Pilatus Porter PC-6 STOL Demo

[@56thSPSk970]

First time I saw these was in South East Asia in 70' . Its scary awesome what they can do and where they can do it....Air America had a few but the ones I saw were Flat Black no markings....none!

[@PeterNGloor]

The plane was designed originally with a piston engine, so when they changed the design to turboprop the lighter weight of this engine type necessitated putting it further forward of the center of gravity.

[@mrgreen2570]

Made few skydives out of Porter ,awesome plane.East Troy Wisconsin .

[@dennism103]

Imo the best single engine plane u can buy. My all time favorite...

[@flyer5769]

as long as there short flights. it is not a comfortable plain.

[@diogoalencar_1267]

Lindo Avião, ótimo para ser o primeiro Avião de um Piloto para ser utilizado no primeiro serviço...

[@CaptainDoron]

WHAT AN AMAZING AIRCRAFT !! EXCELLENT VIDEO TO DEMONSTRATE IT !! THANKS FOR POSTING 😊

[@MrWasim100100]

And an excellent pilot having amazing short landing and Take off capabilities :)

[@nengmoua544]

I love this little airplane it’s amazing

[@TyCetto]

A beauty disguised as a beast!

[@BrewNight]

That's a plane from JAARS. Fantastic organization and incredible missionary pilot skills!

[@fredfindl]

Pilatus holds FAA type certificates (normal category) for a number of PC-6 variants and has done so for years....

[@Gasoil4ever]

@qotsaandsoadfan1 : because a turbine is lighter than a pistion engine you need to put it further in front to maintain correct center of gravity. Pilatus was first designed as a piston engine aircraft if my memory is correct.

[@wreckdiver001]

The best airplane in the world.

[@strikerwyatt]

I agree, but some are. Like the piper super cub PA-18, or cessna 172. Which are tools :)

[@AdvertigoNet]

Fantastic airplane.

[@angelreading5098]

A great aircraft but not the best STOL demonstration,the Porter will land in a much shorter space than shown here.

[@tunkki321]

Yes! How come my favourite light civilian aircraft is Piper Super Cub for its STOL-ability before that acronym was cooked up :D

[@hotspur666]

The yardstick here is:"How many sheets of 4X8feet of plywood can I load in there or how many 50gallon(200liters)drums of oil fit in?" with the Otter is a ton and a half as it all does fit in...the Noorduyn Norseman take a bit less but need much more room for take off. The Pilatus is actually more rugged by the appearances but I have landed in 80 degree slopes with a piston Otter with DC-3 tires in the arctic where it is smooth

[@MrAIRSHOWFAN100]

Air America used these right.correct me if i am wrong

[@flyer5769]

Yep, i have a pic of me standing in front of one when i was about 11 years old. Think we were in Da Nang. Dad flew for Air America from 67 to 74 i think.

[@pathyskeeter]

I put about a hundred hours on a Legend Cub...fun to fly, made lots of great memories. But the company doesn't impress me at all. Still, has improvements over the J3. But, man oh man, do I miss the Helio.

[@ronjohnson303]

pathyskeeter. Helios are awesome airplanes but they're hard to find

[@mpz-video]

Cool, very short landing - I filmed only a short start of the PC6- Turbo Porter...

[@jevyoung8885]

Beautiful KATURE airplane.

[@nattankress]

I LOVE THIS planes i hope when i retire go to live in alaska and get one of those or a cessna caravan

[@BruceHoult]

Check out PAC750

[@pathyskeeter]

There you go. Intelligent.

[@2drewbaker]

I could land that plane in my back yard. Now, I have to afford it.

[@mmichaeldonavon]

Great video, thanks. I am wondering what are those items attached aft of the main gear wheels; also, that item mounted on the Port wingtip (curious :-) Love that wide gear stance; also the Beta mode. Nice flying, sir. N-6395T

[@Bratfalken]

Really late answer but, gravel deflectors on the main gear and weather radar on the wingtip.

[@mmichaeldonavon]

@@Bratfalken Thanks.

[@pathyskeeter]

Then i suppose that it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. What Piper Cub do you have?

[@gmp1944]

Air America was flying the turbos in 66 in SEA

[@2drewbaker]

I will figure that into the maintenance expences, unless they move.

[@Skysam60]

@qotsaandsoadfan1 This is for the turbine and for equilibrate the plane. Sorry for my english.

[@stefankozma]

hope I get to fly one of these in the bush.

[@PeterNGloor]

Swiss quality product!

[@2drewbaker]

Yes, if you like spooning with a turbo. @mistersmith6000

[@superwhuffo1]

man that was nice....

[@2drewbaker]

@EquipaPatriot We do many things where applause is never heard. We also applaud when none will hear, Weed hopper.

[@bobdermeister1703]

Sorry I´not a plane guy but it almost sounds like they change the rotation direction just after they land, is that right ?? Thanks

[@adriancamilleri2917]

It seems like they have a variable pitch propeller, and they keep the prop spinning in the same direction and change the pitch until the leading edge of the blades point backwards. I'm the not entirely sure of this but it's more convenient than changing the direction of rotation.

[@pauleyplay]

You got it right, Beta is flat pitch, Reverse is blades to the rear. After touchdown. You cant change the rotation of the engine !

[@PilotRyanProductions]

@superwout ur sir r correct the movie is awesome!!!

[@h2otek312]

No zig zag taxiing required despite that awfully long nose? How is taxi visibility, anyway? One of these on floats was in the movie Never Cry Wolf quite a few years ago.

