Captain Ray made his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

Capetown was his final destination and retour homebase Amsterdam.

Flight KL597, callsign KLM 119, stand F5 and cleared for RWY18L and a KUDA2E departure.

Due to the weathercircumstances ( drizzling rain and strong wind ) I was continously cleaning my cameralens.

And these conditions resulted the aircraft was not visible anymore when rotating.

KL597 was operated with the B777-300ER reg PHBVI

Backflight KL598,callsign KL104 and the final callsign ‘Team Ray’ got a landing at RWY18C on request.

This flight got operated with another B777-300ER reg PHBVC.

After vacating RWY18C ,left on Alpha and turning right on Bravo they got assisted by the followme-cars to final stand F5.

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