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9MDRJ Repatriation
In Equipment, Flight Log, Gear, Knowledge, Ownership on April 10, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. ~William Shakespeare
Her ladyship, 9M-DRJ, will be repatriated and become a US citizen once again. The new owner decided to move her back to the N-register. There are many advantages of doing that. The maintenance is more straight forward and keeping a FAA pilot license current is easier too. The biggest advantage is probably that getting an IR rating on a FAA PPL can be done, which would be fun with this plane, because it is fully equipped for IFR flight. Read the rest of this entry »
Give me some space
In Flight Bag, Knowledge, Navigation on April 8, 2014 at 2:23 am
Airspace around KL International Airport in Malaysia
Have you, like me, looked with green envy at the navigation apps that are available to pilots in the US and Europe? The richness and accuracy of data and the functionality of these new applications is incredible. Unfortunately, literally none of this can be had for South East Asia.
As the readers of my blog will know, I have tried to rectify the lack of proper aviation charts for Malaysia with reporting point data and some self-created charts. The availability of applications on the iPhone or iPad with rudimentary support for Malaysian maps has improved the situation as well. But so far there is no application I am aware off that provides airspace information.
With this post I am giving you a little bit of the aviation chart heaven that our brethren in other countries have been flying in. Read the rest of this entry »
VFR Reporting Points Update
In Flight Bag, Knowledge, Navigation on April 5, 2014 at 9:36 pm
I think I need glasses.
Singapore recently changed the reporting points between Seletar and Senai. The old “East of JB Town” is not in use anymore. Instead there is now an almost direct route via two new reporting points by the name of Tebrau City Mall and Felda Ulu Tebrau. Since East of JB Town is still the end point for VFR lane Delta, I left the waypoint in the file and added the new Waypoints with IDs XTEBR and XFELD.
| AirNavPro | Download | Can be loaded into AirNavPro through the web server interface or into google Maps through the “My Places” interface |
| MotionX by Name | Download | Can be loaded into MotionX by sending the file in an e-mail or put it into Dropbox and use the “Open with …” function |
| MotionX by ID | Download | dito |
| For Print sorted by Name | Download | |
| For Print sorted by ID | Download |
This picture below gives you an impression of the new routing, which is closer to the prohibited airspace WMP 228 (the one to the west that overlays NDB JB).
Routing from Seletar to Senai via new reporting points. (AirNav Pro screenshot)
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