Steep approach over icebergs! Flying the Air Greenland Dash 8 to Aasiaat and Ilulissat

[@RALPHD57]

LOVED the Dash8!! Worked for Us Airways for 34 years and on my first day in 1971 worked a CV580!! BLESSED!!

[@greyjay9202]

The Captain and First Officer make a great team. They can almost read each other's minds. Its what you want, flying in that environment. Amazing views of those calved bergs.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Indeed!

[@rswaf86]

“Let’s go to sightseeing altitude” (17.25 minutes). “Yeh, that is better!” Classic! Superb video!

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

One of our favorite moments! Those pilots were so much fun to spend time with.

[@chrissieparkinson8125]

Priceless!

[@jenstrabolt3602]

@@Flightradar24DotCom Also, if I am not mistaken, the first officer is also an seasoned ex danish airforce C-130H pilot with an extensive artic operation background, so good deal of knowledge is crammed into that small flight deck.

[@patchwork007]

Unbelievable scenery and what a beautiful journey to take. It beats all the hustle and bustle of continuous commercial aviation. I look forward to the next instalment.

[@joebrunette5594]

I spent a year in Greenland at Thule AFB, spectacular and unusual scenery for someone from Louisiana.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Wow! Did you enjoy your year there?

[@jeremy1350]

That was so cool. The closest I ever came to a gigantic iceberg in real life, was Easter 7 years ago, I was in New Foundland and a gigantic iceberg grounded in a bay close to home. Everybody from all over drove in to see it. The flight approach into St. John's is over the East Coast and there were tons of icebergs in the adjacent waters on the flight path. Can't wait to see your next installment !!

[@faustdownunder]

Nice. The pilot seat cover has seen better days.... :)

[@DanMufc-jt9le]

Loving these cockpit videos recently team i dont know why but just find watching these flying videos so therapeutic and relaxing and like the access you get in these planes something us the public dont normally see just find it fascinating flying id love to do it as a job if it wasnt so expensive to do just like the pre flight check lists you have to do and find talking to radio control fascinating to the chatter you do to them must be damn good pay these days to become a pilot but man that view of the icebergs was incredible just shows what our great earth has to offer you have to go out there and find it amazing stuff

[@guyhermann9547]

Super Nice flights, comments and more over the filming. Thanks Gabriel and Air Greenland pilots, Mother Nature is so Beautiful

[@NicolaW72]

Indeed.

[@071949]

The Captain´s comments about approaching Greenland beginning @ 15:48 reminded me of a passage from Ernest K Gann´s memoir *Fate Is The Hunter*: ¨There, then, was the enormous mass of Greenland, and I could not look away from it...I had never in all my flying seen anything to compare w/ this fantastic exhibition...In all of the times I later came upon the continent of Greenland, the crew members invariably expressed the same wondrous exhilaration.¨

[@18robsmith]

I've seen Greenland from 30,000ft which was beautiful, but this video from 3000ft is just WOW 😃😃😃😃

[@M-Swede]

If I had to describe the complete opposite of where we live, it would be this video. No icebergs, no snow and not even a heater for the house here. 🌴Enjoyed the content. Thanks.

[@Yugoslavia_memes]

Lol my Canadian ass wishes😂⛄️🥶

[@danieljorge7807]

What a beautiful sight, those pilots love flying up there.

[@mig882001]

Amazing shots of the iceberg now on my bucket list to fly to Llulissat

[@PeterNGloor]

if weather permits (clear and calm) don't miss a cruise among the icebergs south of town.

[@maxtdubs]

Amazing video! I lived in Ilulissat had a wave of nostalgia watching this! I always wondered what the view from the dash 7/8s landing looked like and you captured it beautifully. And thanks to the very friendly pilots. Looking forward to seeing the helicopter ride.

[@CaptVirtual]

You lived here? You must have some interesting stories to tell.

[@MonkPetite]

The flight over the ice ... there are no words to describe the beauty of it. I have ferried many aircraft over their part of the world, I never had something to say .. only it’s sad we going to lose it all one day.

