Tremendous respect for these pilots. They do on a daily basis what is probably one the most dangerous airline job, without the glory and the pay of the big jet boys. Loved your comments too. Not annoying for one bit which is pretty rare these days. Thanks for uploading.
I had the opportunity to fly successfully in and out of Lukla in 2009 when I did the Everest Base Camp trekk. It is truly a dangerous airport with landings and take offs best described as being as dangerous as landing/taking off of an actual carrier. The terrain and location make any attempt at a "go around" should the pilot have to abort near impossible. Hats off to the pilots who brave this flight every day. When we did the trip, the pilots left the cockpit door open so we could get a glimpse of what they saw. I thought they needed to serve drinks to the passengers before they boarded.
I have met several Nepalise and every Tuesday there is a market at Aldershot with many there. The elderly ladies wear the clothes they do in Nepal, they are reseved but sometimes a smile gets returned. What I have seen in another video was that the pilots were quite young Nepalise. They make excellent soldiers (one got 3 VC medals) and pilots. A lovely country with lovely people. Thank you for the video, very well done.
These videos of Lukla are just as fascinating as the ones of big airliners landing in various airports. You got to have real guts to both be a pilot and passenger in those planes flying in/out of Lukla.
Hmm...they're really good...even amazing. But unless they're routinely landing on a rolling, pitching deck at night that's moving away around 30 knots and only a few aircraft lengths long, I wouldn't say "best."
Great vid Nicholas! Great vid. Your commentary was excellent. I can feel your love of flight through your words and as you describe the go/no-go points only a pilot could express that as you do. Great stuff!
This airport is so high up that performance is affected. The downhill takeoff actually helps with getting the extra speed through gravity. If the runway was flat, it would have to be twice as long.
Interesting how all the aircraft, though of different makes, are highwing turbine twins, a case of convergent evolution. Thanks for the wonderful vid. I have flown into Katmandu, and within Nepal to visit Tiger Tops, in the late 1970s. I was 13 ... But I remember that we got to travel in a DC-3! It was a gracious, comfortable airliner. Imagine! A radial piston twin! A tail dragger! I wish I could do it again. Kudos to you, to have the stones to fly into Lukla as a passenger.
thanks for your comments. Nepal in the 70s would have been fun. I've never flown in a DC-3 - I must make an effort. Today several airlines using small twins regularly fly into Lukla. Lukla is the starting point of course for the trekkers onwards to Namche & base camp etc. cheers...
Flew that very flight on 9N-AKE a few days back .... the only disconcerting thing was watching them fix it for 3 hours while we waited in the departure "lounge"!
I just subscribed to your channel because it was a great video, well narrated and straight to the point. No rubbish about what you had for breakfast or anything like that. Great job.
Hehehe... Oh Gilroy you sound like a Football commentator with the drama of a Hollywood director! Thank the Lord you did not put daft music in the background! Nice footage though... thanks.
In winter1980 I hiked in from Lamasungu about 80 miles away from Lukla. After viewing Everest from Kala Patur I hiked back down to Lukla for the flight back to Kathmandu. The landing area was just a grass field with grazing Yaks.
Footage of crash here: th-cam.com/video/3C1-TQutZ50/w-d-xo.html Accident description can be found here: aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20170527-0
Great to see your video man! although being a Nepalese , I've never been there and I've heard that is the dangerous airport with the shortest runway in whole world.
Great commentating... I feel like I watching a golfing event. I’m like what’s next. Edit: I just read comments seams all said the same thing.... brilliant!!
unlike carrier landing. Carrier landing has options of: go around, touch and go, wire arrest, barricade arrest, and finally seat ejection. In that order. These pilots: Land it or die. Only advantage: they come in slower, the airport is not moving.
Not to take away from this very neat video but I had downloaded Lukla scenery for FSX and I thought the runway was bad at the top due to the bump and the ground was arched on the runway incorrectly or poorly. I see this and it turns out the scenery itself is spot on and the runway in the simulation looks exact ! It is a challenge in the simulator, props (
I stumbled across this airport on MS Flight Simulator by accident.. I thought the runway was just mapped wrong! I managed to land there once but it wasn't that pretty! An incredible airport!
