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On Approach into Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Only a handful of Pilots can do it. Magical.

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Flying into Dutch Harbor/ Unalaska. It's WWII and you have no instruments, would you want to let down in this?
During the war, If pilots did find their way under the deck, they would often be forced to fly just above the sea level, seemingly skimming the waves or the opposite, trapped above the cloud layer searching or circling the airstrip until they ran out of gas and never seen again.
The difficulties flying in and out of any island along the chain, even with instruments, still plague the area today. Earlier in June, our first expedition tour group out to Dutch Harbor felt the full effects of this making it to Sand Point only to turn back becasue the ceilings were too low in Dutch Harbor to land, much to the dismay of our passengers. The fact that they just experienced an authentic Aleutian experience did not console them.
This had been happening all week and it happened again towards the end of the month when friends tried to get in. One never knows until the moment, not even the weatherman. The conditions (fog and clouds) change quickly there. Wartime pilots used to say that they could take off in clear skies and by the time they got to the end of the runway they were in the fog and that there was only a 50% chance they'd find the strip when they got back.
This video is from our successful flight in with our second tour group mid June. No problem. But take a look at what is around you and how frightening it must have been to go into the clouds not knowing what is on the other side or amidst.
Alternatively, when you have visbility, the Aleutians are gorgeous and hard to beat. Totally worth the effort getting to them. Thank God for instruments! Enjoy.
If you have not been to the Aleutian Islands yet, you should. If you need help getting there- contact me and I'll guide you.

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@mcjoyner52 5 месяцев назад

I spent a year and a half on Adak as a kid when my dad was stationed there, then did my own six month deployment in 1989. Dutch Harbor is almost identical. Brings back memories, thanks!

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

I LOVE Adak. I lead WWII History tours there and mixed in is some Cold War. You should see it now, it's in a sad state. Still beautiful though.On my channel I have an approach into Adak and I should be posting some other videos from Adak soon. Hope to be there this summer.

@TR-on9tx 5 месяцев назад

I flew a B 737 in and out of Dutch for years. Fun..

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Awesome! People still talk about when those were flying there! I wish I was around to see that. I wish Alaska would bring them back, maybe the planes would get in more. BTW- what was your flight completion rate in the 37? Or how often did you have to turn around?

@gregoryronnback2756 5 месяцев назад

When you know what the job is, and you know how to do it, it's no big deal. Here's to competence.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Tell me more! I'd love to hear your experiences there. What was your favorite one? @@gregoryronnback2756

@ryanlawrence9010 3 месяца назад

Doubtful.🦀🖕

@TR-on9tx 3 месяца назад

@@ryanlawrence9010 Flying north.

@MoufandTia 5 месяцев назад

The back door approach. Challenging, but any accomplished pilot is capable of this. Flew in there in a DC-6 a few times. Great job.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Oh for sure. And likely thousands have over the years. There was a point in time only a limited number of Part 121 had the qualifications to do so. And very cool. When did you fly DC-6s in there?

@watsonspuzzle 5 месяцев назад

I flew into Dutch Harbor in the 90s to board a fishing vessel, and it was scary. Everyone clapped and cheered when we landed.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Yep!

@douglasdowling9157 5 месяцев назад

Been on many of those flights

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

What was your most memorable one.. for old times sakes... @@douglasdowling9157

@user-qf6eq3dw5z 5 месяцев назад

When I landed on the albatross I did the same. Best bird ever.

@user-xq1qb4ir5k 5 месяцев назад

Flying into Dutch on a 737 with the wings flapping like some Segall is a memory I due" remember well,but then again flying in and out of dutch on any plane was a extreme back in the 90s

@lousiegel3330 5 месяцев назад

My dad was a CPO in the 8th CBs and part of their mission was the construction of Dutch.. he grew up in the Northwest, as a timber Faller, and then a steel worker on grand Coulee dam. He was in his early 30s, and used to the hard rural life. He said a lot of guys had a real tough time. I can only imagine.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for your comment! The Aleutian campaign had one of the largest contingents of Seabees of the war! Their work can be seen throughout the chain and it is IMPRESSIVE! They did amazing things and in a hurry. The campaign also had one of the highest suicide rates due to the reasons your dad stated; remoteness and isolation, no escape, lack of amenities, very few women and the distance meant it took a long time for basic supplies and mail to arrive, particularly early on. Does you dad have memorabilia from his time there?

