Full flight | Harbour Air DHC-6 Twin Otter | YB242 Victoria Harbour to Vancouver Harbour
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Welcome aboard my first flight on a Twin Otter seaplane! Having had a fun day in Victoria, let's take you on a wonderful late afternoon and sunset flight!
The Twin Otter is a development of the very successful DHC-3 Otter, a single engine piston or turboprop aircraft. It has two engines and a longer fuselage, straighter and taller tail, and an enlarged wing. From the steep runway at Lukla, Nepal, to the snow/ice-covered research base airports in Antarctica, to the super-short 400 m runway at Saba in the Caribbean, the STOL capabilities of the Twin Otter means that it is found all over the world with over 900 built. Production was restarted in 2008 with Viking Air of North Saanich, BC, enabling many essential air routes to continue using this aircraft for many decades to come.
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Camera: GoPro Hero 8 Black
Filmed on 13 March 2021
Aircraft: de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter
Registration: C-GHHA
MSN: 455
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
Seat: 1A
First flight: 16 April 1975
Delivery (not taken up): Management Jets International (Nebraska)
First delivery: Royal Nepal Airlines as 9N-ABM in February 1977
Transferred: lease to Tara Air on 3 January 2012 (including overhaul)
First incident: collision with hydro/utility pole in Nepal, 17 July 2012
Second incident: runway excursion in Simikot, Nepal, 28 November 2017
Second delivery: Regent Aircraft Services, Calgary AB (delivered by ship)
Rebuilt: March 2019 with test registration C-GIQE
Converted with floats: late 2019
Third delivery: Harbour Air on 18 February 2020
Departure: Victoria Inner Harbour Airport
- scheduled 17.00, actual 17.07
Arrival: Vancouver Harbour Seaplane Base
- scheduled 17.35, actual 17.32
Flight time: 25 min
Aircraft info: www.twinotterworld.com/msn-455
My Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/kalung1
Twin Otter: flic.kr/s/aHsmWAFDnY
Flight video series from my visit to Vancouver:
* AC305 YUL-YVR, 1 March
* YB217 CXH-YWH (Vancouver to Victoria), 13 March
* YB242 YWH-CXH, 13 March (this video)
* AC124 YVR-YYZ, 31 March
* AC418 YYZ-YUL, 3 April
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HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00 - intro
00:05 - boarding
00:25 - cabin and seat tour
00:34 - cockpit tour
00:58 - welcome announcement
01:23 - safety video on iPad
03:47 - engine start
05:18 - taxiing to the takeoff position outside the harbour
11:27 - takeoff
12:57 - Olympic National Park, Washington State (background)
14:12 - Langford, BC
19:23 - Victoria International Airport (CYYJ/YYJ)
19:55 - Sidney, BC
20:23 - Swartz Bay Ferry Terminal (leaving Vancouver Island)
20:52 - Piers Island and Knapp Island
21:59 - Saltspring Island and Russell Island
23:38 - Prevost Island
24:42 - Galiano Island
30:21 - where the Fraser River and the Pacific Ocean (Strait of Georgia) meet, it creates this diagonal line
30:30 - switching to seat 1C on the right
30:36 - Westham Island and Fraser River south arm, entering Metro Vancouver Regional District
31:04 - Steveston
32:02 - Richmond, BC
32:22 - Vancouver International Airport (CYVR/YVR) - great aerial views
33:22 - Fraser River north arm, entering city of Vancouver
33:41 - Kerrisdale and 41st Ave
34:20 - Kitsilano, Arbutus Ridge, and Broadway
35:12 - banking over the Burrard Inlet
36:39 - Stanley Park
37:21 - Lost Lagoon and West End Vancouver
37:46 - approach and landing into Vancouver Harbour
38:24 - taxiing to the Vancouver Harbour Seaplane Base
41:39 - engine shutdown
41:58 - control locks fitted and battery off (last flight of the day)
42:24 - unloading
42:39 - walkaround
43:12 - Flightradar24 profiles of our flight 
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I have been to British Columbia, Canada off and on since the 1950s. It is a Great place to visit, My wife and I took our Honeymoon in Victoria in 1988 and visited again on our 30th Anniversary in 2018. The BC sites are gorgeous and the people are extremely nice.
Brings back memories of taking the run from my offices in the Harbour Towers in Victoria to The Bayshore Inn in Coal Harbor Vancouver. Not much has changed since 1974 except for the avionics. Same Twin Otter...same route...Although this was ideal conditions...I travelled to Victoria to Vancouver in all sorts of less than perfect flying conditions.
In the unlikely event of landing on the water.........
There is fishing gear stored in the upper compartments
@@BillyG869 lol!
