Spectacular Take Off CLOSE to the mountains (Juneau, Alaska) 

The Lemon Creek rotation. No matter how many times I flew out of Juneau when this take off was used it always scared the crap out of me!!!

The olds JT8D in high perfomance! A classic, no dude. RIP 737-200.

That is the best take off.. i look forward to it every time i go home!

That's an older -37, with the older style thrust reverse assembly on the back end of those JT3D's, I think is what they are. Amazing; that initial left turn on the climb-out STARTS essentially right after V2. That would be fun to do. Love this video.

W - O - W !!!!! Holy cow!! I haven't seen anything like this in my life!!! Love planes and flying once I'm up but all I can say is I'm pleased it wasn't me in that plane during take off!!! I wudda passed out!!! Thanks for sharing the amazing experience!!

woah that is amazing! 5/5

wow just like aspen! very bumpy and lots of mountains! nice video.

YA ! The Good Old 200's flew in them alot. Looks like even the passengers are flying on the seat of there pants. Great Video there! You get a number #10.

lovely 737-200, looks like a very fun takeoff.

What a conincedence. I did a very similar Take-Off in a 737-700 yesterday, with the Flight Simulator 2004 from the very same airport. When rolling into position on the runway I thought at first: are you kidding me? Look at the mountains! But there was enough room for a relatively normal climb rate and a not too steep right turn after taking off from runway 8. Must be really cool doing that Take Off for real. I noticed that the pilot only used very little flaps during your Take Off.

Very cool! I'm glad you kept the video rolling so we could see down Gastineau channel and Eaglecrest. This is also called the Lemon Creek departure. I used to live in Lemon Creek, and every morning at 2am (when the wind was out of the east), Alaska Airlines had a old, loud 727 full of cargo depart runway 8. It was a pretty good alarm clock. A few hours early, but effective.

Put that one on my list of airports to visit. :) Amazing!!!

I love to go to Juneau one day. Great procedure by the pilot.

Very cool to see the ailerons and flaps at work.

thank you! This is just a little tribute to one of my greatest flights ever...

I just flew on a 737 200 two days ago, I love that plane, I just do and the flight was the smoothest flight i've had in years. My view however, wasn't nearly as spectacualr as yours I am afraid. this is great

Great job and great scenery

Awesome vid! This is my favorite T/O video now for the drama amidst the spectacular scenery. Thanks man!

Wow that is spectacular.

just great thanks again for sharing dude

dude that was cool! anyway why the immediate right and left turn after takeoff is required?

Wow that terrain looks awfully close 👍👍 subscribed

wow thats an amazing and powerful take off!

Wow that was pretty insane!

Gorgeous!!

What a take-off! How long is that runway?

Give me chills.

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

I have experienced this take off before, its pretty impressive

man, i miss those "classic" 737s!!!

Fabulous video. Thanks so much.

two words.... nuts and crazy!!!

insane flight!!!

WOW! That was a spectacular takeoff. Good video. I know Alaska Airlines has replaced the 737-200`s, but what to they use on flights in Alaska now? The 400 series?

GOOD PILOTING!!!

I suspect the minimal flap setting is to allow better one engine climb performance, should the need arise close to the ground.. that'd be interesting on that departure!

Amazing! Really good pilots

that is AWESOME!!!!!! It would freak out my mom though =p

Sweet blast off!

hmm, I thought they'd publish it at least to the FAA's airport chart website since it is a SID (Standard Instrument Departure)

All take offs from Juneau are like this one?

Question. If the large mountain presents a problem on take off, why not just take off in the opposite direction?

Great video. Is this procedure still done, even with newer versions of the Boeing 737? Thanks for sharing.

A little mountain avoidance maneuver there LOL....Good pilots don't let good customers down...Whew!

Where can I find the chart for this departure? I cant find anything on the FAA's website for aeronautical charts, but there are some departue routes here.

amazing take off~ nice job~

I live in Juneau and whats cool about this departure is that they never turn left taking off Runway 8 they always go right and fallows a channel out of the airfield very odd they would do a left turn after takeoff cool video.

what a view!

