Batch A29 Photography Session =)

Hello guys, we meet again =)

Today we have been scheduled to have our batch's photography session and our contract signing ceremony (sounds like corporate signing of the MoU, hahaha) and we were looking forward to it.

So, while waiting for Ms. Chua Airin (the "lady boss" here =), we spent some time in the hangar checking out on the aircraft and acting like we are one of those aircraft engineers ~hehehe.

One of the staff came and he voluntarily briefed us regarding the aircraft particularly on the airframe system,engine and also the aircraft propeller, very nice guy though =)


One of my batchmates, Fred was listening attentively during the briefing...(or was he sleeping?) ~hehehe, kiddin'...kiddin' =)



Staff : "Adik-adik, benda alah ni namanya kipas..."

A29 : "Ohhh...kipas..."

The cockpit a.k.a the flight deck of the Piper Warrior PA-28 aircraft. The one that looks like the car steering wheel is called "Control Column".

To pitch up the nose of the aircraft you have to pull back on the control column and push forward to pitch down. Got it? =p

Hmmm...the twin engine aircraft - Piper Seneca III. Wish could own 2 of these...one for daily use and another one for weekend...huh!

It's called twin-engine aircraft coz it has 2 engines, one on its left (referred as "Port") and another one is on its right (referred as "Starboard").

Can u see the propeller on each side of the aircraft? They are driven by the crankshafts of the engines to create propulsion/movement of the aircraft.

Oh yeah, we have one subject on Piston Engine and u don't want me to write about it as there's a long long long story behind it. Trust me. "Magneto? Potato?" =p

Ms. Airin has arrived and now it's time to take some batch photos. While walking on the apron (again, u're not gonna wear this in the kitchen), we saw one PA-28 on final to land. Time to take some photos =p

Three aircraft, two Warriors and one Seneca III holding short on Taxiway Charlie, waiting for Air Traffic Control's instruction to line up before they are cleared to take-off.

Before i forgot, a Taxiway is like a path that connects to a runway and it's numbered in Alphabets. For example A for "Alpha", B for "Bravo" and C for "Charlie". In Malacca, we have 4 taxiways including Taxiway D (or "Delta") =)

A29/09's Batch Photo! We're gonna keep this photo and hang it on the wall, kitchen, garden, toilet, bathroom whatsoever, for the rest of our life. Which one is me? Find yourself. huhuhu~

"Lady bosses" - Ms. Airin and Pn. Sarina in action, calling names to sign the contracts.

From left : Siavash (standing), Fred, Khalif and Remy.

From left : Arvind, Marshall, Hafiz, Mueiz, Fahmy, Segaran, Azman and Rahman ("u'll never improve machaa...")

Afiq, Gary and Adrian =)

Japanese Carp Story

Hurmm...it's been a week now in MFA. It seems that everything starts to settle down and we managed to get ourselves accustomed to the new environment and surrounding, finally.

So, it's time to have some Teh Tarik! Hehehehe~ We decided to go outing somewhere nearby and ended up in one restaurant not far from MFA campus :P

However, a week before, each of the cadets in our batch was requested by the Principal of MFA to bring one Japanese Carp fish to be put inside the fishpond which is just opposite of our hostel.

The purpose is to prevent the disease-carrying mosquito from breeding near the pond as the pond's location is just adjacent to our football field.

The reason why the Principal asked us to get the fish ourselves is for it to have its aesthetic values when we come back and visit the campus in 10-15 years time.

So, with the help of my roommate we finally got the fish (only RM4 each) and it's time to release them into the pond.Huhuhu~ =)




Teh Tarik session! From left, A29 batch Leader - Shad, Khalif and Rashad --> Tiga Teruna Terhangat Di Pasaran, hahaha~

Fahmy Zool and me of course =)



Heading to the pond in the darkness and cold of night...jeng, jeng, jeng.

Bought 3 fish, one for me and another 2 on behalf of the 2 "roses" i.e. Batch A29's "Kajol" a.k.a Hazel and also Deena. Shad bought himself even a larger fish - a 6-foot Japanese Carp! (erkkk.. was it 6-inches?)

"Time to go, bebehh!"

"1...2....."

"There u go!"

