Piloting Dash 8 on a SUPER SHORT FLIGHT from Vancouver to Victoria 

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Capt loves his job. You can tell. Nothing better in the world than doing what you love and loving it.

Captain comes across as having a ton of respect for the FO. Great crew and such high professionalism despite a short flight.

That seems like a very calm and respectful flight crew, a great working environment!

That flight was like a Zen meditation! Due in part to the calm, affable and professional Captain and FO. As an Australian, I love this part of the world to visit!

Pilot was well spoken and appears to be a nice guy. I enjoyed the flight.

With a Masters degree in Physics l worked on both the prop and engine electronic control (ECU) software design and coding. I was 28. Now I'm 68. So long ago. Loved it

FO was one of my instructors that taught me during my private training in the early 2000s.

Thank you for the memories....I retired from Jazz in 2010, as a flight attendant, based at YYJ, then to YVR. How true all the flight crews were/are professional, and I was proud to work with them. I do miss it all, (some bits one can forget ), I never tired of that short trip, sometimes five return flights in a shift. Thank you again.

I've flown into YYJ over 40 times and never get tired of seeing the Gulf Islands from the air.

This was the route I flew on my very first day as an airline pilot. It's been a year without flying now... Miss it a lot!

My grandfather was on the design team for both the Dash-7 and Dash-8. Thanks for posting this.

Absolutely love the mighty Dash 8

Great video - this is exactly why I feel so confident flying Air Canada: friendly, competent and respectful pilots.

I am a dispatcher for Jazz and can confirm that the skipper is one of the very best I have ever worked with :)

Love this. Can't explain why but the Dash 8 is one of my favourite aircraft. Like the utility truck of the sky.

Brilliant stuff. Captain comes across as one cool guy. I have to get over to Canada it looks beautiful.

Love it!! Back in the mid-70s I flew YVR-YYJ on a Piggly-Wiggly/Pray-While-Aloft (Pacific Western Airlines) B737-200. The Captain came on and announced that “we will climb to our enroute altitude of 25000 feet...” I thought...Huh? HOLY CRAP he wasn’t kidding! Climbing out of YVR was slam back in your seat and hang on! Reach 250...almost a negative G over the top for descent!...and it was a LONG DESCENT! What a RUSH for a teenager!🚀

Love it! These short hop flights to Vancouver Island are a blast!

Nice, used to do this run in the 90's with the Fedex Caravan. Really enjoyed the short hops.:)

This was absolutely brilliant ...amazing pilot's loved this video thanku so much love and god bless x

I remember a Doug Catterall who did my instrument ride out of YWG when he was at TC. He was one of the youngest TC inspectors I have ever met...and I still remember an analogy he offered up... "you can live life having all your meals delivered under the bathroom door...." I had never heard such a comment before and it stuck with me. Lucky F/O who gets to fly with Captain Catterall!

Good one Doug. Just as I remember it. Doug as always flawless.

What a nice man.. and he really knows his stuff.. Great video 👍

You guys are true pros! Thanks for sharing, fly safe!

Great stuff! Always nice to see some content from my local airport on a big aviation channel. Hard to believe that 737s and A319s also flew this route.

Flew with Air Nova/Jazz for 7 years. Miss the ol’ Dash, one of the best airplanes ever built. Over 6000hrs in the 100 series.

I love flying. I can't wait to fly again. I wanted to be a flight attendant

Dispatched the Dash 100 for 12 years at Allegheny, 12 years at Commutair the 200/300 I love those planes!

C.R.M.T. at its best! Great video. Beautiful country side. Captain very informative.

Rudy that is Mt Baker just before take off about 100 miles to the east, I suspect that it was filmed around 10 years ago. FYI CYCD to CYVR is the shortest flight Jazz does on the West Coast at just under 10 mins if ATC gives a direct route.

Congratulations to the captain and Josh.

Great stuff! Just like Widerøe in Norway. Up to 24 cycles a day.

I miss flying into YVR. Can’t wait to start flying there again soon I hope!

Another cracking video there JP! Great CRM skills by both pilots.

Such gorgeous scenery.

That was awesome!! I've been to Vancouver, and Victoria. Both are incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing this video. Very enjoyable. Have a great day, and safe journeys. 👍👍

Great shot of base to final! 👍

JP....Hello! Great pilots....absolutely first class! Iwill fly with them.... very enjoyed this vid JP! Many thanks for filming this.....stay safe and have a nice day;) Lovely greetings.....Betsy.

Excellent demonstration of CRM! A very healthy flight deck environment 👍👍

Beautiful view outside these windows, awesome takeoff and landing that sounds amazing, and great pilots. I did enjoy listening to these pilots, and this aircraft is amazing as well. Very short flight, but that view is amazing. Awesome video; I love it.

As a Victorian, I can 100% confirm everything the captain said at the end. I love seeing my local airport being showcased.

OK, *everyone* is saying what I would say, so... Ende! ;-) I remember flying over there for coffee and pie, in a Cherokee 235 and once in a Navajo. :-)

Awesom vid, Ive just passed my Multi IFR and will be would love to get in at Jazz in the new year

Respect for the tower. Respect for the captain. No incidents in the passenger cabin. Best 14 minutes in a persons life.

