Absolutely fantastic performance by the pilots and the plane.. No other plane could do this, turn around after 10 secs from touchdown. I love Twin Otters... and have two of them, one just like here in Kenn Borek colours, and another one, the 13805, Canadian Rescue. Both models are very precious, wingspan from 1600mm to the bigger one, 1895. I'm still working on getting the engines into reverse (electric) so I can really get it to do what Twin Otters can do :-D Like, backing up, or turning on a dime. Btw Cessna is planning to build such a plane, but it will never be as robust as a DHC-6.
silversurfer96 That clip didn't include the several passes before. The pilots would do opposite passes to calculate the wind. When I flew on it was 4 passes before we set down. The crosswind effect is also so obvious because of the approach speed being so low.. they touch down at 40knots.
@@ralphtweten887 I'm so impressed by these clips and then even more so when finding out how much more goes into a landing like this. Can I ask why in this situation the pilot doesn't break at the top of the "runway" to rev up the engines? But instead roles right in to the take off after the 180˚ turn?
@@mic7504 I think I can answer you there. Sometimes the ends of that strip get pretty soft and it's better not to stop, even on tundra tires. Also, if the Twin Otter's lightly loaded on the way out, the strip is plenty long enough without using every inch of it. Nice to see that someone caught Ralph on video doing his thing. He gave me my first off-strip landing in 2018, on a gravel bar at a bend in the Horton River.
You can see the guy split the power levers on short final. This kind of expertise isn’t taught at Flight Safety. In fact, they are shocked by it when you gleam the cube in the simulator.
I love things, especially planes, whose form was dictated by function, yet here, we wind up with one as beautiful as the T.O., and it appears to have been the other way around, but pursuing only aesthetics wouldn’t produce this, I don’t think. Unquestionably tip-top example of this phenomenon has to be the Spitfire. I wonder sometimes if Luftwaffe pilots, as they hurtled earthward in flame, ever thought “Well, in the end, I am killed by a piece of ART wielded as a weapon …”
Absolutely fantastic performance by the pilots and the plane.. No other plane could do this, turn around after 10 secs from touchdown.
I love Twin Otters... and have two of them, one just like here in Kenn Borek colours, and another one, the 13805, Canadian Rescue.
Both models are very precious, wingspan from 1600mm to the bigger one, 1895.
I'm still working on getting the engines into reverse (electric) so I can really get it to do what Twin Otters can do :-D
Like, backing up, or turning on a dime.
Btw Cessna is planning to build such a plane, but it will never be as robust as a DHC-6.
Haha I like the “no airplanes” sign at the end of the video
Twin Otter: Canada's versatile gift to the world of rugged bush-plane flying. A thing pf pure beauty.
Thats about as tight as it gets..damn fine pilotage!!
Cross wind landing. Tidy. What an incredibly short landing and take off run as well! Looks like an amazing place!
silversurfer96 That clip didn't include the several passes before. The pilots would do opposite passes to calculate the wind. When I flew on it was 4 passes before we set down. The crosswind effect is also so obvious because of the approach speed being so low.. they touch down at 40knots.
@@willpalmer13 That was me and Ryan Mitchell flying, that as I see us checking the RSC on foot, before getting Ready for T/O.............Ralph Tweten
@@ralphtweten887 I'm so impressed by these clips and then even more so when finding out how much more goes into a landing like this. Can I ask why in this situation the pilot doesn't break at the top of the "runway" to rev up the engines? But instead roles right in to the take off after the 180˚ turn?
@@mic7504 I think I can answer you there. Sometimes the ends of that strip get pretty soft and it's better not to stop, even on tundra tires. Also, if the Twin Otter's lightly loaded on the way out, the strip is plenty long enough without using every inch of it. Nice to see that someone caught Ralph on video doing his thing. He gave me my first off-strip landing in 2018, on a gravel bar at a bend in the Horton River.
Excellent film footage and sound.
Now I call THAT a runway! 😄👍🥰
Fantastic! thanks for posting this nice clip, 2 thumbs up to the pilots
Every time I see a Twin Otter take off I think it's filled with helium........
that bird was so capable I loved flying it; very dependable indeed
Прекрасный самолёт!
What a beast!
Wow new model bonek air
And I Thought That Landing in Ilhéus SBIL Was Difficult ...
Silly Me ! ! !
Ah the good old days
You can see the guy split the power levers on short final. This kind of expertise isn’t taught at Flight Safety. In fact, they are shocked by it when you gleam the cube in the simulator.
The F350 of the sky
That TO made me go WTF?
why you skip startup process ?
I love things, especially planes, whose form was dictated by function, yet here, we wind up with one as beautiful as the T.O., and it appears to have been the other way around, but pursuing only aesthetics wouldn’t produce this, I don’t think. Unquestionably tip-top example of this phenomenon has to be the Spitfire. I wonder sometimes if Luftwaffe pilots, as they hurtled earthward in flame, ever thought “Well, in the end, I am killed by a piece of ART wielded as a weapon …”
Maldivian Air Taxi
I do believe he’s done that before a time or two …