Finally, the hypoxic fish are free! Luckily, we managed to have em' released on time otherwise they'll be swimming in 'kuak lentang' (back-stroke). Hahaha~

Seems that mission accomplished and our job is done, at least for now. Well, there are so many more things to experience in life, isn't it? =)

Part 2 : Flight Simulator

Well, let's continue with the 2nd part,alrite? :)

After we've been briefed on the maintenance and technical aspect of the aircraft and hangar walk-about, we were brought to the Simulator room which is located in one of the MFA new buildings.

No, it's NOT the same as the Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX/2004 that u can fly anytime u want. It's the real Flight Simulator whereby the flying hours clocked in the simulator will be recorded in the pilots log-book as flying in the real world.

Flight simulation serves as hands-on experience of every possible events that could occur during flight, such as bad weather conditions, emergency procedures etc. as well as the way to deal with such situations.

It also serves as a mean to develop the flying skills of the cadets without compromising the safety aspect of flight training. Be it known that, 30 hours of flying in the simulator is equivalent to 90 hours of flying in the real world! :)




Waiting for the instructor outside the building :P



"Come, let's go" - the CGI's famous tagline. Hehe~ Inside the classroom, we look forward to hear these words at 12 noon everyday, which indicates - early lunch!! :)



RULES ARE RULES and this is the reason why we have to wait for the instructor instead of dashing off into the room by ourselves

One of the simulators (sims). We have to clock 30 flying hours in the sims and contrary to popular belief, we're going to do real flying first before we start flying in sims :)

The flight simulation's instructor briefed us about the simulator

I reckon this is the sim's manufacturer - Ascent. Hurmm, no "Descent"? What goes up must come down, isn't it? :P

We went back to the classroom shortly after the visit. Got nothing to do so i took some pics of the Piper Seneca III, the twin-engine aircraft on its final, to land =)

Above the runway threshold, like i said before, the sound produced by the engine is soooooo sweettttt, hahahaha

Well, more and more stories to come, stay tuned! ~hehehehe~ adios =)

Part 1 : Hangar Walk-about

Hi, i'm back again :)

Today we had opportunity to visit the "nest of the birdies" i.e. the MFA hangar. Hehehehe~ This is the place where the MFA aircraft, Piper Warrior PA28 and the Piper Seneca III undergo their routine maintenance check, ground servicing and so on.

For ur info, Piper Warrior is a single engine aircraft with only one propeller blade mounted on the nose of the aircraft. We are going to fly this bird for almost 160 hours throughout the 18 months course duration.

On the other hand, the Piper Seneca III is the twin-engine aircraft. The Seneca III design is more sleek and the engine is more powerful (and got nice sound too, hehe) as compared to its younger brother, the Warrior.

Enjoy da pics :)


This is called a Techlog a.k.a technical log. All the preflight and postflight data will be recorded in this techlog such as the takeoff and landing time, the Pilot-In-Command and the occurance of defect on the aircraft (if any) during the flying sortie.



Niner-Mike-Kilo-Sierra-Alpha : Registration number of one of the Piper Warriors

The fuselage a.k.a body of the aircraft

The landing gear underneath the wing of the Warrior. It's also a place where a tube known as Pitot-tube is fitted =P

Maintenance schedule

Status of the birdies...single and available,huhuhu~

Hmmmm.....wannabe :x

The Chief Ground Instructor. He's COOL, trust me =)

Niner-Mike-Sierra-Kilo-Quebeq on the apron

The flight deck of the Warrior...olskool rulezz!! =P

Well, a bunch of cadets calling themselves "Pilots". Nonetheless, these are real pilots, no 'mugup' version here! ~hahahaha~

And the journey to be continued... :)

Batch A29 Malaysian Flying Academy Rocks! =)

Hello everyone! :)

Actually this is my second day in MFA and we have already started our ground school. We need to attend 7 hours of ground school classes daily from 0800h to 1700h and sit for the Private Pilot License (PPL) exam in 2 weeks time. So quick, isn't it? Yup, the time flies very fast here.