Tremendous respect for these pilots. They do on a daily basis what is probably one the most dangerous airline job, without the glory and the pay of the big jet boys. Loved your comments too. Not annoying for one bit which is pretty rare these days. Thanks for uploading.
Thank you -cheers !
Mo
Eventhough this video is 4 years old, it's absolutely my favorite Lukla airport video! Love the play by play!
Henry from the USA 🇺🇸
....thanks Henry.......
ROTF That was like listening to a sporting event! What a crazy runway!!!
This should be a sporting event and he should be the commentator! Good job!
Excellent job narrating. You really capture how serious this business is.
This is amazing! The commentary makes it 11/10.. it's like watching an intense soccer match
thanks! cheers! Nick-G
I had the opportunity to fly successfully in and out of Lukla in 2009 when I did the Everest Base Camp trekk. It is truly a dangerous airport with landings and take offs best described as being as dangerous as landing/taking off of an actual carrier. The terrain and location make any attempt at a "go around" should the pilot have to abort near impossible. Hats off to the pilots who brave this flight every day. When we did the trip, the pilots left the cockpit door open so we could get a glimpse of what they saw. I thought they needed to serve drinks to the passengers before they boarded.
My word I enjoyed that, great commentary. Half expected "the batsmans Holding the bowlers Willey"
"Rotate, please". Couldn't be more accurate. Lovely video, thanks for sharing.
thanks....!
I have met several Nepalise and every Tuesday there is a market at Aldershot with many there. The elderly ladies wear the clothes they do in Nepal, they are reseved but sometimes a smile gets returned. What I have seen in another video was that the pilots were quite young Nepalise. They make excellent soldiers (one got 3 VC medals) and pilots. A lovely country with lovely people. Thank you for the video, very well done.
hi-thanks for your comments-cheers....
Superb visuals, complemented by beautiful audio (commentary); perhaps the best video on HTAL (VNLK); Loved it, thanks a lot Mr. Gilroy!
Hello! Many thanks for your very positive feedback. Appreciated. best wishes-Nick Gilroy
Excellent!Great commentary by someone who knows his stuff👍!
These videos of Lukla are just as fascinating as the ones of big airliners landing in various airports. You got to have real guts to both be a pilot and passenger in those planes flying in/out of Lukla.
oh, boy, I could watch and hear it forever! Thanx for vid and great comments!
Pilots who fly in and out of Lukla: pure greatness!
I never heard airplane landing and take-off play-by-play before! It's actually kind of cool!
All 3 aircraft in small turboprop segment together: Dorneir Do-228 (Germany/ India), DHC-6 (Twin Otter, Canada) and L-410UVP-E (Czech Republik).
Absolutely awesome job filming & commentating!!
Excellent vid!!! You sound like a cricket commentator! Lol.
many thanks for the feedback - really appreciated - best wishes - globalgilroy
Concur! 100% True.
Sounds like soccer commentator.
@@melvinemmanuelchan4593 John Champion
India beat Australia in a test today, in Adelaide. Don't mention the cricket.
I finally understand what the big deal is with that airport. Great job on a great video. New subscriber too!
Fabulous. Your commentary was fantastic. What an stunning place. Many thanks.
I've done this runway on a simulator, and quite honestly have never nailed it like these guys do... Amazing.
....keep trying!
It's much easier in real life.
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The scenery is outrageously magnificent.... maching your commentating skills :D
Thank you! cheers...
that's why nepalese pilots are world's best pilots . .
Hmm...they're really good...even amazing. But unless they're routinely landing on a rolling, pitching deck at night that's moving away around 30 knots and only a few aircraft lengths long, I wouldn't say "best."
One of the rare videos where I enjoyed the commentary just as much as the visuals. 👍
I've watched a lot of livery videos.The narrating here is spectacular.
many thanks for the positive comment-regards-Nick Gilroy
Love the play by play! Thanks for a great video!
Hi-thanks for the feedback & comments-Cheers........
9:18 - rotate, please!
well done you cricket commentator. thats some wild action at that airport..those pilots are something!
What a superb piece of commentary - I dare say you could describe a man getting into a car and driving off and still make it sound exciting!
many thanks for your comments-appreciated-LOL ! best wishes-Nick
haha so true.
You have to hand it to those guys,that`s proper flying. Total respect to them.
