Cockpit Flying Video: FULL FLIGHT Dash 8 Q400 | Fort St. John to Calgary WITH Air Traffic Control!

Was feeling nostalgic and found this flying video. Please listen to the audio as I cover numerous questions I often get asked! Fingers crossed I go back to work soon... I really miss it!
AS REQUESTED via the poll on my KZbin: the video is mostly normal speed (until the taxi at the very end) & without music, again until the end! HOPE YOU ENJOY! :)
FULL real-time flight & cockpit pilot view from Fort St. John, BC to Calgary, AB with air traffic control communications.
CYXJ-CYYC:
Aircraft Dash 8 Q400
Departure R21
Cruise FL250 @ ~320kt TAS
Arrival ADVOX7
Approach RNAV (RNP) Y 35L
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[@BoostedSTIG]

Rare footage of protato in its natural habitat

[@Fixingthingz4u]

Anthony Castillo that’s Queen 👑 to you

[@DasKantholz]

@@Fixingthingz4u queen of the potatos!

[@Pilotemilie]

all these make me so happy :D

[@ExarchNZ]

Lets hope 2021 brings many hours of flight and flight vids! Looking forward to them.

[@ThatCodeBlue]

I think “Poutine” would be most appropriate ☺️

[@manuel.fischer]

Amazing how pilots always get all the information by those radio transmissions, because there are so many numbers they have to remember.

[@TIO540S1]

@Javier Solis They already know mostly what to expect and in what order to expect it. An acronym is CRAFT: Cleared to ___; Route ___; Altitude ___; Frequency ___; Transponder code ___. They know where they filed to and the filed route and altitude as well as the likely departure control frequency so it’s verifying that they got what they requested or what changes ATC made, verifying the departure control frequency, and entering the transponder (“squawk”) code. They then read it back to whomever issued the clearance. There are several possibilities for whom that might be: clearance delivery, ground control, flight service; departure control.

[@simcptmike]

It's a structured conversation. We typically already have an idea of what they are going to say back. Note taking is a must for read back clarity and accuracy i think. For me, anyway.

[@TIO540S1]

@@simcptmike Most definitely, note taking is a must for me, even if it’s just “cleared as filed.”

[@stillo1578]

it is very nice to see a young lady doing such a fantastic job just as good if not better than any man you deserve your weight in gold such professionalism

[@jasonmcmillan6598]

I am grateful my daughter has such awesomeness she can see and aspire to! Please keep it up- you are inspiring many people ! Thank you!

[@arslansattar351]

😊

[@ИльяГургов]

Я вам аплодирую 👏 стоя вы молодцы восхищён приятно смотреть на все в месте техника класс пилоты класс Good Luck!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

[@TC.C]

You made the crosswind landing looked a piece of cake, Captain!

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks TC!!! it's uhhh the camera angle!! XD

[@MrRedwingsfan16]

@@Pilotemilie gotta love them soft runways

[@Pilotemilie]

@@MrRedwingsfan16 🤓

[@arslansattar351]

=-) thanks co captain......

[@juliomartinez4792]

You're great Emilie. You make flying easy, but I know it's not. It's a great responsibility. Fly Emilie Fly ! Regards from New Jersey !

[@mothmagic1]

I second that from the UK

[@saschastojanov5627]

Thank you for sharing this and letting us have a further glance into the world of Potato Qweenlines. In the last weeks since I re-delved into flight simming, I have developed this weird fascination for landing approaches, IFR flights, listening to ATC communication and checklist procedures, looking up approach plates, studying airport diagrams, tuning-in COM and LOC frequencies... I also acquired my first book on aviation (basically a PPL-course for total noobies) and I'm absolutely loving it. So videos like these are more than welcome brain fodder since there's always something new to learn every day.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks Sascha!

[@dcsyd16]

It was so so so wrong that you were laid off during COVID-19. thank goodness you got back into a plane and flying. You are such a great role model for other women who want to get into commercial aviation. Kudos for ur Australia connection too!

