The PC-24 returns! First Ever Road Landing (no Runway!) in the Australian Outback.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- The PC-24 comes now with more range and payload. Beginning with new aircraft deliveries in 2024, Pilatus has extended the payload-range capability of its Super Versatile Jet to achieve a maximum of 2,000 nautical miles (3,704 kilometres).
The PC-24 is also available with air ambulance interior to operate it as flying intensive care unit. Benefits include low operating costs, cargo door for easy patient loading, and the ability to operate in and out of short and even unpaved surfaces.
The PC-24 is simply the world’s best Air Ambulance Jet flown by the most reputable Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, KSA Swedish Air Ambulance, Alaska’s North Slope Borough or New South Wales Air Ambulance, and many more.
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Sweden here!
We have 6 of the PC-24 in Ambulance version!
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There are a number of airstrips marked on highways in Australia. They are used for emergencies, road accidents or local misadventures, usually by the “Flying Doctor” organisation, that provides medical services to all points in the country. This is not a first off landing, they have been used for years.
First PC24 landing on a highway strip
Nice video. I wondered about the roadbed, but then I saw the marking on the road for the beginning/end of the airstrip. Good idea to do that in the outback considering Australia is as big as the (continental) USA but has a lot fewer towns and people out there. I guess the 'airstrip' is long enough that there's no need to turn around and backtrack to take off, just accelerate in the same direction and up you go.
@@crosslink1493 No, you're watching a *BS Sales Video* ... WIND DIRECTION is important, so unless it's super-calm, OR the wind is exactly right-angle to the road, you ARE going to "backtrack" and take-off in the same direction you landed, i.e. INTO the wind. #SalesWeenies #AdMenAreMadMen 😉🙃
@@MajorCaliber Downwind take-offs and landings are perfectly feasible, especially in aircraft with good operating margins e.g PC-12, PC-24. Obviously the wind speed is an important factor in the relevant calculations.
Indeed, it is an unfortunate trait of YT videos to make statements that can be misleading. The structure of the title here is a clasic example to get you in.
Credit should also be given to Dr.John Flynn OBE whose concept from well over a century ago is still used in several nations...The Royal Flying Doctor Service.
For all you overseas folk, notice the pedestrian crossing we have in the outback. Just never know when an emu has to cross the road...........
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Это не переход, а специальное обозначение ширины полосы. Дорога подготовлена под самолёт.
@user-ps8ip1ju3g Well, in that case, the emu may be travelling by plane.. ..
It just wants to get to the other side
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I have driven on that strip of the highway many times and always amazed at its use.
Thankfully never seen a plane land but also grateful for the service provided by the RFDS.
Is that the 90 mile straight highway I've heard about that y'all got down there?
@@sweeptheleg. Yes it is. 90 miles of a straight road, not one bend, across the tree-less plain called the Nullarbor ( Null Arbor)
@@That_is_for_me_to_know Its actually about 180km straight (112 miles) between Balladonia & Caiguna roadhouses on the Eyre highway in Western Australia west of the Nullarbor.
Well said, mate!
I flew for a corporate aviation dept in the oil patch in Western Canada and NWT. We routinely landed our C-550’s on gravel, snow, ice. Used the old strips that were built during the construction of the Alaska Hwy. Fun times.
Australian roads get closed temporarily for all kinds of reasons. A super huge load is being transported, an RFDS plane is gonna land or take off, a mine is going to blast next to the road, someone lost a radioactive source on the highway, and those are just the serious reasons.
True and most people don't really mind, but imagine being one of those people stuck out there whilst this crew films a promo video...
@Glub_blubsomeone lost a caesium pill a few years ago along the highway and it was doubtful they’d be able to find it till they did.
@@Ailieorz To be honest, I'd have been a little annoyed. The journey is bloody long enough as it is!
you forgot a kangroo male is mating
As a Swiss living in Australia...i am double proud 😅
As an Australian we are proud to have you here 😉
In Australia, we have incredibly long runways. 😉
Yeah up to ten thousand kilometres
Yep that's a short field
What amazed me was there was traffic to be stopped 😆
@@marlinweekley51 often it is only when you stop by the side of the road do you realise how many vehicles are travelling along with you at the same speed.
