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adjust radio and video signals to ensure all is optimal for the re-broadcasting to the broadcast truck.
Changing perspectives on the King Air
As the chief technology officer for WorldLinX, Vanhoof is responsible for all King Air operations. He is also a pilot for the company after working his way up from warehouse assistant after graduating from broadcast school in 2007 to operating the equipment in the plane during relay flights.
“I come from a television background and not so much from an aviation perspective,” Vanhoof said. “From 2008 until 2015, I spent several thousand hours in the B200 as the operator sitting in the back.”
He started the journey to become a pilot in 2015 after company leadership asked him to learn to fly. WorldLinX was doing more productions outside of Europe, and at the same time EASA’s duty and rest time regulations were becoming more structured.
“Sometimes we would have to fly in other crew members via airliner just to fly two or three flights to
“About 99% of the business is sporting events where you either need to cover a big area or a smaller area that constantly changes ... ”
Our task specialist, Jean-Yves Delamaire, arrived and we loaded our luggage and equipment. We thoroughly inspected the aircraft, including hot items and all the lights. Avionics were updated for the Middle East and the Far East. We also tested the satellite phone that we had with us.
We flew OO-ASL to Athens Interna- tional Airport (LGAV). After a long wait for fuel with Goldair Handling, we were off to the Grand Hyatt hotel in the city center. It was late; we ate quickly and FgEoBtRUaAfReYw20s25alads for the next day.
Day 2 (Wednesday): After a half- hour waiting for the handler, we were on to Egypt (HEGN), where we had a very fast refuel, and then on to Bahrain (OBBI) and Muscat (OOMS) in Oman.
We cleared customs and proceeded to the Novotel hotel.
Day 3 (Thursday): We flew to Ahmedabad, India (VAAH), where we had a team of nearly 10 men refueling OO-ASL on arrival. We then went to the terminal to process passports, photos and fingerprints, explain our reason for traveling and file a form indicating how many valuables we had. Food and drinks were provided during the well-organized procedure, which still took nearly 1.5 hours. They
scanned our luggage while we were
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