A special flight for all. One of my best friends, Onno, is seriously ill and we had promised a flight to his daughter already a while back. Since he needs frequent treatment and doesn't feel well f...
Wow! Since April no blog here. Apologies. My company, Vidamore.com, is keeping me busy.So you missed out on the stories on Oostwold, flights to Texel and others. I will try to put the pictures up i...
Today, we had planned for a Flybloggeer meeting on Texel. It was until this morning that I was able to attend, due to the fact there were no aircraft available at the Vliegclub Rotterdam. Ton co-ow...
Wow, a chilling story on the website of Max Trescott about an incident in the Pyrenees..... Read on here. Brrr.
Some months ago I picked up working out in a gym to get into shape..... felt I was only sitting down (in my work) and moving the small aircraft by hand, in and out its parking space, is hardly call...
Simple: change the name of it: There are plans (dutch link) to rename Rotterdam Airport (EHRD) to "Rotterdam - The Hague Airport". As a private pilot, living in The Hague and flying from this airpo...
The great thing about flying is that you can always find an excuse to go somewhere. Today, a friend arrived in Holland (from the UK) with his newly bought aircraft. We flew to Midden Zeeland (EHMZ)...
Needed to get up there again. Beautiful day, and we got a plane for a quick trip to Seppe (EHSE). On the way I got the opportunity to take a picture of the Basilic of Oudenbosch, which is modeled a...
I was lucky to be one of the visitors of NBAA 2008, the biggest convention on business aviation. This year the fair was held in Orlando, in the Orange County Convention Center, and there was a stat...
Saturday the 27th of september, the airport of Maastricht (EHBK) organized a Vlaai-In (pun intented: in dutch pronounced as Vly-Inn, and the word Vlaai is a famous pie in the south of Holland).Some...
The Hoogvliegers foundation organises flying events for critically ill or handicapped children. The main event of the day is that every child gets the chance to be a pilot. They are the co-pilot on...
Once and a while a group of "dutch private pilots with weblogs" meet up for a lunch. Every time we plan to come together more often, but weather, schedules, aircraft, etc prevent more than 2 meetin...
Today I flew again for the Stichting Hoogvliegers, which organised a grand day at Lelystad airport. More than 200 handicapped or ill kids with their family, 31 aircraft (including a DC-3, a Lynx na...
I actually planned yesterday to fly to Eindhoven (part civil/part military base) to assist in flying for the Stichting Hoogvliegers, but the weather forecast was bad for the return flight.In the mo...
The "Stichting Hoogvliegers" ( "High Flyers foundation" ) organizes private flights in small aircraft for (chronically) ill kids and today was a special day for Coen (as it was also for me)! This m...
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