And yet, we feel like waiting forever before we can move to the next stage i.e. the flying phase. It's coz we need to finish our ground school first before we can start flying. By the way, our flying phase is scheduled to be in February 2010. Can't wait any longer! Huhuhu~ :)

Anyway, since it's a long way to go we'll just deal on the ground first, shall we? Speaking of Ground School, it so happened that our very first subject is Air Law. So ironic, isn't it? Hehehe~ Apart from Air Law, other subjects are Navigation, Meteorology, Theory of Flight, Instruments, Piston Engine, Basic Electrics, Airframe System, Radio Aids, Human Performance Limitations and Radio Telephony.

We need to pass all the ground school exams with the minimum passing marks of 75% and we only have 2-3 weeks before sitting for the exams. Who says flying is easy? Anyway, check out da pics ;P



My personal 'Pilots Flying Log Book'. It's just that i have to wait for another 2 months before i can start writing on it. We have to record every single detail of the flying sortie in this logbook :)


We go our Epaulette today!! Yeah, this thing is called Epaulette and only recently i know how to pronounce it correctly, hahaha. White Bar is for the cadets who have not accumulated the required flying hours.

After you have passed all the Private Pilot License ground school subjects and clocked 40 hours of flying the single engine aircraft, then you can wear the Red Bar epaulette ;p

My batchmates ;)

It's called L.L.B. No, it's not Lex Legum Baccalaureus (as in Bachelor Degree of Laws). It is "Look Like Busy". Hahaha. Everyone does look like bz on the first day including ME ;P

Looks nicer with the epaulettes on.

Thorn among the roses? Nope, they are the roses among the other 20 "thorns"!! ~hehehe~

Our dedicated A29/09 Batch Leader. Can't find anyone finer. Looks like he's saying "Do u know what time is it now??? You're late*%^&**%* !!!" Nahhh, he's a nice dude ;P

And it so happened that he's my roommate. hahahaha

Well, that's all for now. See ya! ;)

A Dream Comes True

Hello guys!!How all of u have been doing? :)

Hmmm..seems that I haven't update this blog for quite some time, been bz for few days. Why? I'll tell u why.Hehe.

Well, it's the day that i've been waiting for, that is my enrollment day in Malaysian Flying Academy!!! Finally i've made it here. Hehehehe. There are 22 cadets in our batch including 2 females, and our batch is known as batch A29/09. Haven't met anyone before save for one guy (yeah, that's u Shad :p )

A very beautiful morning at WMKM, where the Malaysian Flying Academy is located

The view of the Piper Warrior and Piper Seneca III parked at the apron (Yes, it's not the same apron that u wear in the kitchen :P )


Actually there's nothing much that we did on the first day, just the orientation session with the the Malaysian Flying Academy staff, briefing by security officers, the instructors and the Principal as well as filling up a lot of forms. Later, we were brought for a campus walk-about by the administration officer. The session ended around 5pm in the evening. So, we thought we could call it a day. We didn't know what was waiting for us for the night, but trust me, it's far from over :P

Sneak preview of the 'nest' where the "birds" are resting

Some of my batchmates

After the session we went back to our room. I've been placed in one room with a friend that i've known for some time - Shad. The twin sharing room is quite nice and comfortable, with air-conditioner bla bla bla as well as housekeeping!! (a good news for a lazy-bone like me hahaha). We were totally tired that day, so we just took a rest with hope that we could fall asleep.

My bedroom


Suddenly at 12:15 a.m, the door has been knocked. A batchmate informed us that we need to gather at the cafeteria, it's time for ICE-BREAKING session! "Ice-breaking" means we're gonna have an orientation session with the seniors in our hostel to break the ice between the seniors and the juniors, which is kinda "light-ragging". I've heard about this before and i thought we were spared when they didn't call us earlier.

Little did we know, A Tradition Is a Tradition, and they did call us. What we need to do that night was to line up on the field next to the cafe and introduce ourselves one by one. Some of them even need to do some actions either singing, dancing or whatever they asked us to do. I could see the red face of my batchmates as they got pissed off.hahahaha. I'm not that mad coz i know the purpose is just for us to get to know each other. So i just intro myself and sang a little song and they finally let us go at almost 2a.m. Hmmm...i haven't figure out of what to do with my juniors later. Maybe u guys can give some opinions. Hahahaha.

Well, that's all for now, the classes have started and the schedule is quite packed, i'll continue writing some other time, adios guys! :)


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