Longest Taxi Ever! - SR22T IFR Departure (EHAM) Amsterdam Schiphol | IFR Flight Vlog 

The longest taxi ever was a cargo plane on one of the fast n furious movies. By my calculation, that had to be at lest a 20 mile long runway..

Definitely smuggled some cheeky space cakes back

Another great video Ben. I remember flying into EHAM in MSFS and being gobsmacked at the size of the airport and the complex taxiways. As for the wave from the KLM crew, when at EGGP on one of my solo flights I had vacated at Foxtrotand told "give way to the A320 left to right", they were on the main Alpha taxiway, and I got wave from the right hand seat: made my week let alone my day :-) I was in a Tommy!

Never thought I would enjoy a video where 50% of it is taxiing 😂 Great work on the comms and with the video.

Just pausing after 21 minutes to top up my wine glass with your amazing taxi Antony & Ben! Fantastic ATC especially the guy on Ground!

Oooh, that synthetic vision is amazing

I Ben hope you are well buddy. Not as much pressure for you sat in your studio.still brilliant buddy.take care and look after yourself philip.

That taxi was further than most people fly during their first solo. It was interesting to see how such a route is handled by the ground controllers.

Great video again Ben and the boys!

Most enjoyable vid yet! Could watch that taxi time and time again

Yeah... the Polderbaan-runway is a bit.. far ...

I have never seen such a really long taxi like this wow

Fantastic aircraft, and flight.

Ben, remember a visit to Amsterdam with my wife, went from Leeds Bradford (LBA). On arrival into AMS it was great to see you don’t leave the airport but go on the double decker train direct into Amsterdam. After a great day, which at the start of your video, you all seem to have had we return to airport. On pushing back the Captain (Jet2) announced we were taking a tour of the airport as we also took off on 36L now I can see why. Great Video and great work between you two pilots. Loved the contribution from the two passengers. The ATC team were really good and loved the guy who asked if you were enjoying the taxi. 🎼

Absolutely amazing Ben. One of my favourite videos. I say this on most videos but the editing and how it's layed out is spot on, good job mate. Makes me feel like I'm with you 😄!

I enjoyed the video and commentary the views of you instrumentation,make the ATC comms understandable; i will be flying again to Amsterdam next month for the rotterdam festival ,

Terrific stuff, up with Manchester. I love the Dutch. Spent 3 years in the RAF close to the Dutch border and spent many happy hours in their company! Great humour. A good example of the need to be on top of your game at a very busy international airport. Thanks for sharing!!

That was pretty cool indeed. I live near EHAM, am often at the spotting area next to rwy 36L/18R. It is pretty rare indeed to see a plane the size of yours take off from there! Kinda wondering how fast this taxiing goes in mph, I have not a clue. :)

Favourite video so far man! :)

Crazy, this is for sure one of the longes taxi I have seen.

In our backyard! Nice job!

Aviation is the best thing ever. The SR22T is by far my favourite GA Aircraft.

Long time on the ground but it still made for a great video. Interesting to hear all the radio work and thought the Dutch controllers came across as being very helpful.

Roughly measured it out ben, it roughly measured out to 7 miles of taxing 🤣

Great video, Ben. Don't forget the lesson from your Cambridge training flight. Always pass your cleared level/alt on initial contact. (31:30) Keep up the great work.

Awesome ben

Great video, nice flight!

Half of the video was actually the taxi! ahahahha. Loved it :)

This was a lot of fun! Two 5oz ciders here for the guy who refilled his wine glass ;) This felt like you got routed through the entire Netherlands!!! It reminds me of Spinal Tap :D Thanks for the effort and Best Wishes!

Try LFPG taxi routes, they are record breaking..........great video guys!

I've had some complicated taxi instructions. I've had some long taxis. But this is just plain nuts. A hoot, in other words. :-)

Yes, flying from Amsterdam involves about an hour taxiing followed by a 40 minute flight!

Normaly you cross rwy36C at W5 and then continue via V , nice video !!!!!

Nice video and a great trip guys! What was the flight planning software you said was free - Autorouter?

there are plans for an airport in sea in the Netherlands. Like the airport in Japan what’s built by the Dutch.

I've never seen a taxi that long. Interesting. Had a nice flight too. Thank you Ben. Fly safe

Plenty of radio practice for the PNF! Great video thanks. Did you record how much fuel you used for the taxi?

Great video Ben, what on earth did you do to Wayne that he had to have a sleep on the return trip?!

you might as well taxi all the way home!LOL!

I believe you departed via the volla sid.

Hope the job hunt is going well Ben. When are you next flying to/from Biggin?

@Plane Old Ben, a question: was there a reason for switching to STD baro at 1000ft with a TA of 3000ft? Procedure when already cleared to a FL there? Thanks for this fantastic video again!! I hope to fly (VFR) from Schiphol one day... Very expensive airport though. Keep these videos coming, safe flights to you! :-)

Lovely mackerel pattern cloud on landing - stunning. Thanks everyone (Wayne - wake up!) :-)

Nice video, mate! If you ever plan on visiting the Netherlands again, be sure to come over to EHDR, my home airfield! And give me a quick message before you do so... ;)

the tower told you that the 04-22 runway was not available other wise you would be taking of on that runway. Maintenance probably.

What do you need to be able to book a landing at somewhere like Schipol? Just wondering what hoops you have to jump through.

Nice video. Due to landings on RW27 you could not use RW04 (as told by ATC), which is normal. Bad thing for you that they where also landing on 36C so you had to go all the way around, normally you could have crossed RW36C via taxiway W5 (saves about 5 min). You could have asked for take off RW27 between the landing planes (not sure what time you where leaving and if there where many planes on final) Or asked for RW36R, due to your weight you would not need the whole runway, and a nice shot of the tower as you pass by on the heading 270. Further, nice communication skills and yes there are a lot of frequencies at Schiphol. You had to switch to several controllers (Delivery, South Ground, Tower, Center Ground, Tower, North Ground, 2de Tower, Departure). That 2de tower is only for RW36L as de main tower can not see that RW.

Am I the only one who thinks a 2.5 hr flight is a long time to NOT visit the lavatories 😂 Looked awesome as always Ben.

Please come back here again!!

Just out of interest what route planner did you use? 18:12

The first time I've seen a taxi that was longer than the flight LOL Your Backseat passenger makes a good point the controllers are not at all snooty I assume they obviously realise it's complicated and help our as much as possible

23:15 ...and here we are at Blackpool.

Can I ask what knee pad the pilot is using?

at 04:45 Landings on 36c and 27, so whichever direction you'd have taken off on 04 or 22 you'd have been heading into landing traffic.

Welcome to Schiphol where the taxi time from the gate to the runway can literally take longer than the flight to London itself! Create movie Ben!

It is not just the headwind component to be considered when descending but the loss of TAS as well?

Can you share a link to the free autoroute software you mentioned

How much fuel used in that taxi?

I think I have asked this before but don't you need oxygen above flight level 100 ?

lol, man looks likes you should have flown to the runway. man that was a long taxi.good grief you could have driven to your destination.

Yes, longest Taxi ever!

Takeoff at 24:10

4 guys in Amsterdam 😉

Would have been quicker to taxi to the ferryport!

Good old polderbaan!

12:05 "you could take of from this taxiway" Correct, totally never performed over their......

A whole different World to the EV97 student flying I'm doing...

Well known reported comment by pilot to his passengers when landing at Schipol. "Welcome to the Netherlands. We will now continue our journey to Amsterdam by road."