Landing in Barra on the beach - two missed approaches - FlyBe de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

Landing in Barra on the beach - two missed approaches - FlyBe de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
Pilot has to make three attempts to land due to severe weather conditions

[@archerry6457]

I did a 6 month contract at Barra. My main role was, after each high tide, to take a rake and remark the piano keys and runway numbers at each end, then rescribe the centreline markers.

[@JDL3777]

bussin

[@madmanintheattic]

Barra is home not only to possibly the friendliest bunch of people you are likely to meet anywhere, but also to some truly stunning scenery. You go there to do very little. Soak in the scenery and nature. If you want lots to do, dont go to Barra.

[@xcriss2898]

The Otter is the best! beautiful!

[@Patricio007x]

Great Video!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!

[@airbusisawesome]

Wow! That was so cool! I'd love to go there. Nice filming!

[@boss2234]

I want to know who said damn let's use the beach for a run way!

[@Sandray16]

This was not a missed approach, it was a flyover to confirm tideline. Loganair pilots very rarely have missed approaches even when the weather really is bad, which it is not in this video.

[@R3dp055um]

Oh hell no, that's a balmy Spring day by local standards...

[@karlossargeant3872]

Barra Barra needs a Real Runaway fa sure.

[@Mr91495osh]

Pilots don’t have tide charts?

[@shunacadie4119]

@@Mr91495osh visual confirmation is typical and often encouraged/regarded as required when it comes to unprepared (beaches fields etc.) or unmonitored/unmaintained runways, depends on the situation.

[@flybyairplane3528]

Bars,is a tough landing,strictly daytimes,at low tide,but winds make it tougher, and so it goes,great job guys,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@reggierico]

These are what's called a 'contact approach'..

[@irwansyahlubis2756]

Good day..Runway is clear..happy landing..FROM AERODROM INFORMATION SERVICES/AFIS.. .nice landing..Capten..very very smooht landing..extrem..cool..amazing..bravo..bravo..bravo..ilove this video..god bless..

[@coxairman]

gracias!

[@mrvoyagerm]

Awesome - thanks

[@Ruairiymail]

Judging by some of the comments on here, some people really don't understand or get island life, and sadly they never will.

[@CaptainKrimson]

taking the risk of repeating what undoubtedly has been stated before, the first fly-by was probably not a missed approach. It was probably a fly-by to check the condition of the landing-area and the local windconditions. You can see that in the second approach the approach is much lower and the landinglights are on (I'm not completely sure if they were the first time). They switch them off as soon as they decide to abort the landing. Nice video by the way.

[@QBziZ]

Is that necessary? To switch off the landing lights? As I understood you can have them on always below 10000ft. In those conditions, I would expect to go for max visibility, and switch all lights on. Maybe even taxi lights.

[@QBziZ]

Looking at it again, I don’t think they switched them off.

[@miketheavgeek]

Awesome!!!

[@Cladcreeper]

Nice engine sound, nice video!

[@mickgrape4496]

Nice landing on the beach. I'm gonna do that one day on Barra!

[@robervalmachado5709]

Nunca tinha visto isso é sensacional fantástico parabéns, from Brazil.

[@AVMamfortas]

Smarty points all round. He did a low pass to check the beach first. You had a good zoom on the camera. I bet that beach has seen a lot of traffic in its time, especially before the runway was built. Nice landing. Even the seagull got out of the way.

[@Rickster5176]

Great airmanship.

[@franciscobernalavila1771]

What a great landing!!!

[@maunten66]

" EXCELENTE AVION " DHC-6.

[@virgosunsign1629]

Landing video starts at 09:00

[@pops9190]

Saltwater oh my God, best and quickest way to shorten the life of any aircraft.

[@horsenuts1831]

It is a Government-subsidised service. They prefer it if it costs more (even if they have to buy a new aircraft every year because the last one rotted) as it justifies their salaries and gives them something to do.

