Hopefuly your passenger received the medical help needed. Nice day for flying with busy air traffic. Medivac is a great use for the Kodiac. Thanks Ryan.
One of the best things I have seen you do is show you working out the cost for the passenger. Brings home how important community support is for everyone in PNG in these remote areas. It's not cheap but nothing important is.
Ryan, you should start a dedicated GiveSendGo page for these kinds of things. As a blessed American, I would HAPPILY contribute to that man’s transportation.
I once had a dream of becoming a pilot. As the years flew by, many dreams had to go ... there just wasn't the time to cover them All. Too many mountains & rivers; not enough years. It has been a wonderful life. But I am perfectly content to let you handle all the details of flight, and I am grateful that you are willing to do it (for a price!) I know just enough to stay entertained as I learn more. Thank You!
I started watching PilotDebrief about a year or two ago. Your black box makes so much more since now than when I first started watching you. Anything to help you not crash is a good thing.
My first flight with you. Excellent! Great video and instructive commentary and radio work. You are living one of my dreams, Ryan. My dream was Alaskan Bush Pilot. As I have gotten older and more mature in so many ways, I identify with Missionary Bush Pilot even more so. I look forward to many more flights with you! Now, to control my sudden urge to look into all of the sim gear and software. Help!
Hi Ryan, new subscriber, wanted to support your channel…. I’ve got plenty of flights to catch up on!…..I’m not a pilot, but found you through Hoover on Pilot Debrief…. It’s a pleasure to watch you fly, I’m in awe of what you do…. Glad to read your passenger got better 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing this flight with us. You face some unique challenges in that environment and handle them very professionally. A pleasure to watch. Cheers.
The median price for an air ambulance trip is $36,000. For context, the average cost of operating an air ambulance flight (according to air ambulance providers) is between $6,000-$13,000
I didn’t know you fly for MAF. I live within a couple of miles from the headquarters here in Idaho. I’m going to stop over there and see if I can get you some support
Yet another great video with excellent explanations! And, again, such deep understanding of the weather pattern in PNG. In my area, there have been some weather related glider accidents recently. In two cases the pilots perished, unfortunately. All caused by the pilots being inexperienced and not understanding how the weather works. So sad. Aviate, navigate, communicate! But also know how the weather works!
How are the people after the horrible landslide they had. It's not every day you see a more passionate person of flying. And caring for the people of PNG. Thank you for keeping us up to date. ❤
What an awesome and inspiring video Ryan! ❤💯 My interest about airplanes began when I was a kid growing up. Seeing you communicating with other pilots using ATC phraseologies is so incredible. I think it would take years and experience to master the different pilot call signs used in aviation. May God bless your work.🙏🙂
Great video mate, certainly brings back memories from my own PPL experience. Cost just became an issue for me, so now just buzz around in the flight sim. I think I just followed my dream too late in life but hey, I've always got my licence. Cheers Ian
I saw a recent clip where you ask for what else we would like to see. I would love you to tell the stories of what God is doing in the lives of the missionaries and the people they minister to in preparing them for Jesus' return. Thankyou so much for what you do! Every blessing!🎉😊😊
So glad you are there to provide medevac services like this. Out of curiosity, whenever you have passengers (ill or not) , what kind of safety briefing do you give them?
Hi, love the work you are doing!! i have a deep desire to become a bush pilot some day, and be abel to serve the lord in that way, how ever, sitill wainting on the call for it... ty for the videos, this kind of videos renews the fire in me to one day fly... Lots of blessing from Paraguay!!
@@MissionaryBushPilot i have a calling just not to that area, at least for now... i mean eventualiy im getting my piolots licence. and may God do his will, but at the time i got other things to get done i gues ;) i have a big admiration for the work you do!
I've seen some of your videos before, but it's been a minute. I'm 72 and retired now. Yay! 8) I sort of remember the analog "check box", you maybe showed that on Dan Millican's channel? That's brilliant!! I don't advocate for more controls, but given the number of accidents this year, maybe that could be linked to the throttle, only 25% available till the TO checks are complete! I was a little surprised at the yaw from the prop at altitude? That plane is pretty long? I don't remember the TBM doing that, or that much anyway. I was also hoping you didn't really charge the sick guy for the ride? You were going there anyway? I'm a notorious softie. 8) Thanks!! --gary.
