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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Last Flight of Captain Jan Nap @ KLM

Captain Jan Nap made his last flight due to retirement at KLM. Heading for Aruba-Bonaire with first officer Sean and second officer Tom as his “Wingmen”. First the PHAKF was planned for this flight, but it got changed to a A330-200 reg PHAOF. I operated and filmed the push & pull from stand Echo 17. Thereafter Jan got a RWY24 departure. Filming Jan’s retirementflight was a surprise orchestrated by his friend and Airbus Captain Victor van Gool. Backflight KL767 , Bonaire-Amsterdam, got a windy landing on RWY18R and operated with an A330-300 reg PHAKB. Vacating the runway at V2 taxying […]
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