Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted May 4, 2017 Awesome catch; maybe you guys at KCH could spot my flight from SBW on May 5th later Hi Tamizi..which flight will you be on? Thank you for sharing those great images Prestley. Btw I just realized in the fourth image that I recently posted, some guys are hanging out on the structure next to taxiway, who are they and what were they doing actually? Honestly I don't know either haha Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted May 4, 2017 Time to clean up on April spotting. 9M-AFB[/url]Giovanni arriving in 9M-WSB9M-MTJ was sent here on the 10th, a nice equipment upgrade, the first of the year.US Navy Boeing 737-C40 Clipper stopping by before continuing to Halim.9M-RYA being towed to the cargo apron from the runway. The aircraft experienced hydraulic failure shortly after takeoff and performed a safe emergency landing back to Kuching.Private A318 of Alpha Star Aviation Services nightstopping in Kuching. Registration HZ-A5.9M-AGC, the youngest in the fleet. Currently still based in KCH.9M-LCM, one of the newest member of Malindo's fleet.9M-AFP 1 Malaysia livery.9M-AQZ pushing back in some nice evening light.9M-AQD resting and on GPU power after completing all sectors for the day.9M-MXR which had also completed all the day's sectors.One half of the twin livery aircraft. The other one being 9M-AHL with very minor differences between the two.9M-AHR which is currently based here in KCH. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vicknesh PS 0 Report post Posted May 4, 2017 Nice update Prestly, thanks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted May 6, 2017 Nice update Prestly, thanks! My pleasure! Awesome low evening light for two days in a row, something which is quite rare nowadays. And on one of those days, Malaysia Airlines decided to send one of their widebody jets here. Was extremely lucky to catch it in good light too! Â Raya Airways Boeing 757, 9M-RYA now taxiing under her own power compared to the last time I saw her. [/url] Â 9M-MSB on taxiway A while sister ship 9M-MXL rotates off runway 25 in the background. Â Not the very best panning attempt. 9M-AGC in dusk light. And again in bright evening light. Â 9M-AHJ has been repainted and is now wearing the new Charter Prime livery, formerly painted in the BIG Duty Free livery. Stationed in JHB currently and arriving in some nice golden hour light. After pushback for a flight back to JHB. Â 9M-MUA shimmering in the golden light. Â Followed by M54-04, RMAF's fourth A400M. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muhammad Firdaus 0 Report post Posted May 7, 2017 As always, great catch Prestley. Thank you for sharing. If there is an award for the dirtiest and ugliest airplane in this post it would go to RYA and the cleanest and most beautiful M54-04, why.. because she is just stunning to look at Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted May 7, 2017 As always, great catch Prestley. Thank you for sharing. If there is an award for the dirtiest and ugliest airplane in this post it would go to RYA and the cleanest and most beautiful M54-04, why.. because she is just stunning to look at Oh you'd be surprised! RYA isn't the dirtiest I've seen. Wait till you look at their 727s! It's like a chimney blew soot all over it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeO 0 Report post Posted May 8, 2017 My version of the Singapore Airlines Cargo visit to Kuching International Airport.  At Cargo Apron KIA  One of the pilots perhaps?    Her taxing and take off shots It's awesome to see this Queen of The Skies upclose.      Holding at holding point Alpha for quite sometime before was given the clearance to line-up due to incoming traffics.  Finally her turn to line-up Runway 25 via Alpha.  Cleared for take-off.....  V1!...Rotate!...  Positive rate!...Gears up!   Making a right turn over the city   To be continued...  Coming up on my next post: Other traffics I caught while waiting for this SIA Cargo to depart.    Good post GeO.... Thanks bro. If you say DPS only during holiday seasons then I guess it would be feasible. Otherwise we know very well what's gonna happen. With wide-body equipment of course! hahaha. KIA is capable of handling. If not use wide-body it would be a waste. