FLYING 6 HOURS ON A DASH 8! A Northern Adventure with Air Inuit
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2021
- In August 2021, I flew with Air Inuit to the small northern village of Puvirnituq, Quebec, and it ended up being quite the adventure!
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FLIGHT INFORMATION
Airline: Air Inuit (AIE/3H)
Aircraft: De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 (DH8C)
Flight Number: 3H803
Seat: 10E/1E
Livery: Standard
Engines: 2x Pratt and Whitney Canada PW123B
Registration: C-GXAI
Route: Puvirnituq (YPX) - Inukjuak (YPH) - Umiujaq (YUD) - Kuujjuarapik (YGW) - Montreal (YUL)
Callsign: INUIT 803
Date filmed: August 2021
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Outro song - "Take Flight" by Nyhtian: • Nyhtian - Take Flight ...
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I fly this route every week! Too bad I wasn’t your pilot that day :(. Great content !
I am starting to YGW in 2 weeks!
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Amazing
Moment of silence for his legs for sitting for so long lol
Twelve years working on the Dash 8, and I miss it. A durable aircraft.
Air Inuit's livery is very attractive.
I would not say that 17 minutes is a super long video. Especially when it includes fascinating scenery and narration. 👍🏻
The Dash-8 can be a tank when it's needed. I once flew from Cornerbrook back to Halifax on a Dash-8 - weather and wind was miserable, we made 2 aborted attempts to land in Halifax and on the 3rd we were shaken badly before we SLAMMED to the runway (so hard several overhead bins opened.) We pulled up to the ground level gate area, the cabin staff opened the doors for us and ... we were all so shaken no one was standing up yet. The lead attendant got on the speaker and said, quietly, "You're allowed to get off now."
When I lived in Alaska, whenever I had to fly stateside, I would try to always take Alaska Airlines milk run through SE Alaska to Seattle or vice versa. It is such a scenic route and landing in the small communities was always a thrill. Back in those days we were always served food and/or beverages out of each stop, so it was a real treat to fly that way. So, any time I get a chance to take a multi-stop flight, I do, so thanks for the memories. Take care and stay safe!
Thanks so much for this fascinating video. I'm British, but the extreme North of Canada is source of constant wonder to me and a bucket list item. This shows me a way of achieving it.
A week north of 60 changes your life.
Gosh! I miss those sounds, those feelings, those smells of the Dash 8!
One sound in particular: the transition from idle/taxi thrust into beta.
Thanks, Alex. This is my favourite variation of the Dash 8, the 300 series.
Great video!
I see your a man of culture ✨😎🤝😎✨
This plane rocked my childhood! I miss flying in it too much. It's sad that flying in an airplane is not as easy as driving a car
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In my local airport here in Norway the airline Wideroe only flies the 300 series because the runways are very short.
I hear the take off and landing reverse sounds very clearly every time a plane lands because I live less than 1km from the airport.
And it's been a part of upbringing to fly them as well it's gonna be sad in ten years when they are replaced most likely by the new ATR STOL planes
Love that oh so distinctive growl of the dash 8 during taxi
Thank you for this video. Oh, how I can not wait to start flying again. I miss it so much. I love the "milk run" flights, because you get to see so many new places that aren't just a high-altitude "bypass" (like a freeway bypassing small towns). It was great that they let you depart briefly to get some shots of the areas.
Great video as always! Your terrific pronunciations of the Inuit town names makes you sound like a local. Nice way to honor the communities that you visited. You're first class, Alex!
I really enjoy Canadian aviation trips and your ability to paint a story that is culturally import as well. Thanks Alex
I Love Flying on The Bombadier Dash 8 Q100,200 & 300 The Q400 I hope too fly that with Westjet the next time I Visit Canada again Alex Awesome Video Man keep going!!!!
There's something magical about the north. Not nearly enough Canadians get up to that part of the country; I'm glad that you did and could share some of it!
What a beautiful place!
Really beautiful trip report!
