Brussels-Amsterdam with KLC, August 16

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Brussels-Amsterdam with KLC, August 16

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Our flight was scheduled at 12:05 with a F70.
We were picked up by bus on the ground floor of the A pier.
And no, I didn't see Bob Claes :wink:
Flight was delayed because of plane change.
Turned out it wasn't a F70 as foreseen but a F50, therefore crews had to be changed too.
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PH-KVF at schiphol
The flight was completely full.
We sat in seats 10D and F.
Take-off was from RWY 02 at around 13 o' clock.
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We got a drink a cookie and after some 30 minutes we approacged AMS.
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We landed on the new 5th RWY ( 18R I guess ) and therefore had to taxi some 20 minute to the remote stand.
From there with the bus to the terminal and from there a "sprint" ( it was already 13u50 ) to gate D53 for our connecting flight to Aruba.
ETD 14:25
We made it but our suitcase would spend the night at AMS :(
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Post by sn26567 »

Nice illustrated report, MD-11.

And so you got to sample the F50 as well...

Pity it almost made you miss your connection!
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Post by Comet »

That must have been really gross to almost miss your connection like that! But great to fly in the Fokker 50, I just love them and would love the chance to fly in another one.
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Post by nwa757 »

Again a great report! You are lcky to fly in a F-50! I have never flown in a turboprop airliner before. I have been in a few piston planes (C-172 and a Pitts) but I have never flown in a turboprop (probably because they don't fly turboprops to Green Bay, and when they did, NW flew here with DC-9s so we always took that.)

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Post by chunk »

I have been on the F-50 a few times when Air UK / KLM uk were doing the Aberdeen to Stavanger run a few years ago. Must say it wasn;t too bad for a prop and certainly way better than the Dash 8 Wideroe use on the route now....don;t kike that at all....
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