A Belgian Air Force F-16 pilot will be the 6th in the world to score 5,000 hours on the aircraft

Captain Steven De Vries, a Belgian Air Force pilot, will score 5,000 flight hours for the first time on Friday in a training flight in an F-16 from Kleine Brogel Air Base. Forty-eight-year old Limburg-born Captain De Vries is the sixth pilot in the world and the first European to cross the 5,000-hour mark in an F-16. Only five American pilots had crossed this symbolic milestone before him. Those 5,000 flight hours were accumulated both during operational training missions and operational… (www.aviation24.be) More...