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November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 by Jeroen Schonewille

Site update November 2018

My photos on the website are not visible anymore as per November 2018. The reason for this change is that Flickr, the place where I hosted most of my pictures, decided to set a limit on 1000 uploads for the free account. I did not have that amount of pictures yet published on Flickr, but I think I could reach that limit at a certain point. In the past I hosted the pictures on my own server and I might decide to do that again. This proces will take some time. I hope you’ll understand. Please continu to see my pictures on my different social media channels, like Facebook and Instagram! Soon I’ll be posting a new blog post too.

Happy flights!

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August 28, 2018August 30, 2018 by Jeroen Schonewille

Adventure begins…

Finally. Exactly 4 years and 1 week after I finished my pilot training at Martinair Flight Academy I got the message I was waiting for for a very long time: “Congratulations, you’ve successfully passed the interview”. Upon reading this message I literally could not believe it, I think I have read the sentence over and over again while my eyes started to tear up. “Congratulations”. Yes, that’s a positive word, right? I think I’ve never doubted about the meaning of a word ever before in my life until that moment. Yes, it’s a positive word. I’ve got the job. The next 30 minutes I did not know what to do, the only thing I did was crying with absolutely no shame. It was a long and nearly exhaustive bumpy road to get to this point…

Visit to Aviodrome

Last January I visited the Aviodrome aviation museum at Lelystad Airport in the Netherlands again. It has been a while since I visited the museum. Late 2011 the aviation museum filed for bankruptcy. Luckily the company Libema – already owning some smaller theme parks and museums in the Netherlands – took over the aviation museum and (a part) of the airplane collection in the first half of 2012. Since that time the museum has changed a bit to make it more attractive to families with children. Despite that, the Aviodrome museum is still a very nice museum with a nice airplane collection. The true aviation lover will be satisfied as well.