Pilot Institute

MARCH 28, 2025

This is called lift. Wingtip vortices are a byproduct of lift. Once the wing stops producing lift, the vortices dissipate instantly. Wing spoilers drastically reduce the lift generated by the wing. Its important because the lift is always produced perpendicular to the relative wind. Why is this important?

Turbulence

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 3, 2025

After a smooth climb towards our assigned flight level and direction, the friendlier cabin crew (compared to my previous flight) came around to start the service and once again we were given a snack and a choice of beverage. At this point, we reached the threshold of the runway. Making our turn into the active runway.

Runway

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JUNE 17, 2025

The meal selection for the MXP-SIN sector (Breakfast and Lunch) You can request from the cabin crew for one of the snacks available anytime during the flight. Do take note As I have covered this 3-class A350-900 in my previous SQ trip report, I won't go too much into details with this aircraft's cabin products.

Airline

Fear of Landing

JULY 25, 2025

The key take-off speeds are V 1 , which is the speed at which a take-off should no longer be aborted, V R , the speed at which to rotate the aircraft, lifting the nose for take off, and V 2 , the speed at which the aircraft can still safely climb with one engine out. The CRJ 200 suffered an asymmetric stall as the right wing lost lift.

Ferry Flight

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

To get there, you need to follow the signboard leading you to a lift and from the lower level, you can walk through the underpass to get to the other building. Once on board, I noticed a cabin crew was serving champagne on a plastic cup and was pleasantly surprised I was given one, I suppose because of the occasion (New Year's Day).

Airline

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JULY 22, 2024

Since these aircraft were already installed with Aeroflot's cabin interior and configuration, the Indian airline decided to make some minor changes and that also means the airline didn't have to wait long to take delivery of the 6 aircraft. With a light load in this cabin, I went to explore some of the seats.

Cabin Crew