I love how the first officer was justifying his job on camera.
Let's be honest, one pilot is all a DHC6 needs
@@kellyh4035 All most modern aircraft need is one pilot. The airline request the SIC permit from the FAA if it increases safety of the operation by a particular margin. This margin is why the larger aircraft already come typed for two pilots. It’s a bit safer and that always takes precedence. - A DHC6 Pilot
They mean crash landing on water
Just spent a week in Victoria in a condo by Fisherman's Warf where we could watch the planes taxi back and forth, and sometimes take off if the wind was right. Really neat to see the harbor from the air, and be able to relate to where the plane was until they left Vancouver Island. Thanks for sharing this beautiful flight.
I have to do this flight every few weeks for work and this is one of the best films of the journey I've ever seen. Fantastic.
I really miss Vancouver some days. Thanks for bringing back fond memories!
Was in Victoria recently at Fisherman's wharf and saw the twin otters taking off and landing several times. Never gets old.
Never realised Vancouver was such a large an modern city. Looks beautiful.
Terrific video! I've lived in Victoria for 55 years, and never managed to use the floatplane service to Vancouver. But now I know what it's like, thanks to your video. Thanks!
Wonderful enjoyable flight! Thanks for the great experience. I felt like I was right there!
I have flown this route a number times and well worth it! Just love when the turbines spool up and the props start biting the air. Beats the H#8l out of the jets!
That was great. Living on the South coast of England, one cannot begin to grasp the vastness of Canada.
To think that years ago when I was a small child in the 1960's, our family were offered a chance to emigrate to Canada, but our family doctor advised that the medical care at the time would be not sufficient to suit my grandmother (who lived with us and suffered bronchitis among other ailments). I have never visited Canada but it certainly is on my wish list. British Columbia looks amazing. Also love the Twin Otter, I've been on a Single Otter seaplane in Malta and that was fun.
Thanks for giving us a small insight of life in that part of the world. I enjoyed this very much
I visited Vancouver twice, believe me, it is beautiful!!!
The vastness of Canada? Oh you have no idea. I live on Vancouver Island, see these float planes fly over my house every day. They remind me of the float planes I used to fly in for work up in the Canadian Arctic; you can fly for 2 hours and you won't see a single house, no roads, no buildings, just wilderness. And beyond your destination of some small town, more endless wilderness.
Just another city actually!
Hello Monty, The aircraft you were probably on in Malta was a DE Haviland Beaver (Single engine) The Otter is a twin engine.
This brings back memories of staying the night at my grandfathers condo with the Nanaimo harbour air seaplane dock right out front. Was a good alarm at 6am or whenever the first flight was that day.
So cool to see the prop unfeather during engine start.
Thanks for sharing! Great views from between Vancouver Island and the mainland!
I love the engine start up sequence.
When I lived in Vancouver I used to row at the Vancouver Rowing Club. We'd go as far as the gas barages an watch the Air West/Harbour Air Otters take off and land. You would almost think the plane pontoons would touch the treetops in Stanley Park.
Oooohhh! I really fancy this trip! Thanks for taking us with you! 👍
The Canadian Rockies is the most beautiful place on Earth.
Great video! Love the descriptions and the views were amazing!
Amazing!! Love the Twin Otter.
Thanks for the trip,loved it !
Followed the whole thing on a chart, magical.... thanks!
Very nice!
Beautiful landscape!
Ya done GOOD, Dudes. Kudos, awesome flight! 👊 💪
Stunning scenery!
I'm actually super jealous - I want to take that flight myself some day. I love Victoria.
last time I checked tickets available to CAD $80. then take the bus/ferry for a scenic return trip.
Yoou'll absolutely love it. I've been lucky enough to fly it both ways. The Awesome bit it flying over Vancouver International at about 3000ft. Look one way you can see the arriving aircraft, look the other and you can see the departures well below you
Did this trip last May, another item ticked off bucket list ❤
Wow have to admire and say thanks from someone who was in all those places. Now with view from above makes complete picture. Thanks, was driving sailing thinking trying to become pilot. Didn't happen. Thanks again admire your camera skills.
great video! I 've been twice in Vancouver but didn't have the chance to fly on seaplanes (but I did in Seattle). Wonderful City and landscape.
Love the hummmmm of a TURBO-PROP
Beautiful video, thanks!
Definitely on my bucket list: float plane around my hometown of Vancouver. Only flown once in a float plane and it was the trip of a lifetime around the glaciers of Juneau, Alaska on a picture perfect bluebird day. 👌🏼🛩👍
Those engines the
Twin Otters have They sound Awesome when it takes off mid air
Good trip. Very interesting. Followed along on Apple Maps.
