R44 Helicopter Cockpit Video

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“Good morning. This is Kuala Lumpar International. You are flying across the approach to our main runway.” The controller was calling on the KL approach frequency I had been monitoring.

If you do that kind of thing without permission in the UK, you can get a prison sentence. I suddenly imagined being stuck in a Malaysian prison cell for 10 years. I decided that all I could do was play the foreigner card, and apologise.

“Very sorry. On my chart your Airport is 50 miles away. Have I made a mistake?”

“No. We have moved twice since your chart was made. All the charts are out of date. Please now move to the coast, and follow that.”

This seemed like a pretty measured response, considering we’d probably paused their passenger flying operations, and I was pretty sure I’d be in for it when we next landed.

At Penang we refuelled, and had an edgy meal, expecting to be arrested at any moment for our airspace violation over KL. Within an hour we climbed back into the helicopter again, and tried to look cool as a jeep full of uniformed officials pulled up as we strapped ourselves in.

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2 Responses to “R44 Helicopter Cockpit Video”

1. buss79 says:

   January 18, 2011 at 7:13 am

   sorry to heard what happened, lucky you…great adventure would love to join ya all….anyway msg me if u came back to malaysia…

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   • Tim Gilbert says:

     January 18, 2011 at 8:23 am

     Thanks for that. Good to hear from you, will do. Tim

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