Landing at Lukla

[sonyplaystationrules]

hahaha it actually stalls

[crocodile2006]

I bet your arse puckers up as you roll towards the wall at 200km/h

[Zacydude96]

0:34 twin otter mating dance :D

[9753241860hb]

@Zacydude96 xD lol

[TheThePaskec]

i love that kind of planes which lands in lukla

[gregbails4]

F that S! I'll take a helicopter if i wanna go there...

[ihatecheez123]

at 0:26 it sounds like someone is blowing a party horn because they are about to land hahaha

[Digger843ASXM]

This is one of the few airports where you are supposed to stall when landing lol

[yynnmmbb]

No fucking way.

Note to self: Never ever ever ever schedule a  visit to Lukla, Nepal

[YouReadMyMind]

@yynnmmbb fucking way!

[romeojaxx]

Good video and for your information the airport has an upslope of 12 degrees that means the touchdown point and take off point has approximately 200 Feet difference. Stall warings are not so common with multi-engines but it happens at times. You cant do a go around if you get that. 1600 Ft of runway is not enough to correct for a stall. You have to stop on the runway anyhow. After you enter the valley. The only way out is after you land and take off. Cant trun around.

[FearKrazeHD]

Excellent landing!The stall was probaly due from elavation change and the pilot's decision on speed, while changing elevation.

[lerrysan]

nothing like a stall warning 3FT from the ground...lol

[HongKongBoyz100]

twin otters and bn-2's man! my favorite, but bn-2's would blow up in this altitude

[darkcornbreadhunter]

is the throttle located on the top of the cockpit? that looks uncomfortable 0_0

[andyguitar99]

@darkcornbreadhunter

It would be if you had to keep your foot on it for the whole flight

[BlueBuddy123]

What plane are you in?

[Speedbird103]

@BlueBuddy123 Twin Otter

[smow70]

I have "landed" at this airport on MSFSX and it is really hard. I dont want to know what it must be like in real life!!!!

[lightningman01]

Great video, Great pilots and the ohh shit horn going off at the right time!!!

[Alanpini]

The flight in from Kathmandu to Lukla is spectacular....but cannot be recomended for the fainthearted...LOL

[TheWrighty1]

@Alanpini doin it next aprl, whats it like ??

[bmwnasher]

i have been messing a bit ..it does serve a community in a very isolated place by the looks of things.i have been on a de havilland beaver sea plane in canada thats scary

[bmwnasher]

whe no take off the other way idiots.much safer

[gjs5897]

@bmwnasher Haha. Its on an incline next to a steep drop. Very short runway. Taking of that way gains speed quick for the plane to achieve enough lift. Taking of the other way would basically involve the plane plowing in to a wall. Less safer. Idiot.

[bmwnasher]

@gjs5897 i no idiot .only making joke..idiots are who built this runway its a death trap.needs a steam catapult like on the aircraft carriers..you should see heathrow ifs surrounded by houses

[king7wood]

Remarkable video, great audio of those powerful turboprops. Dehavilland?

[AuroraBorealisCanada]

It is almost certainly Royal Nepal Airways that fly in there, the country is very protective of its soverignty, I am sure no other carrier gets in, and I doubt they use any ex-pat pilots. The Nepalese have a reputation for excellence when they are properly trained in just about anything.

[1albertaboy]

Twotters everywhere! Go Canada:D

Looks like an amazing place to fly. Do they bring in any expat pilots? Who are the carriers that fly into there? Any info PM'ed to me would be greatly appreciated.

[terragona1]

casi entra en perdida

[fernando19007]

esto si es tener huevos

[pianomansas]

0:25 Stall buzzer

[gidsr]

Hi Colin

Great video. in 2006 Lukla was looking less military than it did in 2004.

Great county, great people and Namaste to the soldiers who didn't shoot us for wandering down the main street after curfew!

[bisalyep]

@gidsr u got lucky u did get shoot mite . its curfew for F sake !!

[gidsr]

yes, i know... we were very drunk... and the soldiers very understanding :)

[787dreamlinerBoeing]

the landing there must be terrible.

A friend of me landed there

[chosen11979]

Comin' in hot....

[SenorSpode]

Yes indeed. The runway slopes 12 degrees upward, so you gotta be at an 8-9 degree climb, props set to fine and turbines set to high, then by threshold time you nose-up to bleed off speed as you let up on the throttles a bit, flare a bit, touch and go beta (reverse). It only sounds easy...It's near-impossible on Flight Simulator, takes a LOT of crashes to get it remotely right.

[yuturvio]

nice video... nice pilot =)

[2shaie]

nice to see some videos form my country..treckin to namche, shyangboche, tenboche is really gud. i would add it to my bucket list,(although i have already been thr but still wana go again)

[GUARDSMAN24488]

To the last person who left a coment ,you are beauifull people,my Daughter and my self went to see Mnt Everest ,she is now fighting for her countrys safty in Afghan,Thankyou ,we went to Namche then to KhALA PATTAR God Bless Nepal we love you from the U.k

[khukuridal]

wow...thats's my country....country of mount everest...I am missing my country right now

[bisalyep]

@khukuridal haha bro tyo ta mero ni country ho yar .. dherai yadd ayo mero desh ko haina ta bro ??

