King of Netherlands secretly a KLM FO.
 

He's been an FO for 21 years on the Fokker, now transitioning to the 737.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e798368c723a

Interesting but not a surprise. In Great Britain Prince Charles and his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry all have been helicopter pilots in the military.

It is really amazing that he has been able to keep this under wraps for this long. It speaks to a great deal of humility and a passion for aviation that he didn't go public with this for his ego or some sort of political gain.

It aint a secret any more 😳

Haha so cool. Wish I could cherry pick my two locals every month and call it good ! :)

I wonder if he bought the beer on the overnight or insisted everyone go Dutch.

I wish I could be king 😜

It's the norm for young royalty to do military service, kind of expected.

A bit unusual to fly for an airline, but cool non-the-less.

We tend to get wrapped around the negatives of the airline biz sometimes, but when you see rock n roll gods and kings doing our job when they don't have to it reminds you that a lot of people wanted to do this, but not many could (especially in the older generations).

Referring to B.D. no doubt.

Up The Irons!

And it wasn't a secret.
Actually pretty well known in The Netherlands. Just nobody really made a big deal about it as it's been his hobby. Europeans tend to respect privacy a little more.
Then prince now king also participated in skating events under a pseudonym that everybody kinda knew anyway.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_circus/2014/02/23/elfstedentocht_this_insane_120_mile_speedskating_r ace_makes_the_winter_olympics.html

Doesn't the King of Jordan fly occasionally for Royal Jordanian?
I think his dad did.
Present King Abdullah flew against ISIS

http://controversialtimes.com/wp-con...2/Abdullah.jpg

I'll rate that a little higher on the BA-scale then the occasional passenger flight that 'nobody knows about'.

King Abdullah also runs a country that allows murderers to slaughter American soliders and then blame the soldiers for their own deaths. 3 Green Berets will never receive the justice they deserve under that coward.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/report-us-green-berets-jordan/

Let's just keep this on a guy who wanted to fly airplanes, and was able to, instead of being distracted by who his parents were.

That's cool. Some people want to do this job in spite of what it's become for some of us. Good for him.
At the end of the day, I don't do this job for money or status.

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” 👑

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2

Lighten up. Stuff happens, the government did not order the guard to do that, the guard was not even a terrorist. It was a colossal screwup. Tensions in the region are so high that this sort of thing is unfortunately inevitable.

"It's good to be the king"
-Mel Brooks as Louis XVI in "History of the World, Part 1"

Sword of Damocles. :eek:

Louis XVI?!! Uneasy lies his former head. :eek:

They still have a king!?

I wonder what the competitive hiring mins are for kings ...

1500 hours as a Duke. :p

I'm not going after the King-Air schtick.:D

Having sacked a major city gets your app on top of the pile.

"Hey, why doesn't that guy get junior assigned!?"

I didn't know we had a king.....I thought we were an autonomous collective.....

Even Kings secretly want to be Airline Pilots.

The guy is King, and could only hold Fokker F/O for 21 years?

Man, and I thought seniority movement at my company was slow...

Ya, but them Fokkers was Messerschmitts.... Sorry I couldn't resist.:D

"Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings." :cool:

--Mark Twain

I'd be interested to see the information you have on his civilian flying. My wife is an airline pilot who was born and raised in the Netherlands and has never heard of Willem-Alexander flying anything other than military aircraft.

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Let's talk more about your Dutch wife. The two times I've been there I've seen nothing but tens.

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy...

A good friend of mine from the Netherlands was telling me he would hang out with the Air Force pilots, flips his mom (Queen) picture hang up on the wall up-side down and tell her 'Not today mom!' and get sh** faced with the crews.

Aw, the moderators aren't that bad! ;)

Help! I'm being repressed.

Now we see the violence inherent in the system!!

Bring out yer dead......bring out yer dear........

Ha, I didn't know anybody else would still remember that joke!

(On my last trip, I got to explain to my FO what a coffee peculator was... He said he & his wife only knew the French press.)

Look, you're not fooling anyone...

But I'm feeling better!

Well, you'll be dead soon.