It has been 11 years actually but if you don’t tell anyone I won’t do that as well. (I wrote this before the corona crisis) If I look back on my aviation career I made some mistakes as well, things that I would have done differently but also things that I’m very proud of. Let …
This post was written on the 30th of May. Because so many things regarding this subject are changing I put a time stamp on it. At the moment I’m writing this from home (Netherlands). My last flight was about 2.5 months ago. I always thought I was good at sitting still being at home but nothing …
Would you like to fly a bigger plane is one of the questions I got asked a lot on Instagram? Or why are you flying such a small aircraft? Do you need a different license to fly a private jet? Today I’ll try to explain you everything from the beginning. Every pilot who has the …
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 …
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 …
While waiting on the airport I started to think about the way we travel. Why do we prefer to fly? Why take a train or a car. Why take a bicycle at all. Starting with just taking a simple walk. Walk, I walk if I feel like it but if I know the walk is …
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 …
A while back I got asked if I could write down a typical day on a private jet, but as you can imagine there is no such thing a typical day in Aviation. Nevertheless I’ll try to make an impression of a typical day on a private jet. (The dates are changed so tomorrow is …
A take-off can be done by the Captain (sitting on the left) or the first-officer (sitting on the right) in the cockpit. The pilot who does this take-off is called the “Pilot Flying” (PF) the pilot who is assisting is called the “Pilot Monitoring” (PM). Today the first-officer/co-pilot will be the Pilot Flying (PF) in …
What? Charter? What does that even mean? Most people don’t know what it means if I tell them I fly private charter. The first part is the easiest but the second part? No clue! I fly a private jet owned by a person or a family. But because of the expenses and maintenance, this family …