Pilots are the most calm, intelligent and gracious folk.

Both dach 8 and super 748 props make beautiful music

Like the cargo 727 spotting!

It's cool as a Victorian pilot to watch a RU-vid video that features one of our controllers in the tower that we hear every work day. Just yesterday was on a flight with a student, same controller in the tower as you hear on the radio here working both outer and inner tower, and he was dealing with an exceptionally crazy amount of traffic. Had 4 VFR guys circling over Brentwood, Deep Cove, Swartz Bay, and Cowichan all while dealing with 3 IFR departures and 3 IFR arrivals at the same time. Was listening to see if I could hear any other people I recognize from around here, but seemed like it was a relatively non busy time that day and it was probably recorded so long ago that most people who were there then are no longer working here today.

Dash 8 my love... as supervisor in apron area I used to direct a ton of flight for Croatia Airlines which connects Rome to Croatia with D-8... a great pleasure.

What a fantastic video. Thanks

How about a video on the flight to downtown Victoria on one of the floatplanes. I enjoyed that very much, super weather, sitting in front with the pilot, at a nice, low flight altitude. Beats the Dash flights into Sydney!

Just passed my ME IR yesterday... the radio calls make more sense now!

I have flown the SFO-STS being 15 min long many times. The shortest flight in the states. I have also flown the PHL to AVP route many times which is also quite short!

Great flight crew, great flight and landing 👍

Love this ❤ thanks for sharing about the FMS !

At the very end.... Don't tell people how Nice it is in Victoria, or else Everybody will want to live here! I'm originally from Manitoba, and now I get to tease my relatives about the Winter Weather here in Victoria. There's not many other places in Canada where it's very Rare to get Snow in the winter, and if we do get some, it only lasts for 1 or 2 weeks!

Very professional crew. Enjoyed the ride

Captain seems like a very nice guy.

Brings back the memories! I've flown that route a number of times over the years, and I think only once was it as nice as it was the day this video was shot. It's a wonderful flight - so much to see over the Salish Sea as you cross. Too bad it's over before you know it!

Radio Altimeter Call was scary 😂 .

Amazing flight crew and aircraft! Thanks for sharing!

smoothest landing I've ever seen in the Q400. The thing normally lands like a sack of bricks. Hats off to the flight crew.

Nicely done!!

This is the guy you want to be up front every time you board..

Fantastic Video Thanks

I like the plane without fansy display monitor, only analog!!

Super short, but super cool!

Thanks for the ride. I've been in the jump seat of the DASH 8 many times. Great plane. Good job on the flight.

They both r so shiny in vid thumbnail

The shortest flight I’ve been on was around 20 minutes, from YXU-YYZ.

Captain forget to say Take Off Trust set!

Paper approach plates? I didn't know they existed any more.

hello just, i really like your videos on the E2 Jet. It would be great to have new videos with the E2 family.

Would be helpful if you could include the date of the flights in your video descriptions. When were these flights? I expect it's some time ago as they refer to the Dash 8-100 which Jazz retired some time ago, and recently announced that their Dash 8-300s are also being retired soon, leaving only the Q400s.

James Bay project flying a single Otter. Removing old fuel drums from an abandoned site 4 miles away over a mountain. All day every day for 3 weeks. The ripples on the lake barely had a chance to dissipate.

Excellent video.

I had FSX flashbacks. I used to fly into victoria in FSX from friday Harbour all the time.

Awesome flight!

nice presentation

I did this flight round trip on a Q400. Just seems so pointless. Cruise was 4000’ to YYJ and 5000’ back to YVR, 5 mins and 6 mins flying time, respectively. The amount of VFR traffic was far more numerous than I expected.

Excited.......✌️✌️✌️

Yay! a video to victoria!

Very professional.

I might have missed the part where they said how long the flight was going to be.

Aye, very professional crew.

YVR to YYJ is a very short flight over the islands.

Very relaxed and a very informative video

This must be an older video, as GJSX was retired in 2016.

Awesome view dude! 😎

Shortest flight iv been on is westray to papa westray, took around 90 seconds 😂😂😂 the orkney island flight in Scotland between westray and papa westray hold the world record for shortest flight of 57 seconds

I trained at YYJ, and I wonder where all the traffic is on this video. Not unusual to be in the circuit #3 or #4, and to have the Dash8s take an intersecting arrival onto Rwy 13 (now 14).

Now that’s the way you fly a dash 8

excellent CRM!

We can see the beautiful parts of Canada by window in the same time

Very nice.

been on that flight many times

Used to take flight from Sea/Tac to Vancouver BC, it's very short too

I did this on the same airplane but "worse" was Vancouver to Nanaimo which is basically "positive rate, gear up, approach checks." 😆

Kind of curious what year this was recorded? The Q100s aren't in service with AC anymore and the liveries of all the other Jazz aircraft look to be older as well as the Cargojet 727 which we never see at YVR anymore :(