Flight Experience

Flight Experience 2 – Challenger 605 The Scare over Australia This is a post about a scary situation I once had flying the Challenger 605 over Australia. We were on a two week trip around Southeast Asia and Australia. The aircraft was a Challenger 605 with two pilots, one flight attendant, and eight passengers. The trip started from Ningbo, China to Bali, Indonesia, with a fuel stop in Sanya. Nothing really exciting happened on the first day. Just the usual stuff of following our preselected airways and navigating around occasional thunderstorms. We got up to 40,000 feet which is higher than most airliners usually fly at. At this altitude we were able to overfly most of the bad weather, but later in the afternoon the storm buildups exceeded even that altitude. But that’s normal when you cross from South China Sea to Java Sea and finally to Bali Sea. [...]