VFR Flight from Maastricht

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VFR Flight from Maastricht-Aachen to Schiphol (Amsterdam)

EHBK - EHAM

Country	Holland
Flight no	NL0001
Original flight	Jan 20th, 2001
Estimated distance	137 miles
Estimated time en route	34 minutes

Download flight plan	FSNav 4 - Beek-to-Schiphol.fsn
	FSNav 3 - 3beek_to_schiphol.fsn
(Download) scenery	NL2000 Netherlands scenery
(Download) plane	FS98 OE-LKA

Contributed by	Francois 'Navman' Dumas

Comments

This was one of the flights I did for my review of the NL2000 Dutch Scenery. The Maastricht-Aachen Airport was formerly known as Beek Airport and lies close to the borders of Germany and Belgium, in the South of The Netherlands. I chose this particular route because I drove it by car just a few days earlier, returning from a skiing holiday. So I set the flight plan to follow the same highways I took by car (well, almost).... and the beauty of the NL2000 Dutch Scenery is that you can actually SEE all those highways and the cities and towns along the route.
I used the Dornier 328-120 (for FS98 actually), that I found on FlightSim.com.
Enjoy!

The Flight Plan

The (37) pictures

01tookoff.jpg (80324 bytes)

Snow on the hills near Beek

02korensheide.jpg (525822 bytes)

Flying over Korensheide junction, view on Geleen

03maasbracht.jpg (49732 bytes)

Looking at Maasbracht and the river Maas

The rail track leading to Eindhoven, home of Philips

View over Belgium to the South

Air Force Base Eindhoven lies ahead

AB Eindhoven with hardened F-16 shelters visible

08denbosch.jpg (64908 bytes)

Big rivers ahead and the city of Den Bosch on the right

09a2dewaal.jpg (50450 bytes)

Route A2 and railway crossing over the river Waal at Zaltbommel

10lopik.jpg (49091 bytes)

Junction Everdingen, tv tower Lopik and bridges at Vianen and Hagestein

11lopik2.jpg (69217 bytes)

City of Nieuwegein flying towards Utrecht

The Lopik TV tower

Utrecht ahead, many detailed buildings and bridges can be found here

Clearly visible the junction Ouderijn and the bridge on the A12

View of Utrecht, the Dom Kathedral below the plane

Hilversum airfield on the left, Hilversum ahead

To the right the highway stops, that's where a major bridge is missing

Almere, the new city in the reclaimed land, in the distance the IJsselmeer

The Oostvaardersplassen to the right, a birds sanctuary

20lelystad.jpg (45037 bytes)

Lelystad and the dike to Enkhuizen can be seen here

21marken.jpg (46211 bytes)

The island of Marken with it's wealth of old wooden houses

22industry.jpg (60816 bytes)

An industry area, notice the cars parked next to the companies?

23fog.jpg (36532 bytes)

Oops, weather deteriorates all of a sudden...typical Dutch

24noview.jpg (31336 bytes)

Now this was supposed to be VFR, showing Holland

25autopliot.jpg (43076 bytes)

Schiphol must be ahead there somewhere

26readyland.jpg (43861 bytes)

Landing configuration, trusting the autopilot and my flight plan

27splahead.jpg (52042 bytes)

Ah, there it is, Runway 19L, dead ahead

28offcourse.jpg (71213 bytes)

Oops, took over from the autopilot, not lined up as I should

29oncourse.jpg (77527 bytes)

There, that's a lot better, called Finals

30touchdn.jpg (41084 bytes)

Now, getting things through the middle has always been a weak point

31nofollow.jpg (41458 bytes)

So where do we need to go now? Hmmmm... where's that Follow-Me car when you need it?

32schiphol.jpg (56533 bytes)

Nope, those are the C-gates... I'm looking for B

33topview.jpg (66497 bytes)

Let's have a look from the top (okay, so I'm cheating)

34gateb12.jpg (40042 bytes)

Found it, B12, doesn't that look gorgeous?

35gateclose.jpg (73841 bytes)

Inching our way into the gate position

36gatecloser.jpg (75729 bytes)

The sign ahead shows us when we are in position, almost there

37docked.jpg (50838 bytes)

There, done it. How did you like that view of the Low Countries?

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