@lousiegel3330 5 месяцев назад

@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea You are clearly well informed. For a long time, I had lamented that no information seemed to be available. But about 15 years ago, another son of an 8th Construction battalion member, compiled a CD, which encompasses the entire “ships log“ from inception to deactivation, along with a DVD of home movies compiled throughout the period. My family was able to see what my dad looked like as a young man, along with recreational activities that they tried to enjoy throughout the war. It’s hard to wrap 1’s brain around the sacrifices of so many millions of young men and women, and horrors experienced by noncombatants, throughout the 15 year period, that I guess actually continues to today. Do you have a connection to Seabees?

@verdegeo5721 5 месяцев назад

I worked in the SE as a geologist and flew out of ketchikan on float planes, vividly remember straddling thin layers of clear air or partly clear air between the fjord and the cloud bottoms, winding up the valleys at nearly tree top level, looking sideways at bald eagles. I recall that the pilot was first at landing a float plane on a glacier, or so I was led to believe.

@tango6nf477 5 месяцев назад

I find it sad that people often get picky over a video title. Its the content that matters, they are free and someone went to the effort of producing them for our entertainment. Thank you Florida beaches.

@briansilcox5720 5 месяцев назад

I thought that same thing a few seconds before your post popped up! My uncle flew his 386th Bomb Gp Douglas A-26 Invader from Valley Wales, UK, to Bradley Field, CT, solo, as a 23 yr old returning from ETO duty in July 1945. He described his approach to Bluie West 1 very similarly up the fjord to a one way runway.

@brucelawson642 5 месяцев назад

😅

@sledawgpilot 5 месяцев назад

It’s clickbait. It’s a challenging approach but there’s many pilots that could competently do it.

@kevinreeb8670 5 месяцев назад

I would agree as a pilot. This was a mundane video.

@sledawgpilot 5 месяцев назад

Just looked at the approaches. Pretty basic fixes and letdowns. Runway isn’t aligned with the final approach course but also there is a ceiling and visibility requirement of 2000 ft and 3 miles so not super tense. If you have to miss, you make a climbing turn to the north. Aspen, Eagle, Hayden, Telluride all more pucker factor in wx.

@eaonhendrickson8666 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for posting this! I worked for Unisea back in the mid-late 90's. I first worked on their ship docked in Saint Paul Island and transfered to Dutch Harbor/Unalaska. Well when the pilot tried to land the plane (Penn Airlines) the runway was very icy. The plane went sideways almost crashed into the bay at the end. We got lucky and the pilot was able to correct it and immediately took off, circled around and landed safely. I really thought that I was gonna die that day. I've told countless people this story and always tell them that the runway is no joke!

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 8 месяцев назад

Goodness- I have heard many other similar stories. And I am so glad I have experienced nothing like that on my flights in (I better knock wood somewhere.) Was that pilot named Burke by chance?

@ryanlawrence9010 3 месяца назад

U screwed how many?

@fatamorganascalaska6870 5 месяцев назад

As I recall, the missed approach point was some ways out. Mark Air dinged a 737 there once. Runway is just long enough.. can't easily be lengthened because of ocean off both ends. - And there is, of course - the Weather....

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

I would have loved being there in the days of the 37. DOT has been talking about lengthening the runway again, it has been lengthened once already years ago but still not long enough... Thanks for the great comment!

@jamesburnside3023 5 месяцев назад

Excellent video enjoyed it start to finish

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@thegodfather7927 5 месяцев назад

We did this many times in Cold Bay heading to Aleutian Island in a 8 passenger aircraft. The pilot landed it reading a newspaper on his lap.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

When the weather is nice, there is no better place to fly! It is gorgeous. The problem, is the wx is ofter crap. I made the same flight Cold Bay to Dutch in a Navajo and a Widgeon.. one was through a storm... no newspapers that day. haha

@AnthonySejda 5 месяцев назад

Fascinating video, and coments.

@RaoulStankovitch 5 месяцев назад

Know what this must be like. Dad flew C-54's into Bluie West 1 during WWII. Same tale as recounted in Ernie Gann's "Fate is the Hunter". Imagine finding the sole fiord entry without any modern device beyond the ancient Sextant....any finding it every time.

@chrischapple7575 5 месяцев назад

Great book, read it twice!

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Pretty much the same thing. Dead reckoning. My grandfather flew P-40s in the Aleutians (1942-43) Inadequate maps, no nav aids, terrible weather, no emergency landing strips, unfamiliar terrain, magnetic anomalies... a fliers nightmare. Thanks for sharing your dad's service story!

