Change The Flight Plan

KUALA LUMPUR: "Change The Flight Plan" was created as an e-campaign to change the flight plan of planes flying out of the Old Subang Airport. Some of these planes including RMAF planes tend to drift starboard (right) off the runway and fly over two schools in TTDI Jaya, Shah Alam namely Sekolah Kebangsaan TTDI Jaya (primary school) and Sek Men Keb TTDI Jaya (secondary school).

The primary school is the worst off. Its location from the edge of the runway is about one km (plus or minus). Hence even if the planes continue to fly straight up, its noise footprint will drown out the school.

This is especially true for the older planes like the Boeing 727, Fokker F-28 and even the Boeing 747 SP.

But the biggest problem is the tendecy of planes to over-fly the schools still with the gear in down position where the noise is the loudest.

I have been trying to catch these planes in the act (from Cessna 172s, helicopters and Hercules C-130 of the RMAF) of overflying the school not more than 2000 feet.

But without a radio scanner it is very difficult to get in the right position with my video camera. Today May 15, I was luckier although I did miss the shot where the plane was flying over the school

The video below was shot by a Nokia N73 handphone. Although I did not managed to shoot a reference point or the actual time when the plane overflew Sek Keb TTDi Jaya, the video reveals much.

And this is from a handphone! If I did have a HD video camera and a scanner you would have seen the pilots from this Transmile MD11.



Did you hear the sound of the three jet engines? Believe me it was loud.






A picture of an MD11 of Transmile. Picture from the company's website