[@Avionerd]

@flightsimvideos2011 infact you can only land at certains times of the day, according to the tide :-)

[@dmmdmm5435]

That must be some unusually hard packed wet sand. I've only known wet sand to be mushy. Must be very fine grained

[@beijingpete]

Marvelous

[@InspectorKnacker]

What, no air stairs....?! Loved the bit of sea weed dangling off the yellow trolley.

[@johnbuffaloe9160]

Nice job of flying. I'd love to ride that down in the right seat.

[@geraldmoore1836]

A beautifull island and a major holiday resort a lovely place to spend christmas puiteness and seclusion guarantee. Inspiring place to write poetry.

[@desertfox4921]

Booked my next vacation on this airline. From the plane to the beach right away

[@BadenCityFire]

woooooow never seen such an airport befor !

[@gurjeetjeet4380]

ਅਰਬ ਮੁਲਕ ਹੈ ਜੀ

[@user-ij8jg6ke5i]

Good evening

[@lunarscout1]

This route to Barra is given to all New pilots very first day on the job. (to get their feet wet ,)

[@bagualbss]

were is this place ???

[@mikea6977]

Yes,it's fun....used to land on the beach in a BN-2 at virgin Gorda in PR. And at night we had to buzz the runway at Dorado to run off the cows near same....fond memories....

[@G2Vickyrawat]

Very nice performance 🙏

[@Trollberg60north]

I would imagine that the Flybe airoplane has larger tyres to cope with the wet sand but do the wheels still tend to sink into the sand?. It must take quite a bit more power to keep her moving on the sinky sand. Great video though:).

[@maximilianocapoano5335]

¡¡¡Asombroso!!! but, was always understanded than the planes can´t to land on the beach....!

[@allancopland1768]

Three runways, washed twice a day by the tide.

[@teamgreen404]

Look boss. De plane De plane!!

[@skysurferuk]

Proper flying...

[@decrypto5571]

Rest In Peace Flybe 😰😭

[@oldthudman]

They should build an airstrip on that piece of land behind the terminal...It's big enough. I rode a little airline to Clear Lake City(by NASA-JSC) Texas...Had a short STOL strip. And they used the Twin Otter.

[@alienhuman]

11:20 You really can't call those guys the 'ground crew'. LoL More like the beach brigade.

[@Avionerd]

nothing apart from landing in one of the most weird airports in the world

[@bobvincent4841]

Skills

[@Tjtjboy]

For those who don't know. This really is an airport. I looked it up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_Airport_(Scotland)

[@Tjtjboy]

You can even book a flight online to get there. The airport code is BRR

[@mohdariansha7882]

landing on the beach may cause wheel and landing gear becoame so rusty immediately... is there any special treatment to prevent wheel landing gear from getting rusty?

[@franciskundukulam821]

Wonder how the take off would be from such a wet and soft sinking beach sand...

[@jaiabdullah3349]

Good👍👍👍👍

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Looks like the wind is causing the problems to the aircraft

[@robdavy981]

i wanna go there.

[@josez1]

What number is that runway?

[@stephennelson7884]

Hilarious when the Septics wade in with no bloody idea what they're talking about....as they do.

[@flipflopfrench]

"yeah we are gonna need 40 a side positive, gpu cart, coffee, ice, papers, and can someone do the windows and exhaust trails?"

[@mononciovisual]

Very short landing... High skill of pilot

[@yossuy643]

I like LoganAir!

[@alessandramacagnan5713]

Jean este é aeroporto é perigoso tem que vir aqui e Cuiabá todo dia Brasil

[@jefffloors1]

Man so is it landing on frozen water? how many months of the year can you land there? is it checked for thickness before landings and departures or is it just always as it needs to be to stand the stress? this is one of the craziest landing/take off videos i've ever seen. You think you could ever get one from the cockpit?

[@Alex22Scott]

At Barra airport, you land on the beach, made of sand, however you have to be careful of the hours you land (due to tide) and you have to be quick turning around since it could get stuck in the sand

[@coxairman]

what about the take off?

[@CullenRick]

British bush pilots of Flybe!

[@jackreid8538]

It is logan air but in a flybe c/s.

[@bernieweber4663]

Actually they found the approach and then landed. Nothing was missed.

