Field Trip to KLIA Air Traffic Control Tower

See this tower whenever I go to KLIA and I always wonder does it looks like what we see in TV up there...

As a committee member of UNMC IEM Student Chapter

I got a chance to get up there! =D

father of a friend of the club's president is the person in charge of KLIA DCA (Department of Civilian Aviation)

that's why we have this chance that most people wanna get... \(^O^)/

it's a whole new different view from top of the tower....

we can see the whole airport and everything around the tower...

we were told that even Genting Highland can be seen from the tower if the weather is good....

we have an air traffic controller to explain us the operation and procedure of clearing the landing and departure.... (but not this guy in the picture, he is busy)

it's so amazing that just by looking at the system, we can know which plane is about to land, which one is about to take off....every detail about a particular flight can be check from the system...

we look at the computer screen, check which plane is coming (it appears as a moving dot with its flight code) , and then slowly you will see the plane stated in the system is coming to land on the right runway.....

it's so fun to see the jet queuing on the runway waiting for it's turn to take off...

the jets look just like toy plane...so small and cute....

they have to line up because one runway only allows one jet at a time....

another interesting thing we were told is that they will usually let smaller jet to take off 1st if there are two jets wanna take off at the same time, to avoid "traffic jam". It's because big jet takes longer time to take off and the smaller one has to wait for around 3 minutes after the big jet take off...

it's an interesting & unforgettable field trip....

wish we could do more of this in next semester.... =]