@RaoulStankovitch 5 месяцев назад

@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSeamy older Brother flew "The Hump" in C-87's and the truly deadly C-109 'flying gas station'. They really deserved to labeled, "The Greatest Generation."

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Yes. Yes they do! @@RaoulStankovitch

@Venoms60 5 месяцев назад

It´s magic.. beautiful

@yamstar1johnson991 5 месяцев назад

A beautifully desolate landscape

@brose27377 6 месяцев назад

Very informative. Dad was stationed at Dutch Harbor during the war as a Navy Seabee. His favorite time there was walking out on the moors hunting rabbit or deer in order to avoid eating all the mutton the Navy was serving. After that he was sent to Hawaii and then on to Iwo Jima.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing that about your dad. : ) The Aleutian campaign had the largest contingent of Seabees in the Pacific. I have been to nearly every island along the chain where we had a base and I can understand why. It was a monumental task building bases in the Aleutians, another overlooked item in history! The mutton farm is still active! It is in Chernofski at the west end of Unalaska Island. I have been there several times. Fascinating place. I don't think Dutch had deer but they may have had caribou... I know those were brought into other islands for subsistence. I know Umnak, 80 miles away had caribou.. that they would hunt. What year was he there? I lead history tours there.. It is worth the trip!

@brose27377 6 месяцев назад

@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea He was there in 1942-43. BTW, he would never eat mutton again in his life. Mom cooked all kinds of different things, including tounge, liver, sweetbreads, but never mutton! He was an engineer without an engineering degree. He could fabricate anything out of next to nothing. He was 24 when he enlisted, which was 'old' (to avoid being drafted; he was still single), and had already owned/operated a gas station in North Dakota where he grew up learning how to be self-sufficient. In the 1930's he hitchiked out to Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state to work on one of FDR's New Deal Public Works Projects (not sure if CCC or WPA).

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 6 месяцев назад

Grand Forks- know it well, my family is from Winnipeg. My Grandpa joined the RCAF when he was 23! Another old man. That generation was a different breed. @@brose27377

@jaymo7010 5 месяцев назад

Flew in there for 34 years,turned around as many times back to Anchorage, scary place to land a plane,if its easy go take a trip in the middle of winter,wear a diaper

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Exactly. Thank you for chiming in. This video was taken on a nice day. My grandfather flew a P-40 there during the war, (1942). No nav aids, inadequate maps, unfamiliar terrain... five of his squadron mates airplanes are still on a mountainside near by. BTW- what is your most memorable landing?

@CreekLocks 6 месяцев назад

Impressive...Great video!

@stevenrichards8880 5 месяцев назад

Beautiful "when you can see it."

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Ha! Right? Nothing better when the sun comes out.

@lawrencemartin1113 5 месяцев назад

Wonderful. What a location. 😊

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

It is as wild as it is spectacular!! One of my favorite places.

@davidsheriff8989 5 месяцев назад

Skill and calm approach....textbook

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Yes this was a very nice day in the Aleutians. Not typical though. It is notorious for being difficult to land at. And really, I was envisioning my Papa landing there in his P-40 in 1942-1943, with no nav aids, inadequate maps, unfamiliar terrain.. having to let down in that to try and find the runway. And actually five of his squadron mates are still on the mountainside about 60 miles away, as are many others pilots from that era. Of course it is much easier with instruments and nav aids. Even so, Dutch has had two plane crashes (one commercial and one Life Med) in the last four years with all of those modern technologies. Thanks for the comment.

@douglasdowling9157 5 месяцев назад

I remember years ago early nineties there was about 4 or 5 pilots allowed to fly into dutch harbor.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, this is what I was referencing. I think when I first flew there, there were only six, part 121, at that time.

@mike605 5 месяцев назад

I use to live in Dutch Harbor back in the early 80's and work fishing out of there. i was sitting outside one day and watched Mark Air come in for a landing on the gravel run way and they did a 360 and all you could see was dirt going everywhere once the dust settled down the plane was okay and everyone was fine. Quite the landing. Dutch Harbor sure has changed I'm glade i saw all the bunkers and things from WW2 I don't know if there are there anymore ?

