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| We meet our local instructors Andreas and Sebastian at the commercial Terminal, and go through regular airport Security (!). | Then into the Air Adventure Flying Club's Land Rover to drive out to where the planes are tied down and hangared. | Driving out on the commercial ramp to the AAFC area, at Subang airport (downtown KL) | Driving past the big jets | |||
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| Could be the same Firefly plane we took yesterday :-) | GA planes and GA fuel truck. Only 3 airports in Malaysia have publicly-accessible fuel purchase for 100LL (others are privately owned or no fuel available). | Air Adventure Flying Club's planes. | Sebastian | |||
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| Big jets taxi by | Diamond TwinStar? next to a Caravan? | Beautiful planes in this hangar. | ||||
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| 9MNCU, pretty C172 Bob and Raj will be flying. | Bob | Raj | Crop duster and an RV | |||
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| Love the logo of Air Adventure Flying Club | Sebastian does a careful pre-flight | Andreas and Bob launching in the C172. | ||||
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| At the Runway 15 hold line with Sue in the other C172 for a formation takeoff. | Raj is in the back seat. No headphones available! | Andreas always had a big smile on his face. | Andreas leads, Sebastian and Sue follow. | |||
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| Departing Subang | Raj gets great photos of Sue in trail. | Gorgeous views of the city | Raj is getting great photos, we're coming up on Kuala Lumpur tower. | KL Tower (spire) on the left, Petronas Twin Towers on the right. | ||
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| Awesome view of Petronas Twin Towers. | Raj takes gorgeous photos. | Same view from Sue's plane. | ||||
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| Across the city, the limestone cliffs of Batu Caves. | A lot of haze (verey high humidity) but still beautiful. This is about 10am. Later in the day clouds will develop and visibility will worsen. | |||||
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| Slightly left of center, the golden statue at the entrance to Batu Caves. | Caves behind us to the right, Malaysia is very hilly! | Steps to the left of the statue going up to Batu Caves are in shadow this time of day. | ||||
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| Loose formation flight. Sue says "this is harder than it looks!" | Cool stuff on the rooftop | Looks like a mudslide happened here. | Lots of hilly terrain | |||
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| Ikea is everywhere. | Tower won't let us land yet. We orbit... | and orbit... | ||||
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| and orbit... for about 20 minutes. | Tower lets jets takeoff and land and takeoff and land. | We're having fun flying tho.. | In the US, aircraft in the air circling would have priority over aircraft departing. Not here. | |||
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| Really, we made 5 orbits, waited about 20 minutes. One of the differences here - departures are cleared for "line up and wait" and then they can wait... and wait... and wait.. while the single runway is occupied and nobody can land. | No wonder learning to fly here is expensive and frustrating! We're just joyriding so we're ok with the delays. | Beautiful scenery. | Finally Andreas sees an opening between the departing jets and gets tower to let us land. | |||
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| Post-flight debrief. | A similar AAFC car brings fuel out to the planes (the regular fuel truck can be a 2-4 hour wait). | Andreas our awesome host. | Self-fueling. | |||
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| Planes are going out again so parked right at the Skypark Terminal. | Great logo, and Malaysian flag. | Sri, chef extraordinaire at Raj's dad's house. | Lunch from Sri - chicken curry, veggies, and papaya for dessert. | After we're stuffed, Raj stops by a local place for more munchies. Raj is a great host! | ||