Great video , sound and your commentary, it really takes us all there!! Thank you for sharing it!!! From Washington DC.
.....cheers TM in DC...!
Amazing landing n take off on a difficult airport strip. Nice commentary making the video more interesting.....
THANKS!
Loved the play-by-play. Way more exciting than most professional sports commentators!
cheers - thank you !
Best of all the Lukla videos - thanks!
Great vid Nicholas! Great vid. Your commentary was excellent. I can feel your love of flight through your words and as you describe the go/no-go points only a pilot could express that as you do. Great stuff!
Hi Miles-many thanks for your kind words - I have an Air Traffic Control & aviation background - which helped! cheers!
Wow! You are the David Attenborough of Aviation...
This airport is so high up that performance is affected. The downhill takeoff actually helps with getting the extra speed through gravity. If the runway was flat, it would have to be twice as long.
No undershoot, no evershoot, no abort take off, no go around. Everything must be precise.
Nice video..
Great Vlog have a save trip
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!! You should become an announcer!! lol
Many thanks for all your positive comments ...........appreciated - cheers - !
@@nicholasgilroy2539 For real, you could do this for a living.
Public comments. Amazing flight skills and great landing.thanks so much for sharing your wonderful video..pilots did amazing job .
Interesting how all the aircraft, though of different makes, are highwing turbine twins, a case of convergent evolution. Thanks for the wonderful vid. I have flown into Katmandu, and within Nepal to visit Tiger Tops, in the late 1970s. I was 13 ... But I remember that we got to travel in a DC-3! It was a gracious, comfortable airliner. Imagine! A radial piston twin! A tail dragger! I wish I could do it again. Kudos to you, to have the stones to fly into Lukla as a passenger.
thanks for your comments. Nepal in the 70s would have been fun. I've never flown in a DC-3 - I must make an effort. Today several airlines using small twins regularly fly into Lukla. Lukla is the starting point of course for the trekkers onwards to Namche & base camp etc. cheers...
Spgonahan. I suppose that highwing twins are the only aircraft suitabable for Lukla.
Sir ! The way you announce makes me feel like I am watching a soccer match
I can tell that you are a pilot (or else an aviation enthusiast) by your commentary. hehe I am, too! Very enjoyable!
thanks for your comment-glad you enjoyed my Lukla vid - I'm an Air Traffic Controller actually........cheers......
I love the video and this is the first avaiation video I have ever seen I used to watch this video daily 4-5 years ago aprox 4 years ago i think
thank you !!
Rush hour that’s twenty minutes ...👍 enjoyed watching that .Some flying skill on show .
Brilliant video Nicholas..!!! I love how everything work so fast
😊Extra good work👍Thumbs up, my friend👍Like 9890
Looks a lovely place. Was you out there commentating on the golf or the cricket?
Amazing pilot skill to land and take off there. Good Video !
Flew that very flight on 9N-AKE a few days back .... the only disconcerting thing was watching them fix it for 3 hours while we waited in the departure "lounge"!
Perfect three point landing with a loaded aircraft. Three cheers for the pilot.
I just subscribed to your channel because it was a great video, well narrated and straight to the point. No rubbish about what you had for breakfast or anything like that. Great job.
Hi wolf2351-many thanks for your comments-cheers
Hehehe... Oh Gilroy you sound like a Football commentator with the drama of a Hollywood director! Thank the Lord you did not put daft music in the background! Nice footage though... thanks.
....darn it - I missed out the music - I must add a soundtrack next time.............
GaryNumeroUno it’s tough speaking at such heights with low oxygen.
you're right-I was a little out of breath running to that camera position & of course its nearly 3000 metres elevation at that point............
Super pilotes et magnifiques avions ! 👏 🤞Merci pour la vidéo et le commentaire !👍🏽
Back in about 1976, both sides of the runway were littered with crashed aircraft. I think there was only one or two arrivals a day.
In winter1980 I hiked in from Lamasungu about 80 miles away from Lukla. After viewing Everest from Kala Patur I hiked back down to Lukla for the flight back to Kathmandu. The landing area was just a grass field with grazing Yaks.
.....memories eh.....a unique place that's for sure.........