@jackprier7727 5 месяцев назад

Flew in on Penn Airways late 80s gravel-flying landing after air-dancing wildly on approach. Left 7 months later on a 737 from pavement. I remember the concrete barracks still had WW2 paperwork scattered on the floor, and of course the gun emplacements atop the hill overlooking the Unisea and the harbor-

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Ha! Those guys had guts. I wish I could have seen it in the 80s with Fort Mears still up or the cabanas in the valley. It is all torn down and been redeveloped. Gun emplacements, ammo bunkers and some fallen quonsets still sit on Bunker Hill, Ballyhoo, Morris Cove and Strawberry though. That really is what my channel is about, WWII in the Aleutians so I'll have lots of videos coming up exploring the sites. My grandfather flew P-40s there 1942-1943. oh- and I have a great video of flying over the now city of Unalaska/ Port of Dutch Harbor from the front seat of a Grumman Goose if you want to see more of what it looks like now. Still a gorgeous city when the sun is out! Thanks so much for the great comment!

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

I did not realize PenAir was flying there in the 80s! The company is no longer in service after crashing the Saab 2000 in Dutch in 2019.. still sitting on the side of the runway in one of the old WWII revetments. I would have loved to have seen a 737 fly in there! I wish they'd bring that back rather than the Dash-8 and Saab that always gets weathered out. I wish I was around in the 80s to see the only barracks. I have explored most of the bases along the chain, of course with no inhabitants since the war, you can sometimes still find jewels left behind. All the gun emplacements on Bunker are still there.. watch for videos coming soon. That is what this channel is about- I have been following my grandfather's footsteps through the Aleutian Islands for the last decade and lead WWII history expeditions through the chain. It is a way for me to honor his service and those who served alongside him in this largely forgotten about battle. Thanks for the great comment and memory! @@jackprier7727

@thomasmaughan4798 5 месяцев назад

Been there, done that on a P3. Missed Dutch Harbor but visited Cold Bay; sliding a bit sideways on the runway. An Aleutian island on a (rare) sunny summer day is glorious. July and August tend to be best.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

I LOVE P-3s!!! They are still in service although I think, if I remember correctly, there were two active squadrons that were getting phased out. One came to the Air Show at Elmendorf a few years ago. For me, that was the best thing at the show! You must have been stationed out at Adak? Another gem. Cold Bay, great runways, same wx! Nothing better than the Aleutians WHEN the sun is out, indeed. Obviously, when I filmed this, it was a nice day in Dutch!

@philtorres2975 5 месяцев назад

US Navy Aircraft Carrier pilots have a shorter landing strip to land, granted they also have arresting wires but they also deal with that landing strip pitching and rolling at times.

@Cantsaydog 5 месяцев назад

Yeah for us in the lower part of the country this is beautiful very beautiful looks like a lot of potential for some panning for gold and all those washers coming down off the mountains should be some nuggets in there 🤑

@southcoastindustrial 5 месяцев назад

Wonder if they still have the lumber piles on both sides of the runway to keep you from going off the edge. Flew in there 1980 and a faaker clipped the edge of the pile on approach and lost an engine the week before. Engine was still sitting off the edge of the runway. Everyone was aware of the crash so the pucker factor was major flying in. Wonder if the Elbow Room is still there?

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

The Elbow room is no longer there sadly. Dutch just had two plane crashes in 2019, a Penair flight in a Saab 2000 went off the end of the runway on landing and the same with a LifeMed King Air. They are still parked alongside the runway in the old WWII revetments. There are no longer any lumber piles. In their place on these large concrete X block type things (not sure of the proper name for those.)

@southcoastindustrial 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. Yeah I was just there for a couple days waiting to catch a boat to take it through the Panama Canal. 1980 Playboy rated the Elbow Room the most dangerous bars in the states. I just remember being super tired and hearing two guys fighting in the hallway at the hotel that was attached to the bar. Figure when all the stools are bolted down in a bar, that policy must have been implemented for a reason. Thanks for the great video@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Ha! Sounds about right. That was before my time but I have heard stories to the such. Thanks for the comments! @@southcoastindustrial

@user-vj2vm2wz3o 5 месяцев назад

one of the best videos i have seen great Job ! I will subscribe

@ocsrc 5 месяцев назад

I am more interested in how they got that huge tanker against the shore That must be a deep harbor

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Very- it is the only deep water port in all of the Aleutians and has been used as such since the 18th century! As a result, it has a huge fishing industry.

