Just Another Saturday

One Friday afternoon, Gerben van Beek,  called to ask me if I had plans for the Saturday. Gerben works for Heliflights on a part-time basis, and he invited me to join them on some sightseeing flights over the South of the Netherlands. Several sightseeing flights were scheduled at Rhenen, and at Moergestel, a small village just beneath ‘sHertogenbosch Heliflights is based at Ede, and operates an EC.120B Colibri, registered as PH-KGJ in the Dutch civil aircraft register. This Eurocopter EC.120B was built in 2001, and carries up to five persons, including the pilot. Sightseeing flights are flown from (temporary) helispots situated near, e.g., a restaurant.

After a twelve-minute flight, we arrived at Rhenen, where we landed in a field close to a restaurant just outside the city. Our landing was watched by a few tigers and a giraffe...