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tamizi Hj Tamby 1 Report post Posted May 10, 2017 Hi Tamizi..which flight will you be on? Â Â Just noticed this today; Hehe. Sorry about that Prestley. It was AK6469, 9M-AQZ Geo managed to snap my flight, and he also uploaded it on The Spotters FB page too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tamizi Hj Tamby 1 Report post Posted May 10, 2017 Snapped this shortly after arriving at KCH on 5/05/2017. Geo had managed to snap a photo of my flight approaching KCH that time too. Â MASwings ATR 72-500 9M-MWA "Kuching", BIMP-EAGA Wings of Love Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muhammad Firdaus 0 Report post Posted May 11, 2017 My version of the Singapore Airlines Cargo visit to Kuching International Airport. Â Â Finally her turn to line-up Runway 25 via Alpha. Â Been quite a while since I last spot at KCH, seems to get lots of good traffic recently. Man, look at the size comparison of the three different types of plane, the legend 747 is massive! Thank you for sharing with us Geo, great shots as always. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeO 0 Report post Posted May 14, 2017 I give this picture priority upload because it's Tamizi's flight from Sibu. Other pics before this I'll upload when there's free time. Â 9M-AQZ with Tamizi onboard. Â Â Been quite a while since I last spot at KCH, seems to get lots of good traffic recently. Man, look at the size comparison of the three different types of plane, the legend 747 is massive! Thank you for sharing with us Geo, great shots as always. Thanks bro. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tamizi Hj Tamby 1 Report post Posted May 17, 2017 I give this picture priority upload because it's Tamizi's flight from Sibu. Other pics before this I'll upload when there's free time. Â 9M-AQZ with Tamizi onboard. Â Â Thanks again for this photo Geo; I would love to use this photo as my laptop & PC Wallpaper if you allow it, and possibly printing it out for me to keep it in a frame or photo album. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeO 0 Report post Posted May 18, 2017 Â Thanks again for this photo Geo; I would love to use this photo as my laptop & PC Wallpaper if you allow it, and possibly printing it out for me to keep it in a frame or photo album. Sure you can use it as laptop and PC wallpaper bro. Go ahead with it. Im ok with it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tamizi Hj Tamby 1 Report post Posted May 18, 2017 Sure you can use it as laptop and PC wallpaper bro. Go ahead with it. Im ok with it  Thanks for the permission Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2017 On the 5th of June, the inaugural Kuching - Pontianak - Kuching flight by AirAsia took off bearing the flight numbers AK1028 and AK1029 respectively. Although I wasn't present for the pleasantries and welcome, I managed to get some photographs of the flight which was operated by 9M-AQO, a new addition to other 3 Kuching based aircraft, replacing 9M-AQF a few days before. AK1028 pushed back from bay 9 a few minutes ahead of the scheduled 11.55am departure. It would then take off from runway 25 at 11.58am via intersection A2.Very nice of the crew to take A2 instead of the usual A1. Light load perhaps? If anybody know what the load was on that day, do share.The return flight, AK1029 landed a few minutes ahead of schedule despite the delayed departure from Pontianak. Coming in for runway 25 with a visual approach. It then parked at bay 9 with the airport AFRS ready for the traditional water cannon salute. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeO 0 Report post Posted June 6, 2017 While Prestley was covering the Inaugural from the terminal, I covered on its final approach into Kch. Â Â Â Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muhammad Firdaus 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2017 Wow, and I thought only new airline arriving for the first time on scheduled flight gets the water cannon salute. Nice, what was the load like? Seen from the local newspaper images that miss Aireen was really enthusiastic about it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szesyn 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2017 Starting 29 October 2017, Silkair is transferring its SIN-KCH-SIN services to Scoot! That's a service downgrade because Scoot has merged with Tigerair to take on the latter's IATA code of TR. Thus, from November onwards, we will be seeing Tiger Airways' aged A320s in Kuching; downgraded to a budget airline instead of a full service airline Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szesyn 0 Report post Posted October 3, 2017 Very quiet here people. Miss your photos and uploads. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2017 Very quiet here people. Miss your photos and uploads. Yeah haven't posted here in awhile. Will update very soon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2017 First, starting off with the ones I've taken in very favorable lighting conditions which also include golden hour lighting.Starting off with Raya Airway's 757 vacating on B in some good morning light. Â MASWings's 9M-MWA commencing her takeoff roll on runway 07.Malaysian departing into the evening light. Â 9M-AFE ASEAN Basketball League livery rotating off 25 to Kuala Lumpur as AK5213. Â 9M-AJJ Â Silkair's baby Bus arriving from Singapore. Not too long before these will be replaced by Scoot's yellow A320s. Â 9M-AQS smoking the asphalt on a rare runway 07 landing. Â Malaysian in nice evening light arriving from Miri before continuing on to Kuala Lumpur. Â 9M-AGD completing her pushback with signature dark Kuching skies looming in the background. Love the startup sounds of the LEAP1A engines. The hum can be heard reverberating through the terminal. Â M54-04 entering runway 07 via D.It's rare enough to see AK using 07 for landing but this time a Malaysian too?MXS turning into bay 5 donning her Negaraku livery for the first time into Kuching. What a beauty! Â A Vistajet Challenger. A common sight in Kuching as even the Chief Minister, Abang Jo uses them on overseas trips such as to Hobart in Australia or Ho Chi Minh. Â One of the few old birds still wearing the classic livery. Cherish them while they're still flying. Â MWC in her own Negaraku livery, a spitting image of her bigger parent company Boeing, 9M-MXS. Â Â 9M-AGC, the only non-NEO 9M-AGx aircraft in AK's fleet. Â And to finish off, the Dragon. Â Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vicknesh PS 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2017 A great collection Prestley. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muhammad Firdaus 0 Report post Posted October 5, 2017 Just awesome images as always Prestley. Although I have seen some of them in your flickr page they never fail to amaze every time. Perhaps you would like to share here some of your other beautiful shots of AK special livery like UPM, GE, 1M, and Airasia Founation. Thank you brother! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
szesyn 0 Report post Posted October 7, 2017 Thank you Prestley for the awesome pictures. The morning light really shows off the planes. Am glad that Negaraku B738 finally made it to KCH. Did not know that Maswings has a aircraft with a similar paint job. I once asked an AK pilot when is a good time to catch a 07 landing and he noted that this would be noon time eg. AK1776 from SIN when the traffic at KCH is relatively quiet. Of course wind conditions matter too. From another, AK pilot, confirmation that AK will fly KCH-SZX in December. KCH-MFM is also being revived and talks are ongoing for SBW-SIN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prestley Shim 0 Report post Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) Just awesome images as always Prestley. Although I have seen some of them in your flickr page they never fail to amaze every time. Perhaps you would like to share here some of your other beautiful shots of AK special livery like UPM, GE, 1M, and Airasia Founation. Thank you brother! Thank you for following! Perhaps I will share them in a separate batch. Thank you Prestley for the awesome pictures. The morning light really shows off the planes. Am glad that Negaraku B738 finally made it to KCH. Did not know that Maswings has a aircraft with a similar paint job. I once asked an AK pilot when is a good time to catch a 07 landing and he noted that this would be noon time eg. AK1776 from SIN when the traffic at KCH is relatively quiet. Of course wind conditions matter too. From another, AK pilot, confirmation that AK will fly KCH-SZX in December. KCH-MFM is also being revived and talks are ongoing for SBW-SIN. I find the morning light is softer and less harsh than the late afternoon light. Really a nice time to photograph aircraft. Speaking of 07 landings, 1776 two days ago and 5204 yesterday landed on 07. Usually it's requested by the pilots themselves, with traffic permitting. Last I spoke to a friend of mine who's an FO with AK, he said Shenzhen was confirmed for late November. Looks like they've moved the schedule. Nevertheless glad it's materializing. I'm abit skeptical about how long MFM can last. Last night I had a talk with my Uber driver about Indonesian tourists. He says a lot of the Indonesians he drives around come from Jakarta who flew to Pontianak for transit before coming here. A lot of them come for shopping and for our hospitals. Perhaps a KCH-CGK route would be feasible? Edited October 7, 2017 by Prestley Shim Share this post Link to post Share on other sites