Fokker 50 Ride!!!!!!!!Hello! Here are the details of the very fun and enjoyable F-50 ride. Yay!
Well, here's the not-so exciting stuff: The Fokker 50 is a successor of the older Fokker F27 Friendship and its design is based on the F-27 airframe. F-50 is from Netherlands and Singapore acquired five F-50 aircrafts in 1994. There are 33 other countries operating the F-50. Nice.
Now the fun part: The first thing we did when we reached there was to watch a video. We saw many pictures of people working for the Air Force (people eating, sleeping, flying and many aeroplanes too). Of course we had the important safety briefings and emergency exits thing.
After that, we got to go on the F-50, finally. Well before we actually got on the aircraft we stood next to the plane along with ACS and Unity Sec for pictures, then we got seated in the plane. The pilots were introduced and Eewen got to go to the cockpit and wear the headphone thingy :D There was also someone who was quite talkative - saying things about puking in the sick bag and not outside! =)
Then, we were just flying for around 30min. It was cool, much better than last year's one because it felt like a roller-coaster ride (sometimes) with all the rolling here and there stuff. We also got to go see the view form the cockpit two by two which was very nice. =) A girl from another school fell while walking towards the cockpit, so imagine the violence of the aircraft!
We got to fly over Bishan and someone said lookout for RGS. RGS in Bishan??? Anyway, we managed to see Batam and St John's Island and the clouds up close. Again there was a lot of pitching and stuff...Yee haaa!!!
Then the flight was over and we refused to get out the aircraft but in the end we did and we went back to the briefing room. The bus was already there and we all headed back to school :) I think I didn't leave out anything. Anyway, the overall idea of F-50 ride: Damn fun XD
