@@Vrtulka103 While it was designed for cargo operations, there is a passenger variation that’s still in experimental. It’ll be used for both, but primarily cargo.
Hopefully in the era of next day delivery, using more of these aircraft to get packages faster to customers will give more opportunities to new pilots.
This is going to be a neat little plane to fly, especially getting in and out of small runways in remote areas, emergency medical evacs etc. critical cargo and medical supplies and support personnel, Cessna has a home run hitter here. ✈️
@@jay_Fx4 all the prop planes are in a far corner of our ramp and the opposite side from where I work so I don’t get to see them much. I only really see MD11s and 777s
I have absolutely no idea what maximum weight, fuel capacity and mileage etc is good for a cargo plane but the gentleman’s soothing voice make everything sound neat and informative… like one of those National Geographic documentaries narrated by old British folks. lol
It’s replacing the Cessna Caravan which was also slow but didn’t carry as much. This plane is the only reason your podunk town has air freight. If you live in a big city then you have nothing to whine about.
Nice work for lucky pilots. I a rookie pilot in Cessna 150 I got to ride along on a postal run in a piper Navajo once, from Edmonton to Calgary, we shot a game of pool and returned to Edmonton, he let me land the airplane, at night. What a treat.
Looks like a Shorts. Good useful load and slow. Good for feeder routes to hubs and good for finding pilots with 500 hours multi engine time to fly them.
And it’s old, slow, underpowered, poorly designed, and carries passenger incinerating fuel underneath the floor. Only two things the Twotter is good for. STOL operations (which 90% of Twotter owners don’t need) and that it’s the only aircraft in its category other than the Let-410/420. Not anymore. This will absolutely destroy the Twin Otter in market share.
It's probably a fine aircraft, but I don't see how this does "change the game". What would change the game is something radical, like a battery electric or hydrogen plane taken into actual service.
Commertial aviation is really more about small changes having huge effects, kind of how incremental increases in engine performance and reliability allowed twin engined planes to be used on transatlantic routes. A high cappacity, low maintenance feeder freighter could be very helpful to a company like FedEx. This plane really looks like a Cessna Caravan(that FedEx operates quite a few of)'s beefy cousin.
Because it’s a small aircraft that uses ULDs. This is as game changing as ISO containers are for shipping. It means you can take an ULD container from a large plane like a 767 and put it directly into this plane and vice versa without having to load and unload each package.
They could do more regional deliveries instead of just flying to the nearest big airport then trucking it the rest of the way. I live a few hundred miles from Seattle, I ordered something for next day delivery FROM SEATTLE. They put it on a plane, flew it to Texas, put it on another plane, flew it to portland, then put it on a truck that was going to near where i live, then put it in a delivery truck and brought it to me.... does that make ANY sense at all???
The Cessna Sky courrier is a real thing? I remember a little airline made fun of it because they came with it AFTER they had already purchased the Tecnam. I thought it was just a funny thing Cessna came up with but didn't realize they were actually building it
This is what America builds well, complex and expensive products. Socks? We need to buy them from overseas unless you want to volunteer to make them for $5/hour.
I like the look on his face being handed the keys, like bro I have probably 700 of these keys you could have tossed them to me across the room at this point
Fedex's plane mostly consist of widebodies that use LD3 container. A300, DC10, MD11, B777. Alongside the slightly smaller LD2 on their B767. Cessna skycourier able to carry 3 LD3/LD2 container. Which means that the groundcrew doesn't need to unpack the cargo and moved it into the old Cessna Caravan one by one. They could just shoved the LD3/LD2 from 1 plane to the other in 5 minutes instead of hours of unloading and loading each parcel one by one by hand. I don't think Ordering Q400 would be wise for them, knowing for a fact that they order lots of Cessna skycouier and the operate ATR42/72.
Nah, single engine has plenty of value still. Hopefully this gets rid of the need for constant airframe inspections though. Those 208s love to twist the hell outta themselves.
Oooh, industry news with industry exec types being applauded by dudes who get paid by the industry ! ! ! Jes, Juan! How can have a clamp, then get back to your post, the plane needs to be pack!! Chop chop
