Worst Place To Be A Pilot - Season 1 Episode 2
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2015
- Personally one of the most epic short series to be aired on public television. Worst Place to be a Pilot tells the stories of young British pilots flying small turboprop aircraft in the wild jungles and mountains of Indonesia. Enjoy!
FlyteSource owns NO rights to the content in this video we are merely reposting it for the entertainment of persons interested in aviation and for potential pilots alike. All rights go to Channel 4. Travel Documentary hosted by Steven Mackintosh, published by Channel 4 in 2014 - English narration 
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The grass is not always greener on the other side. Forgetting about piloting for a minute, look at the benefits and recognition you receive from the indeginious people. What a fullfilling career indeed.
These pilots connecting the tribes with the outside world are HEROS!
Nelson Cheung explain
I have to say, the more I watch this, the more respect I have for these pilots...
Same here
Being one step from crash, working with blood and sweat for cradle civilization people has lot of redeeming features.Those guys at their senior age will never say they got nothing to remember from their grayscale lives.
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Patrick Lenigan...the utmost respect...they derserve to be awarded...
30:00 Sam's approach is amazingly crazy. With that visibility, I could believe he did it all visual. ILS on a better runway is already scary, but... Thumbs up for Sam.
"You're the worst student of the day" . You're the worst instructor I've ever seen..
lol
but the one that crashed earlier was ok lol!
May be He was. Now he is alive and is a captain pilot. His teacher was a qeer psychologist
"it's okay to wiggle the ailerons a bit." *student does exactly that* "wow wtf are you doing"
Haha
That is indeed the worst flight instructor. Nice job, Nick!
Yes, that was too harsh. „He was the worst student of the day.“
he was too hard on him... pff
@@Peter-qu3wp dude right. the best flight instructors are ones who can make the student feel comfortable and confident.
I would definitely change the title to " Dream Place to be a Pilot " .
I have such admiration and respect for these guys. They have guts. After having been in aviation for 27 years this is the life right here.
I've had and retired from a 'dream job' with UA yet I find this much more interesting than flying giant airplanes from major cities to other major big cities.
Much respect for you sir
What a pack of selfless bunch of pilots giving their life to help and provide most basic needwd service. These pilots derve respect- specially Sam Qunnin- flying over Papua.
Max there not really doing beacuse they want to. Theyre doing it because theres no other jobs. This is there last resort, so i theyre not really "selfless". It is a great thing theyre doing though
They're not selfless. They're completely doing it out of self interest. They need the flight hours to get jobs at regional airlines in Europe. The second they get the hours they leave for the better jobs.
some of them stay and forget going on to airlines
However, Nick is a joke!
I wish I had the relation between father and son like Ian and Sam. Wonderful relationship they have I envy them.
I will never complain about our runways again! Well not nearly as much, after seeing these conditions. They make some of the grass fields I used look like smooth paved airfields.
can't imagine that indigenous people in Papua, New Guinea has a devoted airline that can provide them with goods and services only available to modern class of people. kudos to Suzi air and it's personnel particularly to the daring pilots and personnel.
Imagine when some of these become airline pilots, they'll land their A380 in like 1.5 km.
These young Pilots bring life to the people in these difficult lands, these are heroes.
Fascinating show, wish it was continued.
Having a good old family domestic in the jungle.
Real expert pilot! 2thumbs up for all susi pilot👍🏻🇲🇨
These guys are real pilots, not system managers. Lots of respect.
some of the jumbo jet pilots went through this kind of thing too when they were working their way up
This is the episode I like. Sam gets to show he's a badass to his dad! The pride in his dad's face, that's worth it!
Once you have flown this you can never be a mere mortal again!
The air up at 9000 ft is so thin, a higher air speed is needed to generate enough lift "to off set gravity" during landing. (not to forget the goods and supplies are heavy indeed)
Watching this video made me cry seeing how honourable these pilots are esp Guy and Sam. Made me cry seeing how dedicated they are to put their lives on the line and taking up the huge risk and challenges flying over these very dangerous isolated terrains. Now this is what it truly is to have a real meaning in life and to be of full service to others. Watching this is inspiring me to become a pilot so I could do exactly that for the rest of my life. After all when you feel the real value of what it means to serve others, money no longer becomes a leading factor for a wholesome life. Big hugs to all those of Susi Air.
