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Sad News

In Social Life on January 21, 2025 at 8:39 pm
Receiving my Malaysian PPL from Captain Singh

Dear Captain Singh,

I have heard, with profound sadness, that you have done your last take off. My heartfelt condolences to your family. 

I don’t know what you believed in, but if there is a God and if he is just, you will get to fly any airplane you want, there will be no maintenance schedules, no license renewals and the weather will always be CAVOK. 

In fact, I think you will open a flight school and teach the angels how to fly properly. 

Only recently I thought of contacting you to get my Malaysian PPL renewed. This will not happen anymore. It shows, that there is no time to waste chasing ones dreams the way you have lived yours.

Your grateful student
Ingo

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Around (our) World in 4 Days

In Flight Log, Navigation on March 12, 2012 at 11:13 am

Maneuvering an aircraft can be hard work

From the 12 to the 15 April, the fearless aviators of FRAS Flying Club will make an attempt to circumnavigate the West-Malaysian peninsula with a formation of five aircraft and land at as many airports and airfields as possible.  I counted 15 possible places to land, but I think there are even more than that.

We have passenger seats available for club members (you can become a day-member as well). In addition there should be plenty of opportunity for club pilots to come along and fly some of the legs.

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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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To Langkawi in style

In Flight Log, FRAS Affairs on April 6, 2011 at 5:31 pm

Click for more pictures from the last Langkawi long nav in December 2010

The FRAS flying club is organizing a long cross-country to Langkawi, from 29 April to 1 May.  I took part in a cross-country in December and while we didn’t actually make it to Langkawi, it was one of the most exiting adventures of my life.   Read the rest of this entry »

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Frequent Flyer

In FRAS Affairs on April 2, 2011 at 11:11 pm

Frequent Flyer

I am writing this while sitting in the Turkish Airline’s lounge in Istanbul on my way from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Almaty, Kazakhstan.  And this sentence says everything about the challenges of trying to be the event manager for the FRAS flying club.   I hope I will be in Singapore often enough to make this a success. Read the rest of this entry »