The approach for Lenduma is a balance between touching down with sufficient runway and not clipping the trees. You have to be able to fly a curved approach and learn to ignore visual distractions making you think you’re too low. A tricky one!
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First ever landing at Trison, Papua 🙌🏻 See the constant rudder inputs to ensure a straight touchdown & hear the prop wash after touchdown to get to the top. You can also see the villagers celebrating this first ever landing as I spin the aircraft round 🎉🥳
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Volume up 🔊 Rear gunner’s blister view of a Catalina PBY-5A departure from Biscarrosse lake. I love flying this magnificent aircraft from water; it’s what she was built for after all! ✈️ 💦
Dear Twitter, our beloved Catalina is currently suck on Loch Ness and needs your help to get her back home before winter sets in. Please share and if you can donate, I'd be forever grateful!
Shocked that my 22 year old safety pilot has never heard of the Dambusters! Do they not teach WWII in schools any more? And how can you be a pilot if you’ve never heard of Guy Gibson?!?
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I truly hope so! 🙏🏻 I've driven Teslas which are much faster than my 911 but they don't have a soul, aka the flat six sound and thus just don't engage on the same level.
To those armchair pilots criticising the crew for fumbling their RT & taking their time, I would love to know how well you’d react to an emergency situation? Thankfully very few of us ever find out how we’ll handle it for real and not in a sim. This crew did fine and nobody died.
FULL ATC audio I compiled and uploaded to TikTok this morning shows how busy the Alaska 1282 crew was. Amazing job by both pilots quickly working through the situation, getting down to 10,000, and quickly getting back to PDX.
Captions are self-generated so apologies for any
Departing towards clouds and terrain 😱 The main thing is to stay visual and know your aircraft’s abilities (and your own) to keep away from both 👌🏻
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Enjoyable, hard work practicing engine failures in the world’s only DC-3 simulator today. Whilst I don’t fly the type, it has the same engines as the Catalina and so is invaluable training we can’t do in the real aircraft. I learnt a lot today!
Gaining 200ft AFTER touchdown 🤯 Watch the altimeter decrease on the approach and then increase after touchdown! This is Wipon airstrip in the highlands of Papua, south of Wamena at nearly 8000ft
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Watch my instant control corrections to save this take-off from disaster 😳 Every so often you get caught out and have to rely on experience to correct a mistake. What do you think I did wrong here to cause this situation?
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Happy New Year to you all! I hope you can all be as happy as the people of Liligan after a Pilatus Porter has made the first landing of their new airstrip 🥳
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Part 2 - the landing roll out. Because you all keep asking, no I didn’t go off the end, the airstrip is long for a Porter and hence the midway touchdown to avoid a long taxi.
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In case you missed it, here's how we lifted our Catalina out of Loch Ness. She's now undergoing an engine change on that tiny quayside before being lifted back in to fly home to Duxford. Help support
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here: (Pic credit Stoddart Crane Hire)
I always loved landing and taking off from these dramatic looking runways. Once you got the hang of it, they’re easier than the flat, slippery ones!
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Sometimes you need to fly a curved approach and sometimes you don’t. But when you don’t, it’s good to practice on larger airstrips
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Has anyone ever managed to get it down on the touchdown markers for runway 10 at St Barts? I feel like I need to go there and give it a go. Anyone got a Porter I could borrow?
The Catalina arriving Sunday morning at Old Warden for the
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Season Premiere Airshow. The official DVD and Blu-ray will be available from the Shuttleworth shop in the next few weeks.
It appears that dreams of landing at one of the country’s most unique airstrips will remain just that—a dream. Wildcard candidate Willie Wilson, who backed reopening Meigs Field didn’t garner enough votes to move forward in Chicago’s runoff.
Today was a good day! Catalina type rating and display authorisation all renewed just in time to display her at the
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this weekend ☀️✈️😎
Flying into a war zone(!) Panaga had just been attacked and I was tasked with bringing in local peace negotiators. It was always a bit unnerving landing somewhere where there’s unrest which was sadly common in Papua.
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Finally going through all my old Indonesia pics and thought I’d share them with you all. This new series,
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, will include many old favourites along with loads of as yet unseen photos. Keep following for more in the coming weeks/months!
I’ve written a book! Do any of my followers have any contacts in the book world who can help get it published? My manuscript is 104k words and details my 7 year adventure in Indonesia from quitting IT and nearly dying twice to staring in a TV series. Any tips greatly appreciated!
Crosswind and tailwind for this sporty landing at Ilaga 🥵 7500ft and affected by afternoon anabatic winds makes for a high touchdown speed: 60KIAS + 15kts density alt + 15kts tailwind = spicy landing 🌶️
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