A Thrilling Flight on Aerial Firefighting Antonov An-32 

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Hi i am a fan

@@darkoblox9907 no I was first comment

not the same an12, in An-32 AI-20D more powerfull that AI-20M in An-12

@@testpilot1985 Cool. I didn't know that!

Thank you for the comment. I couldn't agree more. Lot of precision planning and executions are required on these aerial fire fighting ops.

@@SamChui true

Agree

Indians like here

Indeed, IAF is the big driving force to build An-32. For short field, dirt strip and high altitude ops

Lions roar, nothing less.

As an Indian Air Force Officer 1963 - 1993. Was commissioned in the year 1963 My dad used to fly in these IAF Transport Aircrafts Dakota, Packet, Caribou, An 12, Avro, AN 32 IL 76 and as his son saw him flying from most of IAF flying stations situated in India during that Time Period. My eldest Mama Eldest brother joined the Indian Air Force in the year 1946 RIAF, Royal Indian Air Force as an Pilot officer in the Flying Branch Transport 2nd elder Brother was commissioned as an officer in the Indian Air force the year 1953 was one of India's leading Para Jumping Instructors at Indian Air Force Station Agra in the 60"s - 1975. 4th elder brother was from the 1St Course Of NDA Selected in NDA 1954 Passed out in the year 1956 or 1957, as far my memory goes was commissioned in the year 1958 in the flying Branch Fighters. My eldest Mama in the year 1961 as an Wing Commander led the first Indian Air Force team to land at the Worlds Highest Air Field of Indian Air Force DAULAT BEG OLDI along with the then AOC - IN - C Western Air Command, Vice Chief of Indian Air Force Air Vice Marshal Erlic Wilmot Pinto, Squadron Leader Raja who later retired as Air Marshal in 1982 under the guidance of then Chief of Air staff Air Marshal Aspy Engineer . Unfortunately Mama died as in a Air crash in the year of 1962 involving an IAF Dakota flying from Barrackpore to New Delhi over Aligarh. he was Group Captain at the time of his death.

"Designed by Antonov in Kyiv."

They are Soviet, but ok.

@@stolas393 what do you mean by "but"? I mean, what's the point of your comment?! No one above said they are or aren't Soviet. And end of the day, how is it that important whether they are soviet or not? Antonov is a Kyiv design bureau, it changed countries, also, the planes are registered to Ukraine now, what's the point of pinpointing "soviet"? I mean, there are soo many comments about this, as if it is of top importance to note that the planes were designed during a dead country era and not some other time period.

@@NikolaiUA так дружок, это Советский самолёт вы можете орать сколько влезет, но от этого он более или менее украинским не станет)

@@NikolaiUA извини, но по твоей логике Ил-76, Ил-62, Ил-18. Ту-104/-114/-124/-134/-144/-154 и уйма других самолётов это русские самолёты. Так что, Мікола, не сердчай)

We were allowed on this training flight, it is difficult to come on the actual flight as crew will only focus on flying mission.

@@SamChui makes sense. My dad flies the L-188 ELECTRA for firefighting in canada. I was able to go with him on a small fire

Nice comment. Agree. When the power came on, I fell backwards for a moment because of the overpower.

Yeah, it’d be great to watch the same experience with Be-200.

The beriev is an amazing plane.

pilots are shaking too much. I guess it's difficult to fly. difficult to maintain balance, and pilots will be too much tired after a long flight.

@@langietor No. The An-32 is very stable cargo plane. Feels very massive and inert. For pilots it's not an agile unstable WW2 or aerobatic plane. An-32 has simple autopilot for long flights.

@@alexanderzelenkov6944 ok, can you tell me why pilots are shaking too much, its handle also shaking too much. I have seen videos of other planes take off, those are smooth

@@langietor Because of super-powerful old Soviet engines. You can't understand how severe is the vibration in this plane! Even in cruise flight your teeth clattered constantly. Very annoying. The plane just trembles constantly. You can see how GoPro camera shakes during take-off.

@@alexanderzelenkov6944 its screws

I would love to film it one day for sure. Unfortunately as you know, there was a sad crash of Be-200 in Turkey last month. ☹️

​@@SamChuiThank you for your answer. Sam, when one of these beautiful firefighter planes crashed, at that time I was in Greece on the island of Rhodes and I saw it in action a couple of days before the crash. I was very impressed by the water intake on the fly directly from the sea. Great plane and professional crew! it is a pity that he suffered a disaster saving animal people and the forest from fires! Other aircraft also took part in extinguishing the fire, for example the Kamov KA-32A helicopter. I can send you a video if you are interested Great Video about Beriev-BE 200 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wLaaWUX-E5Y.html

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Россия тоже помогала

Also, thank you to all the pilots for the demonstration, hopefully, it will make people aware of how dangerous and hard their job is! Спасибо!