[@GouganeBarra-u4t]

Fantastic video... I've never been in the cockpit of an aeroplane before, and it's over 20 years since I've flown. So it was a thrill for me to watch all of this. Thanks a million !

[@Banditt42]

Love the Dash 8's. All of them.

[@iamnospa7683]

Very cool, what a flight, what a place. Thanks to crew and to Air Greenland for allowing the video.

[@yamthirdnow]

This looks absolutely amazing! When is the next part coming?

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Next week! Tell your friends 😉

[@thissunchild]

@@Flightradar24DotCom Yaaaaay😄

[@CaptVirtual]

Amazing country. Thanks for this Greenland video series. 👍

[@NicolaW72]

👍👍👍

[@kd4pba]

Looks way more fun than a jet to me.

[@asimsherzai]

Breathtakingly beautiful and a perfect plane to fly superb flying crew

[@ianburit3705]

What a great plane that Dash 8 is, and how quick from start rolling to rotate.. Thanks for the video - Ian -UK.

[@phillipbaritone3843]

You weren’t kidding about the visuals on the second leg, wow! What an approach

[@bijuriibrahim9831]

This is probably the best airplane videos I ever seen 👍

[@rcooze1]

WOW!! What an absolutely amazing video. Such beautiful scenery.

[@TheFirePilot]

Dash-8 seems like a fun plane to fly. Great views for sure. Nicely done!

[@timoswindowseat7045]

The Dash is awsome to fly on. The Q400 has an invreadible climb after TO but the Q200 will lift the weels in less than 500 m.

[@niloyjdeb]

Heartfelt thanks for showing us a side of this beautiful world that most of us do not even know exists!

[@joseromano]

Beautiful paint job on the aircraft.

[@TheDeJureTour]

These men are living the dream! What a life!

[@CaptVirtual]

9:00 It is practically a carrier landing 😮 I was surprised it is a paved runway, I guess I was expecting dirt/gravel

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Yeah! Greenland does pretty well with having paved runways in many cases, but they are certainly short!

[@killolafan52]

Beautiful video! I loved the magnificent scenery of Greenland. And I love Gabe Leigh as narrator. He sounds very sincere and relaxed.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Thank you!

[@huaweiphone6403]

Amazing video, narration on point. Your voice adds to the splendor of the scenery. Hats off to you and the flight crew. This was the first video I have seen from you and it is really impressive. Thanks for sharing a sector that most people would never get to see.

[@stuttgartspotting]

wow amazing views, thumbs up cheers from Germany

[@NicolaW72]

👍

[@dapperdave4952]

What a wonderfully entertaining video, thank you!

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Thanks for watching and commenting Dapper Dave!

[@joebarrett4353]

Absolutely stunning. So beautiful.

[@NicolaW72]

Yes.🤗

[@keylanliamcruz3950]

Air Greenland pilots you're the best.

[@javieron8982]

Awesome experience with a great flight crew!

[@mshell1959]

Wow! Amazing!!

[@luizescada5175]

Great shots, great soundtrack, great job 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Thanks a lot!

[@Gednur]

Simply beautiful!

[@DLWELD]

Excellent - how nice to have a straight documentary - no extra music, no artificial drama - it's the way!

[@rolandet]

a Mandalorian couldn't have said it better 'This is the way' :)

[@sebastianweinholdt707]

Why hasn’t this channel more subscribers?! This video was outstanding!

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Thanks for saying so! We only started producing videos like this pretty recently. We'd love it if you would share with your friends and tell them to subscribe too!

[@sebastianweinholdt707]

@@Flightradar24DotCom I see, never heard of this channel until now. Amazing video and the fact that you went all the way to Greenland just to film this. I will definitely travel in to Greenland when the pandemic is over. I wish you and the channel the best of luck. I look forward to more videos like this, maybe in Iceland or Norway. I will definitely tell all my friends about this channel!

[@FlightBytes]

Wow! No words!

