Month: January 2019

Life as a Flight Operations Officer

In 2019, before I am going to work for other company in another sector of aviation, I would like using little spare time to review my past position as a Flight Operation Officer. From about video clip, you may see the lady wears a yellow high-vis vest with “RC” imprint on it. RC- could refer to Read More

Review basic English: Direction

Turn Left Make a left Hang left   Turn Right Make a right Hang right   Bear left – make a curve not 90 degrees Bear Right   Go straight ahead Go straight on   Read More

Learning on bus 2019 Jan 25

#happy chappy “Chap” is an informal antiquated way for “fellow”, “dude”, “guy”. Often used in a sarcastic way and with a negative Example: Hey, Tommy, you seem like a happy chappy. So where we here this phrase, how could we respond to that? That’s : What’s the point of being miserable? celebrating imperfection, which I think is something so Read More

What is the busiest airport in the world (by the number of the passenger) and why?

Today, I have to give a thanks to my friend who asked me a very interesting question yesterday evening. “What is the busiest airport in the world (by the number of the passenger) and why?” From pilot perspective, the traffic in the airport might be our concern aspect but I am not sure if we Read More

ICAO English : Flight Path

[General Usage] Request an earlier slot example: request a new slot Ready to push back Advise current QNH Advise the type of the traffic ahead of us Confirm heading = What’s the heading? Confirm parking stand = Please tell the parking stand Note: “Advise” and “Confirm” are used in a question, but the later one usually Read More

Back to basic: What’s …

Today, it’s already the 7 days after my leave from the last position as a ground agent in HKIA. I come with a new idea to help myself review what I have learnt. Yes – the method is simply asking “What’s…” In aviation industry, no matter for our own interest as a GA pilot or Read More

ICAO English: Photo Description

Protected: ICAO English: Photo Description 2 Words bank awaiting to use: I am looking at a picture of … This is a photo of … I think that this picture is taken in… It looks like an Airbus in dispersal It looks like fish of some sort. emblem (n.) – e.g  national emblem  has adopted Read More

Aviation: Back to basic

Over the past couple of (few) days, I am going through my Aviation English learning. After few day, I suddenly have a feel stifled – don’t have a misinterpretation, it is not something that suffocate me to deplete the oxygen, instead it’s just a metaphor. I have been always improving myself for almost ten years. Read More

2019 Happy New Year

Today, the temperature is just around 10-1x degree Celsius. Most of the Hong Kong bundle us up with at least 2 and even more layers to keep warm. For me, the temperature is particular suitable for exercise like jogging and I did a long-run covering more than 10 km along a artificial waterway – not Read More

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