Very nice, although I would have enjoyed a view out the window during landing vs the cockpit.
Brilliant video - thank you!
Even though I used to live in Vancouver, I never actually took one of these seaplanes.
I did used to fly out of Boundary Bay airport a lot and over to Vancouver Island for flight training and did encounter such seaplane (and a lot of helicopter) traffic, so when I eventually do return to Vancouver I'll def get on one of these seaplanes - at least once~
Thanks, again!
Nicely done. Great views.
I did this flight in 2013. It was my first flight in a sea plane on the rout from Vancouver to Victoria and back. I was flying the Twin Otter before several times from Winair. Vice video from you.
Thanks for the smooth flight..
I flew in an Harbour Air DHC-6 Twin Otter on a sightseeing trip over Malta 🇲🇹 & Gozo a few years ago.
Awesome video. I hope I can recreate that flight in Flight simulator 2020 once the Twin Otter is available for download.
Thanks!
Watching Harbor Air do a right hand turn to final into Victoria Harbor over the Johnson Street Bridge is a hoot. Such a steep approach. Have lunch at the Flying Otter Grill and enjoy!
Never tried the Flying Otter before, would love to try it, thanks for the recommendation!
Looks like a fun flight!
I've always watched the planes take off from Vancouver harbor and wanted to take a ride, this is so cool! Especially being able to see the cockpit right from your seat. 😀 Noticing also that even for seaplanes the copilot and pilot hold the throttle together as well. Learning something every day!
Does anybody know why both pilots have their hand on the throttles during take off?
@@martyhill8342 two reasons. Sometimes vibrations can move the throttles back. The other is in case of an aborted takeoff
@@johnuhtof8952 I still don't get it, granted I'm not a pilot, but in most planes the throttles are in the center console. Either the captain or FO has their hands on them during TO...even in a aborted take off what good are 2 pairs of hands going to do?
Aircraft looks brand new!
the wobble on the left prop spinner is insane
Amazing
beautiful plane bro
Great video!
Awesome video
Those Taxi sequences are so long, it almost feels like they are taking off for fun.Would be easieer to taxi all the way
Linda aeronave ❤
Nice flight. Like your content. Subbed. 👍
Wow pretty airplane
You can actually see the Viking Air building pretty clearly from up there. Its the big blue building on the east side of the airport
Super cool video! Never been on Harbour Air! Are all their seaplanes electric now?
They've just converted one DHC-2 Beaver into electric for now. As for the turboprops they all run on regular jet fuel, certifying each aircraft type to run on electric motors does take a bit of time, and there's no timeline for when most of the conversions will happen.
@@naturallyherb thanks for the in-depth response!
That music sound ❤
Very nice
It's nice to see the pilots holding hands....
Cool plane
You had such smooth water at both ends of the flight. That was great.
I wonder if the Twin Otter feels similar to flying on a Dash 8? (both DeHaviland aircraft) The turboprops sure sound similar to me. 🤔
I've never been on a Dash 8, but the smoothness from what I heard is similar. The Dash 8 has the PW150A which is more than twice as powerful as the PT6 on the Twin Otter, but they sound similar since the RPM settings are similar.
You got the best seat in the passenger cabin.
Why: You can see the engine and wing to your left, look forward and there's the cockpit. also I didn't know they flew the Twin Otter out of harbors.
Awesome
I flew on a Twin Otter from Santo Domingo, DR to South Caicos island several years ago.
Superb point of view,thanks a lot.
and on landing ..wow
Enjoy
Interesting, but too bad we miss all the view of the floats, when top speed on the water and while taking off, and while touching water at landing (tilting down a little the camera would be ok I think). This video could have been of a regular flight between airports
we did get to see the two pilots hold hands during takeoff....
I know. What a waste. The two parts of the flight where it's most important to get the shots right and he missed both of them. This ruined it for me. Lesson learned, I guess.
I loved flying the twotter; except it was a landplane :( great aircraft and fun to fly
Each variant of the Twotter definitely has its own unique taste! Personally I would love to go on one equipped with skis to land in snow!
Very nice video. I really enjoyed the flight. I'm only a MS Flightsim Pilot but my favorite airplane there is the Grumman Goose. Gives total freedom at reasonable speed. I'll have to fly that path in there.
One more thing, this route takes it pretty much right over my house on Galiano Island :)
Beatiful! 👍
Nice.
Oh, my. Wonderful video. Soooooo smoooth !! Beautiful aircraft.
I once took a flight on a 1941 Sea Plane, almost the size of this one, two engine and sat about a dozen people. Very archaic compared to this beauty of an aircraft.