[@jsvno]

The same as we have in Norway - Dash 8 and steep approaches on short fields, even the PAPI's are tuned to that. Invite yourself to a ride with Widerøe airlines in January - that's when the real thrill is going on...

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Yeah! Have flown Widerøe in summer and loved it, but really need to try it in winter!

[@timoswindowseat7045]

This I believe you. I am doing now some rides on the Q200 from SATA on the Azores and I love the 200 series. It can bring you in 450 m in the air.

[@nelsoncong]

Going to Ilulissat is No. 1 on my bucket list.

[@phantim_othy571]

That made my Friday night 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Thank you

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Great to hear!

[@groeisterk]

awesome!!

[@roopjassal]

Awesome film flew over Greenland many times, never seen it this sunny. Enjoyed it. aspirations to visit it one day.

[@gustavodeibarrapilot]

Beautifull and Great aircraft

[@manniaraq]

cant wait to see beautiful small islands and sea again!! im going to travel to Denmark in July

[@olehejlskovandersen5978]

Brilliant video...!

[@BikerDad2005]

wow ... I wish I could have given more thumbs up!

[@nicolas2970]

The Mighty Ocho I spent hundreds of flight hours in all the EX Mesa DHC8 that Air Greenland now flies. It is good to know those AC are in capable hands .!!

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Very cool!

[@davidwilliams9326]

Fantastic, I love the dash 8, flown on a number of them through Canada, it was nice to see SFJ too, I flew in there in June 1971 on board a Wardair 727 from YXE to MAN

[@NicolaW72]

Thank you very much for this impressive Travel Vlog!👍

[@otmanabdelhadi]

Wonderful

[@garrettgla]

Great video! U guys do a super job!

[@johnkerr1953]

Well what can I say about this flight - it was Trimendous, & to see the icebergs that put the iceing on the cake, l say well done to the person or persons who made this video -- full marks.

[@joeg.2976]

Greenland Looks very nice. Xcellent trip report.

[@Trump145]

Thank you I just subscribed that was a really nice and relaxing video.

[@parapsychologist5402]

Awesome video and panoramic views. Great job!

[@sebastianweinholdt707]

Why, Why, Why. Why hasn’t this video more views??

[@brookeshaffer4377]

New sub. Great video🌟Looks like they are in need of recovering the backs of the seats😂

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Thanks for the sub!

[@deetjay1]

Gotta love that trim control...

[@babydriver8134]

I liked it. Thanks

[@phpfreakie]

Amazing video with wonderful views! I was curious about the gloves that the FO was wearing when he was PF, were you in a position to ask him about this?

[@sebasantos]

I had the same question...

[@kurtsvensson4362]

What’s weird about it? Some pilots prefer to wear gloves while flying and the guy did say that he was ex military.

[@phpfreakie]

@@kurtsvensson4362 I did not say there is anything weird about this. It just caught my attention and was curious about it.

[@RussellBond13]

He only wore them on takeoff and landing which is a little strange.

[@lorenzapaganini-talleri4905]

Amazing!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@donaldclifford5763]

So beautiful, and so desolate! A world unto itself.

[@seniorelzappo9919]

Very nice production ...

[@darioherrera1776]

Muy Bueno me gusta sdos desde mendoza Argentina 😎👍🇦🇷

[@joeroscillo4015]

You say, driving the plain are,............ I'm sure you meant flying the plain!!! LOL Great video!! You had a wonderful seat!!

[@mxr572]

another great Canadian plane serving well.

[@NakedMuso]

Another great video. Amazing scenery. I find the music a bit unnecessary and distracting if I'm honest, but that's probably just me. Can't wait for the rotary footage 😃

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Fair enough! Some people would prefer them without music, but we like to use it here and there. Thanks for the comment.

[@NakedMuso]

@@Flightradar24DotCom It's only because I'd rather hear flight deck / radio chatter & the noises I'd hear if I was actually there. Your vids are still pretty awesome though 👍

[@6williamson]

I learned in Alaska so that's my normal angle of approach. Helps to miss trees at the end of runway.