Another uneventful flight. I don't think I'd be comfortable doing medical flights solo. If something should happen to a patient you can't pull over to assist! Stay safe. Looking forward to seeing next video.
"Due to animosity between tribes, no flights to be scheduled between Hewa and Yifki" :o wow, why is that? But you can fly in from the base? Just not between them?
Since everything is relative, but can be measured by common labor time, how many hours of work is 1080 kina? I understand people could claim to be sick to get cheaper rates, but it does seem expensive and perhaps some humanitarian rate should be listed or at the pilot's discretion.
@@amylenz6381 Absolutely, but understanding relative cost gives important context. It might be just $300 for us, but if $300 for them is the same as $36k is for you... that's different.
@@PiskeyFaeri It's not. $300 is a symbolic amount. That plane is $1500 an hour or more to operate. When you factor fuel, engine, depreciation, pilot, and airport fees. It's a lot. Medivac flights start at 150,000 USD where I am. A normal jet would be about 30k only, 5x markup back to the USA.
Having just turned 39 and got laid off, I'm at a crossroads. With 425K saved for an early retirement at 50, 10K in an HSA, and a property that could net me an extra 200K, what are my options for passive income?
I’m confused about whether to combine all my investment accounts into one. If I decide to do this, how should I go about it, and will there be any consequences I should be aware of? I also intend to sell my property, which could add an extra 200K overtime. Should I consolidate everything into one investment account, or diversify across several sectors?
These are important questions for a financial planner. I connected with mine at a NYSE summit, and with her help, my wife and I reallocated our 1.7M portfolio between a traditional IRA and a brokerage account. She’s been executing trades with our consent and has managed to recoup twice our crisis losses. We’re holding and cautiously navigating the market
Hey Ryan, I recently received my PPL and I'm working on my CPL now. If I wanted a job like yours, what steps would you recommend I take to competitively qualify for one? Love your videos man, it really motivates me to work hard and live a life like this one day.
Nice video Ryan :) Been a fan a long time and you probably have addressed this many times, but i have missed it:: Why do you go through so much trouble to avoid clouds? Your IFR i believe, so i was just curious. ❤💯🙏
Because of the mountains, if I go IFR, I have to go about 2-3000' higher to be at my minimum safe altitude, requiring me and my passengers to be on supplemental oxygen.
What mission are you with? Grew up an MK in Venezuela where MAF flew indians out if the jungle in medical flights and pretty sure they didn’t charge. It was part of their ministry.
Hey Ryan! Did you get to watch the new Amelia Earhart documentary they believe her plane crashed in Papua New Guinea they found engine serial numbers in the jungle matching her Electra
Curious: When you get tasked w a medivac, and you are flying as a missionary, who is it you are charging for the flight? Does it come from a governmental insurance scheme of some sort, from the missionary service, or from the village/family where the patient is picked up?
Hello Ryan; Of Aviation, I am watching, the MAX Documentary "Finding Amelia" about the female pilot, Amelia Earhart; circa 1945. Less, than five minutes, into the film; it states that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, crashed in Papua New Guinea. Do you believe that this is true? All the best, Shaun🦉 of New York City 🗽
I’m not a pilot, I noticed you changed your cruising altitude from FL170 down to 11,000 for the passenger. Did you choose that number becuase that’s the lowest safe altitude for the return flight? Or the highest safe altitude for an unpressurised cabin?
hey man ive been subscribed for a long time and i just read an article about the heli pilot that was gunned down and another pilot kidnapped and killed in papua new guinea. do you know anything about this? what is going on there?
Thank you, Mr. Ryan. Malaria? Some how, i had thought that natives had built up an immunity to Malaria. (Update: I'm totally wrong. Read the replies).. i know it's a very painful, awful disease. Poor guy.