Flew from Catalina Island, Avalon, Ca, to San Pedro , Ca. Before touchdown in LA Harbor, the aircraft flew under the Vincent Thomas bridge to touch down. A great flight.
Do you remember what aircraft type that was?
@@naturallyherb When I took that flight back in the mid 1960's, the plane was a late 1930's Grumman Goose, Red & White in color. I believe It was Catalina Airways. It was an Amphibian, and it taxied up a boat ramp to load & unload about 6 or 8 passengers.
@@naturallyherb I think it was a Grumman Goose. 1941. Same plane featured in the TV Series 'Golden Monkey' . 1970's , I believe.
@@brucebillington8336 Yes, that was the one. Catalina Airways. Two crew members.
I want to fly in one of those two but we have one in Seychelles
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Kool.
The nose cone on the right engine is smooth,but the cone of the left one is just a little wobbly. All kidding aside,how much is that flight,and how long and how much would a boat be ? I live in a little town in Colorado and we have a twin otter that takes the parachuter's up. Locals hate the noise.
Hey there, really nice video, thumbs up for the picture and edit quality! Question about the plane itself: Is the seat pitch really as tight as it looks when you board the plane? And especially that row 1, it looks pretty claustrophobic to me. Please elaborate and correct me if I´m wrong. Thank you!
It's actually not so tight as you may see, you could stretch your legs a little into the cockpit (it doesn't disturb the pilots at all) and so it does feel better that way. But then the longest flight that these operates is only 45 mins, and I think the scenery outside definitely makes it up for that.
@@naturallyherb Great, thanks a lot for your reply! :)
Great work! My pleasure to be a new subscriber
On take-off, would have been nice to see it happening outside, not looking at the pilots back. Just a suggestion for future vids. Enjoyed the vid. Thanks.
Do you cross US airspace? In a straight line you would according to gMaps.
Nice!! I’m wondering why the captain is constantly working the throttles/props while taxiing out of the harbor?
The Twin Otter has no water rudders, which is a curious thing to look for as the DHC-3 Otter does have water rudders. Without water rudders, the only way to control steering in the water is through differential thrust, and the beta mode of the propellers allows neutral or reverse thrust, enabling the maneuvering in and out of seaplane docks.
You can also notice that we have two captains on the flight. The captain on the right seat is likely a line training captain (training the less experienced captain in the left seat), and you can see them both holding the throttle on the takeoff roll as the takeoff setting on the throttles need some fine tuning - it's not simply full power, there's a more optimized power setting just below full power.
@@naturallyherb Ah, ok! Makes sense! Thanks!!
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Word !
Goooood from iraq
Every time i see a mask wearer i cannot stop myself howling with laughter
Actually this acft belongs to Nepal Airlines n leased to Tara Air .After incident took place in Simikot ,Nepal .Then after insurance company sold to Harbour Air. Due to bad management ,the acft had run away from Nepal Airlines.
Nice mask dipship.
4:34 That prop is out of balance and that particular seat is the first to know about it.
It would have been nice to see the actual takeoff from the water.
I know right. I was waiting for that too. Instead, the camera turned to the flight crew holding hands on the throttle control.
@@gordonmier4359 oh well, I'll have to go find a video that actually shows the takeoff... Lol. 🤷🏾
Interesting but too bad it was cloudy. Thanks
they have setalite mspd
Right seat Captain? Left seat upgrade/line Indoc or a line check perhaps?
Most likely yes.
@@naturallyherb curious to know if it’s two captains flying together due to pilot shortages or the aforementioned reasons.
@@Bdoodee Likely for training reasons. The right seat captain is assisting the left seat captain during the spool up on takeoff. The Twin Otter does require a specific power setting on takeoff. Pushing the throttles all the way to full power will cause the engine to go past redline and cause major damage there.
@@naturallyherb interesting. I have around 1200 hours on PT6’s…… I’ve never heard of “redlining” only overtemping.
Four bar epaulettes in the RH seat. How many sets of hands on the grunt levers do you need? I boast 1000+ hours on these (land version) and managed a single pilot (survey/aerial work). Let's introduce a flight engineer for another set of hands.
Thanks, it's all about the plane for me, as I am not a fan of any city bigger than 30k population.
I like amphibious planes because they are safer
The Twin Otter is a little work horse. Flown in them many times.
Good one Norman
Boarded a Twin Otter one morning, it was pouring down rain and the plane was full of passengers and luggage. Pilot took the plane all the way to the very end of the runway and I was thinking he might need it with the load and weather conditions. He stopped, held the brakes, revved the engines until the tires started slipping on the runway and the plane was rocking. He released the brakes and in 9 seconds the plane was airborne.
Yes, it's a work horse !
Would love a flight on a sea plane