[@mikewisdom6520]

Balls the size of landing gear

[@yahtzee1004]

Well it can't be a missed approach if there's nothing to aproach except a seashell and a sand berm!

[@elduvik]

It's a bit cold there for seaside parties, I'm afraid

[@Avionerd]

@lakeseminole because it's the only way they can land on this remote spot

[@flyifri]

Just another day, nothing more, nothing less.

[@matims04]

preflight checks in the sand

[@josephowen4732]

it is landing on a beach which is covered by water at high tide. The old twotter will land on just about anything, this being a wet sandy beach

[@andypdq]

They need a DC-3.

[@MitzvosGolem1]

nice. Tides only restrictions

[@doyoumind9356]

Wish I was there

[@NarendraKumar-zn8st]

if there anyone pilot. I have a small question. in the parking lot do you use engine thrust to steer aircraft?

[@mbglobetrotter]

Narendra Kumar usually engine in idle is enough to taxi but for tight turns yes we use thrust sometimes.

[@MichaelBrown-ys6tj]

This airport may be better suited to helicopters?

[@DickHolman]

Only if you ignore the tide-table :)

[@ivanlussich8146]

Barra is not a conventional airport for sure.

[@LegendxHD]

Why did it take 3 attempts to get it down when the landing space is that wide?

[@jefffloors1]

looking again i guess its on sand?? idk its confusing.

[@user-ry2ed5dk5f]

沙滩？

[@horah5044]

The largest runway in the world!

[@tarekaidi981]

is this heathrow airoport?

[@Avionerd]

Tarek Aidi you kidding right?

[@tarekaidi981]

😊

[@pedropereira-bu6db]

Onde fica esse país

[@jcsk8]

O país é Escócia. Fica no Reino unido.

[@MrTaintedArcher]

SO I take it landing here is not really profitable but more for the communities sake?

[@joeboyd8702]

The people of the Isle of Barra actually voted against having a runway built on the Island. How backward is that?

[@solidstuff4383]

Wow. Ok🤷

[@generalis50]

Sorry but I didnt understud why not to land on the runway? even with crosswind? (the wind indecator showed little wind) what didnt I sow?

[@Avionerd]

because the sea it's the runway

[@openbabel]

The wind seems variable and the wet sand must be difficult to see from the cockpit with no landing lights...does this airport have aircraft parking or fuel ?

[@MsBarabal]

The beach when the tide is out is the runways, there are 3 marked runways on the sand. The title on this video is misleading, the reason for the plan circling as nothing to do with weather or missing approach, is simply the tower instructing the pilot to wait as tide not out far enough, meaning the sand may not be firm enough yet to take the weight.

[@MsBarabal]

+peter jones no aircraft parking nor fuel, if a plane was left overnight it would be washed by the tide!

[@Avionerd]

there's no need for that. also, why would you want to kill the thrill of landing there?

[@shanmateemewa7783]

Any vid on take off from there?

[@Avionerd]

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[@gurjeetjeet4380]

ਜਾ ਫਿਰ ਇੰਡੀਅਾ ਹੈ ਜੀ

[@gurjeetjeet4380]

ਯੂਰਪ ਮੁਲਕ ਹੈ ਜੀ

[@lakeseminole]

Why would a company want to subject their aircraft to the brutal salts of ocean water?

[@boardmant]

"severe weather?" Where????? Wind sock had a half stiffy....

[@davidr6338]

Now those are pilots, automation won't help them in these situations

[@Avionerd]

i filmed it as well. you can find it in my videos or by searching brr - gla

[@Rotax88]

Imagine the rust these twins must get from all the salt water on that beach

[@douglasb5046]

Guessing Barra doesn’t have an ILS or RNAV`approach haha

[@Robster4404]

Do you think the camera person knows how to shut off the camera when the plane is no where to be found?

[@jimmcintosh9045]

They tried to use a bigger plane (Skyvan?) but as the wheels retracted into the fuselage it would have caused more corrosion so they went back to the Twin Otter. The aircraft is hosed down when it returns to Glasgow I think.