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FRAS supports LIMA 2011

In Flight Log, Social Life on December 26, 2011 at 11:48 pm

Ingo lifting kids in and out of the AT4

Almost 15 hours of flying time and one of the best days of my life at LIMA 2011, Langkawi – can it become any better that that?  Hard to imagine, but I sure hope so.  We went with an AT-4, a PA-28 and  our good old Charlie Foxtrot (C172) to Langkawi to be an exhibitor at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace show 2011.  Our aircraft were the only GA planes on display together with fighter jets (SU-30, MIG-29, Eurofighter etc), massive transport planes and military helicopters. While it is hard to compete with this sort of hardware, at least with our 41 years old Cessna 172K 9M-WCF we had the oldest aircraft on display. The pictures and movies don’t do justice to the excitement of this adventure, but have a look here  if you are interested.  Alvin also has a blog entry with lots of great pictures, which is worth looking at here.

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Aeronautical Charts of Malaysian Airspace

In Airmanship, Gear on November 13, 2011 at 6:29 pm

Soviet Military Topographic Map

In South East Asia, Aeronautical VFR charts tend to be out of date or non-existent.   As with most General Aviation related services in this part of the world, this sorry state of affairs has to do with the very low demand.  There are simply not enough GA aircraft and pilots in Asia to make it worthwhile for anybody to spend money on many things that are taken for granted by pilots in the US or Europe.

Nevertheless, we make do with what we have and I have not heard of anybody getting lost in Malaysia because of a missing or inaccurate map.  Of course, the airspace is not as crowded as (I imagine) in most parts of the UK or Germany.

To alleviate the situation a bit, I have collected a couple of resources that can help fellow aviators in Malaysia to find their way around.  I would be very grateful if you could send me additional information or help me correct mistakes I may have made.  This blog entry is just an announcement of this new content on my website and any further changes will be made on this page. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pulau Rawa

In Flight Log on October 15, 2011 at 8:19 pm

Pulau Rawa

A while ago I wrote in my Post “Nothing to see” that the weather foiled our attempt to take some photos of islands along the East coast.  On the 15th of October we made another attempt and this time we had beautiful weather and good visibility. Read the rest of this entry »

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With Max to Subang

In Flight Log on October 14, 2011 at 11:21 pm

Max with Papa in Piper 9M-FRM

The first time to Subang on my own and the first time flying with my son Max. We spent two exiting and challenging days flying to Subang on Thursday (13/10) and coming back on Friday (14/10). I had been to Subang three times before with an instructor. I felt pretty confident that I knew how to get there and how to handle Subang airport.

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That one moment …

In Social Life on October 7, 2011 at 10:03 pm

That one moment ...

Alvin, a fellow pilot from Singapore, has started his own blog.  That does not surprise me, once you start flying, you want to tell other people about it.

I met Alvin at the club and at pilot gatherings.  He is a very nice chap (no surprise here – pilots are like that) and he is a wizard with photos and videos.  With his permission, I am going to use a lot of the pictures and videos he produced during our latest aerial photo shoot.  It is the friendship with people I would have otherwise never met in a million years, which makes being a pilot in Asia such a great experience.

We have regular pilot gatherings in various places (pubs, Raffles Marina etc).  Everybody with an interest in aviation and flying is welcome!  You can look out for new events on this blog (or Facebook or Twitter) and contact me if you have any questions.

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What did they say?

In Airmanship, Private Pilot License on September 26, 2011 at 10:28 pm

Piper Avionics Stack

A while ago I wrote about my radio practice at Senai airport.  I wrote it mostly to get things lined up properly in my own mind, so I never got around to publish it.   I now found it again in one of the abandoned folders on my laptop and think this may help somebody else with their first radio calls.  So, while I make it available here, I am aware that I am not that experienced myself and may get things wrong.  It always better to ask an instructor for clarification if in doubt! Read the rest of this entry »


Out of Order

In Admin on September 25, 2011 at 9:58 pm

Sorry! My blog and web site have been unavailable for three days or so.

Since the announcement of the closure of the iWeb service by Apple, I was looking for a replacement and eventually switch over to the web hosting service of GoDaddy.  Last week the web site stopped loading and I have problems uploading new content as well.  Since I didn’t get feedback from GoDaddy, I looked for an alternative and found it in iPage.

Unfortunately, the changes in DNS service proved to be less straight forward than I had hoped, so that I managed to make everything unavailable the night before my cross-country flight to Ipoh.

I think now everything works again and I hope I haven’t lost too many readers, because of this glitch.

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Into the mountains

In Flight Log on September 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

Ipoh Terminal Building (air side)

On the 24th and 25th of September I added Ipoh (WMKI) to the list of airports I have landed on. On Saturday morning around 9 am, we took off in Johor.  In Subang we had a quick lunch and left for Ipoh about 12:30. We took the coastal route via Kapar, Kuala Selangor, Teluk Intan, Kampar and Gopeng and touched down in Ipoh after a one hour and 20 minutes flight. Captain Ridzuan had everything extremely well prepared as usual.  I had put together flight plans and logs as well, but his stuff was better. Read the rest of this entry »

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FRAS Photo Shoot

In Flight Log, Social Life on September 17, 2011 at 10:49 pm

Domingo and Captn Singh in AT4 9M-EYM

On Saturday, we had bring-your-favorite-gadgets to the club day.  We wanted to do some photo and video shooting to have material for web sites brochures and so forth.  It turned out that flying is not the only expensive hobby our pilots are into.  The number of cameras we all brought along was nothing short of impressive.  I think I was the only one bringing a “point-and-shot” camera to a serious DSLR “fight”.  To be sure I also had my D80 in my bag, but that wasn’t anything to brag about.  Anyway, I am happy with my new little Coolpix P300 camera, which I bought recently.  As they say, the only good camera is a camera you actually have with you when you want to take a picture and the P300 is small enough to carry in my trouser pockets. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nothing to see

In Flight Log on September 11, 2011 at 10:39 pm

Haze

This weekend I took a colleague to the club to fly for the first time with a passenger (who is not an instructor) . He has lots of hours of flying time himself,  he just hasn’t flown for a while.  Unfortunately, for a sightseeing tour, there was precious little to see. Read the rest of this entry »