Joyride

I've been slacking for the past few days and here's an update.

on 13th Dec I went for the joyride at Singapore Youth Flying Club, or SYFC to be short. To let us feel what it's like to fly I think. If I can get in then of course I would be able to do that in months time.

haha.

unfortunately no camera is allowed on the plane, so I took the pics from the website.
the plane that they used is warrior II, similar to the one in the pic, just that the colour is different. Yellow and blue.

The pilot who took us for the ride is actually in the air force flying F16 now. So cool right!!!

and so we took off, and we saw the straits of johor. but apparently you cant just fly to malaysia like that;) and we turned and i think we flew over khatib, and then the pilot pointed to us where the two military air base are. one of them is in sembawang.

after that we just flew about. the pilot wanted to take us to sentosa to see what it's like looking from the air, but then there's a shower and due to safety reasons we were restrained to flying in the small area which is about 1/5 the size of Singapore. and I think we flew over Yishun, and Tong I think I flew over your house. haha. cos I spotted the MRT track near the reservoir.

The plane being very small is unable to perform stunts, and so the pilot demostrated a very VERY tight turn up in the air, which is basically tilt the plane to a very slanted angle, and then TURN!!!! it's very cool!!! (though afterwards my stomach is kind of uncomfortable, but I think its due to the heat in the plane, and yes, its very hot there). according to him, the plane can only go about 2++ G force *(2 times the force of gravity), so we felt a bit of pressure and I was pinned to my seat. but with F16 being able to go up to 9G, I dont think the pilot felt anything.

only up in the air then you'll feel how small singapore is. we flew for about 30min and there's already nothing left to see. so we did another tight turn at a lower altitude, cos the plane is able to function better lower and thus the force is greater. so after flying to 4000 feet at a speed of 80-100 knots, we touched the ground. it's a really REALLY good experience (ok, I slept throught the other half of the day cos my stomach is not very comfortable. motion sickness i think.) but it'll be so cool if i can fly the plane myself someday. =)