From the flight deck: flying one of the last Fokker 50s in Europe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- With only about 200 ever built worldwide and far fewer still in service, finding a Fokker 50 to fly can be quite a challenge. But the Fokker 50 is the heart and soul of small Swedish airline Amapola Flyg, which got its start carrying mail and now operates passenger flights to smaller communities throughout Sweden. Gabriel Leigh recently joined the crew from Amapola for a trip from Stockholm to Hemavan and back.
Stay tuned for more on Fokker 50 as Leigh visits the Amapola Flyg maintenance facility.
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I was one of the very first designers to work on this aircraft at the Fokker plant at Schiphol in Holland in 1984. What a pleasure it is to hear how well like it is and that it's still in service.
Wow, fantastic! The F50 is truly a legend, so well done!!
Love the philosophy behind it: simple, efficient and reliable. Beatiful machine!
Indeed. No computers who take the decision and control like Quantas Flight 72 Airbus A330 which nosedive twice due to a faulty ADIRU system.
Fokker 50 of Philippine Airlines 34 years ago was my very first airplane ride. Thanks for posting this video. This surely brings happy memories. ❤️
I enjoyed every second of this video. I'm from Pekanbaru (it's a 40 minutes flight from Singapore), and during my childhood I grew up with the sights and sound of F-27s, F-28s, F-50s, and F-100s. I've been aboard these plane, except F-27s.
I find Fokker 50 to be quiet and comfortable. Now, all around me they fly ATR 72-500s, B737s and A320s only.
That's awesome!
Amazing video, very nice job! As an ex Fokker employee it makes me smile that these Fokkers are still being used. Build to last, that's for sure 😀
Love the video! Please more of this kind of content. Greetings from Germany.
Boy i loved it. only thing to remember is a relaced yoke hanging on my wall.
The F/O explains exactly everything relevant about the plane.
Great video and aircraft, i flew the Fokker 50 a couple of years as a first officer, one of the best aircraft i have flown, well engineered, very well made and reliable.
What airline
@@VanTripNewbie actually no, I flew it for Avianca Colombia for which I flew other types of aircraft and currently I am a Captain for the airline.
I flew the Fokker 50 and it's smooth and quiet. Everybody loved it in Brazil.
Do they still fly in Brazil?
Fokker pride of Holland
Thank you Swedish people for flying Fokker 50 🇸🇪🇱🇺
I used to fly Halmstad (HAD) to Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) back and forth. It was a Fokker 50 operated by Skyways. Best passenger experience ever!
I, originally, come from Iceland, and Flugfélag Íslands, operated F27's and later, the F50. I flew many times during my childhood, on these planes. Very rugged, very reliable, and perfect for the harsh Icelandic conditions. It's not my favourite turboprop, with the Twin Otter by far taking the cake, but the '27 and '50 were certainly in my top 5 turboprop favourites. Great video!!!
Very cool! Thanks!
In July 2018 I flew with exactly the same aircraft when it was employed by VLM as OO-VLI on a flight from Antwerp to London City. An incredibly cool experience to fly with such an old aircraft, indeed a real workhorse! Simply constructed, very reliable aircraft, too bad it's coming to an end in Europe too...
Hopefully not for a long while. Europe needs F50s, Amapola needs them
flying one tomorrow to Helsinki
Feel so happy for the pilots, they really enjoy flying the mighty Fokker. Great video.
Great vlog as always! I am a huge Fokker fan. Who pressed the F-27/ F-28 and F-50/F-100 to their hearts? The Scandinavians and the Aussies, also the Kiwis. That just shows it can handle the extreme and everything in between! Be safe!
What a grand plane and the scenery was fantastic. Great video, thanks.
So nice and beautiful vid, flight and plane... Thanks for share! from Argentina
Thx a lot for this marvelous trip/video with a lot of insight stories. I am glad I included Hemavan Airport as well as Amapola Flyg in my books „Remote, small but essential“ and „All you need to know about European Airports“.
Glad you enjoyed it!
She’s in fact superb
Fond memories.
Was my first assignment as a left seater, back in 1998.
Love Amapola and their Fokker 50s
I enjoyed this video. It brought back many good memories. The F-27 has a unique sound. I flew the F-27 Mk.500s in 1990-1991 and have 1,500 hours in the Fokker. I was based at Reading, PA, USA for Suburban/ Allegheny Airlines. It was beautiful to fly and stable. You could put on 50 pax, 75 bags and 4hrs. of fuel, and still be under gross weight. You cannot do that in a DHC-8-300! Long live Fokker!
