Harbour Air DHC-2 Floatplane Cockpit Flight Mail Run From Vancouver to Gulf Islands
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2015
- Over the Labor Day weekend, we were on the Vancouver, BC waterfront where Harbour Air resides. Among all the trip packages, the most appealing was the 2 hour mail run with multiple stops along the Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
During this experience we're able to ride upfront with the pilot on a DHC-2 Beaver floatplane over some of the most beautiful parts of Canada. This video is a long one, but it shows off some of the best scenery this country has to offer. Hope you will enjoy our travels.
Filmed: September 2015 in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada.
If I had a bucket list, among the items would for sure be "take a flight in a radial piston engined airplane". You just can´t beat that sound... :)
One of the greatest planes ever built.
A wonderful place to fly to and from. The staff are ultra cheerful and friendly. A characteristic I have found to be the norm among Canadians.
That video wasn't long... It was amazing!
What an engine. The money spent to travel in one of these daily fliers will be worth every penny. They just don't make them like this any more. What a gem.
Beautiful video!
Coal Harbour (Vancouver), across Georgia Strait, over Saltspring Island, Crofton (my home) with the pulp mill🙄, Maple Bay, over to Ganges on Saltspring Isl. From Ganges, turning left with Provost Island and it’s long narrow bays to the right, passing Montague Harbour packed with boats, across Galiano Island and back to Vancouver!💕
We took the flight from Maple Bay to Vancouver return spending our 40th anniversary this past summer.
Same beautiful Beaver...same Pilot!
I grew up in these planes on N. Ontario,, now live in Victoria, get to ride in Olivia now and again, a glass cockpit Beaver, ultra modern state of the art conversion. Still the same thrill and fun ! So grateful for my childhood, started as a dock boy swamper at the age of 11 serving the tourist camps. The best place in the world to live, right here on the west coast ! I take Kenmore to Seattle now and again, another great ride !
Great video and a beautiful country
That Engine runs so smooth
I did a similar trip, but across to Victoria. It was one of the most exciting flying trip I have ever done. I was lucky to sit up front with the pilot of the Beaver, which was the same age as I am.
If anyone is up that way I can really recommend it.
Thanks for a great video!
Lovely old bird.
My sister lives in Sitka AK and talks about these Flying Dolls all of the time.
Thks!
Brilliant. What a wonderful Country
I would love to eventually get my Seaplane rating!!! Really beautiful scenery in Vancouver. Thanks for sharing!!
Such a beautiful ride.Wish I could do this flight too.Nice of you to share it.
Why do I always think the turboprop conversion on the Otter just looks wrong?
The DHC-2 Turbo Beaver has a similar long-nosed look, compared to the original Wasp Jr. radial engined variants!
Some Turbo Beavers (about 120) were factory built by De Havilland Canada. All DHC-3 single Otters are conversions!
As the commenter above notes indirectly, two DHC-3 Turbo Otters are shown at the dock during the opening minute or so. More notably a DHC-3 Turbo Otter conversion is shown taxiing at about the two minute point and again about 30 to 45 seconds later taking off (as I recall).
First conceived in development as the Super Beaver' its most notable identification feature is its longer fuselage with several extra rectangular windows on each side!
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They are such great planes
Very nice video of a wonderful flight with the famous DHC-2 ! Thanks for posting, I enjoyed the virtual flight. Maybe I could do this, too, in the next future.
Really nice footage, glad you got some beautiful weather for the tour! I've always wanted to do one of the tours with Harbour Air but haven't got around to it yet. Really cool seeing the 777 from the air as well!
+TheHDAviation Each time I've visited the waterfront in Van I've thought about it, that weekend was the primary reason for my travel across the border finally! Very well worth the money.
That was a good video. I did the harbour tour in the beaver and the turbo otter. It’s always worth it!
Very nice job on the video. I would love to take that mail run flight.
Nice video from right in my back yard! Gotta go do the mail run myself on day soon.
Totally worth the money! Wait til' summer when it's a bit nicer out eh?
great video mate! Ive flown with harbour air myself from Vancouver! Great airline!
Very cool, it must be a good experience
What? Does he just get off the aircraft to hold her? 😳🤯👍
Wonderful. !😍👍
Very fascinating!! Great video!
Im gonna have a "Classic Panorama" experience on my birthday this coming December 19th with my girlfriend!!👍😉✈
Worth every dollar! You'll enjoy it and Happy Birthday.
