Lumut visit and learnig trip

I believe that all of you sure got heard the name of “lumut” before this, the biggest navy base in Malaysia. I as a student of teknologi maritime, of course hope can go there 1 day lo…Last month, on 6&7march2011, my lecturer hold a visit and learning trip for our class, wa, so great ,I’m very excited to go there. My class mates, included 13 civilian and 22navy cadets went there together. We took around 4 hrs to reach Lumut, in the navy camp area, everybody must follow navy’s routines. All of us are new to that place, very scared if we broke any of the rules. When we reached there, many navy officers take charge of us, some of them very friendly, some of them treat very strict, but common thing only la, because they are come out from military training what, their attitude sure a little bit different from civilian like us lo..

On the 1^st day of trip, we went to Bousted Naval Shipyard, visit KD GANYANG(fast attack ) that under maintenance there.

The main reason our lecturer brought us there is to let us view the whole body of a ship (appearance and inner ), so that we got more knowledge and experience when we view through our own eyes, add on our memory about all parts of ships.

After that, we visit to KD JEBAT, a 3D ships(can attack enemy through 3 dimension: air ,land and sea)

After that, we went to Markas Armada to visit KD MAHAMERU, the officer tell us the characteristics of the ship, bring us round the ship, and did fire fighting on ships rehearsal ,let us learn the ways to solve the problems that will happen on the ships. Later on, we went to KD JERAI.

Almost reach sunset time, we went back to Kolej Tentera Sultan Idris(KDSI),the place we overnight to watch the sunset ceremony. In naval world, got many navy ceremony that different from army or airforce. As example, in the early morning, 8am, they got colors ceremony, the duty officer will hoist up the flag, ,while sunset time they will take off the flag. Such important ceremony in navy world cant even have any mistake in the ceremony. At night, we went to pekan Lumut to relax our mind, stroll along the seaside, nice, hehe, I also bought some food that I really like it like it, snek,satay .

On the 2^nd day of the learning trip, we wake up very early,6am already take bath and prepare for the next visit .After take breakfast, we view colors ceremony. Then, we went to Markas Armada again,this time my group’s to visit KD LASAMANA TUN ABDUL JAMIL, we went up to the bridge, place that pilot drive the ship, place that CAPTAIN conduct the ship. We also step to flag deck, the place of duty officer hoist up the flags to communicate with other ships, we tried to hoist up the flags. ya, we tried, we get experience, don’t ever lost the chance to try and experience yourselves.

We went to KD RAJAWALI, the 1^st aircraft base of TLDM in Malaysia. We view Aircraft Super Lynx mk300 that especially for search &rescue and AS555SN FENNEC, made from French ,act as anti-surface helicopter, also for pilot training, and excorting VVIP.TLDM have 6 units of both helicopters.

We went to KD PELANDOK too, went to WASPADA compartment, to view to simulator, the control room of a ship. We enter a simulator room, that just a control room like the simulator room on a ship. They practice the way they use on the ships.The room we entered just alike with what will happen when a pilot drive the ships at the sea. Got a screen in front that make us feel like at the middle of the sea, feel fainted but the feeling is best. haha. That was our last destination before went back to campus.

I learned a lot through this visit. Waiting for the next visit to any places that related to our course. Maybe our next destination is KLIA,ALAM,APMM,or any navy base..

written on 5april.2011