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Thieu Hendriks (left) and Jens Vanhoof, who also is the company's chief technology officer, are among the fixed team of eight pilots for WorldLinX.
give the other crew members the required rest, especially when they’d flown many hours just getting to the event location,” Vanhoof said. “The idea was that if I were already on-site and a pilot, maybe I could do those flights. The assumption was that I might be able to combine the ‘operator’ and ‘pilot’ jobs, which I realized would be impossible once I started progressing through flight school. Still, we knew it would benefit the company to have a technical manager who knows about broadcasting and has experience from the flight deck.”
He earned his private pilot license in 2016 then his commercial pilot license and type rating in the B200 in 2018. In six years, he’s amassed a little more than 2,900 hours, including nearly 2,700 in the B200.
“I recently started the journey to become
a type rating instructor on the King Air BE90/99/100/200,” he said. “The training ›
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at the terminal and required photos of fuel gauges.
We then flew to Kolkata (VECC), where we had to repeat customs forms to “depart faster the next day.” They applied many paper stickers on the door of OO-ASL, which were difficult to remove. Our taxi to the Holiday Inn was hectic with a continuous stream of honking cars and mopeds. Thieu spit fire after eating spicy beans and I spit fire from the soup on the hotel’s
buffet before they made a mild mix for us to enjoy.
Day 4 (Friday): Even with yester- day’s customs paperwork it still took about an hour before we could depart.
Everyone was friendly and eventually we left for Bangkok, Thailand (VTBD).
On to Singapore (WSSL), which has
a nice approach, Thieu went to the hotelwhileIwaitedabout45minutes ›
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