How high should a plane fly? Captain Lim Khoy Hing explains optimum cruising altitudes. Image: Travel 3Sixty All planes generally have a preferred cruising altitude, and frequent flyers will notice this when their captain makes an inflight announcement, or when this information is displayed on the video screens. The cruising level is normally chosen for …
Captain Lim Khoy Hing has a favourite. Read on to see which is his preferred aircraft, and why. Having piloted both the Airbus and Boeing aircraft, I am often asked which airplane is better. From a passenger’s perspective, both are equally safe and comfortable, effectively getting you from point A to point B. From a …
Can an airplane be put into reverse? How do planes make a turn? Here is the inside scoop on steering a plane. Source: Travel 3Sixty A push back truck is used to manoeuvre an aircraft on ground Once the engines are on, an airplane can actually be put into reverse. This happens on the old …
An Air Traffic Control Tower. Xanadu 212 – this would be a call sign specifically used by AirAsia X pilots on a flight to a destination in Australia (AirAsia X has designated that flights into Australia begin with the number ‘2’). A call sign is an alphanumeric code that uniquely identifies a carrier, and is …
I was born in Klang (Malaysia) about 6 months after the Japanese Occupation had ended in 15 August 1945. My father was a carpenter who migrated to Malaya from Guangzhou, China around the 1930s. Fast forward to the sixties… I completed my initial education at the Klang High School in 1964 and started my Air …