[@svoigt2622]

So miss my jumpseat days and the view from that office.... Especially enjoyed flying with commuter crews to the smaller airports and enjoying a nice lunch with them before heading back from where we came.

[@roy.actual]

That was cool. Thanks for (virtually) flying me around. I don't get out much these days.

[@Pilotemilie]

Glad you enjoyed it! Feel free to join our Discord too, lots of people streaming there! :)

[@johnlewis1078]

You're a great role model for young ladies out there who want a fun career! Take care & be safe.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks John! That's what I'm hoping to do :)

[@leokimvideo]

The old Hero3 was a classic stable GoPro, it resolved the bad audio the Hero2 had. Just wild how GoPro pushed forward past Hero3 and their cameras became very glitchy. As history tells the GoPro share price collapsed. Nothing wrong with the Hero3 video footage. Well done on the windy landing

[@nellyn8830]

Greetings Emilie from the Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center in California where I’ve been a controller 17 years now. Love your videos and getting out of the RADAR room and into the cockpit. Seeing what you do really enhances and improves what I do and how we both interact. We are all currently working 5 days on and 5 off here with most sectors combined due to the hit the aviation community has suffered as a whole since March. I really hope you can get back out there soon and things rebound for us all! Today was a very busy day for us, which is always encouraging. Be well, stay safe, keep posting! You are awesome!!

[@ch33zer]

From the thumbnail I was hoping you were back to work, then saw this was older footage. Good luck getting back to the cockpit soon!

[@Pilotemilie]

Thank you!

[@davecarsley8773]

Sheeeeee's back. Put on your helmets and watch the skies! :-)

[@searlearnold2867]

Thanks for saving us the window seat!! Kinda funny watching you wave to other planes while taxiing as though you spotted a friend on the street.

[@torque_original]

Absolutely love your vids Emilie. I am passionate about flying although I haven't had the chance to get a pilot license, yet at least. If I'm ever in Canada I'd love to fly with you. :) Greetings from Romania, Europe. Clear skies and fair winds, always!

[@fransglobal]

Wishing you all the best for the future. We will all fly again!

[@keithsmith8146]

I could watch you day and night piloting a plane, so enjoyable. Stay safe Emilie

[@dominicrossop3160]

easily the prettiest piolet ive ever seen!

[@joshthomas8780]

Something about the communication between you and ATC is so therapeutic! Awesome video :)

[@honkymonkey9568]

There is no ATC. She said that.

[@ulgn1964]

In 1997 my family traveld by car from Vancouver to Calgary, so beautiful in Canada. I love your videos. Big hello from 🇸🇪 Stay safe.

[@petertarantelli]

This puts such a big smile on my face 😃, I imagine it does for you too! Thanks for (re)posting and for the narration...well done Capt. Emilie!

[@Pilotemilie]

My pleasure! It's a new flight (I haven't posted before), but old footage! Thanks Peter :)

[@petertarantelli]

@@Pilotemilie ...oh, I’m probably thinking of one of your other flights.

[@SLAF999]

Hello Emilie , it is always a pleasure see the clouds and the sky from your office...I am pretty sure is just a long hiatus, thanks for sharing this with us and continue with the excellent work here...as usual!!!

[@Pilotemilie]

I hope so too!

[@DasKantholz]

Its like sitting on a jumpseat looking over the pilots shoulders. Love it!🥔🥔

[@terry351]

Well, well Emilie, thanks a lot for sharing an excellent video. Do not know if you listened to me or not, but videos like this with natural sound instead of background music is like heaven and hell. This is heaven, thanks a lot for sharing and keep up the good work!

[@vicb1968]

So nice following you on KZbin and to watch your videos. Love the real flights as well as the FSims. You're a great role model. Hope the work returns to normal soon. You deserve it!

[@stomique]

Amazing! This knocks the crap out of the sim! Thanks for this.