I've flown two flights on exactly this Dash 8 back in August 2008 when it was still flying for Tyrolean as OE-LTJ. I really miss the good old "Seefeld" at my homeairport Innsbruck!
Wonderful video and only “long” to you; I could have watched several hours. Thanks, Alex!
Excellent video! I remember when major US airlines used to do milk runs connecting smaller cities between two hubs. I got a fair amount of time on some of those types of flights. They were always interesting and fun.
The Dash 8 is a beautiful airplane! I can't wait to fly on one for the first time! Thanks Alex!
Extremely envious of you Alex! Plus the barren shield area of Hudson Bay reminds me of some of the areas I grew up in on the coast of Newfoundland. Great video!
Wow ! Such a cool experience , thanks man .
Thank you very much for sharing your adventure up into the far North! 😃 Really an amazing trip!🤗
Quite an adventure! Thanks for sharing it with us.
No problem getting to the end of this vid. The only thing I regret is that it wasn't longer. Having lived three years up north in Labrador in the 90's, this production stirred up a lot of memories. Thanks for the trip down memory lane and kudos to you for an outstanding piece of work. Looking forward to your next one.
Great to see a Dash 300!! The last one I flew on was Bahamasair Dash 8-300.
Love your videos to these smaller cities. I focus on the same type of cities (size wise) in the USA, called Essential Air Service cities, been to 35 of them… so far
Alex...What an adventure! You took me to areas of my country I had never seen before but hope, one day, to duplicate your flights with one day stop overs in each (where allowed). Thank you so very much. A very enjoyable experience. Cheers, Colin.
Thanks for video . We in lower 48 provinces enjoy trips into a world that's not possible Now .
Great video Alex.l too am fascinated by Northern Canada,so appreciate your trips.Loved the one on the 737 as well as this one,and the sights of the area too.
Great job 👍❤️!
Fascinating !
Spectacular scenery too
Great adventure! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for a Pleasant trip 🌷👍
Exiting to see since I live far North in Norway were Dash 8 also is a part of our dayli life 🙂
That was an amazing adventure! Thanks for sharing……
In 2014, I flew a dash 8300 to Moncton. Beautiful plane!
Great video, Alex! 👏👏
wow what trip thankful you were prepared for several days there.
Thats so awesome, seeing that old Tyrolean once again, saw that plane pretty much every week since i live at the (former) Tyrolean-base
The dash 8 is such a great regional aircraft especially in Maldives just to island hop
Great vlog! Has me missing my 10hr days on a DH8s & DH7s… 👍👍👍
I love watching your videos. Thanks for making them.
very cool video, well done! thanks
Great video!!! Air Inuit is high on my list to ride on!!
I flew on a Dash 8 twice. The first time coming back from Kattiniq-Donaldson to Montréal, about 6 hours with a stop at La Grande Rivière for fueling. The second time was Mtl to Donaldson direct flight, took about 3 hours (or a bit less)
From now on I'll fly mostly on a 737-200, which is my preference between the two airplanes.
Great video Alex !!! I just relized today that we have staff travel tickets with Air Inuit, I would love to visit northern Canada.
Take care and keep up the great content !!
Thank you for the video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m in Texas, so seeing places I’ll never visit is extremely interesting. Your pronunciation of the place names is outstanding (reminds me of Welsh for some reason). I have no idea why, but the first time I saw a plain spotting video of the little Dash aircraft I liked it, and your video is as close as I’ll ever come to flying on one or even seeing one in person. Godspeed in all your journeying.
Awesome video Alex!, I really Enjoyed this one!
Very cool Alex!
Great video, thanks for sharing. I haven’t done a Dash 8 milk run like that since I was a kid in 1988 & I honestly can’t remember if it was a dash 8, which would have been brand new at the time, or a dash 7, but it was YVR-YKA-YXC-YYC-YXD & it continued onto YOJ although I got off at Edmonton Municipal. I remember it being a good 6 hours & we didn’t leave the plane either.
I’d love to visit that part of the country as well, but you could fly to sub-Saharan Africa for far cheaper!!!
Nice to see an Austrian Dash 8 again. Sadly never came to fly on the Q400s they had back in the day :(
Thanks!
