Sunday Breakfast Run

First unofficial Alfisti gathering at Big Splash ECP today. Met some nice chaps, and had a reasonable good engine run thru the island. I say reasonable run coz most of us was trying to compliant with those retarded-people‘s-protection or incapable-person's-assistance speed limits......however, sounds like an easy thing to do while driving other cars may not apply to Alfa owners. Revving 6K rpm on 4th gear gives us 150 kph already, and don't forget there are 2 more gears to go.

Poisoned badly by the Novitec exhaust, BMC filter, strut bar and Ti side shirts from fellow alfisti, I believe my 2010 bonus is half gone already. Luckily SIA treats us well enough, hahaha......

Up coming next gathering will be up north for a better "engine carbon cleaning process" and some nice seafood. I reckon that would be an ideal weekend for me and my bella, hmmmmm....180 kph sounds like a good start!!! 

Pan Call at RGN

"Pan Pan Pan, Tower, MI517 maintaining heading 225, engine shutdown, request radar service, level off at 5000 right turn to HGU."

 

When it all comes to real life emergency, SOP is the only way to ensure we can get back to the ground safely. By then, we would all appreciate the training we have been given in the Sim. It is as real as in the sim, and vice versa!!!

 

Landed overweight 5 tonnes with one engine and Oil Qty/PR read zero without exceeding any safety parameters, I reckon we did a pretty good job that night.

 

 

 Slip-station in an isolated country wasn't any fun. Hotel and food was good enough, but apart from that, Yangon is a city that you can't expect anything. People and seafood there are nice though.

 

According to company policy, we are not allowed to talk much about it. Since this incident is still undergoing investigation, and company obviously doesn't want this to go public, that's all I can put down here for now.

 

At the end of the day, SOP, Training, CRM and cool heads are all that matters in flying. It may not happen to most pilots in their entire flying career, but for some lucky ones like me and my crew, we have seen it and experienced it.

All About Road Trip

Longed for a road trip back home, in this nice early Autnum April, I have got the chance after stucked in a 50Km X 40Km island for 2 years.

 

 

 

Driving is a lot of fun, especially with good friends. Either cruising at 70Kmh or spinning at 150Kmh, road trips are a must for every real petrol heads, according to my Motoring Bible.

 

 

 

But the sad thing is the speed cameras and  police radars are so serious nowadays in Australia. Double demerit points and fines during weekends and holidays. Undercover cops are everywhere.......that's kind of annoying and degrade of the driving enjoyment. I asked a question that does it help to lower the accident rate? the answer is NO. Our fabulous Oz government just wanna increase their income via this "clever" heavy penalty system...what a sarcastic idea on top of our 40% tax rate policy.

 

  

 

Anyway, driving is still my favourite activity in life. In Sydney, Audi S4 was my great companion, and the Mercedes was a good runner around town. Hardly compare to my Alfa in Singapore in terms of performance and pleasure of shifting , but the luxury and comfort that Italian can't match with Germans by all means.

 

 

 

Looking forward to my F360 in Sydney in the near future and more road trips ahead. Speed limits???? What the hell is that???? I don't know and I don't care........simply just press on gas pedal and steer to the right direction!!!!