[@PiSkiS320]

That has to be the softest landing I’ve ever saw on a Crash-8! Well done!

[@jascharl]

Oh baby, that was butter. Great landing Emilie.

[@andy2495]

I'm not a pilot but these are amazing to watch. I'm in absolute awe of you guys, thanks for posting and hope your luck changes very soon

[@JoseRocha-mo8zh]

Absolutely gorgeous and great pilot be safe anywhere you go God bless you I love watching the channels

[@malcolmlawrence3169]

Hopefully medical science will get on top of Covid-19 and life will get back to normal soon. All the best for your flying career.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks Malcolm!!

[@edge1289]

Thanks for sharing the video, hopefully you’re back to work flying!

[@VigneshGiridharanGV]

I totally enjoyed the video; I love the 'no music + voice' format. I too hope the industry (and world) recovers in 2021. Warm regards from India!

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks Vignesh!! Appreciate that!

[@thehighwayman78]

I totally agree. So easy on the mind just to hear it "clean".

[@Mario-dg5jz]

Thanks for the big spoiling to a very special first offerser 👏👏👏👏

[@matthagge4792]

Found your channel for the Flight Sim tutorials and was pleasantly surprised to see you're a Canadian pilot of a Dash 8. It's exciting to me because I've flown in Dash 8s to Fort St. John many times. If you've ever done the Vancouver John route I might've been been a passenger of yours!

[@alfredogomez-beloz1227]

This is so awesome! You are terrific! Be proud as you are so great!

[@rabh6746]

Great flight, nice job with the crosswind landing! I love the Dash 8, must be a great plane to fly! I can sympathise with you losing your job, I lost mine recently after over 31 years! I wish you good luck getting another job, you just got another new subscriber!

[@geemanfunman1267]

Hope and pray your back to work, love your video’s

[@rangerat1957]

Regardless of when it is still great to watch and can still learn from it.

[@Pilotemilie]

:)

[@Rocco_v]

Awesome videos, Love the view, specially around BC Lets hope things get back to normal soon. Thank you Emilie! Cheers from YKA

[@KidMonster223]

I'm glad to see more women in the aviation industry.

[@SlippyDude]

My my... what a beautiful voice!

[@akdavis3450]

We want you to get back to flying again but you have been such a gift for all that you have brought to the Flight Sim Community. Thank you!

[@jimroadhers]

You are so natural in a cockpit. Good work 👍

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks a lot!

[@CanadaTamilachi]

Wow, today just came across to your channel per KZbin recommendation , really nice i enjoyed

[@cinemagicvision338]

ma'am, you are genuinely a genius !!!!

[@aportman58]

May favorite part is watching the extreme intent focus Emilie has throughout the approach to touch-down!!! It had to be devastating hearing your job was being cut! Glad you persevered and finally got back into the pilot's seat!!!

[@Cleared_To_Land]

Outstanding work CAPT. I am so hopeful that you get back to your passion of flying soon. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel Emilie, it's just around the bend so you can't see it yet. And remember too, that it's always the darkest before dawn. Keep up the great content and take care.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks so much :)

[@edwindacayo3170]

Thank you Emilie for showing us how smooth the Dash 8 flys and handles. The only time I’ve ever flown in a Turbo Prop was with Alaska Air. Indirect flight from Seattle to Portland then to Oakland. A different perspective of flying at 25 thousand as opposed to 33. 🛫🛬

[@Pilotemilie]

Totally! :)

[@FoxysGameNetwork]

I fly on Q400s very frequently across Canada and especially to Calgary for work. I am currently awaiting departure from Calgary to fly home for some time off. Very interesting video thank you so much :) safe travels

[@BillC-64]

Holy cow, you're almost at 100K subs already. Congrats.

[@Pilotemilie]

HOLY COW!!!! lol Thank you!!

[@4secsharkmr352]

Very good flight. Hope you are back in the job/cockpit soon. Best regards from the other side of the Atlantic.

