After a huge career of 38 years and 9 months, en in totaal 22.400 hours of flying,

Captain Jack van Schelt made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

A retourflight with destination Capetown and back homebase Amsterdam.

Captain Jack got assisted by FO Chris Hoveijn and SO Mike Lub as his ‘Wingmen’.

During my profcheck I was abel to operate and film his last pushback on AMS at stand E24.

A pushback only abeam E22. ( together with examiner ATD Mel Schregel and ATD Hans Musschert)

Flight KL597, callsign KLM119, got a RWY18L departure and was operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVB.

Backflight KL598, callsign KLM104, got operated with our beloved ‘Orange Pride’ , the PHBVA.

When entering the Dutch airspace they got a nice approach along the coastline on a height of 3.000ft.

Special detail was the grandprix on circuit Zandvoort.

The Dutch Orange fans of Max Verstappen joining the KLM Orange Pride passing.

After turning homebase and intercepting the ILS the landed on a windy runway 18R and taxying to final stand F4.

KLM – 38 jaar 9 maanden

-Captain B777/B787 sep. 2012 – heden · 12 jrs

-Captain MD-11 okt. 2002 – sep. 2012 · 10 jr

-Captain B767-300 apr. 1998 – okt. 2002 · 4 jr 7 mnd

-Captain Fokker 100 aug. 1994 – apr. 1998 · 3 jr 9 mnd

-F/O B747-400 aug. 1990 – aug. 1994 · 4 jr 1 mnd

-F/O B737-300/400 aug. 1988 – aug. 1990 · 2 jr 1 mnd

-F/O DC-9-32/33 dec. 1985 – aug. 1988 · 2 jr 9 mnd

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