Tag Archives: flight

Airline or Private?

This question is so often asked on Instagram. What would you prefer to fly, airline or private? Do you want to fly a bigger plane? The answer is quite simple! At this moment I fly a so-called Medium sized jet that flies faster and higher than most airlines and could fly further than a Boeing 737 …

Flying solo

Flying is something special, you know this already because you wouldn’t read my blogs if you wouldn’t have any affection with flying what so ever. When you are in flight school you have a few points you are working towards.  one of these points is your first Solo flight. You start flying with an instructor where …

The Accident!

I have no clue how to write this down, the thought of this subject is making me tear. Some of you read my blogs from the beginning and know that my best friend from flight school past away in a plane accident in 2009. As I’m writing this I realize this is 9 years ago. Sounds …

Typerating

That does that even mean? A type rating? There is a big misunderstanding about pilots and the aircraft they can fly. So today I’ll try to explain a little bit about the different aircraft and how it works. To start a pilot has to get a license like a car license. With a car license, you …

Turbulence

Turbulence is one of the things that frightens the most passengers on board of an aircraft. People mostly thing that the wings of an aircraft will fall off because of this or it might end up into something worse but these stories are not true. In this blog, I’ll try to explain in an easy way …

How to fly!

How to fly a plane? Easy! The formula on the right explains everything that you need to know. I promise you need nothing else. This is more or less everything they told me the first day of aviation training. I didn’t remember the formula anymore but at the time they pretended like you are going …

Airway

Airways are like highways for cars. An aircraft has to fly on these airways to fly from 1 place to another. There are different kinds of airways but I’ll explain the basis of how they work. Let’s say you take your car and want to drive from Amsterdam to Paris. You take a highway to …

Autopilot

If you have anything to do with aviation you probably heard once or twice the word AUTOPILOT. Nowadays you even hear it if they talk about Cars. Who is this guy called autopilot and how does he log its flight hours? I’ll try to explain you some of the basics below. The autopilot release work …