[@Pilotemilie]

I hope so too! Thank you!

[@elilebron9215]

Very Nice landing Emily 👌 God bless you 🙏 ❤🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@malcolmmcfadden9023]

Wow! what a great video! Thank you so much for sharing. I hope you get to fly again soon! We love your videos! Stay safe please!

[@AlbertaDMode]

Very enjoyable video and such a smooth ride! Well done, Emilie. How does Dash 8 Q400 handles turbulence? Have you ever operated Boeing 737?

[@cillyede]

I landed in Fort St. John in September 1982 first time on my way to Inuvik.👍🇩🇪

[@link2195]

Wow just found your channel, being a pilot is so cool. Good luck and hope for the best

[@LRogan520]

Superb video, more of those please, nice little view into yyc as well, thanks for sharing..

[@Pilotemilie]

I'm laid off, so maybe when I get back...

[@LRogan520]

Oh yes I know, but so look forward to seeing them when your back to work, you'll be back soon, times will hopefully start to make its way back to a "reasonable " form of normality.

[@clutchnixon5880]

I would buy a plane ticket to no where just to have Emilie as my pilot

[@EverydayZach]

Don't mean to be so front but wow you are beautiful. And great landing! I cannot wait to get my commercial certs! Thanks for sharing this perspective!

[@magic_pixie]

It's a bit weird and bittersweet watching a video like this, coming from the perspective of someone who worked assembling parts of these cockpits for the last 15 years. Everything has that duality of looking both familiar and strange in the context of an in-service unit. Thanks for the vid.

[@PrinceThomas00Ke]

🎉🎉🎉 Amazing. Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪

[@jetmarlin]

That is so cool! Bises de France Emilie

[@JerryStone]

Pilot Emilie always looks like a star.

[@timewalkr]

I’ve been looking forward to this video ever since the time of the poll. Great work! Love your videos. Greetings from Norway.

[@Pilotemilie]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@timewalkr]

@@Pilotemilie Wow! Butter landing!!

[@marct.8891]

Pilot Emilie is so Serious compared to the funny FlightSim Emilie! But both are interesting 😋 Thank you for sharing your cockpit with us !

[@ignitionSoldier]

I've always wanted to look into getting a pilots license, and watching you land that aircraft is so amazing and inspiring. You make me want to pursue my dream of doing that whenever I see you fly with such skill. Please keep up the vids for us dreamers!

[@anthonymesquita1329]

Superb. Feel like meeting them. I was avid xplane flyer although a pulmonary physician in Goa

[@hazza836]

I’ve wanted to see this for so long ☺️ hope your doing well, Emilie! 🇨🇦🙌

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks Harry! I appreciate that!

[@gregmoyer8959]

As a passenger the Dash 8 along with the Beechcraft 1900 were my favorite prop job aircraft 😊

[@nixxhimself]

This was seriously cool to watch 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@mattrooyakkers5871]

Nice Landing.. I'd fly in the back seats all day long with that flying.

[@alexalban8688]

I hope you can get back to work soon. :( Breaks my heart to see people that love to fly grounded for so long because of situations outside of their control.

[@Pilotemilie]

Yea.... it's tough, not gonna lie. Taking it one day at a time. Thanks Alex!

[@physicsteacher4569]

Wonderful! Thank you! Would have liked to hear some of the cockpit banter also. I assume it was personal, though. This makes it real for us, though. Hope you get back to work soon. However, don't stop the videos. I have a former student who wants to be a pilot, and she's following you.

[@Pilotemilie]

Cockpit banter is personal/as mentioned in my audio, I do not want to share specifics of our SOPs. Thanks for respecting that. And that's neat! Thank you :)

[@Fixingthingz4u]

Emilie maybe the airforce needs pilots? I can see you as a blue angel ... my bad you already are 😘😂

[@Greg-bi9xp]

Blue angels are the navy bub. She could go for the Thunderbirds in the Air Force. Or literally any airframe she wanted to as long as the airforce, or navy, allowed it.

