“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.” – Orison Swett Marden Tag: #failure #honest #endeavor #persistent #best
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do” -Pelé Tag: #pele #success #perseverance #learning #love
[Ref Internal] UK CAA Reveals Almost 15,000 Ghost Flights Operated During The Pandemic “Ghost flights were defined as flights with no passengers or less than 10% of passenger capacity. Even after 80/20 ‘use it or lose it’ slot rules were suspended, ghost flights continued on a considerable scale and persisted when slot rules were partially […]
It has been half a year since the COVID-19 is classified as pandemic disease on 13 March 2020. This evening, I have received a mail from Cathay Pacific Cargo (received on 22 September 2020): Cathay Pacific Cargo Launches Temporary Service to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Cathay Pacific Airways has launched a temporary expansion of its operations in the […]
[IATA] I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
[Ref Flight International Magazine 14-20 July 2020] COVID-19, what a devil stuff on this planet. It sounds like a punch on aviation industry. To me, it has put my career on hold, I have almost put my aviation goal on the back burner. Today, I have just read a sharing from the flight international magazine – […]
[Ref Flight International Magazine 12 – 18 May 2020] The situation could hardly be worse for Airbus, Boeing and first-tier suppliers. But for companies further down the supply chain it is as they face a fight for survival as demand dries up. As Covid-19 lockdowns and other restrictions begin to ease, and governments around the […]
[Ref Flight International Magazine 24-30 Mar 2020] (Last Update: 2020 May 15 0230Z) “This is not a short-term issue – air connectivity will not be back to normal for many months. And for some airlines, things will never be the same again.” – IATA’s regional vice-president for Europe, Rafael Schwartzman. From the moment the World […]
[Ref Aircraft Systems for Pilots (ISBN: 978-1-61954-628-8)] Impulse coupling is a small device riding over the magneto shaft. It consists of a cam plate with flyweight assembly (flywheels), spring, and a body assembly. Function and basic working principle As we have learnt from the starting system, the starter motor is used to turn the flywheel. Actually, […]
[Ref Human Factors in Aviation – 2nd Edition/2010 (ISBN 978-0-12-374518-7)] Chapter 6 The Human in Flight: From Kinesthetic Sense to Cognitive Senibility What’s “Kinesthetic” and “Cognitive”? Kinesthetic: relating to a person’s awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs (proprioceptors) in the muscles and joints. Cognitive: […]