[tubbytabla1]

Ive jumped out of twins many times. Fantastic plane

[KlumJH]

Love the Twin Otter. In my top 5 favourite aircraft of all time.

[Petsku333]

TWIN OTTERS ARE AAAWEEESOOOMEE :D

[smow70]

@Petsku333 Actually to be precise I dont think these are twin otters, they are replicas made by the Chinese and they are have different name, cant remember now what it is. I think they are called Y7 or something like that...

[Whiterogue01]

love the twin otters :D

[WESTJET101]

the best in my opinion would be saba or st barth search em up on youtube or google

[crayztrav]

only twin otters depart there???

[flyyouindotcom]

what air charter company  is this ?

[888ENRY888]

yeti airlines

[Spamdez]

This is my favorite runway in the world.

It was much better in the early 90s when they kept the wreckage of planes that'd crashed around the runway.

[gangstabrutha]

Yea, you can start flight training young i think, but just ground school. you have to be 16 to try flying the plane..

[PuffMac]

In the UK you can start flying at 14, go solo at 16, and do your PPL rating at 17.

[freshyrocks]

In Australia you can start at any age...

solo at 16...

PPL at 17

CPL at 18

[PuffMac]

Ah sounds pretty similar. The reason I say 14 is that you CAN fly before that in the UK -- if you can reach the pedals -- however, you cannot log the hours, so it doesn't really count.

[boeingnerd77]

was this a stall moments before touchdown

[TonyAirlines]

Yes, just a small one from flaring.

[baldeagle9]

stall warning horn goes off as you approach the stalling angle

[teahupo26]

dornier 228`s all of them

[baldeagle9]

haha, same Canadian engines

[thedivinelyevil]

i've flown there multiple times as a passenger and heard the stall sound a few times. given that the runway is sloped upwards (a higher AOA than normal reqd to avoid risk of nose gear touching down first), short and there's no chance of a go-around, stalling just before touchdown is the perfect landing here. these pilots fly here every morning (after about noon high winds mean no flights) in these tiny planes that get thrown around in the wind... they know what they're doing.

[penguins2go]

if u watch closely the back wheel's touch done then he stalls

[FlyingWing92]

Thats dumb how you have to use the throttle in that plane.

[Isotov]

Good old de Havilland's Twin Otter.

[filipinoboy147]

y they did a stall landing

[aaron8862006]

That's a good sound on any landing! The idea is to bleed off all the airspeed in the flare, and juuuust hear the stall horn as the wheels touch the ground. If you do it right, it makes for the smoothest and slowest touchdown. Obviously, in this case, the slower the better. XD

[Abbasi123456789]

100% right man. On a high altitude airstrip with a short runway you really want to touchdown slow and early. Perfect landing.

[cjracer1000]

nuhuh, what if ur like 10 feet of the ground and you stall, HARD!

[aaron8862006]

Then don't do it 10 feet off the ground, tard. It depends on the aircraft. Hitting the stall warning horn doesn't mean you've stalled, either, it means the stall is imminent. If you're in an aircraft the size of a twin otter and heard the stall warning horn at 10 feet, I doubt you'd have too much terrible trouble. Then again, I doubt this guy was at 10 feet. It was a GOOD landing.

Don't be an armchair pilot wannabe.

[cjracer1000]

i know this was a good landing, i never implied that it wasnt i was just stating a fact, and someone could easily mess up and stall the plane @ 10 feet

[cjracer1000]

also if ur a real pilot post vids of u flying "wannabe"

[aaron8862006]

I'm a private pilot, and a flight student at the University of North Dakota's John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences in the Commercial Aviation major program. I'm not as good as that pilot by any means, but I know what's up.

[cjracer1000]

i'm a student

[cjracer1000]

i'm taking flight traning

[aaron8862006]

You're a 14 year old.

[cjracer1000]

i know that... C150 i'm flying well over spring break

[aaron8862006]

Not sure what to tell you other than it's two different things. Taking some intros in a 150 vs. taking commercial/instrument training...?

[cjracer1000]

wait. why are we arguing?

[N4niner206]

@aaron8862006

And I'm an airline pilot... who cares. Why are you acting like a douche and making this a pi##ing contest with this guy??

[aaron8862006]

@N4niner206 - Just defending the pilot in the video. Not the best manner maybe. Guy was talking trash about something he didn't understand.

(I posted that an awful long time ago, by the way.)

[N4niner206]

@aaron8862006

Fair enough. Cool vid, eh?

[N4niner206]

@aaron8862006

Fair enough. Cool vid, eh?

[aaron8862006]

@N4niner206 - Indeed. My favorite part is definitely the prop noise.

[CalxP]

you can start flight training really young im starting soon and im 14 o.o

[TonyAirlines]

Also, Private Pilot from New Jersey here. 50 hours in a Piper Warrior, and I'm going flying with the Mercer Flying Club on Sunday to Ocean City, MD. I need the X/C for my IFR, so, I'm happy!

