Springbok Classic Air DC-3 engine start

[@SparkplugsK-bn9ou]

Even after all these years, the DC-3 remains a true classic, a flying machine of sculpted beauty and an enduring symbol of America's aviation heritage. 🛩🛫🛬✈️💺

[@iowalee9966]

This gentleman really loves this plane, as do I.

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

Had the privilege to load a DC3 a few times back in the late 80s early 90s. we did night flights so it was great to see the flames out the exhausts on takeoff

[@robertmotley8990]

I like it when he says how easy this is. It seems to me to be only slightly less complicated than a shuttle launch.

[@Lokapix]

For a non-pilot it seems to be an unsovable riddle to get this thing working. But the pilot here is right. As I am a real world pilot, I can easily follow his steps and can say that it is not that complicated. At least when you know something about airplanes and you fly them regularly. The core components of every airplane are the same. Every SEP or MEP plane (single engine piston / multi engine piston) got magnetos, mixture levers, tank selectors and so on.

[@aghanr]

Robert Motley it is my friend, if you think this is hard, go watch a 777 startup

[@bengtdahlgren9733]

Robert Motley o

[@arne8837]

Robert Motley ‘Thats it’

[@bartgoins1782]

@@Lokapix you are absolutely right. Lots of what that Captain was doing apply to my Kitfox as well. Even though I'm a low time pilot, it wasn't hard to follow along with him.

[@clydesuckfinger7097]

When I was very young and living in Los Angeles my mother worked for Northwestern Airlines out of Pasadena. The airline has long since gone away. When I was about 10 or 11, we flew from L.A. to Cincinnati via Detroit. I remember the exhaust manifolds on the DC-6 out of LA glowing red hot. Mom told me to relax, everything would be fine. We got to Chicago and transferred to a DC[-3. God Bless the DC-3 . We bounced around for hours before arriving in Cincinnati. Never flew on another DC-3 sfter that

[@705547]

So this plane is now in Aer Lingus painting based in Zweibrücken, Germany .. nice to see this details and information from the cockpit, great video, thanks.

[@NP-rh3dt]

man you would not believe how many parts of the dc-3 are in the MD-80. for example the throttle lever on the dc-3 is used in the MD-80 window opening lever!

[@nightlightabcd]

When I was in the military, I had the privilege to fly on DC=3's twice! It was grreat but we hit a air pocket and droped quite a ways. People were screaming but I thought it was great, then we hit another and people were lifted off their seats, and of course, more screaming! People actually will do that if something unusual happens! I never felt that I was in danger at all! It was a joy ride!!

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

Confirmed: I once was on a really rough descent into I believe Toronto (This was an Air Canada 767) and we dropped about 5-6 times. I have no clue how the crew didn’t abort, but even I was freaking out a little... luckily it was a buttery smooth landing, nothing got broken except a few passengers probably needing a change of clothes.

[@PeterNGloor]

best, and most instructive video I have found on the net. Thanks, Flippie.

[@littleferrhis]

It starts like a giant cessna. That's really cool!

[@TheTrennor]

I had the privilege of flying twice in an RCAF DC3 out of CFB Cold Lake Alberta, Canada as a passenger, though I never got into any of the front seats in the cockpit except while on the ground. Still, an impressive aeroplane and to think some of them are still in service, though the air force retired them years ago. FlightGear Flight Simulator has a FREE one which one can fly with FG and it's great fun.

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

Took a flight on a '28 Ford Tri motor a few weeks ago. This is another plane I need to have a flight on. Our local airport often has exhibition flights of various old planes. Next time a B-17, B-24 or Mitchell bomber are in the area, I'm going to take those flights!

[@Piloto1944]

Very Nice Indeed. Longo time ago i been working for Avex Air at Rand Airport as Mecanic and the Crop-Spraing piloto in Lichtemburg, and around. Good times and good memorys.

[@gerritboshoff9295]

Flippie you are a legend man...

[@Tryin2FlyII]

This is one of my Favorite planes Thanks for posting Loved it !!!

[@tonymaxwell3591]

Tony Maxwell My father flew DC-3's for many years with SAA and African Air Charter in then Nyasaland. I flew with him quite a few times from Lilongwe to Lusaka in ZS-DBP carrying African mineworkers for WINELLA. I was six years old at the time.

[@Spitzer23]

Really nice video! Thanks for sharing :) I was abble to see this airplane up close in Cascais Airfield (LPCS), Portugal, and I also met Captain Flippie.

[@TranscendianIntendor]

Rumble and whirl. Two sounds together. I needed to hear that.

[@bspvdj]

Old but not obsolete

[@phillycheesetake]

The day the DC-3 becomes obsolete is the day the last one crashes. If you could magically have a new DC-3 today, someone somewhere would have need of it.

[@terex3315]

The only replacement for a DC3 is another DC3.

