Backcountry Pilot

[Jaerl offline]

This guy must have really wanted to get out of this place bad!!

[clippwagon offline]

I'm not familiar with that model of sea plane but I believe the location is somewhere on the mud river?! I wonder what his passengers were thinking?

[GumpAir offline]

Looks like flying out of Kong on a mucky day!

Gump

[Stol offline]

The pilots got it off the ground about 200 feet from the end of the runway.... Let's rename the thread : I bet your underwear is not this dirty"......

[Rancher1911 offline]

HOLY COW. Can you say prop erosion?

[Grassstrippilot offline]

Not to mention all the crap they ingested into the engines. Wonder if they had the performance numbers for that one

[58Skylane offline]

Do you think the pilots even knew what was happening behind the cockpit window views as they were rolling down the runway?

[Nosedragger offline]

Looks like they could have at least pulled the nose wheel up. Employees

[Cary offline]

Years ago I used to fly into a ranch strip near Sundance, WY, pretty regularly. Before it was paved, it was just dirt, and after a snow or rain, it would turn to mud. I got the Skylane stuck in the mud on landing one time--took a couple hours to extricated it. We made a point of taking off early in the morning a couple days later, while the runway was still frozen from the overnight cold. That was one dirty Skylane--but not as bad as the video.

Cary

[jrollf offline]

So was the smoke drifting in from the left at the end of the video from the previous guy that tried to take off?

[porterjet offline]

And you wonder why Russia has a high accident rate.

[wyomingiswindy offline]

Awesome! I wonder if they are hiring? Reminds me of Rome, OR.

[GumpAir offline]

And you wonder why Russia has a high accident rate.

A number of years ago, one of the versions of Yute Air Alaska I worked for was bought out by the Flight International Group. All ex-military and CIA kinda guys, wanting to get their Lear fleet and Casa-212's a foothold in Alaska $$$.

One of the things they did to us, was dump a bunch of former Soviet fighter pilots into the mix, and tried to work them in as Part 135 guys flying Sleds in the bush villages. What a disaster. These knuckleheads were afraid of nothing, but oh boy, ham-fisted is an understatement, and they had absolutely no clue how to function unsupervised or manage the logistics of running a station without being completely micromanaged.

That video above is a prime example of their thought processes and lack of care for their machinery.

Gump

[dogpilot offline]

Back in the days I operated in Africa we had two Antonov 32B's an uprated version of the AN24 (bigger engines). They are tanks. Where we use hat sections and L stringers, they use extrusions, partly due to strength and partly due to poor quality aluminum. The aircraft would come from Kiev new with crew (6 man crew, pilot, co-pilot, engineer, navigator, plane captain, load master) for $650 per hour + fuel + per diem (included crew salaries in the 650). The aircraft would work for 1,000 hours with just turn maintenance, heck the tires where something like 60 ply and would look like balls of string before they changed them.

After 1,000 hours we would send them back to Kiev, where they would change the engine hot sections and do a phase inspection on the airframe. At 2,000 hours it would return again, where they would literally throw away the engine and prop and do more maintenance. At 4,000 hours they would retire the airframe and we would get a new airplane. The Turbines are tough, they actually cast the T wheels with the blades as a unit! They have very loose tolerances and burn prodigious amounts of fuel. Additionally they use gallons of oil per hour, vice less than a cup on a western turbine.

They are tough fuel guzzling flying tanks that need a cast of thousands to fly them, but they are cheap. They have excellent load and speed. The ramp not only goes down, but can articulate and retract below the belly so a truck can go right up to the cargo floor, to be offload by the crane that runs on an I beam the full length of the fuselage cargo area. They will cook the passenger's heads in flight and freeze their feet. You MUST where ear plugs in the cabin or you will be deaf.

[M6RV6 offline]

Whole lot of rudder going on on that take off!!
Kinda like taking off a muddy tide gut, they just didn't have to lock up the brakes so they could see!!
GT