@@marlinweekley51 Lots of traffic doing the east/west shuffle. I've had to stop and wait for the RFDS plane to land on two occasions, one being around lunchtime, most people made lunch while they watched and waited.
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If you’re trying to impress us it’s working
In my days running the Nullarbor I was always awed at the skills of the pilots landing & taking off on the highway.
There are many such emergency strips on outback highways these days. And it's not unusual for the RFDS to land on one thats not marked out. THese days, there is no point on the Australian mainland that is not accessible to an RFDS aircraft. We are the gold standard in the world for remote medical services delivery and retrieval.
Exactly - rather pretentious of the aircraft company to claim this is significant.
@@petergraves2085 It's probably significant because it's the first time a PC24 type aircraft has used such a landing strip
@@blanderrr4892 and?
Needed to practice the landing somewhere on a remote stretch of highway I guess.@@Ailieorz
This made me so proud again, to be Swiss! Cheers from Broken Hill, Outback Australia... Excellent cinematography, too...
This landing strip is actually on the Stuart Hwy, between Coober Pedy and Glendambo, South Australia.
“On Thursday 27 April 2023, the RFDS performed the first ‘highway landing’ of an aeromedical jet on Australian soil.
The milestone landing of the RFDS Medi-Jet 24 on the Stuart Highway in Far North SA was performed as part of a joint training exercise conducted by the RFDS and South Australia Police (SAPOL).
Responding to a fictitious motor vehicle accident scenario, the scheduled exercise comprised two components - a desktop simulation of the activation and communications procedures between SAPOL, RFDS and State Emergency Service (SES), followed by the temporary closure of the Stuart Highway by local authorities to enable the landing of RFDS and SAPOL aircraft.
The RFDS Medi-Jet 24 and SAPOL Pilatus PC12 aircraft landed on the Traeger Emergency Roadstrip near Glendambo, a designated 1200-metre landing strip incorporated into the Stuart Highway (600 kilometres north of Adelaide) designed specifically for the RFDS and other airborne emergency services.
The world’s first purpose-built aeromedical jet, the RFDS Medi-Jet 24, has the capacity to transport three stretchered patients (and crew) and is ideal when responding to multiple-trauma incidents such as a bus, multi-vehicle or workplace accidents.
The $15 million RFDS Medi-Jet 24, purchased using fundraising and donations from the community, has been used on sealed and remote unsealed airstrips but not yet used to land on a highway roadstrip
“Roadstrip landings are logistically complex, which require multi-agency collaboration and seamless coordination and communication between emergency services in the air and the ground to perform quickly and safely," RFDS SA/NT Head of Flight Operations, Damien Heath said.
“Today’s collaboration with SAPOL and local emergency service partners ensures we are all response ready for those in the community when they need it most, not just with our turbo-prop aircraft but now also with our jet aircraft.”
Whilst this may be a first for jet aircraft, RFDS planes have been landing on the Eyre Hwy, on the Nullarbor Plain since the early 1960’s. Those aircraft, Piper PA31’s used about 2800/3300 ft in length runways. The Goldfields section of the RFDS worked with the WA Police to determine those sections that were suitable for aircraft landings. Still it would have been great to have witnessed this landing and takeoff. Cheers
A friend used to pilot the Pipers for RFDS. What a job!
That's awesome, but the point that a jet is now doing it is impressive.
@@terrarecon Just being a jet is not relevant. There are piston engine and turboprop aircraft much bigger than the PC24. This aircraft was purchased by the RFDS because it can be used on small paved and unpaved outback strips. It is all about the length of the strips. These Eyre Hwy strips are plenty long and wide. I have driven them several times.
@@robguyatt9602 I think you're missing my very simple point and unnecessarily complicating it. I am not concerned with who purchased the jet or why. I am simply stating that a jet like the PC-24 is expanding mission capabilities reserved for slower flying aircraft. Turboprops that are larger than the PC-24 are irrelevant because they have a slower approach and stall speed than jets, regardless of size, allowing them to land on short or unpaved strips. The jet can now do this while being superior in the ways jets are regarding speed and altitude.
