Change The Flight Plan 5

SHAH ALAM: Today (June 26) between 9am to 12.30pm, at least three planes, two C-130 Hercules transport planes and Transmile MD11 overflew the Sek Keb TTDI Jaya and Sek Men TTDI Jaya.

I do not want to talk about the noise (yes its loud) but with the schools almost a mile away from the runway, it certainly cannot be helped. But why do these planes overfly the schools when they have other routes to take?

Unfortunately, due to my lack of proper video equipment (my handycam ran out of battery) I did not got any shots of the three planes. When I shot the last Hercules flying over the primary school, I only got a one second video on my handphone. It was too short to post here.

Next time I will be ready. Surely they will do it again and again.

Change The Flight Plan 4

SHAH ALAM: The video below clearly shows a Cessna 182 flying low over Sek Keb TTDI Jaya and shortly there after Sek Men Keb TTDi Jaya.

Why the plane is flying over the schools is beyond my understanding.

A couple circuits before it had taken a different route, which clearly shows that although both schools are located unfortunately just next the Subang Airport (see my previous posts) active runway, it had the option not to over fly the schools.

Over to you DCA!

Ok, As Long As You Dont Fly Over Our Schools

SHAH ALAM: They reopened Subang to commercial flights. Now if only they will fly those planes over Subang Jaya instead of the schools around TTDI Jaya.


Go-Ahead For Firefly To Operate From Subang - Chan
General
June 13, 2007 19:32 PM

PUTRAJAYA, June 13 (Bernama) -- The Government has given the go-ahead to Firefly, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines (MAS), to operate from the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy said today.

He said the Cabinet had decided that the Penang-based Firefly can fly to all domestic destinations not served by Malaysia Airlines and budget carrier AirAsia and to places in Indonesia and Thailand from Subang.

The Government is also studying Firefly's request to operate from Senai and Kota Kinabalu as well, he told reporters after presenting excellent service awards to 26 officers and staff of his ministry here today.

Chan said the services would be provided by turbo prop or propeller-powered planes as the airport has been designated for short-haul flights.

Currently, Firefly flies twice daily to Langkawi, Kota Baharu, Kuala Terengganu, Kuantan, Phuket and Koh Samui.

It started commercial operations, using two 50-seater Fokker Friendship aircraft on domestic routes on April 3 and to international destinations 10 days later.

There have been speculations that the Government would allow Firefly to use Subang as its second operations base to offer short-haul flights to domestic and international destinations.

This include the routes from Subang to Ipoh, Senai, Banda Aceh, Padang and Medan in Indonesia.

The Tourism Ministry has been lobbying for Firefly to operate its flights from Subang as the move would help boost the tourism industry.

Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport or previously known as the Subang International Airport was the country's main international gateway from 1965 until 1998 before the international airport shifted to Sepang.

The airport took a backseat since then, mainly catering for a handful and small turbo-prop planes, chartered flights and helicopter services.

-- BERNAMA

Another Day Another Flood

SHAH ALAM: As I feared it rained heavily today (June 14) and a small flood occurred. With Sungai Air Kuning (behind Mayang Sari next to the apartments) inundated with waters from Bukit Jelutong, Puncak Perdana and beyond.

It must be noted here that the Puncak Perdana area is a water catchment area and the Sungai Buloh Dam is located within the area.


My hypothesis (this is my opinion and not based on any in depth research) that all that rainwater (after all the land clearing) poured into drains that led into Sg Air Kuning and all of it culminate in this area).

The flood today was a small affair and the water had subsided by 6pm. But I believe TTDI Jaya will suffer major flooding if heavy rain occurred simultaneously in Puncak Perdana and Damansara as what happened in Feb 26, 2006.

If you got the time, please drive down to Bukit Jelutong area (underneath the highway) and you can see the huge retention pond, which is connected to the drain leading to the TUDM Golf Club.