@AX01Adventures 5 месяцев назад

Nice video! Flying in Alaska is beautiful when the WX is nice. Back in the mid nineties I made a few deployments out on the chain to the Bering Sea. Elbow Room was fun, they had a two piece band playing, and we talked them into playing “Whip It”. Flying over Kiska was pretty cool seeing the WWII remains. There was a crashed Bomber, I believe a B-17 on one of the smaller islands. You could still see the groove in the dirt from the landing. I wonder if that WWII bomber is still out there? Subscribed.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

It IS still out there! It's a B-24D and it's on Atka, I have a brief video of it on my channel with plans to do a longer one. I LOVE Kiska, I have been to it three times via boat and hiked the old bases on foot but never flown.. yet. That would be cool to see it from the air though. Goals. Whip it.. that is hysterical, so many stories from the old Elbow Room! Thanks for the great comment! I really enjoy hearing peoples memories of the chain.

@thomasmaughan4798 5 месяцев назад

There's a video that includes approach and landing (from the other way) at Dutch Harbor in a Lockheed Electra: "ELECTRA! Queen of the Aleutian Islands" Dutch Harbor on a nice day: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98Ya4RWlXs4.html runway 13 Cloudy windy day, missed approach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98Ya4RWlXs4.html Rough landing at Dutch Harbor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98Ya4RWlXs4.html Sand Point landing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98Ya4RWlXs4.html Scary approach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-98Ya4RWlXs4.html

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Awesome. Thanks for these. Just another day in the Aleutians! We landed in Sand Point on our way to Dutch but only to turn around and head back to ANC because of the wx!

@reggierico 5 месяцев назад

Pretty nice day at Dutch, actually.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Ha! Yes, it was a good flying day!

@richardsoane6192 5 месяцев назад

excellent

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Thank for watching!

@Wanderingsomewhere145 5 месяцев назад

Climbed the water tower there in 1975 with 3 other sailors and painted USCGC “Midgett” on the tank. Wonder if the tower still stands? Had to take a small boat ashore while the cutter was anchored in the bay.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Neat!! Was that the tank on Strawberry? Behind/beside Safeway? Or on Ballyhoo?

@Wanderingsomewhere145 5 месяцев назад

@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSeaThere was no Safeway there in 1975 and I don't know where Strawberry or Ballyhoo is. I recall the cement WWII ammo emplacements on the side of a hill. The names of other Coast Guard cutters were painted on the side of the emplacements and we painted "Midgett" above what I recall as the "Pontchartrain", WHEC 70, on the water tower.

@Wanderingsomewhere145 5 месяцев назад

@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSeaYou might enjoy "The 1000 mile war" written by Brian Garfield describing the Japanese occupation of the islands Kiska and Attu during WWII! When I went ashore in Kiska, there were still blown up Japanese ships in the harbor. .

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

During the 70s you would have seen how the base was laid out as I believe most of Fort Mears was still there, abandon but present. That would have been neat to see. Ballyhoo is the mountain at the side of the runway and the large boat Harbor in Dutch Harbor. The coast guard still do that, I believe it is when ships retire. They are some on the ammo storage bunkers located on the side of Ballyhoo facing Dutch Harbor and I think on some shipping containers. It is neat to hear that the tradition started as far back as the 70s. I am not sure if yours is still there, I'll see if I can find out. @@Wanderingsomewhere145

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Good read. I like Aleutian Warrior, by John Cloe. I have been to Kiska and Attu three times! I lead WWII history expeditions out there- epic adventure and unreal and largely unknown history. Did you just stay close to shore or did you venture over to the North Head to see the big Japanese guns? Very cool. I think I have a video on my channel showing some of them. My intention is to make more like that. @@Wanderingsomewhere145

@thecameramantraveler4830 4 месяца назад

This place is on my recreational fishing bucket list along with other coastal towns and cities in Alaska. If I may ask, what airline option would fit me better to fly here? Raven or Aleutian airways?

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 4 месяца назад

I highly recommend it! I LOVE Unalaska/Dutch Harbor. The beauty is never-ending. And if you like eagles, that is the place to go. I just posted a video about that. Lots of great restaurants in Dutch Harbor also. As for your flight, I am not sure what will fit you better. Aleutian airways is faster, Saab 2000, seats around 50 people. Ravn uses Dash 8s, which I think holds 35 but they cannot fill up the plane so even less. If you try Aleutian Airways, let me know how it goes. I have flown on the Saab a bunch of times when it was PenAir but never on AW.

