13 Aug

Last Flight of Captain Bart van der Made @ KLM

Captain Bart van der Made made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. A last flight to Miami and back homebase Amsterdam. On this flight Bart got assisted by his good friend and captain Victor van Gool as his ‘Wingman’. Flight KL627, stand E2 and a runway 24 departure. After the awesome ‘wingwave’ some words of the airtraffic controller kept on hanging. ‘KLM627…everything allright ???’. The same airtraffic controller who ignored them when mentioning it was Bart’s last and retirementflight. KL627 got operated with a A330-300 reg PHAKB. Returnflight KL628 was operated with another A330-300, reg PHAKE. A nice […]
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19 Jan

Last Flight of a Captain B747F @ Martinair Cargo

A Captain B747F  made his last flight due to retirement at Martinair Cargo. Heading from Miami to Amsterdam with First Officer Harry van der Weij as his ‘Wingman’. Flight MPH6122 got operated with the B747-400ERF reg PHCKB and after a beautiful approach landing on RWY06.     Videostills………..
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10 Jul

Last Flight of Captain B747F Peter Horstink @ Martinair Cargo

Captain Peter Horstink made his last flight due to retirement at Martinair Cargo. Retiring at his beloved 747 Freighter. Flight MP7121 , assisted by First Officer Robert Posman , and heading for the routine Amsterdam-Campinas-Quito-Miami-Amsterdam. This routine got operated with the B747-400ERF reg PHCKA. Runway 24 for departure. Nice detail his son started flight KL1539 a couple of minutes later. Last flight MP7122, MIA-AMS, arrived a day later than sheduled. Final landing on RWY18R after a huge career.     Videostills……………
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01 Sep

Last Flight of Cpt B747F Xander del Prado @ Martinair Cargo

Captain Xander del Prado made his last flight due to retirement at MartinairCargo. AMS-MIA-AMS. His last flight got operated with the B747-400ERF with reg PH-CKA Flight MP6141 with a one hour delay departed at RWY36L together with ‘Wingmen’ FO Sander de Kok and FO Jaap Schnitker. Back- and final flight MP7762 , callsign ‘DelPrado029’ , departed with a 24hr delay , and got a RWY06 arrival and supported by his ‘Wingman’ FO Charles Boom. On this flight as well…Martinair Captain Roelof van Dam and Captain André Kager.(non flying) I got appreciated by a phenomenal ‘Bokito Call’ at ATC as ‘Bokito […]
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10 Feb

Last Flight of Captain Emile Cevat @ KLM A330

Captain Emile Cevat made his last flight,due to retirement at KLM, to Miami – Florida. The flight got operated by the PH-AON and PH-AOF. Second Officer at this flight was Christa Kloosman. Due to her last minute call to Holland I got reached one hour for the landing. It had to be….. Watch the video by click at next link >>>>> Last flight of Captain Emile Cevat
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