Solo Malacca Nav

Its been 2 weeks since I flew. I was supposed to fly 9M-ALB the Cessna 152. But it had exhaust problems and was grounded. MAN! I thought I had missed school for nothing. Luckily, 9M-JMV was available. So it was lucky I brought the Piper Checklist.

Had to drag the airplane out to the tarmac myself. Had a little help later from one of the engineers there.

Paperwork. I hate it. Again it delayed my take-off to 10am instead of 9.

This flight to Singapore was without a hitch. No problems whatsoever. Made a nice landing after N200KM. I met the pilot and owner Sriram. He has a blog that I read often. Nice guy. Wonder how the Maule he flies handles.

Noticed that 9V-BOQ wasnt at Bravo 7/8. Maybe Darshan took it to Tioman or something.
Had lunch att he canteen then I took off before the weather turned foul. There was Towering Cumulus clouds around.

No delays this time past Senai. Pretty good. I opened the small window of the Piper Pretty cooling. One thing I noticed is that if I stuck my hand out the increased drag would slow the aircraft by 2-4 knots. The flight to Malacca was not boring unlike the dual. WHy? I did steep turns to wake me up and get my blood pumping. Fun man. I also listened to the MP3 while landing in Malacca. Heh. The pearl harbour theme shows love for aviation and That music (sort of) guided me to a nice landing at malacca. I really kinda felt I was back in the 1930s landing an old crop duster. Although the radio panels and tall buildings nearby spoilt the illusion. :(

I took off at about 2pm local time. The weather was going foul with slightly poor visibility. Its probably gonna rain I thought. But I left it at that. After a while of sedate Straight and Level Flying, I decided to have some fun (Within limits of course!). I pretended that I haf an aileron failure and steered the plane using only rudders and elevators. It can be done I concluded. Then, I tried an overbank situation. I banked the aircraft to 90 degrees Angle of bank. Wooaaahh... The nose drops very fast... I lost about 300 ft of altitude. Makes sense though in a Physics kinda way. You bank to 90 deg...no more vertical lift component so the plane drops. I didnt use rudder so that is why. Compared with the last time in my C172 where I did 80 deg steep turns. At least there was some lift component so my nose didnt drop so fast.

Later, Malacca Tower called me to try and make radio contact with another aircraft 9M-RSQ. I called him several times but gotten no reply. I thought something had happened because at 2000 ft I should be able to contact him if he was within Malacca Tower's control zone. Later on, I found out he was on Johor approach frequency when I heard him after I switched over.

It started to rain at Batu Pahat. Then, I saw a very beautiful Rainbow. Wow... Work of God that. I had to take out my camera to snap a shot of it. Its beautiful. Gave a sense of euphoria it did.

The rest of the flight was uneventful as I cruised in for another nice landing although a little right of the centreline. Almost 3 hrs of flight time. All I need is 1 more hour to complete this course.