Cessna Grand Caravan Adventure to Kenya's Masai Mara with Safarilink
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- In this video we fly from Nairobi's Wilson Airport to a small dirt airstrip in Kenya's Masai Mara, see what it takes to keep wildlife off the runways, and then head back to Nairobi with a couple of stops enroute. Airfields visited include Mara Naboisho (Ol Seki Airstrip), Olari Airstrip, and Mara North Conservancy Airstrip. Our ride for all segments is the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, an impressive single-engine workhorse. The airline: Safarilink. Plus a bonus look at some of the incredible wildlife in the Ol Kinyei conservancy and surroundings. This was quite an adventure, both flying and otherwise.
More about Ol Kinyei: www.porini.com/kenya/parks-an...
SECTIONS:
00:00 Nairobi Wilson Airport
00:31 Boarding the Grand Caravan
02:59 Takeoff
06:28 Landing Mara Naboisho
07:48 Conservancy and wildlife
08:33 Go-around
09:24 Time to fly back
11:51 Takeoff Ol Seki
16:18 Landing Nairobi Wilson
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Occasionally I have this pipe dream where I give up my airline Captain job (and all the stress that comes with it) to fly Caravans in Africa…
For me, that comes in a weed high.
I’ve just done exactly that! Took the early option last year.
My dream is get a PPL
@@ElonHusky Stop dreaming and do it!
As someone that has been shuffling around as SLF in KE/TZ for the last 20 years in 206s/208s from time to time due to my work, all I can say is if I could back and pick a career over again I'd be right behind you in the line.
Wonderful memories of my trip in 2016 to Mara, Samburu and the rhino camp.
African aviation is quite an interesting one.
Thank you Gabriel for taking me on a beautiful flight to Kenya and Nome on another flight. From flying single engines to commercial jets, so real when you are in touch with the basics real flights at one with the flight deck, the environment, humbling.
Having flown that exact aircraft to Ol seki for a vacation this bought back some amazing memories - thank you!
00:18 5Y-SLK, collided mid air with 5Y-NNJ. Nairobi, 050324, 0915Z
I've flown with them 4 times' each time a great flight. view of Kilimanjaro is always special 👍👍👍
Wow, that takes me back to 2005, when I flew on this airline & plane to and from Mara. Amazing!
One of the best utility Aircraft on the market 👍🏻
WOW Gabriel, now you are talking! Great video of a place in the world that I have not been. The Cessna Caravan has truly been a huge success for Cessna. I loved your seat, I soloed in a Cessna 152. This is a MUCH bigger "high wing" with the fabulous PT6 engine upfront. BTW great video of the animals. Thanks again sir.
Southern Airways Express flies Cessna Grand Caravans from IAD to various small regional airports in Pennsylvania. Living near IAD, I often see the aircraft flying by.
Always neat to go to a place I will never see with you. Thank you for you great flying films.
Thanks for watching, and really glad you enjoy them!
Awesome. Thank you for taking us along on a flight most of us will never experience in real life. Fascinating lifestyle.
That brought back very fond memories of flying these aircraft and routes on an almost weekly basis to visit suppliers out in the bush when I worked in Kenya a few years ago. Cheers & thanks again for such a wonderfully edited and narrated trip report
Welcome home . My Country Kenya. karibu sana
What a coincidence! 8 years ago I used to drive up and down Ol Seki airstrip (Naboisho) to clear the animals off. I have flown on 5Y-SLG and visited the amazing Ol Kinyei Conservancy dozens of times despite being from London. Bit of a surprise seeing this pop up in my flightradar email! Great that you got to see some wildlife!
Wow what are the odds? Very cool. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Loved this change of pace, from big jets in big terminals. Off the beaten path is always a great choice.
As always, well - done!!? Thanks.
What an Adventure! Thanks for the ride!
Awesome video Gabriel, thank you.👍
That was a neat flight !! Great to see u flying around
I have flown on them 4 times in Madagascar with MAF. The first and Second time was out to a remote village to the west of Tana. It was a chartered flight with 5 passengers and two 4 wheelers. That was crazy fun. Flights 3 and 4 were from Tana to Mahjanga on the Northwest Corner of the island. Here again it was a charter and we had a full plane. Loads of fun. I agree it is not a quiet airplane at all and can be a little rough but still fun to ride.
The Caravan is a great plane. Nice episode.
I'm here for the aviation videos, but am thrilled to see some lions and giraffes!!
May never fly this route but enjoyed the ride with you! Thanks.
Living in Alaska, I get to fly on the Grand Caravan quite a bit. It’s a regional workhorse around here, with airlines such as Ravn and Alaska Seaplanes having large fleets of them. For me, it’s always been more bumpy taxing on the ground than in the air 😆
We've got another Grand Caravan video coming up soon from a flight with Bering Air out of Nome! Thanks for the comment.
Awesome!!
❤️ thanks
Bush flying is Kenya’s great aviation...
What a trip! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I am in NE Ohio where the only wildlife I see are squirrels and deer. Note: it appears that the ¨gear¨ on this aircraft does not go ¨up¨ in flight; it is visible @ 4:03...
Thanks, glad to hear it! And that's correct about the landing gear.
supercool
Good job
Wonderful video man!
Thanks a lot!
When you come back to Nairobi, hit me up
I fly it a lot in my flight simulator, does that count? I miss the motion/bumps.
00:18, 5Y-SLK collided mid air with 5Y-NNJ, Nairobi, Kenya @0945Z. 050324
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Were u able to take all ur luggage on flight?
TRAFFIC
😄
Then we pray when they crash.