The drain then become Sg Air Kuning next to the Bomba headquarters and the industrial area behind TTDI Jaya. This industrial area was part of the Rasak Estate owned by Guthries and has since been developed by Guthrie Properties.

Apart from the concrete culvert (just after the TUDM base junction if you are coming from TTDI Jaya), which is paid for by US, most of the industrial area have no concrete culvert just like the huge earth drain behind the two schools (see the video in the earlier post).

Since this is the monsoon season more heavy rain is expected. So be prepared.

At least Somebody is Watching or in Fear

SHAH ALAM: Its been raining heavily in TTDI Jaya the last few days. We were spared floods this time around but the same cannot be said about Kuala Lumpur. Our thoughts and prayers for those affected by the flash floods last week and on Sunday.

I heard about the KL floods on Sunday while watching Tv3 Midnite news. The first thing that came to mind was the fact that it was lucky that I went back home early.

I left my office at Jalan Tun Razak about 1pm. I was supposed to be working until 7pm but due to system failure, my colleague and me left for home early. It was a lucky break otherwise both of us would have been stuck in KL that night.

Anyhow when I fetched my son at school today I saw two excavators busy patching up the wall of the earth drain. Since its been raining heavily the last few days, the gushing water from the cleared land have been wreaking havoc on the earth drain.

I cannot believed that MBSA had not order Guthrie Properties to make the drain into concrete culvert. I know its more expensive but it will certainly prevent any chance of floods in TTDI Jaya.

By grace of god, the drain remained standing even with the heavy rains in the last few days. But the excavators at the site today clearly revealed that the drain and its walls are fragile. Another bout of heavy rain might just cause it to fail.

Lets hope its after school hours.

My Team or Their Team?

KUALA LUMPUR: I was watching the TV3 8pm news tonight (8/6/07) and one of the news bulletin (sports) was about Myteam programme in Indonesia.

I believe this is taking our supposed kinship with the Indonesians to the extreme.

According to its "WHAT started as purely an entertaining and fun project has become a serious endeavour for Khairy Jamaluddin and his team.
MyTeam began as a reality show to unearth new football talents nationwide. Today, the fledgling MyTeam has garnered support from many quarters. They have teamed up with UPB and have already made an early impact in the M-League. "

Now for the second season of the reality show, they have set-up Myteam Indonesia. Huh! Arent we are supposed to get unearth our very own football diamonds?

In the 70s, we were among the top football teams in Asia. We were on par with the South Koreans, Saudi and Iran.

Since the last 20 years, however, we have been in the dumps, even losing to the Philippines. Every one including me is in despair over our football team performance.

I think most has given up hope that a Malaysian team will ever repeat the performances of the 70s team that they had adopted English Premier League teams as their favourite.

The matter have gone so bad that they even risked Malaysian football being banned by FIFA and AFC over the Manchester United Asia tour, claiming it is just a matter of tourism.


And now this Myteam Indonesia venture. What do they expect to get? Having a bunch of Indonesians beating us in our soil using our money? Ah, its just a reality show they will say and Indonesia is our kin.

Don't they realised the Indons have been whooping our behind in badminton for the last 50 years and their footballers have been trying to do that in the last 20 years?
And they want to find their rough diamonds?

Those who thought of this venture must certainly forgotten what a Scottish coach once said to embark on this blue-ob-blue mission.

What was the advice? "Football is not a matter of life and death. Its more important than that.

Change The Flight Plan 3

SHAH ALAM: You may strained your eyes to see the Cessna 182 but undoubtedly this video shows that airplanes from Subang Airport do fly over the schools in TDDI Jaya.

As the video was shot on June 2, no pupils were at the schools, it is the holidays.

It is however frustating as the earlier flight of the Transmile cargo jet shows that they knew that the schools were there but they continue to ignore them.




Hopefully I will get a HD video camera soon. Until then I have to rely on my Nokia N73 phone