@@terrarecon This is exactly why I wrote what I did. I replied to a simplistic nonsense. You come back with what you should have written in the first place. Don't be lazy next time and write what you actually mean.
Pilatus is simply the best and super versatile! 😍✈️🥳👏👏👏
That tail shot was spectalular if real. How they can fly a drone (presumably) so close in the wing and prop wash is astonishing.
I have a hunch that may be an AS350B3 with a very fancy camera...
Prop wash from a jet. Ok
@@peanuts2105 cameras do have a zoom...
looks like the other Pilatus was a camera plane
Fly it above the wake turbulence
I'm an Aussie, and I was driving in northern Finland last year. There are hundreds of kilometres of single lane (each way) roads with tall pine trees right up to the edge of the road. It's like driving along a huge corridor. The trees are quite thick, and you can't see much beyond them. This particular day, I am driving on this type of highway road and I see a sign saying airfield ahead. So, while driving I am looking out the side of the car to see if I could get a glimpse of an airfield through these trees. It would be such a break to the monotonous trees, trees, trees. Holey sh!t all of a sudden I look ahead and I am driving down the middle of a full runway. I mean a bitumen strip at least 6 times wider than the road I was on and the piano stripes. The only thing that gave me a bit of assurance I am on the correct road was the continuation of the roads centre line. This strip was a good kilometre long or a bit more. I saw on youtube the next day on another section just south of this one, the Finnish airforce conducted take off and landings with hot refuelling exercises. This was the first time they did this in about 30 years. This road runs parallel to and not too far away from the Russian border. That explains a few things.
Back in Soviet times in Estonia (and probably not only) there were also few stretches of roads maintained as landing strips by the military
@dmitripogosian5084 I was also once in Taiwan and travelling south from Taipei along their western coast by bus. I noticed the dual lanes north and south had a continuation of the road pavement on the medium strip between these lanes. Although there were guard rails preventing cars travelling along this wide centre area. When speaking to someone local, they told me it is so the guard rails can be quickly removed, and any of the entire 100kms of this road can be turned into an airstrip. That was in 1995. Knowing what is looming these days, I can understand this fully.
There are lots of sections of road like that in Finland, and also in Sweden too. There are even sections of autobahn in northern Germany built and maintained for dispersed operation of Harriers.
I think this is a great use of our outback roads, the royal flying doctor service is a life saver for thousands of people in our outback. I'd happily wait a few hours on the road if that means someone gets the life saving care they need
So very glad the -Sales- Ambulance Crew "just happened" to have a camera drone with them! 😂😂😉
Love the PC-12 and 24. Could see this platform being used in Special Forces situations.
Pilatus - what a superb looking aircraft, perhaps even nicer than the Dassault Falcon.
I think it would be fun and certainly the source of many a good yarn, to see an aircraft landing on the road.
Magnificent scenes and a brilliant Aircraft.
Congratulations all around.
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Oh wow, this is special. Nice jobs lads, the production crew, ground and air crew for a well co-ordinated shoot.
What about the people traveling who were stopped?
I remember that Jet landing there , Years ago ! It has slipped my memory till You mentioned it , David White !
Larger aircraft have landed on outback road airstrips for decades. Those were not specially prepared and newly sealed sections like this. The PC-24 is a great aircraft, it can easily land on gravel roads.
Three critical factors.
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The Australian Govt needs to be congradulated on the Quality of the Highway.
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The P.I C .to be congradulated on his Skill.
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The Team at Platus for the Build of The 24
The Australian Govt doesn’t maintain it, the State Govt’s do
Awesome, I love the slow motion shots with the wing vortex
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A proper runway was built half way across the Nullarbor Plain decades ago as an emergency measure for planes getting into trouble. Don't know when it was last used but it's still kept available and is used by light aircraft.
Australia in width from west coast to east coast is close to the distance of America's coast to coast. There were runway or Authorised landing Areas beside the highway, but coast and poor quality prompted used of the sealed road surfaced as a landing site. Also the RFDS's issued on landing on dirt stripes had a major input of the used of sealed road surfaces. Farmers were told to seal their dirt strips if they wanted the service to land on their property.