[@secularsunshine9036]

-*Let the Sunshine In...*

[@acrobaticcripple8176]

All I saw were fly pasts. Where was the STOL demo?

[@pCf96]

Lol man do Pilatus Porter PC-6s have long ugly beaks on them.. Still a wicked plane though.

[@RootBeerGMT]

STOL supreme.

[@hotspur666]

Meh, the Otter TO & land shorter plus have twice the payload and the room... on the same engine.

[@nattankress]

yes the early were piston i think flat 6's

[@marstons99]

Don't forget the much sexier bigger sister to the Porter, the PC-12 NG. Now that's a nice bird!

[@rcoverdose6946]

709 like..wawuu..amzing 👍💗

[@jacknisen]

Not a very short landing actually, for a Porter. Way too fast. Splat and reverse is the shortest technique.

[@hotspur666]

I looked over a Pilatus Porter in Cali, Colombia...was pretty beaten up, was told it belonged to dopers. It is pretty much all it can do, the cabin has less room than a beaver(same engine size)...not practical at all, just like the Antonov ANT-2 No wonder nobody bothered to put it on floats(there's a million lakes in Canada...) As for the ANT-2, flying the Peruvian and Equadorian jungle strips, there's 1000s of them abandoned there, cheap($5000) but useless!

[@pathyskeeter]

Helio still beats it in takeoff and landing distance...but not rate of climb or payload.

[@samtatenumber1]

the helio is like half the size

[@legomaster335]

@marstons99 i saw a pc-12 at memphis intl.

[@Dominoes282]

@marstons99 Saw a PC-12 at Ocala Intl.

[@JimForeman]

Damn! That's one butt-ugly airplane.

[@ThalesVilela]

@qotsaandsoadfan1 Because of its turboprop...

[@jimecee]

Hey porter why the long face?

[@bicobello]

Compensate the lighter weight of the PT6 Engine

[@hotspur666]

Had they built the cabin two feet wider and moved the cockpit forward two feet like Dehav did with the Turbo-Beaver, this would have been a big success...as it is, it sell for just the price of the engine and beer can metal while the Turbo Beaver and Turbo Otter still go for a million and a half! You'd think the makers of the Pilatus PC-12 would have more marketing savvy!

[@hotspur666]

meaning the PC-6...

[@lifeingeneral9111]

i'm sorry they stopped making this plane this year...

[@2drewbaker]

All the parties are for the rich, but we can't go to them.

[@endotype2286]

I want to see VTOL demo.

[@wtfsincerlyjapan]

@mistersmith6000 im guessing engine

[@Eloybb1]

COn el morro largo me recuerda al MEsserchmith

[@NetworkerExpress]

Obviously it can I

[@hotspur666]

You see them parked, period...no use for them...cannot load sheets of plywood, lumber or fuel drums as cabin is just too small. Caravans, and De Havs earn their keep commercially here, even PC-12 while the PC-7 is the sort of thing for the bureaucrats enjoyment(government contracts doing really nothing!)

[@hotspur666]

Why the two main doors unlatched at first? Thanks, I'll stick with the Turbo-Otter...twice the room & load, better stol, same engines...Can you load a snow sled Skandic SWT? NO! Can you load fifty sheets of plywood? NO, can you load six drums of oil? NO! Can you load inside thirty four by four inches by sixteen feet sticks? NO! Can you fly with a sixteen foot fishing boat? NO! Can you carry outside 24 two by twelve inches by sixteen feet planks? NO! Frankly, it's more in the Turbo Beaver's class...nowhere near the Otter!

[@Account4096]

+hotspur666 Can you land the Turbo Otter in a 500ft loose gravel mountain strip at 7000' MSL and still maneuver it out of there by dodging trees and mountains? No. I actually love all three types - the 2, the 3 as well as the PC-6. This specific carrier, however, chose the Porter because it best suits the operation needs in Papua, Indonesia (see "Worst Place to be a Pilot"). The Beavers and Otters will definitely work well in Vancouver, but in Papua, the Porter trumps everything else.

[@hotspur666]

+PK-JIN ...It's all relative..they all only need a few hundred feet if fairly light...I never flew the Porter but the Otter will carry obscene loads(twice the legal, you figure it out) out of a big lake or a long river on skis...I also flew the piston Otter on big wheels on the side of mountains in the arctic with a 70 degrees+ slope, turning around on ledges...for take off, you just released the brakes, no need to use the starter, just turn the ignition on and the mixture as the engine start windmilling on your near vertical run/dive...I'm too old for that shit now...I only saw an old Porter in Cali, Colombia...It was beaten up to rat shit...When I asked who it belonged to, the guys started sneezing and laffing...

[@lunkfire]

What the F does this have to do with a STOL vid? Just curious...

[@LeCamachoTRK]

lunkfire STOL means Short Take Off And Landing..

[@romulobenjoino3943]

ok

[@ForkinCrazy]

High wing 602 with arm room. LMAO!!!

[@flyer5769]

And they can't fly those in the US

[@samtatenumber1]

why not?

[@flyer5769]

@@samtatenumber1 It's very expensive to get a new plane though all the tests the FAA require. they didn't think sales would justify the cost. jmho.

[@samtatenumber1]

@@flyer5769 oh k thanks

[@tunkki321]

Tools arent usually pretty :)

[@naldopereirachef]

Avião feio da peste!!!!!

[@bombardierdude15]

that was crap, I've seen shorter from the pc 6

[@strikerwyatt]

That is possibly the ugliest overwing i have ever laid my eyes on.