Hank Dwayne Matray (Chief Executive Officer & Training Director)
Hank has been involved in flight simulation since 1985, using the motto 'As real as it gets' very early on. He is the founder of the Flight-Academy® and has made countless video tutorials for the FA. He regards every new student as a challenge and conveying knowledge keeps him young.

Jan Jongen (Assistant Chief Executive Officer)
Jan made his maiden flight in 1963 in the First Officer’s chair of a Martin’s Air Charter’s De Havilland Dove, sitting beside John Block at the controls. It was an uneventful sight-seeing flight over Amsterdam, perhaps lasting 20 minutes, but enough to let Jan become an aviation enthusiast for the rest of his life. Although he kept on reading everything he could find about aviation for many years, it was only in the nineties when he discovered Microsoft Flight Simulator. Since then he has been a passionate user of every new release of the series. In January 2008 he retired from a very time consuming business life and could spend more time on his hobby, enabling him to finally join IVAO and start with online flying. Jan spent many hundreds of hours of flying ”as real as it gets” ever since, learning a lot of real life procedures and flying techniques, culminating for now in the IVAO Pilot Certificate he obtained early 2011. In the final stage of private pilot training Jan made Hank’s acquaintance in October 2010. Hank, in close cooperation with Lex, showed Jan in a most agreeable way all ins and outs to become a proficient VFR pilot. And now, as a training advisor, Jan will try to make you as a student as enthusiastic about flying as he is himself, to transfer some of the knowledge he gathered in the past years and most of all: to have fun.

Daniel Starken (Student Control)
Daniel has for a while been trying to master flying and approaches this in a serious way. He also sees the need in following training at the Flight-Academy, so as to perform flying in the virtual IVAO airspace in a (semi-)professional way and forge the flying into a great hobby together with fellow pilots and ATC. In this regard he likes to work in the background to make the training operations run smoothly and is therefore involved with the FA as Student Control.

Rob Overdijk (Training Advisor)
Rob is a self employed flightsim enthusiast. Studied management, organization and commerce with a focus on the construction industry and specializing in renovation projects. Rob is flying his circuits since 1987, the days of the XT x86, Bruce Artwick's subLOGIC FlightSimulator 2.0. Looking back now it was the time crazy people flying their crates in a dangerous 4 color simulator on Meigs Field around a black Sears's tower. The experience has been foremost a flying skills one. Only a short while ago radio navigation and dead reckoning entered the arena. Nowadays procedures, radio telephony, rules and regulations, meteorological aspects claim an important portion of his interest. Practice makes perfect with flying the old 'Gooney bird' the Douglas DC3. The grand old lady of radial engines, still after 75 years, is offering quite a challenge under VFR rules. Rob is himself still in the process of learning, here at the Flight Academy, but has a sufficient knowledge of VFR flying and a solid knowledge base in order to help others out by relaying that knowledge. Hope to see you soon on the PreFlight-Academy.

Matthijs van Dijk (Public Relations)
Matthijs is a builder and contractor by trade, yet he can't stay out of the air. "To fly on a regular basis with a friend in a Robin 400, Cessna 152 or a Cessna 172 is great". The dream remains, but reality is different. "Flying with flight simulator is a good alternative these days. The better you fly, the more fun it becomes. In May 2006, this same vriend 'transferred' the flying bug to me. Flying was fun, but never demanding. After I registered on IVAO on May 17th, it really started to become serious. Flying became demanding, but I had to learn a lot After studying and exams within IVAO and the KLM-VA, where I became acquainted to Hank, the level of flying was increased many times! After the IVAO flight academy asked to help out their team I did not have to think very long. It's a great staff and fantastic Academy. Within the Flight Academy we have perfect training courses through which we can achieve an even higher level of flying on IVAO. Perhaps only the "real thing" could be better".

Lex van Zwieten (Training Advisor)
Lex, an electrotechnical graduate and designer of hardware and software, got fascinated by computers and flying from the early days. Since version Flight Simulator 3.0, he got hooked on flying when internet wasn't even available. The early versions of flight simulator where regarded as a 'game' but after new release upon release this statement proved to be inadequate. With the latest modern techniques we have all been given the opportunity to fulfill the dream of flying as real as it gets. Started flying on IVAO since 2007 and shares this beautiful hobby with all kinds of people from all over the world. We help eachother...we learn from eachother.

Amir Fahmy (Training Advisor)
Amir is a student at the British university faculty of business in Cairo. He got introduced to flying on IVAO in 2008 after having discovered the online community gamespy where he met Lex van Zwieten who helped him to join . In a very short period he picked up the proper way off flying and mastered the procedures and theory behind it. A balance between flying and controlling makes the hours spend with friends from all over the world on IVAO even more interesting. He is determined to pass on the information by helping others... like he was helped at the very beginning so we all can strive for being good pilots.

Jorrit Klein Bramel (Webmaster)
Jorrit Klein Bramel is an ICT student with a hughe interest for computers. His expertise lies in programming after having mastered several web languages and is still in the proces of learning other programming languages. He already built quite a few websites. As a trainee during an internship, where Daniel Starken worked, he was introduced to flying on IVAO with beginners experience. He is one of the responsibles for the complete makeover of the PFA and FA website.

Hans Ensing (Webmaster)
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