[@Fixingthingz4u]

Greg5698 yeah that’s the one 🤓😛🥳 I did know that but i quess i put the two together which gave the wrong impression thanks for clarifying thou

[@aegis_hjnny6]

Cringe

[@waynelcross]

Well done emilie... confident landing !!

[@billbloggss]

When it really mattered Emilie definitely nailed THAT landing! A marked contrast between the Professional Emilie and our flight sim buddy. Makes her contribution to the world of simming very much valued.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks Bill!

[@jrjs111]

It's too bad that you are laid off, but I can't wait to see more from your career, honestly its great to see you doing your thing.

[@Pilotemilie]

Thanks so much! Comments like these make my day!

[@jrjs111]

@@Pilotemilie I'm glad it makes you happy, the feeling is mutual, your content is awesome, but I can't wait to see you back on the left chair!!!!

[@Pilotemilie]

@@jrjs111 thank you!

[@mervynsullivan]

I really feel for the airline industry and all the pilots who have been adversely affected by the events of the last year.

[@davidallen1782]

Used to fly direct to Toronto from Manchester, NH via Air Georgian on the B1900D and on to Timmins, ON on the Dash 8 every summer in the early to mid 2000’s. Shame they don’t operate the MHT-YYZ direct flights anymore. Loved those trips in those turboprops.

[@NickMasseyRideon]

I love in-flight videos.

[@silverado9964]

Hope your back and flying soon, thanks for the video.

[@bartofilms]

Greaser! Very Nice. Cheers & hope you're back flyin' again.

[@LinkinLoris]

Sweet landing. The dash was great for that sort of wind. Worst landings however happened during calm winds and clear skies 😂 Don’t miss the tiny cockpit and the noise though 😅

[@billyriley492]

You have such an excellent job. I hope you get back to what you love doing asap.

[@billyriley492]

Also - that's pretty daunting...not being able to see through the soup. I know you have to trust your instruments - but it's still nerve wracking I imagine.

[@nemesisone8927]

awesome video thx :) hope all flights will be normal again soon for everyone

[@TheKennedysFamily]

Great video, Dash 8 is my fav !

[@thesledge3481]

Pinky iPad work! Outstanding Ems :)

[@Pilotemilie]

Ahahaha right?? I was laughing when I saw it too!

[@SayTrueSteve]

What an awesome and insightful video. Thanks for putting this out. Passed the IATRA last December and applied to Encore (long shot but would be a dream). The Q400 looks like a ton of fun to fly!

[@terryjones2012]

Nothing short of AWESOME!! :-)

[@juneangel7221]

Cute pilot looks like the job is enjoyable 😮😊

[@mariocontreras82]

Very nice done, Emi I use to live in Calgary for almost 30 years, now I am in Chile and I just got me a Xbox just to try the flight simulator. So, I will follow your videos.

[@Ted_RBLXoff]

Amazing landing, loved to see how you get on in the Q400. A lot of pilots hate the Q400 but I love it especially in P3D. Great video

[@alienz1664]

Why do pilots hate the dash 8-400

[@Ted_RBLXoff]

@@alienz1664 They dont really like the way it operates and the way it flies. Lots of pilots prefer using jetways etc whereas Dash 8 has built in stairs making it difficult in some situations.

[@alienz1664]

@@Ted_RBLXoff Thank you

[@robin_miller_music]

I was dead excited that you're back in the cockpit again! Then... oh... bummer...

[@ronh8662]

That was so cool! Thanks for posting.

[@Pilotemilie]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@chrissymulligan1664]

Really nice flying!!!

[@aviatorboss9978]

flew my cross country into YXJ,great airport

[@willv7868]

You don't fool me. That was all CGI, you never left the ground. ok, ok just kidding. Great video, thanks for sharing!!

[@Pilotemilie]

ahahah the graphics are INSANE nowadays!! Thanks Will!