Harus
diakui, kita pasti pernah ingin tahu rasanya duduk di area depan pesawat. Bukan di
kursi penumpang bagian depan, tapi duduk di kursi pilot. Bayangkan menjadi
pilot, berhadapan dengan banyak tombol dan alat, dan menerbangkan pesawat!
Terdengar seru bukan? Nah, yang saya alami di sini lebih dari seru. Saya merasa sangat girang seperti anak kecil saat menunjungi Emirates Training College.
Admit it, we always want to know
what it feels like to sit in front at the airplane. Not the front passenger
seat, but the pilot seat. Imagine you're sitting as a pilot, dealing with all
those buttons and tools and there you are, flying the plane. Sounds fun right?
Well here, what I got is more than fun. It's super exciting and I'm so happy
like a kid at Emirates Training College.
Tempat
ini bukan Taman Bermain, namun benar-benar asli dan merupakan tempat latihan sesungguhnya. Itulah yang membuat datang ke sini semakin menarik. Kami, para blogger dan jurnalis, diundang untuk
mengintip pelatihan Emirates Training College di Dubai. Tempat ini tidak untuk
umum jadi hanya undangan khusus yang boleh melihat ke dalam. Saya merasa sangat
beruntung bisa mengunjungi tempat ini.
This place isn’t a theme park, it's a real thing and that what makes it even more exciting. We (bloggers and journalist) got invited to take a peek of what's inside Emirates Training College in Dubai. This place isn't open for public so you gotta be invited to see what's inside and I consider myself very lucky to be able to visit this place.
This place isn’t a theme park, it's a real thing and that what makes it even more exciting. We (bloggers and journalist) got invited to take a peek of what's inside Emirates Training College in Dubai. This place isn't open for public so you gotta be invited to see what's inside and I consider myself very lucky to be able to visit this place.
Ada
beberapa area pusat pelatihan yang bisa kita lihat, seperti :
There are several areas of
training center that we can see:
Cabin Service Training
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| The inside resembles the real cabin |
Di
sini kita dapat melihat interior pesawat tiruan atau dummy untuk pelatihan para kru kabin
pesawat, mulai dari pesawat besar Airbus 380-800 sampai Boeing 777-300 ER.
Interior tiruan ini terlihat persis seperti aslinya, hanya saja peralatan untuk
hiburan tidak berfungsi.
Here you can find "dummy" of the interior of the plane for cabin crew service training. From the huge Airbus 380-800 until Boeing 777-300 ER interior which look the same as the real one, the diffence is just the entertainment system is not working, it's just dummy.
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| It's for service training so the entertainment system is just a dummy |
Di
area ini kru kabin berlatih agar terbiasa dengan suasana interior pesawat dan
mengetahui pelayanan apa yang harus diberikan pada setiap bagian kabin, misalnya
perbedaan pelayanan dan makanan untuk penumpang kelas satu dan ekonomi.
Here the cabin crews learn about
the interior environment, knowing what service should be given to each sections
of the cabin, from first class to economy with different treatment of service
and meals.
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| The lavatory at first class sections of Emirates A380 |
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| looks and feels like the real thing but it don't fly |
Karena
saya tidak datang untuk training, ini adalah suatu kesempatan yang menyenangkan
untuk bisa melihat dan lalu lalang di kabin yang kosong, yang biasanya sulit mendapat kesempatan seperti ini.Kami juga jadi tahu perbedaan antar bagian pesawat Emirates.
Since I wasn't there for training, it was a fun look around visit especially normally passenger don't have a chance to just stroll around in empty cabin. We also see differences between sections in Emirates airplane.
Since I wasn't there for training, it was a fun look around visit especially normally passenger don't have a chance to just stroll around in empty cabin. We also see differences between sections in Emirates airplane.
Emergency Training
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| it's so fun to see this! |
Kami pun menelusuri area lain dan
melihat sebuah model pesawat besar untuk simulasi situasi darurat. Di sini kru
kabin dilatih untuk tahu apa yang harus dilakukan jika keadaan darurat terjadi.
We went to different area and
found a huge airplane model, simulators of emergency situations that might
happen and here's where the cabin crew trained to know what to do on those
emergency situations.
Hal pertama yang menarik
perhatian saya sejak awal adalah dua seluncuran besar di samping pesawat, yang akan
terpompa saat keadaan darurat. Thank God saya tidak pernah melihat kedua seluncur
ini di keadaan darurat sesungguhnya. Ada juga semacam
sistem hidrolik di bawah untuk mensimulasikan guncangan dan pergerakan
selama situasi darurat.
What I notice since the beginning is the two big sliders, which will inflate if any emergency situations happened (Thank God I never saw it in real life situations, better not), also some kind of hydraulic system below it to simulate the shake and movements during emergency situations.
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| Who wants to slide into the pool? |
Masih di area yang sama, kami
melihat sebuah kolam yang terhubung ke alat simulator di atas, untuk pelatihan jika keadaan darurat terjadi di laut, dan setiap
kru kabin harus meluncur ke kolam berisi air dingin tersebut untuk merasakan
bagaimana jika situasi yang serupa terjadi.
On the same area we can find a pool that connects to the simulators, for training if the emergency situations occurs at the sea. They told us that they must slide into the cold water to feel the similar situations if those things happen.
On the same area we can find a pool that connects to the simulators, for training if the emergency situations occurs at the sea. They told us that they must slide into the cold water to feel the similar situations if those things happen.
Pilot Training
Sayangnya
kami tidak bisa melihat ke dalam ruang simulator pilot karena saat itu sedang
ada sesi pelatihan. Namun saya beruntung karena pada kunjungan saya tahun 2011 ke Emirates,
saya mendapat kesempatan untuk duduk di kursi pilot dan mencoba
mengoperasikannya, tentu dengan perhatian dan pengawasan khusus. Rasanya sangat luar biasa, berbeda dengan simulator di mall karena lebih nyata (dan memang merupakan simulator asli untuk training pilot). Selain itu, simulator ini juga dapat memperagakan berbagai situasi misalnya jika terjadi hujan, ataupun badai dengan pergerakan yang menyerupai jika situasi asli terjadi.
We weren't able to see inside the pilot simulators due to training sessions at that time, but during my visit in 2011 (also with Emirates), I had a chance to sit at the pilot seat and try to operate it (with special attentions and supervision of course) but it was spectacular. It's different with the simulations at the mall since it really like the real thing, it can simulate all kind of situations also and the movements are just exactly the same.
Met the Cabin Crew
Di
akhir kunjungan, kami semua makan siang di Emirates Training College. Kami
sangat senang bisa makan bersama para kru kabin yang cantik dan tampan ;)
At the end of our visit, we have a lunch at Emirates Training College. Yes, in the middle of those good-looking cabin crews, we're all excited ;)
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| Met a cabin crew from Indonesia :) |
Benar-benar pengalaman yang menyenangkan dapat melihat ke dalam tempat pelatihan
penerbangan di Emirates Training College. Tak hanya itu, kami jadi tahu sisi
lain dari kehidupan para kru kabin.
It's a very nice experience to be able to see and take a look what's inside, also it makes us see a bit the other side of the life of cabin crews.
@marischkaprue - she loves airplane, it took her to various
beautiful destinations
Thanks to Emirates and DTCM (Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing) Dubai for inviting me to Dubai. This is as a part of their "See You in Dubai" campaign. I went to Dubai with Emirates, they have a very nice business class.
