What’s AoA – Angle of Attack?
February 20, 2024
Ref Chapter 5 Ans: angle between chord line and the direction of the relative wind
4 forces in steady flight?
February 20, 2024
Ref Chapter 5 Ans: sum of 4 forces is always zero, provided that it is a steady flight! Steady flight? -i.e unaccelerated status! Based on Newton’s 3rd law (every action or force there is an equal, but opposite, reactionor force.) However, amount (magnitude) of 4 forces not exactly same! Weight cancel out by Lift
What’s 4 forces?
February 20, 2024
Ref Chapter 5 Ans: Lift, Drag, Thrust, Weight Thrust— forward force produced by the powerplant/propeller or rotor opposes force of drag. act parallel to longitudinal axis (in general but not must) Drag— rearward, retarding force caused by disruption of airflow by the wing, rotor, fuselage, and other protruding objects drag opposes thrust (in
The road to become a professional bus driver before being an airline pilot
April 17, 2020
2020 Apr 17, around 3 months past since the outbreak of COVID-19 , I wake up at 0500LT. This first thing I am going to do is to type a simply “diary” to record my recent status. I like writing blog since I can review what I did in the past and I can check
Life as a Flight Operations Officer
January 31, 2019
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
One Life Experience
January 4, 2017
2017-01-03 Dear my friends, There is no better way for greeting, isn’t it. Tonight, it is great that I can go back to campus again after I have started to work as a member in Flight Ops since July. Time is passing, always! Everything is happening liken to blinking my eyes. Originally, I tried to
One Life Experience
March 20, 2016
Dear my friends, 2016-03-20 The performance may be reduced due to the high relative humidity in the damp night. However, I feel that it’s not a big deal since I have learnt how to make a wisdom decision as a pilot point of view – of coz, I start from “ab initio” – there are much
Life-long Learning: 人生是不斷修正的過程~
September 1, 2015
2015.09.01 I have come back Hong Kong almost a month. Rightly, as a fresh graduate, without any working experience as well as not the “first-hon” graduate, it is very difficult to seek for even an interview here. Fortunately, my boss choose to believe in me and offer an excellent position to me so that I
