The Academy

The Academy

The Malaysian Flying Academy utilises the Batu Berendam Airport runway in Malacca, Malaysia. It has its own fully equipped maintenance hangar manned by no less than twenty five engineers, mechanics and technicians. It has a total of ten classrooms at the moment to cater for a minimum of sixteen students each with four pilot briefing cubicles and a flight staff room and a ground staff room. It houses five blocks of hostel accommodation which altogether contains seventy three fully air conditioned hostel accommodations for cadet pilots opting for campus living. It has an administration block as well as a cafeteria and mess hall block with 24 hour cable television and an adjoining surau for prayers along with a library.

The Malaysian Flying Academy has been set up in accordance with the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and fulfils the professional flight training school standards and requirements as specified in the CAP509 of the UKCAA.

Environs Overview

The Malaysian Flying Academy is situated immediately opposite the Batu Berendam Airport in the historical, coastal and tourist city-state of Malacca, Malaysia. It is slightly less than a leisurely hour's drive from the state of the art Kuala Lumpur International Airport and slightly more than a leisurely hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur via Malaysia's superhighways. It is located within Malacca's state capital itself and is approximately 7 kilometres from the city centre. It is an area which offers superb weather and terrain for flying throughout the year.

Malacca is a state which is rich in its diverse cultural heritage and in its pivotal history. It is, in fact, the birthplace of the modern Malaysian nation of today. Its spectacular economic growth continues to be propelled by the growing manufacturing industry and especially its enthusiastic tourism and service industry which is fully supported by the local state government. Supplementing the historical sites of Malacca in the past decade, there has been a rapid spread of leisure industries there in the form of resorts, golf courses, sports arenas and theme parks, the most notable of which todate is the A 'Famosa Golf Resort and Water Theme Park.

Flight traffic has been provided with excellent weather for flying throughout the year. The temperature ranges between 28º Celsius to 32º Celsius and the evenings are refreshingly cool.

Ground and Flight Training

The Malaysian Flying Academy's ground school offers its cadet pilots tuitions and lectures on various aviation theory subjects required for the licence and ratings to which the cadet pilot aspires to. These subjects or modules cover topics ranging from Air Law and Flight Rules through to Engine and Electrics.

MFA is also equipped with a Frasca flight simulator to conduct synthetic flight training for its cadet pilots. For actual hands-on flight training, MFA is equipped with a total of twenty two aircraft under her maintenance hangar todate. We have a single piston-engined Piper Tomahawk for acrobatics, seventeen Piper Warriors for single piston-engined flying and four Piper Senecas for twin piston-engined flying.

Student batch intakes are limited to not less than sixteen cadet pilots per batch intake. There are a maximum of six batch intakes annually or every alternate month at MFA.

The Batu Berendam Airport in Malacca is the central region hub of flying activity for general aviation. The operations there is dedicated almost entirely for MFA's use including ample airspace. Scheduled international flight commercial aircrafts land at the airport once a week and at times the military aircraft land there on transit.

The airfields in the immediate vicinity are the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Subang International Airport to the north. Airfields available for flight training especially in radio aids are located in Johor, Kuantan, Ipoh, Penang, Langkawi and Kota Baru. Training is carried out at these airfields for the cadet pilots' practice in ILS, VOR and NDB letdowns and approaches. The Batu Berendam Airport itself has a VOR and an NDB.

Last updated on Tuesday, January 03, 2006

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