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Flying a Helicopter into St. Maarten - Communication Breakdown (Flying to Brazil - Part 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- Come along for the ride on my epic 5,300 nm journey from Mirabel, Canada to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil in a brand new Bell 505 helicopter. In this leg of the journey, we are on approach into the famous Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten. This was one of the busiest landings that we had on the trip and we had a serious breakdown in communications and intentions during landing. We ended up being stuck at the far end of the airport away from all services without being able to do anything about it.
Stay tuned for the next episode in the series where we try and take off for St. Lucia in the same day in order to make it into the island before nightfall.
Chapters:
00:00 Video overview
00:40 Intro
01:20 Initial contact with Juliana Approach
03:27 Told by Juliana to orbit outside airspace
06:21 Proceeding inbound
06:46 Misunderstanding with controller instructions
08:12 Intended plan of action for landing at the airport vs instructions given by controller
09:05 Cleared to land
09:57 Passing over famous Maho beach at Juliana
10:36 Big confusion upon landing on where to exit runway
11:38 Explanation where the confusion happened
12:22 Touching down
13:28 Engine shutdown
13:49 Outro
great lesson to learn.
So much of aviation is learning from your own mistakes and the mistakes of others. It's amazing how much we evolve as aviators. Even looking back at myself in this video knowing that I would handle this approach much more differently if I were to do it today.
Great video.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
My first solo in a helicopter, I lost comms with the tower. I was able to reach an instructor with the school on another channel and he was able to relay with the controller. Quite the first solo. 😅
Good on you for working the problem!
hi ! do we have any chance to have part 3 and 4 ???? I am planning to fly from Uruguay to USA with my RH44 and this is a very valuable information. Thank you.
Great vid! Anyways, I think you can't park a heli at another spot than all the way down near Hotel taxiway at TNCM! Weird that the FBO didn't mention you anything when planning the trip
Yeah it’s really not a great option for transient traffic for sure. The next trip that I took to South America went a lot smoother because we hired a company to coordinate permits, fuel, and local liaisons at each stop. It was so worth it.
How was the leg from Trinidad to Guyana? Ferry tank came in handy 😅?
Still don't understand why outside the US airports require runway landing and air taxi for helicopters. Waste of time and fuel, especially if the airport is busy and planes are waiting.
It's a weird swing one way or the other though. Either they'll give you all kinds of taxi instructions while you're in a hover, or they'll only tell you to report just 1nm away from the field to land at the ramp which is basically on top of it. It seems to correlate a bit with English proficiency as well.
because these airports don't have many helicopters flying around, so they handle helicopters like airplanes I guesss.
I'm just following a b505 doing the same journey... is that you?😆
You talking about right now? No, this trip was quite a while back now.
@@CriticalAngle Right! I've been watching another 505 departing from CSW5 Canada. currently on their way to Brazil. it's a quite interesting trip. best luck to all of you doing these amazing feats!