Delightful video. Cheers!
Many thanks!
Very good video, I enjoyed from the begining to the end! congratulations!
Excellent video. Love this plane. I would love to fly in one of these too.
Really a quality flying machine in Turbo Props. And I am quite surprised by the new avionics and cockpit & cabin layout
That has been a trade-off between modernising and keeping the cost down I know. Also that more changes were done on request from several airlines, which didn't help keeping the development cost down and gave engineering some unexpected extra work at times.
What a beauty of a plane!
Awesome vid! Long live the F50.
My first meeting with Fokker was 1978 the F27. Very much a regional local aircraft well suited to the UK. The 50 reminds me of my helicopter, the same dials l in the main, I recognise the font. Nice video, much enjoyed
I've been in a Fokker50 cockpit, back in 2008, from Trondheim to Oslo Torp, what an exciting experience!
Here in Panama there are two main airlines: the more well-known Copa Airlines and the lesser known AirPanama (just domestic flights). AirPanama has a fleet consisting of Fokker 50 and Cessna aircrafts. I work for Copa and as much as I enjoy being able to be near B737s and B738s all the time, I just love watching AirPanama's Fokker 50. It has a special kind of beauty, especially with their livery 😄
That was a LOT of GPWS warnings on that first approach. The BANK ANGLE comes in at 45deg bank, which is a lot. (Generally the maximum for airlines is 30deg). Perhaps it’s acceptable for that particular airline on that particular approach, but I’d have to write a report if I exceeded even 30, let alone 45deg 😅 Great video though, and the F50 is very cool.
😅 😅 My favorite moment is when you hear the "terrain ahead" warning and the FO says "I know". Good point about SOPs regarding bank angle etc, gonna have to ask about that next time!
Reliable and strong aircraft!
Fair play that landing was like butter.
I never had the pleasure, so thank you for the flight.
Beautiful aeroplane. Flew on Fokker 50 as a child in 1996 from Learmonth to Perth.
They need to revive Fokker company, and hence recreate F50 for the use within this century. No doubt many out there love this F50!
Fantastic, thanks for sharing 👍👍👍
Thank you for this video. Loved every minute
Are lingus used to use them in the 80s and 90s. Travelled on one a few times from Dublin to Bristol as a kid. They took over from the shorts 360 on the route
another awesome video, thankyou :)
We have lots of F50s flying around in Africa
Just did my first flight to Hemavan from Stockholm, such a smooth sail! ( from the passengers perspective) 👍👍
Nice relaxed crew and a very special aeroplane!!
Next month I travel with them from Stockholm to Arvidsjaur with this plane. Looking forward to!
🙂
Pretty good! I love this plane, and travelled abord it in Brazil in the route SAO/JDF
Beautiful video!
Flew in this aircraft a lot Manchester to Antwerpen as a passenger,loved every time,better than your Avros and Airbus miss it lots.
20 years ago this was the most popular plane in my country Colombia
Great video.
It has been a fabulous aircraft to work on.
I have the proto of the Engine De-icing Control unit, EDC, though unfortunately without the main electronics board as the board was in my work bench in stead of in the proto cabinet at Fokker ELAB when the company went bust.
Proud to be Dutch!
Awesome, thank you.
It’s a fine plane; just great to fly. Very sorry that there are only a very few Fokkers around the world. They were the best!
Great video of a truly amazing airplane! I love it!
Thanks a lot!
Im going to fly amapola fokker 50 this year😍😍
The Fokker 50s is also common in south Australia and Africa
Correct
I remember Ansett was one of the operators on Australia, but there was at least one other. No idea if the companies changed name, I think Ansett was taken over.
I actually had my visa for Australia arranged in the early days of the Fokker 50 in operation as the idea was I had to go there due to the engine flame-outs which was initially blamed on the Engine De-icing Control unit. I argued too well that it wasn't the EDC, so never went over.
@@pe1biv Ansett's operation in Western Australia became Skywest, now Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA), who operated the type into mid-late 2010s. Alliance Airlines also operated a handful of the type until 2022 or so, on top of their sizeable fleet of F70 and F100 aircraft (they have the largest remaining Fokker jet fleet in the world at present, and have also invested heavily in establishing themselves as a major supplier of spare parts for the type - a large number of Fokker jets remain in service with QantasLink, and a dwindling number with VARA, too).
