Comments on: Boxing match, weather and a new airstrip

By: Matt Dearden

Matt Dearden — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 06:05:34 +0000

In reply to aditya. I gather the Papuan's are amongst Indonesia's best football players. And those red-eye flights never get any easier...

By: aditya

aditya — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:06:51 +0000

The guy with the custom guitar is wearing a Persipura jersey, the Papuan team from Jayapura. They’ve got a reputation of almost being almost undefeated at home. Maybe all their opponents got tired after all that red eye flights!

By: Matt Dearden

Matt Dearden — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 05:57:00 +0000

In reply to Faisal Arief H.. We have set tracks saved in our GPS database in each aircraft for continued IMC flight. These have been tried and tested over many years by our pilots flying these routes daily. Before any pilot first flies these tracks in IMC, they will always check them many times visually to ensure safe altitude and lateral distance from terrain.

On the whole we don't spend that much time flying in IMC but when you have to, these tracks are much safer than trying to scud run under the clouds with rising terrain.

By: Faisal Arief H.

Faisal Arief H. — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:55:07 +0000

The track you use when flying on the IMC, is it already plotted by the company and then saved it on the avionic database or it just simply the previous track you or other fellow pilots who had flying to the destination during previous VMC flight ?