F RTW for 77W inaugural.

[plkong]

It is on post #126.
http://www.sqtalk.com/forums/showpos...&postcount=126

hi cgk,

finally got to see this picture! thanks to DeltaFlyingProf and cgk! as everybody can see, the F class seat is enormous!

[CGK]

hi cgk,

finally got to see this picture! thanks to DeltaFlyingProf and cgk! as everybody can see, the F class seat is enormous!

Well, I wish SQ offers 2-for1 for F!
And next time you travel, please do let me know. Perhaps I can be in the same flight with you!

[SQFAN]

And once we passed the security, we were greeted by this beautiful SQ Girl who gave us the gift, which is an SQ logo leather passport holder.

She's quite a popular FA this year...she has appeared in the Singapore Airlines Company Annual 05/06 Report a few times.

[CGK]

She's quite a popular FA this year...she has appeared in the Singapore Airlines Company Annual 05/06 Report a few times.

My be she is not a "real" FA? Just the face of public relations?


Note: Just kidding. As I was told, all the Girls for the calendars, ads, etc, they are all the "real" FAs!

[CGK]

9V-SWA two months later

Sorry to bump-up this thread. But I think it's easier to do an update for the aircraft that I took for the inaugural flight, i.e. 9V-SWA.
Last night I took SQ334 SIN-CDG in J this time. I was surprised to notice that the cabin looked old not like the 9V-SWF that I took from ICN to SIN last week. I was in seat 14K. I noticed the door of the storage on my seat by the window was not properly closed. Yup, it's looked damaged. The wear and tear seems showing up so soon. The lining for the bed was not stored properly. After sleeping for 9 hours, I woke up and talked to the FA, then he told me that the aircraft was 9V-SWA.
Something that bothering me the most is the flight map. It's working fine, but the flight time is off. When the captain announced that soon we would descend, which is about 40 minutes prior to landing, the flight time remaining on the screen showed about 65 minutes still... Of course by the time we landed at CDG, there was still 25 minutes to go on the screen.
I know I know someone here will call me a pita, but hey, after that mishaps on inaugural flight, and now the flight time is still not correct, logically SQ should look into it. Or else, no one cares or bothers with those info on the screen.

Note: My opinion last time about the C class china still hold. The china looks cheap and not elegant like the Raffles Class one. The only interesting parts are the salt & pepper, and the chopsticks.

[StarG]

The Flight Path/Map was off on my SIN-HKG flight as well IIRC.

[SQflyergirl]

My flight time to CDG was showing 0.00 all the way!

[DeltaFlyingProf]

SQ better not mess up with PPS or quite a few of us will defect to traitor air

[SQTalker]

I also agrred with CGK's comments on the wear and tear on my recent trip to BCN on 9V-SWE & SWF which I beleived these 2 aircrafts are less then 3 months old but the J seats. They were not clean at all, I can noticed the arm rest areas were full of soy sauce spilled / coke spilled. The leather covered J seats keep falling off so you can see the inner sponge. The 12K seat needed to be kept reset all the time, with the technical crew from Boeing / Panasonic baby sit on the whole flight, he told me that SQ is trying out the latest IFE & Boeing is using SQ 77W as a test bed so the passengers will defintely suffer. Boeing agreed to send their staff to baby sit on all 77Ws flight in order to solve the passengers problems with the IFE. He told me that the office application keep hanging all the time that cause most business travellers annoying, after you did most of the work, you can't really save the files thru the USB memory stick...!

[9V-JKL]

So 12K on SWE is the bogey seat now?

[SQTalker]

Someone did crah the MH's IFE before:

http://blogs.csoonline.com/how_to_cr...ainment_system

How to crash an in-flight entertainment system

Submitted by Hugh Thompson on Fri, 2007-02-09 16:08. Topic(s): | Information Security

One of the most interesting examples of a software "abuse case" came to me rather abruptly on an airplane flight from Las Vegas to Orlando in mid 2005.

