Twin Otter Landing at St. Barths TFFJ

[dehaj2425]

I wanna crap myself just watching this. That's such a low altitude at the approach I felt like the plane was gonna hit the water.

[johnsondahal]

pilots after throttle there is always bottles muji



[johnsondahal]

lado muji



[rippychippy]

Twin otters can get into much much worse airstrips than that, that's a massive sealed runway for a twin otter.

All credit goes to the aircraft

[j4cko56]

THAT is how you fly St Barts!

[Pagweb]

WTF? Why did they take the easy way in?

[elpablo07]

@Pagweb What is the EASY way? You have to land ALWAYS on the opposite wind direction. Is not due a Pilot decision.

[Pagweb]

@elpablo07 Yep, I know. I was just joking.. But sometimes people take comments too seriously.

[musicalmiller]

is the approach supposed to be that low?

[chair5432]

The twin otter was designed with the throttles and other controls overhead as the decrease the need for extra routing and cable/wire length. Less weight, less connectors, less that can go wrong.

[Slichkit]

Gotta love the Canadian Flag on the headphones!

[rimxxx]

Go Canada! What company flight was this?

[mmurphy147]

@rimxxx This was on Winair, one of two or three companies that makes the flight. I know that St. Bart's Commuter does it as well in the venerable Cessna Grand Caravan.

[rimxxx]

@mmurphy147 - I bet these are probably ex-Air-Inuit/Kenn Borek pilots or whichever company operating TOs in Canada. Canadian pilots are the best!

[tangojules]

Les atterrissages piste 28, au-dessus de la baie de St-Jean sont exceptionnels. D'où l’intérêt de cette belle vidéo. Et de constater que le Twin Otter est désormais doté d'une avionique moderne (radio-sonde altimétrique "parlante", etc.)

[davidsholem]

Excellent speed/ descent control!

[frkeholmes]

THE AIRLINS YOU FLY WITH FROM ST MARTIN TO ST BERTS WAS WINAIR??

[Lithoushine]

sweet!!



[SenorSpode]

Buy that crew a bottle of anything, on me. If I'm not mistaken, that's the same pilot who is in the video "World's Shortest Runway?" here, flying a Twotter into Saba. I hope he's the one doing the flying when I get there and go island-hopping!

[teslation]

this is totally illegal, how could u b at 500ft at right downwind ? unless ur flying ifr but i can see its totally vfr...

[BorisKnoT]

@teslation Why not 500ft? You should consider airport elevation and runway length. You DONT wanna land on the middle of the rwy.

Barths is a VFR airport and you can do visual while IFR.

For flying its #1 common sense, #2 instruments. Atleast i see it tht way. What if instruments fail? There aint nothing better than an experienced pilot in command. And those guys certanly are.

[teslation]

@BorisKnoT airport elevation got nothing to do with that cuz hes probably got his altimeter set so its configured already, and i can see that he was below 500 at right downwind. u ve got to be at the legal pattern altitude . this is why if the pattern altitude is 800 (at uncontrolled airport) or 1000 (at a controlled airport) u will +ADD the airport elevation to that number. so if airport elevation is 50 and traffic pattern is 800 u will be flying 850 instead, otherwise IFR MDA. thx 4 reply

[teslation]

@BorisKnoT one more thing, what if u have an engine failure ? ever considered that as a factor that could happen? how are you going to make it to the runway? i can see whats going on here, the problem is that he flew a tight right downwind pattern thats why he had to stay below 500. but still thats very risky

[arayashikinoshaka]

30/20/10??

[kernielsen]

Fucking AWSOME

[budandbean1]

Nice job on the landing, extremely well done. Those like that make you just feel good inside!

[NeuMasterful]

Great vid! I vividly recall vomiting in a Twin-Otter many a time;) Great landing though, and real spectacular scenery!

[southwest1998]

Is this a Beechcraft 1900?

[JuliusEC145]

nice video and cool pilot ;)

[meccabumbleswan]

Have you done a vid of an easterly landing?

[markmimp]

wonderfull STOL aircraft - grew to love it flying from Belmont to Sydney NSW Australia

[SNS8R03]

nice to see a canuck flying a canadian made plane abroad!

[KRS31]

Great work dude!

[whiskeyportal]

5/5, great piloting!

[R32inAZ]

Good Landing... 

[KRY030HModesto]

wonderful man i loved the approach and the place wonderful what a beatiful water !!!

[flyguy0507]

That's cool. I always thought the twin otter had a fixed pitch prop.

[bogramms]

el wm pro!

[niceone11987]

Great pilot. Kept the min speed and a great descent.

[64Knop]

Impressive landing indeed!

[PClaytonHuggins]

Hey, I recognise the co-pilot, don't know his name but have flown on WinAir when he was in the left seat. A very sturdy and reliable little plane, and yes, Canadian design and built.

[usafisasome]

Hell Yeah BombardiaRules

[bravoechonovembera]

Canadian pilot!!  epic win!

[pecheche19]

This is the best plane, watch this, watch?v=w-Qg6jrufDg

[AirlinerAviation]

Great vid! Yes, the throttle is overhead.

[Guinnie]

that was the throttle he was hanging on?

great landing

[skink5150]

DeHavilland's Twin Otter was such a successful aircraft that Viking aircraft is now building them with updated avionics (glass) . A truly awesome STOL airframe that's versatile and durable (and timeless) .

[mmurphy147]

As BrothersButler mentioned, yes the power levers are overhead. This was common on a lot of older aircraft, 1940s and 1950s vintage. On the deHavilland Beaver the trim handle is overhead. I believe some of the Grumman seaplanes also had overhead power controls.

[cutasscrew]

Reason they are overhead is for simplicity. Easy maintenance and so on.

[CRJflyer]

@mmurphy147 any word on the throttles being moved down in the latest versions of the Twin Otter?

[mmurphy147]

@CRJflyer The throttles still look like they are overhead in the new Twin Otter, mainly because pilot and co-pilot yokes are connected - which would limit space for a power quadrant down low.

[emj0001]

@mmurphy147 Some of the old Piper aircraft had over head trim handles. The old 140 that I solo'ed on had over head trim.

[fcself]

Great video! I would be great to see the same landing from a different angle, too!!

[drumology2001]

Whoa! That was a cherry landing! When they hung that right and I saw how low they looked to the water on their "50" and "40" call-outs, it looked like they were going to go fish racing for a second! They put that main gear right on the numbers from my approximations.

I, too, am curious about the overhead panel - is that where the throttles are in a Twin Otter? That just seems like awkward placement for the PIC... =\

[CaptainFaisal]

amazing!

[kierno84]

wow! bravo!

[kierno84]

are the power levers in the overhead panel?

[BrothersButler]

Yes, on Twin Otters the throttles are on the overhead. kinda awkward, isn't it?

[isnoop]

Very nice landing.

[rudderfoot]

That a boy DB ! Just like I taught ya.... :) It's sad you have the cojo doing all the work too.. :) LOL

[cdflyboy]

Nice video, I will have to keep this in favorites!

[jrotz215]

Hi from Sportsmens. Johnny

[cutasscrew]

Well done Chris!!