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...
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...
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...
For the fourth fly-in, the target was set to Juist (EDWJ) which is a small german island in the "Waddenmeer" (link to Google Maps).It promised to become a nice day as I checked at 6.30 that morning...
The FlyBlogger group (members are a group of PPL pilots who blog about their flights/life) decided to organise a fly-in at Seppe airport (EHSE, near the Belgian border).So all set in the morning: w...
This year's summer holidays we decided to drive in opposite direction of what we often do (in southern direction towards Montse's hometown in Spain). We planned to go to Denmark and perhaps Sweden....
This is the third and last blog of a 3 day flying trip to the UK and Ireland. The complete story is quite long, so I decided to supply it in parts. Click here for part 1, or here for day 2.day 3: ...
This is the second blog of a 3 day flying trip to the UK and Ireland. The complete story is quite long, so I decided to supply it in parts. Click here for part 1. Or go to Day 3day 2: 7.00 lt (Wale...
This is the first blog of a 3 day flying trip to the UK and Ireland. The complete story is quite long, so I decided to supply it in parts: Day 2The trip day 1: sunday 8.30 am lt I met Wim and Jurje...
So we are in need of charts for our flight to the UK/Scotland! The trip is planned for Mid-June and we have a general of the route. Wim and me decided to get the charts at the Pilot shop at Lelysta...
Surrounded by Ryan Air's 737 aircraft, Niederrhein (EDLV) was visited today by 4 (light) aircraft from 4 different airfields in The Netherlands. Today, the mini-fly-in (for ATCBox member-webloggers...
6 months and 1 week ago I flew as passenger with Michel (ATPL student and colleague@Accenture), and today it was time to switch the right seat for the left (and vice versa). Michel and I took off f...
In the second week in Spain I also wanted to fly from the airport of Girona (LEGE) in order to do a trip along the coast (Costa Brava). The (or a) flying school on Girona airport is "Center Vol". ...