@johnstreet797 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like an old Dash 7A flew in in Hawaii years ago with the engines out of sync.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Very good- it is a Dash8!

@FAA-DPE 5 месяцев назад

Wow, that's just as difficult as landing at KTTS

@will7its 5 месяцев назад

WoW you can really see why planes crash, not for me. 🙃 Great video......

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

And this was a very nice day actually.

@will7its 5 месяцев назад

haha, I figured it was. Living on the edge. Good stuff......@@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea

@colinclenton7693 5 месяцев назад

Could someone please explain what the "difficulty" is. Perhaps I'm far too sober to see it???

@douglasdowling9157 5 месяцев назад

Mostly the weather...

@jackprier7727 5 месяцев назад

Wild air currents when you get low- I thought we were going into the drink with all the air dancing [late 80s} but I was mid-20s and "It's just water , we'll be fine",-- I thought-stuff sliding all over the plane, pilots hanging on with L hands-

@yankeeairpirate1799 5 месяцев назад

Piece of cake

@GWNorth-db8vn 5 месяцев назад

I would have been lost after the first turn.

@jackriley5974 4 месяца назад

WW11 was nearly 80 years ago? I suspect nearly all the licensed pilots in Alaska could grease a landing there? I did however experience a similar situation in the Adirondacks of NY. Long story short, I was illegally on top and ran out of fuel. Time I found a hole there wasn't any place to land but a farm field. Made the local paper, but I was supposed to be at work, and that didn't look good. The sheriff showed up and let me wait in his car for FBO and owner who delivered 2 cans of fuel and allowed me to fly it out.

@haveraygunwilltravel 5 месяцев назад

Hundreds of pilots did it almost every day during WW2.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

They sure did. My grandfather was one of them. He flew P-40s in the Aleutians 1942-1943. That is what my channel is about, I have been following his wartime footsteps through the Aleutian Islands for the last twelve years.

@marchartman1115 5 месяцев назад

Looks to be low tied.

@jobertoat 5 месяцев назад

Se não tiver experiência não chega.

@FinkelBlog 5 месяцев назад

Were you on an IFR clearance? You had to descend through clouds and it wasn't possible maintain VFR.

@tanagra2 5 месяцев назад

I am amazed at your comment. No of course he had no clearance at all, flew into cloud descended just missed a mountain but was lucky enough to pop it on the runway. All without prior planning.

@FinkelBlog 5 месяцев назад

@@tanagra2 I understand your point, but was trying to give him the chance to describe what he had done, rather than simply accuse him of it.

@Banditt42 5 месяцев назад

"only a handful of pilots can do it". what an ego.

@shawnbyers6291 5 месяцев назад

The title was from someone trying to do the FSX Dutch Harbor mission…😂

@jeanlavoie5598 5 месяцев назад

I dont understand the title, any pilot can land an airplane there, nothing exceptional about this runway.

@utbb2007 5 месяцев назад

click bait, lol

@JW-gb6hq 5 месяцев назад

I love all the comments about how easy this runway is. This video was shot on a nice day for Dutch Harbor….when wx is not so agreeable this becomes a very challenging location….look at the terrain and then try and imagine wind patterns and scenarios that are not your everyday at home flight sim experience. I have much respect for those that operate safely here on a regular basis. I had more than one occasion where approach here had to be terminated and flight diverted to Cold Bay or return to Anchorage as a result of wx. Former Northern Air Cargo DC-6 line pilot.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Cool! And precisely. Even now, planes only get in, I'd say 60-70% of the time. This particular day was a nice day in the Aleutians. In hindsight, I could have added one words, like Part 21 or something.. Still, I think of my grandfather, he flew P-40s there during the war and the other fliers from that generation and what they had to contend with: inadequate maps, no nav aids, minimal wx reports, unfamiliar area, hostile environment, no emergency landing strips... letting down in that surrounding...Still many wrecks that litter the hillsides surrounding the ares. Thanks for the comment!! BTW- what is your most memorable Aleutian flying moment?

@thierryk5381 5 месяцев назад

Clickbait

@douglasdowling9157 5 месяцев назад

Not so....

@flyboykfpr 5 месяцев назад

I could land there.

@ocsrc 5 месяцев назад

They don't have IFR ?

@oobenoob 5 месяцев назад

No RNAV approaches available?

@dansarette101 5 месяцев назад

WHAT PLANE IS THIS ?

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

This is a Dash 8.

@skyepilotte11 5 месяцев назад

Was that a published instrument approach?