Each seat in the airplane had a small touch screen monitor built into the head rest of the chair in front, and on this particular airline, passengers could watch a variety of television channels and play a few simple games. One such game looked remarkably similar to the classic strategy game Tetris, where players use their skills to manipulate falling blocks on a screen to try and form horizontal lines. I'm a big fan of Tetris; for a few months in 1998 I was borderline obsessed with it. I would start looking at everyday objects and start mentally fitting them together with other tings in the room to form weird line configurations. One of the options on this particular airborne version of Tetris was to alter the number of blocks one could see in advance on the screen before they started falling.

To give myself the biggest advantage in the game, I pressed the + control as many times as it would allow and got to the maximum value of 4. I then put on my "bad guy" hat on and asked: How *else* can I change the value in this field? Near my armrest was a small phone console; you know, the one where you can make very important calls for a mere $22 per minute. I noticed that the phone had a numeric keypad and that it also controlled this television monitor embedded in the seat in front of me.

I then touched the screen in front of me to highlight the number "4" in the options configuration shown in Figure 1. I tried to enter the number 10 into that field through the phone keypad with no luck: it first changed to the number "1" followed by the number "0". Frustrated, I then made the assumption that it would only accept single digit values. My next test case was the number "8"; no luck there either, the number didn't change at all. I then tried the number 5: success! '5' is an interesting test case, it's a "boundary value" just beyond the maximum allowed value of the field which was '4'. A classic programming mistake is to be off by 1 when coding constraints. For example, the programmer may have intended to code the statements:

0 < value < 5

When what actually got coded was


0 < value <= 5

I now had the software exactly where I wanted it, in an unintended state; the illegal value 5 was now in my target field. I then turn my attention back to the screen and hit the + button which, to my complete surprise, incremented the value to 6! Again, an implementation problem, the increment constrain probably said something like "if value = 4 do not increment." In this case, the value wasn't 4 but 5 so it happily incremented it to 6! I then continue to increment the value by pressing the + button until I get to 127 and then I pause for a moment of reflection. 127 is a very special number; it is the upper bound of a 1 byte signed integer. Strange things can happen when we add 1 to this value, namely that 127 + 1 = -128! I considered this for a moment as I kicked back a small bag of peanuts and in the interest of science I boldly pressed the + button once more. Suddenly, the display now flashes -128 just for an instant and then poof...screen goes black.

Poof...screen of the person next to me goes black.

Screens in front of me and behind me go black.

The entire plane entertainment system goes down (and thankfully the cascading system failure didn't spill over to the plane navigation system)!

After a few minutes of mumbling from some of the passengers, a fairly emotionless flight attendant reset the system and all was well. I landed with a new-found respect for the game of Tetris and consider this to be the most entertaining version of it I have ever played.



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I did this once in Malaysian Airlines
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2007-02-21 22:22.

Haha, I remember doing something a couple of years ago that caused the entertainment system in Malaysian Airlines to freeze, but it was on accident. I don't exactly remember what I did, but I was playing Super Mario on it and for some reason I was really frustrated. So I ended up randomly pressing buttons on the control panel. Then the screen blinked and froze. So did the screen next to mine... I asked for the flight attendant and she came over and looked at the screen then she went back and reset the system and came back to me. She had a curious expression on her face and she said "That's never happened before...".

[CGK]

Remember her?





She is real. She is a treasure. She was on my flight. SQ15 ICN-SIN. She was on duty for Business Class cabin. She is more stunning, more gorgeous, and yes, SQ should make her as the face for SQ. Everyone must love her, and how lucky the person who is her spouse. And all the C pax today should have great flight, IMHO. She remembered me from our brief meeting in that gate for the inaugural flight.

Note: The leading stewardess, the lead steward, and yes, her, are very good! It's so hard to think of stop flying on SQ.

[Rejuvenated]

Will you take the honour of being her photographer then for all those 08 calendar shots and more?

[KeithMEL]

Thanks for the lovely pics, CGK!

[CGK]

Now I regretted that I did not take another picture on-board.