These pilots are such an inspiration...brave, innovative, helping others--BRAVO!
Really appreciate those videos of these series
no problem
Bajan Aviation make em 4k
"with the little Buddha belly going on "
@8:32, "looks like this is what we're going to be doing this afternoon, having a good ol family domestic in the jungle". lmao
We still have tribal wars here in the UK. Mostly at the weekend, one can often see young men undergoing their right of passage by engaging in a ritual of physical strength and agility. Often these tribal wars are preceded by the ceremonial imbibing of an ancient courage-inducing beverage which occasionally leads to dancing, singing and intercourse with ugly people.
You forgot the greatest tribal war in The UK: The Brexit War!
So nice to see people improving their lives. I like the joy the vilagers have when the plane comes.
thank you Bajan Aviation for the interesting documentaries
no problem Arjun
Very dangerous flying, much respect for the pilots and the company.
They are awsome pilots.Congratulations guys..
unbelievable. this a Good job guys. ..
I am very happy Sam Qunnin with his duty to serve papua !
God bless you in all your work
Great zeal and confidence May u be protected every were u are and go
guy richardson, what a nice guy , so cool guys you aroud indonesia, what an experience. Hope you do good guys, greeting from spain.
Me sitting here in the beginning stages of ground school pondering looking for a job like this....
Thank you bajan aviation. Now i know the reason susi air have lots foreign pilot rather that local. Sometimes we forget to make small steps before big steps.
This is as close as you get to flying into high risk zones not only geophysical but human. These pilots are remarkably brave and have my respect. You need to be made of stern stuff and have a huge sense of balance to withstand these pressures. Instructors have to be extremely tight to make sure their crews survive.
In the Yukon Canada we flew the mud the blood and the beer. Also Medicaid drill cores
Prospectors and their gold
those guys throwing rocks at the aircraft to bless it and secure a safe voyage🤣
They need to fire head instructor. Not helpful.
I agree that he has a poor instruction technique, more along the "badger and intimidate" line of terrible flight instruction, however, I do think that much of the way he treated junior pilots was at the behest of the director and production team of this documentary. They wanted drama, conflict, and suspense and the only way to achieve that is to place the prospective junior pilot in training in some kind of precarious place; they needed to put him in a place of jeopardy in the sense he could lose his opportunity/job. It's fake as all hell but people who aren't pilots and are perspective viewers don't know that and so it ads suspense, which is the whole point.
So those short and soft field takeoffs and landings might be useful around these parts!
This looks like an enormous violation of the prime directive.
At 33:00 the landing does not seem possible. Did they edit some cloud cover in to make more exciting? It is hard to tell what the pilot would be seeing.
salute for those heroes helping our country
that's some fancy electronics on that little plane, makes my hair stand on end to think about some of the flights I took back in the 70's
Such a great show. Love when sam’s dad comes and visit
Good point
Awsome video indeed. Just to clarify, what pilots' school did those guys graduated from before attending Susi Ailines school?
Thank you Sam Quin
Thank !
Guillaume Claret Welc.
20 kts crosswind is not a limit, it just the 20 kts was demonstrated during certification on the airplane, I flown the aircraft in Western Alaska and we deal with more than 20 kts! As for the Instructor Pilot, what a tool, gee the kid is going to be a little rough at his experience level and its a heavier turbine powered aircraft than the 172s most learn to fly in! I always amaze me that you Brits put up with so much BS just to fly! When I left flight school in 1975, I had a job before I finished! I had to put up with a lot but nothing like this! Then again flying bypass mail in Feb in Alaska has it's moments. Most fun I ever had was flying Canceled Checks in a 310 Q 10 approaches a night five nights a week! That sort of thing is gone now!
Sam has the biggest balls! Massive respect!!!
i try to like this video 4 time ...