Brilliant commentary... and aviation version of a cricket match...👍😎
Man I love your video.. You are like the pilots.... Very precise and enjoyable. Txs Gilroy
best aviation video wit perfect commentator!
Next time your there make a 2 hour video, we all enjoyed your commentary and we're all subscribing....Great, great video.
Thank you - cheers !!
Oh yes... This 100% earned my subscription.
Tragically, the 3rd plane here (9N-AKY) crashed just short of the runway on 5/27/17, killing 2 of 3 crew... Excellent video!
Thanks for your comments. Yes, I heard about the accident last year. Tragic. Best wishes-Nick
Footage of crash here:
th-cam.com/video/3C1-TQutZ50/w-d-xo.html
Accident description can be found here:
aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20170527-0
+IslaAuarita thanks for the links, sad to hear about that
Woooooow what a view!😍😍😍
Excellent review. Thanks for NO MUSIC.
Really enjoyed watching and your professional commentary. Thanks!!
many thanks....!
Thats what I call busy ! great vid many thanks.
The commentary was amazing. Almost like a soccer match
Yeah... I totally agree that you do sound like a sports commentator... that really made me smile.
The best airplane video ever....Thanks.
Woooooowww beautiful video!!!!
Un aeropuerto de MUCHOS RETOS.... Para los pilotos.... Los q bajan y suben maletas.... Para el controlador...... En fin.... LOS FELICITO......
That was great! Video & commentary. God bless those pilots.
Thank you - cheers.....
Great to see your video man! although being a Nepalese , I've never been there and I've heard that is the dangerous airport with the shortest runway in whole world.
And in my opinion these pilots are among the best in the world!
The shortest commercial airport in the world is not Lukla
Gusto ko makarating ng Lukla Airport✈️🛬🛫🛬🛫
Not helicopters but airplanes ladies and gentlemen!
That is both impressive and insane!
Wow imagine beautiful moments thnku so much bro I love Nepal 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Thank you!
Great commentating... I feel like I watching a golfing event. I’m like what’s next.
Edit: I just read comments seams all said the same thing.... brilliant!!
thank you ! Golf next maybe....lol!
Вот это экстрим!!!!Лётчики высшего уровня!!!
согласовано !
great job calling it ..in a one -way in and out very secluded limited and dangerous Katmandú valley airport......
Your footage was great- Your commentary was epic....
I loved seeing what other country's specialize in aviation...
Fantastic job....
thanks for the comment-appreciated-Nick G
10 times better than watching football..
The commentary is epic!!!
Nice commentary. Good educational video.
And these are Nepalese pilots? I am no pilot but save for the pitching, that's almost like a carrier landing.
only a small selection of pilots is able and allowed to land there.
unlike carrier landing.
Carrier landing has options of:
go around, touch and go, wire arrest, barricade arrest, and finally seat ejection. In that order.
These pilots:
Land it or die.
Only advantage: they come in slower, the airport is not moving.
It's for brave heart only....
Awesome
Not to take away from this very neat video but I had downloaded Lukla scenery for FSX and I thought the runway was bad at the top due to the bump and the ground was arched on the runway incorrectly or poorly. I see this and it turns out the scenery itself is spot on and the runway in the simulation looks exact ! It is a challenge in the simulator, props (
thank you!
"Rotate please"....love it
Not one bit of that runway unused
Great Job... I just landed in Paro 2 weeks ago, was nice... but Lukla seems to be awesome
I stumbled across this airport on MS Flight Simulator by accident.. I thought the runway was just mapped wrong! I managed to land there once but it wasn't that pretty! An incredible airport!
this was more exciting than most sports i see on the tele...
We need more aviation commentators!
got any contacts- LOL!
IFR all the way with VFR at fingertip ready. Great landing!
Its all VFR, there isn't any instrument help
I thought that this is a aircraft racing event ....its was really rare and interesting....never seen before what did you do sir....what a nice effort
좋은 영상 감사합니다
감사합니다 !
Excellent. Video
My #1 video of the day, the commentary nailed it for me.
thanks for the positive comment! cheers-Nick G
Good video. Excellent commentary 👍
Exciting narration. Thank you.
Cool! I've flown into Lukla many times... In a flight sim! It's short, that's for sure. Can make it with a 737, but nothing larger.