Outstanding. 👍
🫶🏾 the Australian Royal Flying Doctors, way to go! Used to watch the Drama series - they flew Nomads back then in 80s early 90s.
I used to be fly in fly out miner. Heaps of the strips we flew into we're pretty much designed for whatever plane was flying in or out, and when turbo props were replaced by jets, landing facilities were upgraded, but only by enough to get the job done. I have a lot of fond memories flying in and out of small strips. Mostly flying out for some reason 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
I wonder about the drone that took that video, how could that happened so close to a plane
AWESOME MACHINE!
I know a pilot who did that with a Cessna Citation on a road in Mexico who knocked a chunk out of his wing with a pole he didn’t see until after he touched down. (He was landing to airlift a wounded drug agent out).
Excellent we need that in South Australia thank you
Fun fact: The Swedish AF have been using Swedens national highways as runways for military aircraft for years. They even have aircraft hangers built along the highway/runway.
Drone shot at 22 seconds? Wild. Great work.
Nothing against the aircraft and it's beautiful but to say that it's not crazy The PC-24 returns! First road landing (without a landing strip!) in the Australian Outback. All he said was the controller tower and passengers, smooth asphalt, interrupted traffic......etc.
Super vidéo 👍👏 magnifique ❤️🇨🇭
That cinematography work would make Tom Cruise jealous!
Melhor pista do que essa , não existe .
Beautiful!
Maybe the first ever landing by a PC-24 but we've been doing this sort of thing for a while now.
With jets?
@@AndreBerg99 Well certainly with fighter jets.
@@AndreBerg99 Both Saab 37 Viggen & JAS 39 Gripen are able to land & take off from regular roads, its been done for 50+ years now with fighter jets.
@@RippanCSGO Not to mention the Harrier in both modes and the Finnish F/A18s.
Ohne Audio wäre es ein tolles Video. Musik kann man das eigentlich nicht nennen. So ein bißchen Triebwerksgeräusche, natürlich echt und nicht dazu gemischt - das wärs gewesen. Aber davon ab: tolles Flugzeug!
What was the point of this though?
Best ad I could imagine
It's scenes like this, that contribute to the love I have for my country Australia 🦘.
Awesome. Love this plane. Do not ever try this in the the UK the pot holes in the roads would take that beauty out within a few feet.
If you bother to look, you will find that UK motorways have zero potholes.
"First Ever Road Landing (no Runway!)"
And a rose by any other name is still a rose.
Get this guy as a new character for the RFDS show!
The first shots were of a PC-12, but no matter, both the PC-12 and PC-24 later shown are marvelous aircraft….😊
Joint RFDS Police exercise. The PC12 is a police aircraft. PC24 RFDS
That stretch of road is specifically built to function as a runway with threshold markings and everything. That doesn't really show off any special capabilities of the plane,
Other than the challenge of the runway not being as wide as most.
Thats only for the photo shoot and pilot training, you think they have these setup on tens and tens of thousands of kilometres of road and yes dirt and make shift runways all around outback Australia?
@@ThyPredatorYes, that's exactly what we have.
@@ThyPredator actually mate, we do! There's 4 on this particular stretch of highway alone, but many many more all around the country. And RFDS pilots have the training to land wherever is deemed fit and safe for the purpose so it's not always like this. Sometimes it's a field or a dirt track in the middle of nowhere.
@gretski47 Yes I know we have several setup but not that many considering lengths of highway, but you guys have missed the point. We still land pretty much anywhere required, not just on these makeshift runways, however I was actually defending us because "2011blueman" wasn't "impressed". Read the comment I was replying to!
How the hell did you manage to film VH-HIG on final? FPV drone with camera? So awesome.
2000+ hours on the BN-2A, 2B & 2T Islander… glad to see the PC-24 at its best!
because roads are very long and straight, lots of them in the outback have runway markings in places for emergency aircraft.
Grande coisa!! Avião pode poisar em qualquer estrada!!!
The new sim looks amazing
The 4 airstrips apparently range from about 1200mtrs to about 2000 mtrs in length
More than 4, there are many, they are all over Australia.