Noel Pastor
Wish my Harley sounded that cool..!! thanks
Great video, looked like a fun flight
+Flightbudy2channel Make sure to give it a try if you're ever up that far North! This was worth the price!
Omg i was there a few days ago, I ate at the Cactus Club Cafe on Saturday night and remember seeing all that there hehe
Nice footage very relaxing
that safety video though lol.
It's my ambition to go on one of those.
The sound is just solid!
God, I want a Beaver so bad!.... And... Maybe a pilot's license, too.
Was that first stop Maple Bay?
amazing!! When I was in Canada I sometimes went to Canada Place after school and watched the sea airport from up there,,, really wanted to fly with them! How much does it cost? I am planning to visit Vanconver next summer!
thanks ever so much for a fantastic views and looks at the instrumentations of the cockpit. I dearly wish to have a flight in one of these sea planes, especially after having a lovely ride in one sooooo long ago....(when I was wikkle)... I am wondering tho, the thing that's used to direct the plane left & right & lift it up and down... please what is its proper name ??? I would really like to know. Thanks ever so again..😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✈✈✈✈✈✈⚓⚓
The rudder is fixed on hinges to the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer (the upright part of the tail or enpenage). It's the primary flight control causing the yaw or turning action. It's controlled by right and leftside foot pedals.
The elevators on the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer on the tail are the primary control surfaces that act on the climbing and descending actions and aircraft attitude.
The ailerons on the trailing edge of the wing control the rolling (pivoting of the fuselage) rolling or banking the aircraft to the left or right. This of course also has a major influence on the direction of flight and also indirectly on the attitude and altitude of the aircraft.
There are much better and more elaborate explanations about flight control elements and integrated systems on UA-cam and within Wikipedia!
Watch your attitude! (Via the Artificial Horizon instrument which is also termed an Attitude Indicator!)
I'm not a pilot but as a Wildlife Biologist I have spent some hundreds of hours in light fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. I first flew in commercial aircraft 70 years ago as well!
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id kill to get on a flight in a beaver :O
Is that an oscillation of the cowling from the propwash?
May I ask what camera you use
Yes
What was the route, as I haven't been to the Guy Islands since I was fourteen, which was 60 years ago.
What's a "Guy Island" ???
You need a polarizer for your camera.
Nice Phone
These motor’s RPM is worked about 2500 (loafing) with a max of 4500. They must last for a long time. Tried & true. I’d go for one of these.
The realistic red line is more likely to be about 3500 and idle about 750-800
Walter Palmer worked on really big radials In The usaf. Back and forth from calif. to Hickam field on the big island ten times a week. 200mph for ten hours with tons of cargo and men. 4 engines putting out 3000 hp each and guzzling 60 gal per engine each hour. Smooth and reliable and expensive to operate. Only Uncle Sam could afford to care and feed them. Thousands of these 4360 cu. in engines lay in the desert encased in steel casks. All are like new and there are no buyers.a shame
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Who ???
And what does that have to do with DHC-2 amphibious Beavers flying from Beautiful Vancouver to the Gulf Islands ???
I would love to become a pilot overthere but I am from Holland. Do you have any tips for me?
Bram Panneman citizenship? Its easy canada takes anyone. Except they only take brown people
R u a pilot???
OMG! J'!
You took the suicide seat and the front door needed to be closed a second time?
+jeff belli slack Had my wife ride up front to make sure it was safe first lol.
***** great post anyway, especially headed straight for the liner on take off...........
What do u mean by suicide seat?
+ŠëåñHYS [][] you could easily jump out of it XD
+al380boy lol
That plane is the beaver
Best Jeep of the back woods air that was “Ever” made...
Love the out back locations but Hate the Big City mess..
Also.. Boooo to the wearing Uniforms.. 👎😿
"Best Jeep of the back woods air that was "Ever" made"
That's a fact. Second to none. It was my dad's favorite aircraft to fly way back in the day followed by anything Helio Courier.
Try a typical run in Alaska! 😉😂👍
WTF??? pfffffttt.....child's play !!!
Try a _"typical run"_ run from Beautiful British Columbia northbound to the Yukon then wa-aaaay across the Northwest Territories and all the way to Nunavut then across Hudson's Bay and to northern Quebec then all the way to Labrador then south to Newfoundland and all the way west back to Beautiful British Columbia for a REAL over 7,200 mile run in Canada!!! Now *THAT'S* what a _"typical run"_ is! Not some alaskan seal-eyeball tossing sandbox paper plane run!!!
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Russia i dont like army , like adventure seaplane 😅😊