At around @21:20 is essentially what NOT to do as a flight instructor or line instructor. I've got almost two thousand hours of flight instruction to both new and experienced pilots, and I would never undermine the confidence or nitpick as much as this check airman is doing to Nick. I get that the producers of this documentary are trying to add some drama and suspense to what is really a pretty non eventful sequence of flights but still. I feel bad for Nick. If he continually was off altitude, speed, or heading that's one thing but even then, there are more constructive ways to help inexperienced pilots correct their mistakes. Saying "what's going on?" in a hostile tone, or "what's the matter with you?", essentially intentionally trying to undermine a new pilots confidence is counterproductive. There are far better ways of exposing pilot incompetence, usually by allowing them to screw up and not ask for help (what we don't want them to do as pilots) than badgering them in an adversarial roll that hasn't existed in the cockpit for decades, precisely because it led to more CRM issues.
Again, I understand that likely the production crew wanted Susi Air to manufatuer drama and hence I should give the instructor some deserved deference; that he is just performing for the camera in undermining the students confidence in what are trivial deviations.
@ 22:32 This was what I could not believe
Stall...Stalll....every damn time....
you forgot...dont sink, dont sink..terrain terrain
Elston DSouza Because landing is a GE take stall, and the warnings warn you 10 ktias before a stall usually. You have to stay slow or you will overshoot.
Elston DSouza when you have such short crappy airfields, you fly the minimums that you can, so it stalls as you put it down, before you run out of runway, one reason they fly turboprops, is the availability of REVERSE thrust
full-stall landing is one-way landing a prop Cessna
Lol
I do find entertaining the comments made by folks that only understand flying from a distance. Watching these videos, what do I see? FUN! I am a retired Idaho backcountry pilot, where there exists much the same kinds of challenges as confront the folks flying where these videos were produced. Were it not so, Mission Aviation Fellowship would not have brought their new pilots here for many years to train, as this is the most like the third world flying that they would be doing any place in the world.
Truly the challenges are great, but it simply boils down to expertise, and management of risk. Yes, this environment is notoriously unforgiving, but that simply adds to the challenge of being on top of the airplane 100% of the time.
As the plaque I have hanging in my computer room states, "Flying, like the sea, is NOT inherently dangerous. But it IS horribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, and neglect." And that, gentlemen and ladies, is the truth.
HikerLarry & Packgoater Robinson lol you think there's flying like this in idaho?!! ROFL!! And yes, I am qualified to comment. Commercial pilot here.
I guess you have never been to idaho, there are plenty of mountains and mountains terrain.
If you think idaho is wild, you’ve never been to northern canada
Btw im a bush pilot in nunavut
I fly cargo to inuits
sam is a good man
Best place to fly in the wold for sure ,,takes such of high level of education ,money involved in license just to get to a muddy destination in the middle of no where
It's a great series, and I'm enjoying it. Great visuals, well told story, but the lack of proper sound engineering really disrupts this series.
Nice 👍🏽
🦠🧫🤒🤢 *@**12:22** ~ Certain strains of malaria will forever end a pilot’s career? I did a couple of quick Google searches but nothing popped up about that. Anyone know if that is really something that happens very often at all, or is it just an extremely remote possibility to possibly have a side effect from a certain strain of malaria?*
So much power for one man and look at his glasses , made for a kid, how come nobody can make a pair that fit?
too wholesome ngl
22:50 Did he forget what side the wheels were on?
the pay in Indonesia for pilots is about the same you get working in McDonalds full time in America too
no, it is not. Western pilots get paid very well in Asia, often better than in the west.
Is there a playlist whit the videos?
did anyone else notice that the alfaremyo logo flashes around 36:10
These pilots are amazing. All of their flying is visual and manual. There is no auto pilot to fly in mountain and jungle regions landing on dirt runways. Flight instructors have be what they are trainers. Do not criticize, you have to explain in a calm manner what a new pilot have to do in detail. Everyone does not learn at the same pace. They are learning to fly in a extremely dangerous place.
Those pilots are the smartest one.
I wonder if they later sit in front of their autopilots the whole day and realize they had the time of their lifes in Papua...
The music is so dominant, so over-the-top.
Its a documentary right? Not movie is it?
such a dream
cool
sam started out on his flite in a porter with twin garmin 430's, mfd, and analog gauges but ended with the G1000. how is that possible?
they may have either upgraded during the time of shooting, or swapped planes. one goes to maintenance, another one replaces it. For Sam it likely made no difference.