@@noelwhittle7922 the 4 on the Eyre Hwy from WA to SA . Unless there are more than 4 on the Hwy
@@Coastmac2001 you and I know it's the Eyre highway but i am clarifying for everyone else all over the world that reads the comments that the landing strips are all over Australian highways.
The Super Versatile Jet‘s capability 😊
You now get "explorer yacht's" this to mind is the "explorer jet"
yea what they dont show you is the grader that went through before hand and made sure the wing tips had enough room
Wow, that had a short take off roll before rotating. Looks fantastic.
I like the wing tip vortices.
PC-24 Pilot: If it's got white stripes down the middle, it's a runway.
Talented Pilots wow
PC-12NGX ambulance arriving in October 2024 to serve the UK and Europe
I own the little brother of the PC-12, a PC-11AF (love it). But I guess that PC-24 would exceed my budget a lot.
With my PC-11 I can land on grass... 😆
If you do a search, you can find video of the PC-24 landing on grass too.
I always found the PC-11 to be a bit under-powered.
I landed on the road in TEXAS near Crawford it was a different experience for sure.
Impressive, but you were beaten to the punch 34 years ago when the late WGCDR Ross Fox landed his F/A-18 Hornet on the Stuart Highway outside of RAAF Tindal
So where is the problem - road is like runway.
Nice!Very nice!
Awesome aircraft. Been on that road middle of nowhere and no water.
Good new plane to use
Love the sound of this planes turbines, well positioned to land on a dusty highway. 🐦
Love the TRIPLE-slotted flaps!... I surmise NO thrust-reversers as they would be problematic on gravel, kicking those small stones up into the very expensive engines, and leaving the critical patients stranded in the proverbial "middle of nowhere"... =:O
There is an international size airport in the middle of Australia that’s there if a large jet has a problem somewhere in Nth west south Australia
Damn! That flare can be summed up as #icantbelieveitsnotbutter
thats a sexy lil plane with long range
Fantastic...
Good luck
There are hundreds of airstrips in the outback, most 'stations' (ranches/farms) have one as do the mining corporations, but almost all are equipped only for prop aircraft.
You have it the wrong way round. The PC-24 is the only jet aircraft designed specifically to be capable of operation on unimproved surfaces.
Crikey mate that gits some rankin' points 😁
Cool looking, but i would trade all the fancy production music and editing for the sounds as they occurred. Thrust reverser deployment would have been nice to see.
Deployment of thrust reversers would be very difficult to film - they are not fitted to the aircraft.
So wouldn't have heard them either way
@@hb1338
Australia is a giant runway other than the coastal area.
Congrats to Pilatus. Note the RAAF have landed C-27's out there as well..
Good graphic work 😮
This game graphics so realistic, especially with aussie runway
Great vid, thanks for sharing.
Wow absolutely awesome!!!
Seen a lot of these runway markings on our roads but the one that captured me is the one in the Nullabore built for commercial airliners should they have to make an emergency landing between Perth and Adelaide. The mind boggles with thoughts of big roos scurrying on the runway.
Excelente. Ótimo e humanitário serviço. Congratulações. Desde São Paulo - Brasil .
Ok, I'm impressed. Send me one.
0:48 0 where are they looking?
Those video games getting better and better.
Back in the old days and even now there were line on the highway not for the reason here. They used to use aerial police used to time cars and trucks between the 2 white lines and and the end of those lines used to be patrol cars .
Well, that may have technically been a road but with traffic blocked at both ends, painted threshold markings and a windsock on the side, that's a lot more like a runway than like a road.
The highways are set up like that in remote areas like the Nullabor. Many thanks to the RFDS that operate these aircraft. I have never had to use the service and hope I never will.
These sections are marked out in multiple locations for this exact purpose. Of course traffic is blocked for the video, but in reality if there's no time for police to get out there, the aircraft flies a low circuit to warn traffic then when clear they land. There's large signs approaching these emergency sections saying if you see low flying plane, get off the marked section. The road is widened and marked out permanently
Trucks have blocked sections of the highway on the request of the RFDS on the UHF.