Hello everybody, if you haven't guessed already my name is Mark Jansen and I'm currently 19 years old. I live in the Netherlands in a city of nearly 60,000 inhabitants, called Veenendaal. A city which is pretty much centered in the country, btw. In my daily life I study Aviation Logistics on the "Nederlands Luchtvaart College", a big school with many aviation related educations. The school is located in Hoofddorp, very close to Amsterdam Schiphol airport, the airport I know quite a lot about.

My brother Peter (left) and me on the Spanish island Menorca, summer 1985

In my spare time I have many hobbies. You can find a lot about them on this page, mainly about aviation and Flight Simulator since this is my biggest hobby. But I also like to listen to pop music (TMF and Radio 538) and to work on my computer, preferable something with Flight Simulator 98. Besides computers and FS-related stuff I follow developments in real life (civil) aviation as well and especially developments around Schiphol Airport and the Dutch airlines.

Regarding flight simulator, I also fly and "work" for a virtual airline, TradeWind Caribbean Airlines (TCA). For those of you who don't know: a virtual airline is a club of enthousiastic people who fly with Flight Simulator 98 according to a line schedule of the "airline" they work for. After the flight you have to send in a flight report and you receive your payment in Virtual Caribbean Dollars. For TCA I am running the TCA Intercontinental Department, which has intercontinental flights from the Caribbean to all over the world.

My computer was just updated to an AMD K6-2 with 3DNow processor on 333MHz. I have
128 MB of RAM memory and a 13,6GB harddisk (Western Digital). My computer system is on the room of the garret of our house. This is actually my hobby room and also the room where I spend most of my time :-) Furtheron I have a printer, scanner, cable modem and some joysticks: a Virtual Pilot and Pro Pedals, both from CH-Products.

In the left frame, you can click on every item you'd like to know more about. Don't forget to sign my guestbook either!

A nice family pic: me and my mother at Christmas 1998

Enjoy your stay on my homepage.

Mark Jansen
Veenendaal, Netherlands, April 2000