I got to do the "Lemon Creek takeoff" only once and it was enough for me. I'd heard about it for yrs and finally was lucky enough to do one. Yikes indeed.

nice! heave on earth cant wait when I visit there

Nice! Left then Right. No one told you to turn off camcorder before takeoff? But glad you posted this for everyone. Why can't I turn off [x] the advertisement obstructing some of the view?

Don't kid yourself. Incidents are rare, but Juneau landings and departures are very complicated procedures..especially in low visibility. It requires you to fly at a mountain at a few hundred knots, only to bank left at the proper moment, and land--sometimes without seeing. Modern air navigation can make this routine, but this aint for rookies. A pilot did second guess the landing procedure. The flight was Alaska Airlines 1866. It went full speed into that mountain.

Wonderful!!

Was the plane deiced b4 takeoff?

Boy do I remember the lemon creek turn. I think they have stopped doing it.

you should put that video online...so we can watch the "cockpit perspective" of that departure

omg! great video!

Wow that's cool!

beautiful

and here I thought the Concords Kenndy1 Depart turn was fun..I am gonna have to try this one.. I bet the aircraft was yelling bank angle, might be the way the cam is held tho.. Looks fuuuuuun

now they no longer use this obstacle DP; I flew out of there this year and we did a straight-out RNAV climb up the Gastineau Channel; pulled some g doing it in an -800.

i took off from crete twice, but i cant remember any special procedure - i guess you were "lucky" experiencing that. I know that crete is supposed to be one of the dangerous euopean airports. pilots joke, it's like landing on an aircraft carrier. Thanks for rating...

@deltaA320 its the good old boeing 737-200 Combi

i like the -800 too: Alaska Airlines is even using the -900 series...but this good old -200 is a whole other category.

most of those mountains are more like 4-5k at the very most. they start at sea level, so the height of the mountain is the actual elevation, not like a lot of places where you start high up already. 10k feet means 10k feet, so a 5k mountain is 5k below.. not like a 5k mountain from 5k starting elevation = no clearance.

What time of year was this footage shot?

Fantastic

Boy do I remember the lemon creek turn. I think they have stopped doing it. Cargo between the passengers and pilots.

Yikes, looks like you'd only have to be off course by a few hundred feet to slam into the side of a mountain. Surprised that procedure is FAA approved, maybe they better take another look at it.

Amazing.

world love t have seen this from the cockpit

Where can i find the chart of that take-off procedure?

And the good old PW JT8D-17 !

Awesome...

The turns are to avoid the other mountains and hills, juneau is surounded by them

didn't exacly fly back over the field as far as this video shows (assuming that voice was that of the captain alerting the passengers as to his intentions as soon as the a/c becomes airborne)

Wow! Neat!

awsome!

O_o Exactly what i hate in a Take off :p when plane turn hard just after take off

It's immediate left then right, not right then left as is stated in your info.

Now I wonder... didn't the captain say you should turn all your electric devices off?

@lolz651 it's a 737-200. if it was a 747, the wings would be alot longer.

I wonder how they do it in IFR conditions

i remember an official boeing test, in that a b 757-200 was filled up to the top with cameras, cellphones, radios, gameboys and other electronical devices: no effect on the airplanes instruments and stearing was registered

A classic old 737-200Adv

awesome

i lived there for a year- my chance to make those cool videos

it´s a immediate left and left turn after takeoff, anyway very extreme, no for me. tks for sharing

what plane was this?

well, thats a 737-200 Combi, but it's now more than 4 years ago...

Keep seatbelts fastened!!! WOW!

wow you could almost touck the mountains at 2:15 :-)

that's a left than a right.... not the other way. And, man!! That plane is 200 years old!!!

@mechan9 Juneau is on the South East part of Alaska so we are closer to Washington and Canada not Russia

Great video ... but, can you see Russia from the cockpit?

Serious power.

it´s a immediate left and right turn after takeoff, anyway very extreme, no for me. tks for sharing. correcting

Wow! I Would like to see that from up front........

Great!

Current departure charts show straight right turn to 279 degrees and back out of the valley. I wonder why he took that left bank first.