Great footage.
Great video.
Here in Australia we have some "Milk Run" flights like that, primarily in the hot, desert parts of the country.
I've been on a couple of them and the Brisbane to Mount Isa one would be roughly equivalent to your flight.
When I went on it Regional Express were using SAAB 340s.
Fantastic video Alex
The video is great! the 300 is the best Turboprop for me! Everything about it is just perfect. (sadly like many others you cut one of the best parts and it's the start up :'( ) but you were so lucky to fly that much in a day! Yoh!
I didn't know Kuujjuaq was actually a real place... I thought it was just a made up name from the skit Tetes-A-Claques. Excellent video as always!
Very interesting! I enjoyed it very much.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing.
Wow, amazing stuff Alex! Quite an adventure indeed! (not sure I'd want to fly on a Dash-8 for 6 hours though....the racket and rattle are not very enticing!)
reminds me of my days on Liat in the Caribbean from island to island :)
Ah yes - remember my times in the far north all too well. Nice video! PS- I'm impressed with your no-issue pronunciation of the Inuit town names. :)
Fantastic video
I like the 300 more than the 100 or 400 versions. Simply it is a better balance of airframe and wing. The 400 looks like a pencil with wings.
the no passenger or luggage screening in the northern villages of Quebec was interesting. reminds me of a series of flights I took with my wife island hopping in French Polynesia in the south Pacific in 2018 on Air Tahiti (inter island flights). in Tahiti the passengers got screened as well as the luggage going to Moorea but afterwards from Moorea to Huahine to Bora Bora back to Tahiti there was no passenger or luggage screening but they were very strict on the hold luggage weight on the French ATR planes. I enjoyed the no passenger screening.
Another excellent video Alex ! No. it was not to long of a video...:):):)
Awesome video Alex! Too bad you couldn't make it to my home town kuujjuaq I bet you would of loved it there.
Very nice! Cheers from Montréal!
What a cool adventure, thanks for sharing this experience with us.
That aircraft used to visit my home airport in Switzerland Altenrhein (ACH) when it flew for Austrian Arrows.
Great video. Canada is lot like Finland. Funny thing is that even in our most northern town (Ivalo), grocery prices are exactly same than in the south. Our grocery companies propably lose profit with that principle, because supply line to there is long, but they have this principle that prices are exactly same everywhere.
I once did a milk run in the Eastern Caribbean on LIAT. Grenada to St. Vincent to Barbados. Change planes. Barbados to Dominica to Antigua. Change planes again, this time a series 100. Antigua to St. Maarten. Made it. Now only 5 hrs on a Westjet 737 to Toronto.
what a cool experience!
Awesome video :D
I hope some day you're able to go up to Goose Bay. YYR. I spend the first years of my life but haven't seen it since 1993. Would love to see video from it of it again.
As a side note xai has the long range fuel tanks. If I remember correctly we have lots of dash 8's.
Thank you, very nice video with wonderful views and narration. Question. Was it the same flight crew for the entire flight? Thanks again!
You should see whether you can get a seat on Nolinor's B737-200 charter flight to Agnico-Eagle's Meadowbank mine sometime! For you, it'll be a rather long trip (7AM to 8PMish), but food should be included.
Remember doing a milk run flight on PWA back in the day, from Calgary to Yellowknife via Edmonton Municipal, Fort Smith and Hay River. All aboard a 737-200 (combi? I can't remember for sure...) and was a very memorable experience. Just how much did you spend at the Northern store on groceries for those four days? That must've been quite a pricey delay...
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I love those gearview videos with the take offs and landings. Those gravel runways must be killing to the tires. It is like sandpaper. Btw, it is the first time I see probably Inuit written characters. Is the language called Inuit? It is not in google translate. But maybe the language is called differently. Tnx for sharing.
Wow!
Looking very nice.
Amazing airplane
Very good Video
6 hours on a tiny regional proper plane yeah I’m not doing that 😂 Also you should fly in Halifax
Why Halifax?
