30 Aug

Last Flight of Captain Jack van Schelt @ KLM

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 […]
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23 Aug

Last Flight of Captain Bas Seijffert @ KLM

After 27 years and 6 months Captain Bas Seijffert got his last flight due to retirement at KLM. His final destination was Capetown and back Amsterdam assisted by First Officer Niek Dillen as his ‘Wingman’. Flight KL597, AMS-CPT, with callsign KLM119 , stand F9 and departure on RWY36C. This flight got operated with a B777-300ER reg PHBVI. Backflight KL598, Capetown-Amsterdam, with callsign KLM104 got a nice landing on RWY18R and taxying for final stand Echo 17. Bas operated his last landing with another B777-300ER reg PHBVB    
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