[467160]

u tell me its almost inposible to land there or somthing ?????

[IRproductionstudios]

the throttle location is weird

[danmount007]

old planes. dont think it can be found anywhere like that in new planes

[jagara1]

Standard location on a Twotter.

If you saw the yoke you would probably say the same as it looks a bit like a half steering wheel on a stick.

[6617214]

i love nepal

[Pupixario]

Is this in Nepal ?

[muthatrukka24]

yea

[StratMatt777]

Awesome! Thanks for uploading this!!!

The stall warning horn comes on just before stall- to give you time to react and correct. The horn at touchdown means that the pilot has made the most perfect landing possible... a perfect short-field landing is a stall just as the mains touch. This guy is a pro obviously! - a flight instructor

[bartrs]

Yep, definately stall.

[captkramers]

its a important need of this landing

search it on google or something.

Stall landing

[tatercito]

100% sure that the last sound is Stall !

[AreoCrayZ]

but i must say this is a great vid!!!

[donozzpo]

Where is this place???

[jbjetairways]

WHAT IS THAT ALARM AT TOUCH DOWN?

[slugger9203]

stall buzzer

[kdude15]

no, i think its the autopilot being switched off

[fvolterri]

no, is the stall buzzer

[AreoCrayZ]

i love the sound of the stall buzzer!!!!! means you better get your act together!!!

[jagara1]

The autopilot switch off sounds more line a horn, usually two single notes increasing in pitch.

[jbjetairways]

So u mean, if 1 aircraft is on the apron, and the other landing, the 1 on the apron has 2 taxi n take off?

[skippyinspace]

second that about the accident today.

I remember flyin in and out of Lukla back in 94. In those days it was a dirt strip and the wreckage of a early crash wasn't that far away from the end of the runway.

The interesting thing was a klaxon went off when a plane took off from katmandu and the theory was if it didn't show a search would start, Take off from the strip you just went to the end of the runway reved the engines until the brakes wouldn't hold and you would then race down the runway

[IMCOnAir]

1st I have to say it: rest in peace for all 18 who died today at the crash by failed landing on this airport (airplane of Yeti Airlines). So sad.

This hot spot looks really tricky...

[SenorSpode]

I took off and landed from there on FS2004, Cessna 172 (Not the best choice): Couldn't get off the runway, dropped off and regained 250 feet below, turned south, gained to 11,000, did a 180, set it down right at the edge and rolled out perfectly. BTW, leave the ATC turned off, they will want you to land on Runway 25 (Impossible). I wanna learn turboprops, but the ones on FS suck; I can't make 'em perform the same way as they do in real life.

[qwerty3008]

Maybe it's not the turboprops on FS that suck. More than likely it's just you

[SenorSpode]

You're just upset you got banned by 3 other pilots who post their vids here that put your claims to shame. Time to cuddle with your crack-pipe? LOL

[qwerty3008]

3 other pilots?? Sorry last time I looked it was Kezzler but you keep hitting that crack pipe..You are just bitter cause your dreams of being a pilot never materialized...Unlike me who is living the dream flying the hog all over the world. Kezzler banned me cause he knows he was wrong and couldn't admit it. Kezzler=hack

[SenorSpode]

See? There ya go. Sign of a crack addict: Denial. Ya just can't admit you're wrong, can ya? And I'm not really all that bitter; After all, I, unlike you, am not consumed by a substance addiction. Tallyho!

[qwerty3008]

Well I see you blocked me...I sure hope you didn't count yourself in this imaginary pilot total you have going..Especially since you aren't a pilot.

[SenorSpode]

Neither are you. Go back outside and make snow angels in Nunavut. You're doing such a nice job!

[qwerty3008]

I just racked up another 6.7 hours for the log book...Did you get in some more FS time? haha

[gjs5897]

My adrenaline was at an all time high on that flight.

[mounikia]

NO room 4 emergency landing :P

[fr3ds4t]

Hehe...no room for a go around!

[jerseykid565]

the dhc-6 twin otter is way better

[Deaglet]

Greeeaaaat!!! Amazing Twinotter!!! The only airplane able to land and take-off in a beautiful and atypical field as Lukla!!!

[mrdenali70]

Also Dornier 228-200 is able to land and take-off from Lukla.

[divadstrebor]

Thats gotta be a scary place to fly to! That stall warning on flare would scare the hell outta me!

[klocknerdeutz]

landin is stallin innit

[rotcmaverick]

My stall warning always goes off just before I touch down....

[mxweinstein]

that is a good thing. u r suposed to fly the plane in ground efect untill it stalls, then u touch down

[mxweinstein]

you are ment to glide in ground efect until your plane stalls and tuches down

[NotZezima]

then the tires blow and you ends up in the houses with a tailstrike.

[Jamalje]

now thats a funny

[qwerty3008]

Who taught you to fly? Since when do you glide a plane in ground effect until it stalls and touches down? Maybe you are just explaining that wrong.

[thiagocessna]

vaise fuder americano maldito