[@mridoit1701]

I mean....... There horribly inefficient comapred to what he have now, there good and all but let's not get unrealistic

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

mr. idoit For bush pilots it is the perfect plane: easy to maintain, doesn’t need much runway, lower fuel consumption compared to a jet, able to easily be modified, and easily repairable in-situ. Imagine a DC-3 with modern technology: it’d be basically the plane of wet dreams for bush pilots and extremely short haul flights (say, intercity routes) in tough environments like the Canadian North, currently being served by first-generation 737s from the sixties and seventies equipped with gravel kits.

[@nightlightabcd]

The DC3, the plane that really started passenger service. Sure, there were others before, the Ford Tri-plane comes to mind, but it wasn't like the DC3! if you ever get a chance to ride in one, DO IT! I'm not all that thrilled to ride on a train, looking out the windows is like riding on a bus, but the DC3, well, that's a different story! maybe some day I'll get to ride in a Connie!

[@SOYOKAZE883]

wow very very nice video! thank you captain.

[@pinpointpictures4697]

My favourite video on KZbin

[@sosco22]

I used to take Central African Airways DC3 from Blantyre to Salisbury in the good old days.

[@armenio1947]

Great video................Nice work.

[@Tiger-lg5of]

This is at an airport just outside Johannesburg, the South African airforce had hundreds in service.

[@granttabor1338]

Only thing is he didn't switch the fire extinguisher from right to left engine. One bottle has to go either way. 4500+ hour DC3 pilot.

[@PeterNGloor]

Michael, is there a video about a cold start somewhere? I had the rare opportunity to fly in a DC-4 twice with Flippie.

[@Zerbey]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@derrick1707]

Lekker om te kyk!

[@madame-rosalitaduchesse7636]

Dakota dc-3 ... skymaster dc-4 ... turbo dc-6 ...seven seas dc-7... forever.

[@larrydockery7201]

THIS OLD BIRDS WILL BE FLYING WHEN TIME ENDS AND LONG AFTER

[@louannwatt4447]

Larry Dockery I hope so!

[@goldwingman1500]

How a cockpit has changed over the years a pilot told me there are about 6 gauges you really need to fly all the rest are safety gear fuel gauge,s and .so on

[@buikhan]

goldwingman1500 true. You also only fly those six in the cloud too.

[@DJISoest]

The cockpit seems to be very brand new right? I guess 1990? restore and repair the plane?

[@codygarland6365]

Compared to the a320: apu bleed on, fuel pumps on, mode selector start, engine two start

[@paulmurphy42]

So when he says, move the starter switch to the on position, is it spring loaded to return to off? Or does it stay on until you move it to off? Thanks

[@charlescrisp2814]

very interesting video thank you

[@joehiggs100]

Great stuff, many thanks.

[@gag4s]

Nice vid!!

[@tristanmccauley2318]

Amazing loved it

[@dieselyeti]

"Hot start. What could be easier?" A Basler turboprop conversion? : )

[@billmoran3812]

dieselyeti the turboprop is harder to start.

[@joeestes8114]

beautiful bird!

[@Glidescube]

This one has all the original instrumentaion from the 1940s

[@joserocha-nu1fu]

THIS GLOVES ARE FROM THE ROYAL AIR FORCE? WHITE GLOVES

[@tjed1071]

He didn’t coun 12 blades rotating before firing

[@PDZ1122]

It's just not the same without the whine of an inertia starter.

[@SuperKnightsword]

Very Nice Pane!

[@jimsmith1856]

Classic.

[@nimrodquimbus912]

Where are the Tide Pods and Fidget spinners?

[@stuartoneill1100]

you are the best

[@mikearakelian6368]

More comprehensive instructions than the last guy...I've hearing problems so I'd need someone with out such heavy accent....keep looking..

[@mikebeard9146]

Why the gloves?

[@sim61642]

4:56 idk , push button ignotion ? :P

[@elmundodegatito8198]

i flew like copilot 7000 hours on powerful dc 3

[@donaldhawkes5226]

I prosume he preoil the engines

[@brycegaming7882]

It's like xplane 11

[@askhowiknow5527]

He sounds like a Finnish Scotsman

[@wexy021]

I believe he is afrikaans

[@do_care919]

I didnt know Čiček knows how to start a DC3

[@sandybanjo]

Hi tech DC3.

[@mfcmichael3564]

His English is a Catastrophic

[@Konigracer1]

How not to start a DC-3 more like. wetting the blower is a highly dangerous practice.

[@goldwingman1500]

pappa bear Is a DC 3 A Radial Mill ?

[@Konigracer1]

Yes, it is a 14 cylinder twin row radial with displacement of 1830 Cu. Inches.

[@goldwingman1500]

Thanks we had a motor bike with a small Radial motor in her

[@jackdawson4519]

pappa bear That must be why its called the R1830. I did not know that, thanks!

[@davidharris6356]

+pappa bear really? so come come nothing dangerous happened in this video?

[@user-pg9fv7su8q]

This guy sounds like someone from an Indian call center.

[@anthony-ob6lw]

And that's why I don't trust him

[@Tiger-lg5of]

His first language is Dutch, thats a Dutch accent in English.