Nav 5, Nav 7 & Backseat

on the 15th i flew navigation 5 with 16. flight was ok but visibility was rather bad. we did a simple diversion due to weather. big black clouds are really unfriendly. these days, they seem to appear yet after passing them, its pretty clear weather. i guess that's good.

anyways, i flew navigation 7 to kuala terengganu (kt), or supposedly to kt with 06. he's not local, and he's really nice. he always says stuff with a little humour. like when we were holding at kb town, he said we should be assertive like kids and the controllers are our parents. we want chocolate, and they're not gonna give us. we gotta keep keep asking! same thing with flying, we gotta keep asking to descend/rejoin or were not gonna get it.

clouds everywhere.

weather again wasn't too good. we had actually delayed our flight from morning to 1400hours. still, clouds were everywhere. we had to go inland first towards the thai border for our first waypoint. when we reached, he went right near the border, i could see straight into thailand! it was kinda like a warning lesson, if you see that big river and that road coz you don't have roads like those in kota baru, TURN BACK! well its happened before, students crossing the border.

more clouds.

we couldn't carry out our planned route due to the weather that was approaching, so we diverted back to pasir mas, then headed coastal. flying coastal was nice. our route continued along the coastline, so it was easy to maintain track coz we had the coast as a reference. if you can get lost along the coast, that's seriously something new. unfortunately for the bad visibility, we couldn't see the islands :(

that's pulau rhu off the coast. it looks like, well kena dipulaukan. but it looks absolutely awesome. its shaped like a cresent. i think there's a lil white building on the island. maybe its a private island??? i don't know. but it'd be awesome just to chill out there. the beach looks amazing.

about ten minutes before kt, we encountered really ugly looking black clouds. soon, we were caught in the rain. so friggin close yet so far! i needed to do a touch n go at kt before heading back to kb. we tried going inland, but it was raining as well. we tried going into the sea, but it was worse there. we waited for 5mins before deciding to head back. my instructor was not very pleased. i had to go solo to kt in a few days time, and he felt he couldn't prepare me enough. but it wasn't totally useless cause we managed to carry out diversions and dog-leg procedures.

that's kt's new funky new airport. btw, pics were taken today while backseating.
not while piloting the aircraft. see, i'm safe :P

today, i backseated a batchmate who was enroute to kt. i wanted to familiarize myself better with the kt airfield. luckily weather wasn't a total bitch and we made it there and back safely.

instructor: its such a shame we've got this mucky weather. or else we'd be able to see pulau rendang.









ermmm... i think he meant pulau redang. but its been awhile since i ate rendang :D