been attributed to turbulence or crosswinds.

For the plane to be lost while in the cruising phase is also unusual. According to Boeing, 9 percent of all fatal accidents between 1998 and 2007 happened during the flight's cruise.

"If for some reason you do end up in a thunderstorm cell or an area of turbulence, there are procedures for how to handle an aircraft," van Zwol said, including adjusting to a "turbulence penetration speed" at which that particular plane is best suited to handle those conditions.

But for all their training, and all the modern engineering that go into the creation of a plane, when it comes down to it pilots would rather just go the other way.

"We always do everything possible to avoid getting into a situation like that," van Zwol said.

(Reuters)

...howwwzattt... so long grasshopper...

Actor David Carradine found dead in Bangkok (AP)

BANGKOK - Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu" who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family. more here