After a career of 31 years and 10 months Captain Thijs Jongsma got his last flight due to retirement at KLM.

JFK was his first and his last destination !!! How wonderful.

Flight KL641 , stand F7, got a RWY24 departure and was operated with the B787-10 Dreamliner reg PHBKC.

First Officer Vincent Aupers was his ‘Wingman’ and big friend Captain Dimitri van der Vieren in behind and joining this flight as well.

Captain Thijs was his first instructor and good friend.

Backflight KL642 with an quite early arrival with Thijs’ final touchdown at 6:08LT on RWY18R and taxying to his final stand Delta 2.

This flight was also operated with a B787-10 Dreamliner and reg PHBKF.

Career of Thijs Jongsma

– KLM 31 jaar 10 maanden

–Captain B787 okt. 2020 – heden · 3 jr 3 mnd

–Security Analyst Overflight & CyberSecurity feb. 2020 – heden · 3 jr 11 mnd

 Schiphol-Centrum

–Captain B777 jan. 2016 – heden · 8 jr

–Business Pilot Safety B777/787. aug. 2016 – dec. 2017 · 1 jr 5 mnd

–Senior Check Pilot Operations A330. aug. 2013 – dec. 2015 · 2 jr 5 mnd

 Amsterdam

–Captain A330 sep. 2010 – dec. 2015 · 5 jr 4 mnd

 Check Pilot Operations A330 aug. 2011 – aug. 2013 · 2 jr 1 mnd

 Amsterdam

–Type Rating Instructor B737. dec. 2007 – sep. 2010 · 2 jr 10 mnd

 Amsterdam

 Train, instruct and coach pilots in a B737 full flight simulator for type rating or recurrent training.

–Captain B-737-300/400/700/800/900. mei 2002 – sep. 2010 · 8 jr 5 mnd

 Amsterdam

–Route Instructor B-737. jun. 2006 – dec. 2007 · 1 jr 7 mnd

 Amsterdam

 Train and coach new captains and first officers on the B737 during line flying under supervision.

–First Officer B-747-400. nov. 1997 – mei 2002 · 4 jr 7 mnd

 Amsterdam

–First Officer Fokker. 100 mrt. 1994 – nov. 1997 · 3 jr 9 mnd

 Amsterdam

–Second Officer B-747-300. mrt. 1992 – mrt. 1994 · 2 jr 1 mnd

 Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

–Commercial Pilot Cartier. sep. 1991 – feb. 1992 · 6 mnd

 Paris Area,

 France Flying Cartier company jets, Cessna Citation II & VFlying Cartier company jets, Cessna Citation II & V

 

 

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