@michaelrice500 5 месяцев назад

Yes

@patrickjennings7362 5 месяцев назад

The IMC can suck, but Dutch Harbor is not a hard field for landing.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment. I'd love to hear about your experiences there!

@honyock332 5 месяцев назад

Meh...flew in and out in a 737 (just a passenger) to work on the FV Alaska Ranger which later sank (years after I had been there). Not the best video when you're looking out the side at the dirt...

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Cool- I would have loved to fly in there on a 737 or even have seen that! As for my video, I don't think they would have liked me barging into the cockpit to take my video! haha. Although, I would have loved that. I have a few more videos on my channel with a cockpit view and maybe a post a few more. I flew in there on a Widgeon this summer, that is on my channel and I also have a forward facing approach from a Goose! Check those out.

@Stude59 5 месяцев назад

Not what the big deal was….commercial flights do it regularly…..weather permitting of course.

@stephengodfrey5644 5 месяцев назад

Power equals thrust equals lift put in simple terms the more more power creates thrust in a horizontal plane which in turn up or alternatively if in the loss of power and the loss of thrust creating less lift or the decrease in lift where as power has nothing to to do with speed which is controlled by the attitude of the aircraft nose up or down, nose up creating loss in airspeed which can lead to less airspeed to create a stall in simple terms or down increasing airspeed. Nice landing but not a difficult one.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Oh, it sounds like you have flown there?

@K2H117 2 месяца назад

There's a runway, pilots will land there 😂. Not a standard approach, yeah, but any pilot with a good amount of seat time could do it I think.

@garydoub7463 5 месяцев назад

Jean , did you not see the descent thru clouds ?

@tomcook5813 5 месяцев назад

Twin otter?

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Dash 8. Ravn Alaska. : )

@brucelawson642 5 месяцев назад

Handful?😅

@ryanlawrence9010 3 месяца назад

8 tours. Better flying out wounded.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 3 месяца назад

Ha! Right! People just don't understand unless you have been there. Thanks for chiming in and thank you for your service!

@rickc1410 5 месяцев назад

WHO WANTS TO LOOK SIDEWAYS UGH!

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, I don't think the pilots would have appreciated me barging into the cockpit just to get my shot. I DO have a video on my channel, the approach into DUTCH HARBOR from the front seat of a 1943 Grumman Goose. And perhaps I'll post more of those, I have landed in 5 or 6 different aircraft there.

@mst5632 5 месяцев назад

Nothing to see here folks. Move along.

@Grandpa-Chris 5 месяцев назад

That was a waste of 6 minutes and 14 seconds… talk about ‘click bait’ awful camera angle pathetic video.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

No click bait- not even sure what that is! I am new to the platform of RU-vid. I started this channel to honor my grandfather who was P-40 pilot in the Aleutians during WWII. I have been following his wartime footsteps through the Aleutian Islands for the last twelve years. I was not allowed in the cockpit on this commercial flight into Dutch Harbor but I have two other videos on my channel, one from the right seat of a 1943 Grumman Goose and the other from a Widgeon. Thanks for watching anyways.

@ChazToz 5 месяцев назад

I call #ClickBait Day VFR Visual Approach into... Is a more accurate title.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Hi- I am not sure what click bait is, I am new to the platform. Dutch is notorious for being a challenge to land at. Albeit, this video is a very rare nice day but when I posted it, I was thinking of my Papa who flew P-40s there 1942-1943 with no nav aids, inadequate maps, poor radio communication and often in radio silence and unfamiliar with the terrain. I was thinking of them having to let down in that cloud layer with peaks all around so they could try and find the only runway or flat land around for the next 100 miles or so. Five of his squadron mates are still on the mountainside 60 miles away as are many others. That is what my channel is about- honoring those who served in this mostly unknown campaign. But thanks for the comment!

@markmartin9346 5 месяцев назад

Only a handful of pilots can do this? bunch of BS.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Hi Sunshine! PADU is on the Part 121 Special PIC Qualification airport list. It is true that over the years many, likely thousands, have gained the qualification to fly into Dutch. The point is that it is a tricky approach/departure. Do you fly with Ravn or did you fly with PenAir or Grant, Ace or Medivac? I would love to hear about it!