@@TDBA729 why not
I just wanna know if this aircraft support a severe storms, normaly on this area I supposed. Great video thanks for sharing us.
Amazing and cool
Gravel runways are hell on prop blades and belly skins..
OMG 6 hours on one of those dash 8's would be a killer for me. I hate flights on them between YEG & YYC or YVR & YYJ and they are really short flights.
But wonderful video I love all your video
That's quite a journey!! Sad that food is not served onboard, but of course, you flew several legs.
There's no chance to go out and buy something in the terminal?
Probably not cause of Civid
I Believe That Air Inuit will expand there Fleet in the upcoming years even the Airport Also but well wait & see what happens next.
6 hours!!!! That's a short trip!!! Try from St.Johns NL to Calgary AB!!!! Nooooooooooo!!!! plane delivery. Thought it would be fun...was sooooooo wrong!!! I still hear DHC-8 prop sounds today!!!
What a great video and trip, Alex. Thank you. Question? There is an emblem or logo at 8:55 into the vid. It appears an Inuit in black winter garb waving a friendly hand and with (I think) an outline of Nunavik's border behind? Curious the significance of this? I collect 1:400 scale die cast airliners and have a 737-300 in Air Inuit livery. It has the same logo but couldn't make it out. Your video solved that mystery for me. Good luck in the future and keep those great trip report videos coming. Best Regards. Arnold
I call it the BUZZZZZ BOMB
oh how I miss flying on the dash 8, the atr is fine and all but there's just something missing
ESKA: spring water from an esker just south of Amos (North Of Val d'Or). Sort of ironic that Air Inuit likely gets their supplies from Montréal which means that water has traveled a long distance by truck first :-)
Air Inuit serves innu territory, while Air Creebec serves Cree territory. There is an exception with Air Inuit serving Radisson airport (Hydro Québec town). (But Air Creebec serves Chissassibi nearby).
Kuujuarapik is Innu territory, but across the river is Whapmagoostui, Cree territory. When Hydro Québec sought to expand the James Bay power system, new agreements were signed each time and at one point the Innu got in on the game. Both Air Creebec and Air Innuit were createde from revenues that Hydro Québec must pay them for use of their water and modification/destruction of their fishing grounds.
If you look on a map, Lac Mistassini flows into Rupert. But most of Ruper river has been diverted north to La Grande at Radisson (including a huge tunnel under mountain range), and in doing so goes through one of two "Eastmain" power stations (initially one was built to take power from Eastmain river as it is diverted north to La Grande, and they built Eastmain 2 as they added part fo flow of Ruper rivier. That northern flow also goes through Sarcelles power station and then either LG2 or LG2A and then LG1 near Chissassibi.
Eatmain and Opinaca rivers were party of initial diversion and were almost fully diverted to the Robert Bourassa basin (that feeds LG2 and :G2A). So huge loss to way of life for Crees. Furthermore, due to diversion of multiple rivers onto La Grande, the flow of water is eroding the island of Fort George, so Hydro had paid to relocate the town to Chissassibi. But the flow of river is so great they can't fish on it. (and LGE prevents fish from migrating upriver, as does LG2 and all the other ones.
Now the Inuit side: hundreds of km to the east, at the start of La Grande, Hydro Québec also diverterd a portion of the Canapiscau river to go into the La Grande one. The Canapiscau river (Koksoak river) dumps into the Arctic ocean at Kuujuuaq. While that river is diverted early enough that it still has enough flow from tributaries further down, it is still reduced flow.
As part of the deal for the most recent projects (in the 1990s as I recall), the Cree and Innu negotiated for keeping rivcers alive, hence the amount of diversion of the Rupert river is much less than the killing of Eastmain and Opinaca to the north in the 1970s.
Alex I have a question when were you able to pick your seats or could you prepay for that or was it at the terminal when you checked in, when did you pick your cheats?
So no travel to Kuujuaq? You plan to go it sometime or not because kuujjuaq is really nice place
Which Dash 8 series this was?
7:29 I didn’t even know a Dash-8 could be equipped with USB ports!