Today's the day that marks my 1 year of involvement into this CPL/IR with Frozen ATPL course. How's the progress? I won't comment too much about it just let the numbers speak for themselves.

Overall

PPL ground school - 5 weeks
DCAT ground school - 10 weeks
PPL flying phase - 10 weeks
CAA 6 ground school - 18 weeks
CAA 2 ground school - 8 weeks (as of now)
integrated with flying

Total for now = 51 weeks

Supposedly finish the course = 65 weeks

Flying progress

PPL flying phase - 12.5 hours
CAA 6 ground school - 1 hour
CAA 2 ground school - 29.5 hours
integrated with flying

No PPL

Total for now = 43 hours

Supposedly finish the course = 200 hours

Weeks left to finish the course = 14 weeks

Some maths here

200 hours - 43 hours = 157 hours

157 hours / 14 weeks = 11 hours per week

So, to graduate ON time, I must clock 11 hours per week.

Question here is :

Is it possible 11 hours per week? Yes
Can I do 11 hours per week? Yes
Will I get the chance to clock 11 hours per week? No
Will I graduate on time? No

Bilekah akan aku habis course ini? 20 bulan? 2 tahun? Tak tahu aku menjawabnye

Remember during early primary school years when we were always made to write an essay titled Cita-cita Saya or My Ambition in both language? Yea I've been there done that. I wanted to become a policeman (yea, the typical ambition for 7 year old kids those days). Why? Because of the awesome 9mm guns that were used to shoot bad guys. I was also influenced by the then popular TV show Gerak Khas on RTM2 at 9pm (yes, I still remember). As I grew older I realized that the show was full of rubbish same as RTM.

Then, at the end of my primary school days, I became interested in keusahawanan. Entrepreneurship as people call it. I was dreaming of big bucks easily as in filthy rich with big houses, supercars, 4 wives and endless enjoyment. It was such a nice thought though even for anyone.

Then in Form 3 I took up few engineering subjects as advised by my parents in which I don't have a single interest in. I pictured myself as an engineer which was in itself was ok for me. So I ended my school days as an engineering student.

So, how the hell am I here? Doing my CPL/IR with Frozen ATPL? How??? Well, first things first is that I don't go gaga everytime I see an aeroplane. I don't stare at them for a long time like some other aviation fanatics/wannabe pilots. I never had a lifelong passion on piloting at all. Heck, even the first time I flew (with MAS) I kept my cool. Once on a 13 hour flight I slept most of the time and didn't even tried to enjoy the view.

Here it goes, once I finished my SPM I searched for what kind of career that I should dive into. First choice was engineering as I have the experience in them and secondly was venturing into business. I find both of them lacking the excitement factor (at least for me). So I searched for other options. My parents were chatting about pilots and it quickly made me interested. The pay was a lot too for a Malaysian. My parents were very supportive in my decision and I enrolled into a flying school and here is where I am now. I'm loving it!

Before ending this post I'll share a quote from pprune : -

"There are only a handful of those who genuinely wants to be pilot. Others join the flying school because they are too rich and don't know what else to do in life."


Quite true :p

Today I didn't feel like flying since the weather was reported as thunderstorm and rain at the time I supposed to be flying. I waited for 30 minutes and I was happy to see the dark clouds been blown to the west of airfield. I only did circuits and landing today as it's the safest thing to do at my current level of experience and the aircraft that I'm flying. Today also I'll be trying my dyno app (for car) onto an aircraft. See the results below.







Note : This was all done while taking-off and it might all be wrong as this app was never created for aircrafts, just cars :p

Today was just a normal flight day, I did solo training area and I don't want to bore readers with the same old exercise. Today, Putra 03 (the call sign) parked for a while at the cargo bay and I decided to snap pictures of it since I never had the chance to snap it before. It's RMAF's Fokker F28 Fellowship. The pilot decided to go to the loo. From the radio transmission that I heard, they were 13 POB on board, I think they're royalties :P. Before this I managed to snap RMAF's 737 during take-off. You can view it here.

So, here it goes. Since I enrolled into KLIFA last year, I've been facing this problem. Which is, people asking me about what I'm studying now. It goes like this :

"Sekarang dik belajar ape?"
or
"What are you studying now?"

During my early days as a cadet pilot I usually tell them the truth (because I was bangga during those days) in which (in a complete sudden) creates a spark of interest from their boring day job. From there they will ask more annoying questions such as :

"Berape lame kursus ni?"

"Berape agaknye harge kursus ni?"

"Dah pernah bawak kapal terbang?"

"Bawak kapal terbang Boeing/Airbus ke?" (WTF? Eagle sudah...)

"Dah boleh bawak sorang ke?"

"Lepas habis nak kerja dengan syarikat mane?" (Too futuristic)


Especially during lunch break when we all go for lunch wearing the uniform (we don't change it of course). I seriously would just say (if it was the internet world) GTFO and Google it. The funny thing is that it always happen while we're eating. The time when we leisure ourselves with dirty talks and gossips. Yes, I end up answering them in the most polite manner and giving them all the answers.

Even if I took out my epaulettes, I won't look like a taxi driver since I don't have the over-sized belly plus I look too young even if I grew some facial hair. When I'm wearing the epaulettes, I won't look like a security guard as I have the babyface.

So, I've been figuring out this few months of the perfect lie. I haven't found it yet :/ . But, so far if I'm not wearing any uniform, I can lie that I'm a fresh school leaver (baru habis SPM). And to cheat those people that I've lied about studying in some IT college, I need to find a name for that IT college lol.

Seriously, no one studies all the time in class, some (like me) only study for a very small time and just wait for the class to end and continue doing unproductive things at our home.