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Well It's taken me nearly three months but here it finally is, my latest movie flying the awesome Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter around the mountains of Papua, Indonesia:
Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Part 2) on Vimeo
Enjoy!
Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Part 2) on Vimeo
Enjoy!
Brilliant work Moose, I wish I'd had the chance to do that.
Couple of questions if I may?
I guess that's a gopro you use? How do you attach it?
What kind of speeds do you cruise at?
Useful load you can carry?(love the axe!!- European airlines/authorities would s
t bricks if a pax did that in the cabin 
) and what kind of range do you roughly have?
Do they work you hard? I'm up to 98 hours rostered block this month, not far off my legal limit. I guess you don't have to start or finish work at silly o'clock?
Lastly, how did you manage to get into that gig?
Thanks!
Couple of questions if I may?
I guess that's a gopro you use? How do you attach it?
What kind of speeds do you cruise at?
Useful load you can carry?(love the axe!!- European airlines/authorities would s
t bricks if a pax did that in the cabin ) and what kind of range do you roughly have?Do they work you hard? I'm up to 98 hours rostered block this month, not far off my legal limit. I guess you don't have to start or finish work at silly o'clock?
Lastly, how did you manage to get into that gig?
Thanks!
Thanks!
I do indeed use a GoPro (an original version 1 HD at that!) with the suction mount. Been using it for over two years now and never had a problem with it. The PC-6 cruises at a sedately 115kts indicated airspeed. The fastest I've ever had the GoPro attached was on a Cessna Caravan in descent doing 174kts (just over 200mph). Hasn't come off yet. The trick is to be totally annual about cleaning and drying both the suction cup and the area you plan to mount it to
The PC-6 can carry it's own weight in load (1400kgs) but once you've added in fuel to go somewhere, be under max landing weight (2400kgs) and come back with reserve, it ends up being about 850-900kgs useful load on 30-60 minutes return flights. The range is about 500nm, just over 4 hours flying with full tanks (170 US Gal).
Rosters change quite a bit, some months you're sitting about struggling to get 20 hours a month and others (like these last three months) you're flying your ass off and cancelling charters to stay under 100 hours in 30 days. I've been flying every day and finishing on 99.x for the last week as my hours roll off from 30 days ago. And yeah, I'm up at 04:30 most mornings to get flying as the sun comes up. Those adiabatic winds are not to be messed with later in the day!
As for getting this gig, check out this blog: http://susiairinterview.blogspot.com/ (not mine but a colleague's) should answer most of your questions.
I do indeed use a GoPro (an original version 1 HD at that!) with the suction mount. Been using it for over two years now and never had a problem with it. The PC-6 cruises at a sedately 115kts indicated airspeed. The fastest I've ever had the GoPro attached was on a Cessna Caravan in descent doing 174kts (just over 200mph). Hasn't come off yet. The trick is to be totally annual about cleaning and drying both the suction cup and the area you plan to mount it to
The PC-6 can carry it's own weight in load (1400kgs) but once you've added in fuel to go somewhere, be under max landing weight (2400kgs) and come back with reserve, it ends up being about 850-900kgs useful load on 30-60 minutes return flights. The range is about 500nm, just over 4 hours flying with full tanks (170 US Gal).
Rosters change quite a bit, some months you're sitting about struggling to get 20 hours a month and others (like these last three months) you're flying your ass off and cancelling charters to stay under 100 hours in 30 days. I've been flying every day and finishing on 99.x for the last week as my hours roll off from 30 days ago. And yeah, I'm up at 04:30 most mornings to get flying as the sun comes up. Those adiabatic winds are not to be messed with later in the day!
As for getting this gig, check out this blog: http://susiairinterview.blogspot.com/ (not mine but a colleague's) should answer most of your questions.
Edited by Moose. on Saturday 4th May 06:12
Moose. said:
Well It's taken me nearly three months but here it finally is, my latest movie flying the awesome Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter around the mountains of Papua, Indonesia:
Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Part 2) on Vimeo
Enjoy!
Brilliant video. Pilatus PC-6 Bush Flying - Timika, Papua (Part 2) on Vimeo
Enjoy!
I assume that downdrafts and wind shear are something that you really have to look out for in this mountainous region.
Thanks folks!
Yeah, we get up at the crack of dawn to avoid the winds that pick up from mid-morning onwards. As most of the airstrips are aligned towards the rising terrain, you tend to have tailwinds on most landings which are not ideal when it's a 300m or less long airstrip and you have a 2400kg aircraft to squeeze onto it
Yeah, we get up at the crack of dawn to avoid the winds that pick up from mid-morning onwards. As most of the airstrips are aligned towards the rising terrain, you tend to have tailwinds on most landings which are not ideal when it's a 300m or less long airstrip and you have a 2400kg aircraft to squeeze onto it
Jim Campbell said:
Now that was cool as fkArt0ir said:
As a complete aeronautical illiterate, it prompts me to ask if there's an accepted pecking order of display teams Worldwide?Bonefish Blues said:
Art0ir said:
As a complete aeronautical illiterate, it prompts me to ask if there's an accepted pecking order of display teams Worldwide?Two Tornado GR4s from Six Foot, onboard footage from the RAF's facebook page's video.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1573833944340...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1573833944340...
PaulG40 said:
Two Tornado GR4s from Six Foot, onboard footage from the RAF's facebook page's video.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1573833944340...
That brings back memories!https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1573833944340...
Great video, no sill music or graphics, just great shots of a great aircraft.
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