I reckon the bush flying looks far far far more interesting and fun than sitting in the seat of a 747….whivh basically fly themselves…
Eso se llama trabajar con amor por lo que haces, y por amor a quien le prestas el servicio. That is called working with love for what you are doing, and love who you pay the service
After a couple of years of this type of flying you would think commercial airlines would stand in line waiting to hire one of these pilots, they are paying dues most pilots never experience.
Every one wants to be an airline pilot
Where is the next episode ?🤩
I am really interested to see what happen to the man with arrow. Is he dieded?
Reminds me of Alaska Bush Flying
I rely like it
so what happened to sam? any update?
No TSA to check those bows and arrows
At 20:00 they mention the student has a TOTAL of 250 hrs. Wow, that's a low time pilot, and he's getting right in to a Cessna Caravan. I hope he does well.
LOL. In china, students with 250 hours start learning to fly a 787 or a330. I taught many of them, they went right into a wide body airbus or boeing while I am stuck sitting in the right seat of a 50 passenger regional airline for 2 years, then captain for 3-8 years, then MAYBE get to fly a320 or b737 for 10-15 years before I could even think about flying what they fly. The eastern world (anywhere east of Europe pretty much) has such a high demand and low supply of experienced pilots, plus their safety standards are so far below the western world.
It's not. In 250hrs you can get very well proficient at something, if you are dedicated to it. This ridiculous approach in the West that you can only grasp at what flying is after 2500+ hrs is just such nonsense. Yes, more experience, better. But you gotta get it somewhere. Airlines already suffer the consequences of these misguided policies. I am not saying a 250 hr pilot should go straight to a 747, but a 500 hr one should.
Checked Sam's LinkedIn. He is flying jets (A320) now.
@Twifo Cathay dragon. You not heard of Google?!
No shit. So you were expecting an answer from someone who posted nine months ago?
They're like gods flying in with their big birds, to some of the deep tribes, greet them with a smile and then they want to eat them! :-)
ok not to sound like a dim wit here but... if they are going on a cargo only run... why not use a piper cub (yellow old ones) and do STOL cargo runs.. no need to worry about overshooting since it requires minmum takeoff..? ive just been thinking that since i watched the first vid
kjilk simble Economics, a piper cub literally has enough space for a pilot and passengeer, no useful payload carrying capabilities there
ah ok.
kjilk simble yup
Pilates can take 1000 kg. This is the best STOl...
kjilk simble
good idea, but Piper Cubs cannot fly the heights where the these Pilatus Porter, turbo props can fly. Piper Cubs, where primarily used for observation and cannot carry cargo except a pilot, one passenger and probably their tooth brushes. I admire these pilots because they have trained themselves in actual flying situations instead of just flight simulators. Landing and taking off in those kinds of airstrips carved on top of mountains takes nerves of steel and tough pilot skills.
As a helicopter pilot, I wonder who, or if anyone, goes out and recovers those wrecks that are salvageable?
Most wrecks are not considered worth recovering in such terrain… if you can even manage to get your helo to the site in the most favorable VFR weather, you’d have to hover while winching a crew down to recover whatever CVR and data recorders might be down there. Besides critical evidentiary materiel and possibly rescue/recover crew and pax… you’re not salvaging much from the wreck
I wonder how much these pilots make. It depends on hours but still it is interesting to know on average....
less than mcdonnalds
360p? really?
Just a few more hours............
33:47 balls of titanium mate
Can not make babies with balls ( testicles ) of brass or steel or titanium mate. Or for that matter any metal. You males that use those terms are deprived of female company, they know what testicles are made of and used for.
It looks like united all over again when he pulls her off.
Weasle 65, what exactly did he pull off of her? Did not know airplanes had sex gender, learn something new every day.
A lot of pressure on someone with only 250 hours.
And this week, a Susi Air aircraft burned by Papua rebel group and its 6 passengers including 1 New Zealand pilot & 1 baby were taken hostage.
Susi Air est une bonne compagnie aérienne
"I like all of the videos really enjoyed viewing them"
glad you enjoyed them
Bajan Aviation "Honestly you're the hero of the sky and the native people below"
:)
"When I was a young teenage boy,a pilot was repeatedly play inside of my mind to conquer but never achieved! With all of these awesome videos I can imagine how happy you must have been being a pilot it's like you're a front row at a rock concert! What a perfect view and excitement was I right"
lol