Wednesday 16 May 2007

Change The Flight Plan II

KUALA LUMPUR: Transmile Group is in the news for all the wrong reasons.

That is why I am feeling uneasy that its planes are flying over schools in TTDI Jaya during their pre or post-maintenance flights.

I understand that the Subang Airport came before the schools and the housing estates surrounding it but could they not fly over schools where children as young as seven are schooling.

I do not want to say it but what if the unthinkable happened? And by the way since pre -or post maintenance flights are planned before hand couldnt they fly this type of flights on weekends.

If its too much, the least they can do is not to over-fly the schools. The picture below shows how much deviation these planes need to take to overfly the schools.

Berjaya Air planes fly straight off the runway, why couldnt other planes follow the same route. I understand that for touch and goes planes do not need to use the whole runway, half-way I believe, meaning that the pilots turned starboard right away.

And since the RMAF base is located also on starboard, I assume that the planes that overflew the schools in TTDI Jaya would have given the airbase quite a miss. So they bypass the airbase but then over-fly the schools. Smart, right?

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