@markmartin9346 5 месяцев назад

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea tricky? Break out of clouds at a very high MDA and the fly straight in to the airport. Try flying into some airports in West Virginia where you descend thru the valley on your approach and don't see the runway til you turn final. No way for straight in at a lot of these airports or some of the grass strips in Utah. These special quals for like Dutch harbor are for the part 121 people.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 месяцев назад

@@markmartin9346 Agreed. It may have been difficult and/or expensive to get the certification due to bureaucracy and small-town politics but there was absolutely nothing challenging about that approach. As far as danger and requiring any special skill, I'll put a high-altitude airport in Colorado (like Aspen or Telluride) way above this any day of the week.

@markmartin9346 5 месяцев назад

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea part 91 ops don't need any certification or permission to fly into PADU. I'm ATP with 27,000+hrs flying everything from gliders to 767. Sorry, haven't flown with ravn or whoever.

@denali9449 5 месяцев назад

@@markmartin9346 Personally I wish this video had never been posted as it is not indicative of what Dutch really has to offer. It is not so much having a cert to fly into Dutch. It is whether the pilots have the local knowledge and fortitude to do it. Please do not underestimate the little runway on a rock in the Bering Sea. To do so would be at your own peril. This landing was highly unusual in that the weather was beautiful, virtually no wind and a dry runway. The weather is so unpredictable and variable out there that after a four hour flight you could miss a miss or make a landing window by minutes. And the wind? Lordy, Mt. Ballyhoo does not like planes and will spit out a 100 mph crosswind wooly at the drop of hat on an otherwise calm day. Given the geography there is no way to detect those rascals before they hit the runway. I have no idea what the failed, perhaps rejected would be a better word, attempts are these days but when I was trying to get to Dutch (about 6 times a year) the chances of actually landing in Dutch were about 60 - 65%. One time we flew out four days in a row and finally landed. Other times when the pilot was positive we were going to turn around the weather cleared enough for him to get in. He sat a week before he could leave. While not a pilot I was very involved with the aviation community in Alaska. I never met a pilot who would jump at the chance to fly out to Dutch. And I knew several who would never go back. But without the local knowledge; well you know the line about old and bold pilots.

@codymoe4986 5 месяцев назад

Only a "handful" of pilots can land there, because only a handful of pilots, actually fly there... Guessing there are 1000's of private and commercial pilots that would have zero troubles, landing here... Sorry, but here's a thumbs down for the clickbait...

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Hi- I am not sure what click bait is, I am new to the platform. What I do know is, that Dutch is notorious for being a challenge to land at because of the wx and terrain. And yes, over the years likely thousands have met the qualification to land there for sure. I would not agree with zero troubles though. There have been two crashes (PenAir Saab 2000 and LifeMed KingAir) in the last four years. The wrecks are still sitting on the side of the runway in the old WWII revetments. Yes- this video is a very rare nice day but when I posted it but really I was thinking of my Papa who flew P-40s there 1942-1943 with no nav aids, inadequate maps, poor radio communication and often in radio silence and unfamiliar with the terrain. I was thinking of them having to let down in that cloud layer with peaks all around so they could try and find the only runway or flat land around for the next 100 miles or so. Five of his squadron mates are still on the mountainside 60 miles away as are many others. That is what my channel is about- honoring those who served in this mostly unknown campaign. But thanks for the comment!

@emergencylowmaneuvering7350 5 месяцев назад

BS . Looks easy..

@jerseycornboy 2 месяца назад

Really this is kids crap. Easy. Try flying around the rat city (NY and jersey cesspool newark area in a small aircraft only a handful of nuts can do that and magical if they survive.

@markhancock6694 5 месяцев назад

Too bad the camera wasnt pointed forward.

@50buttfish 5 месяцев назад

I heard landing/takeoffs are restricted by the tidal schedule, since the runway is under water at times.

@FloridaBeachesToTheBeringSea 5 месяцев назад

Not that I have seen, it is 4,500 ft and all above the water, though there is water at both ends. They lengthened the runway years back, maybe that was the case then? Maybe one of the Aleutian fliers on the comments string will chime in.

@mikemcgonegal1616 Месяц назад

Doesn't look all that hard to me.

@dusk2dawn2 5 месяцев назад

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unalaska_Airport#/media/File:DUT-a.jpg

@captaincuck60 5 месяцев назад

The camera should have been pointing forwards . Dissapointing not seeing the runway ahead

@tanagra2 5 месяцев назад

A bit of a silly comment (sorry). The pilot did not take this video, a passenger did. Don’t think it would go down too well if they unstrapped and barged into the cockpit.