What used to be Skywest airlines in Western Australia ran about 6 of these they were the backbone of western Australia's regional flights Albany being one of them. Always enjoyed watching them arrive, start up and depart Albany. Missed them when virgin took over and they got retired I guess
Nice sleek design
fantastic video ...Fokker good plane , simply , fiabiity , easy piloting ...one of the best Regional plane ...but they stopped the production :( ...i like this report about this little ' s sweden company and this cew :)...fly safe
Thanks a lot!
Nice video about my favorite tipe of airplane, turboprops. Can I suggest you to visit Colombia, my country, where you can know how venerable DC-3 are working still or how SATENA connect Bogotá with the jungle.
well guys i like the old air craft a lot great vid on this one but i am a l-1011 guy rock on guys
The fokker 50 is a simply wonder machine! they dont make aircraft like these anymore
True!
Great nation, beautiful places, outstanding great airplane with an excellent amazing crew. so nice watching Viking crew flying this beauty. I do love what they said about loving the work and aircraft. Fokker 27-550 or Fokker 50, for me is yet the best turboprop ever manufactured along with Dash 8-300. Their systems are far superior than any other make like ATR, or even Embraer. Should Fokker wasn't hit by bankruptcy, they would still be number one. It is a sorrow.
Fantastic!
I just rode on one today. AirPanama uses them for domestic flights.
HP 1899PST
Bank angle, sink rate, terrain ahead! :D How great it is that the passengers don't hear the warnings.
Amapola is called populair nowadays and they are still flying their Fokkers. However, the new name, Populair, is politically loaded. Few years ago I couldn't have been less intersted. But nowadays, I'll take SAS.
Very nice video but.....Amapola is not the only operator in Europe because there is still Air Antwerp in Belgium with currently one F50 in operation!
As far as I knew they stopped running commercial flights for the time being. Are they back?
Yes - I think you are right! Currently they seem to use the F50 mainly for ad-hoc charter flights. So thats why they visited Duesseldorf Airport (DUS) lately to fly the local football team Fortuna Duesseldorf to their away game in Nuremberg (NUE)!
Air Antwerp ceased to exist in June or July 2021
Really cool!!
Very nice. Query, can you please shoot in 60FPS. Thanks!
Thank you. Ex captain DenimAir!
WISH I COULD HAVE FLOWN ON 1
I flew the f100 as a first officer great plane
Amapola now fly Donegal - Dublin in Ireland
Hopefully they stay here a while too
They simply have to
in portugal we still use falcon aeroplanes
Typical Dutch robustness! Love to see it
I came here because I saw one of these Fokkers in Turku, Finland today. And if flight tickets were not so absurdly expensive here, I'd definitely fly onboard. But, well... 30 minutes flight from Turku to Mariehamn, over 150 euros...
I love the Fokker 50 plane, it is really a wonderful plane, and I hope to fly on it one day.. My country, Palestine, had two planes of this wonderful model, but unfortunately the Palestinian Airlines was closed in 2020 because there was no airport in Palestine.. I hope one day that the Gaza airport will return in Palestine to work again and for the Palestinian Airlines to return to work again and from inside Gaza Airport..
You can search via TH-cam and Google to learn more about Palestinian Airlines and Gaza International Airport
I'm sorry I had a question, and I still didn't realize if Fokker had 50 Trusts Rivers?
Real Dutch engineering!
I flew the plane last Fokker 50 at 2012. ✈👏👍🙂
Where?
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Thanks for the sub!
Funny how my country keeps old turboprops from other european countries alive in passenger service, we had Nextjet with last BaE ATP in passenger service until bankruptcy in 2018. Yet most of our own Saabs has dissapeared...
With the bankruptcy and demise of Fokker, are spare parts even still available?
As far as I know every part can still be delivered. Also repairs for equipment I'm pretty sure is still available.
Nice video enjoyed
Fokker 50 and Fokker Friendship which India flew is one and the same
The Philippine Airforce (Still using the Fokker 27): That’s cute 😏
F27 is older
❤
I'll like its nose, like the c-130.
Cursed(ish) name but good aircraft
...and sadly, the name means just what you think it does.
As long as these Fokkers keep flying..!
Better check your facts their yanky brother, got heaps of these bumpy death traps flying with alliance airlines in Australia.
It's true Australia is a great place to find them still. But with around 90 or so active Fokker 50s left in the entire world, including those running cargo only, we stand by our facts.
Bumpy death traps??
@@AbsolutelyEverybody1 worst flights of my life
@@stevevesotsky6849 why?
@@stevevesotsky6849 Really?
Not my experience, but then I only had some rides in the proto aircraft.
Excellent video!