[@mmcleod111]

Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing.

[@shawnmurphy2047]

New subscriber .love your content .thank you 👍

[@Ixian18]

Absolutely stunning!!!! What is the shortest take-off a Dash8 200 can do?

[@gogabego]

Good question! Not totally sure but this was right near the limit. Maybe a Dash 8 expert here knows exactly?

[@anasmaaz5731]

At maximum weight the take off run is close to 1000 m. This is at Sea level and at an Outside air temperature of 30 degrees Celsius.

[@kurtsvensson4362]

They can take off from lord howe island on a runway of 800m.

[@jwhoward182]

My father landed at Narsarsuaq in October 1944 and was grounded due to weather for over a week. Would love to see an episode or part of one cover that airfield.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

We didn't get there on this trip but we plan to the next time we go!

[@jwhoward182]

@@Flightradar24DotCom Awesome! They did an ADF approach into a cloud marine layer. They were in a B-24 enroute from Goose Bay. The angle of the runway looked bizarre when they saw after coming out of the clouds. My father was the oldest at age 24, and his copilot was 19.

[@paulhendershott667]

Awesome! Amazing pilots and Amazing plane! I think the Dash 8 is one of the planes seen flying into Kukla airport in Nepal. Big pucker factor all around - great short field capabilities...

[@drumbroneth]

Love it!

[@mikercflyer7383]

The scenery is incredible. I always wonder how people live so isolated May be it’s a good thing.

[@inge191157]

Just been there a month ago. And flying the Dash 8 to Illiusiat. Sailing on the Icefjord between the big Icebergs.

[@rasmusolesen8133]

Flying with gloves! I have never seen that I the commercial pilot industry. What's that all about?

[@jimimeldhedegaardkristense6066]

Cold hands?

[@jenstrabolt]

Ex military pilot!

[@BLUETERRIER7]

What a fantastic vid 👌

[@jamiefairlie4837]

absolutly beautiful looks a bit liike scotland without any housesor tres

[@RandyKaplanMusic]

“Snow shower came in and got us all dirty.”

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

😂. That calls for a bit of aviation trivia: "dirty" in aviation tends to refer to flying with anything that increase drag. So if you have flaps down, etc, it's dirty as opposed to "clean", with everything tucked away, as you would see in cruise. So that's the reference here - ice on wings = increased drag = dirty plane.

[@RandyKaplanMusic]

@@Flightradar24DotCom Aha! That certainly clears that up!

[@alwaysethan8518]

👍 great

[@laviver12]

I'm curious as to why was the FO wearing gloves?

[@alwaysethan8518]

Great

[@erictiu5182]

Sir, are you using gimbal to shoot this amazing video and what camera you are using? Thanks

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Believe it or not it's mostly the iPhone 12 Pro. The stabilization on it is so good that it becomes the go-to in many situations like this, although I have a much nicer and more expensive Sony FX3 as well.

[@PeterNGloor]

A Q200 was totalled at Ilulissat in 2014 after a botched x-wind landing.

[@Siminfrance]

Beautiful video ... out of curiosity, why was the FO wearing gloves? ... and only for take-off/landing I wonder what the reason for that would be

[@reneahlquist7209]

The plane "Navarana" is named after Peter Freuchens beloved wife.

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Wow, Freuchen's story is great! Thanks for letting us know!

[@reneahlquist7209]

I should have mentioned she was Peter Freuchen's first wife. Later he was married to an American lady.

[@ecosuiteinfo7540]

17:45 Love to see those iceberg! Any idea which month usually this thing happened ?

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

They're present year-round!

[@StizaElias]

oh crap! now I'll have to download FS2020 again!

[@astevable]

During the final approach to Ilulissat i noticed a paved road splitting off the main airport road (20:16 lower right of the video). I was curious to see where this road leads to but I couldn' t find it on any satellite image (Bing Maps, Google Earth). It is either a fairly new road or it was edited out for some strange reason (cue X-Files theme... ;-))

[@Flightradar24DotCom]

Hah! It doesn't go far and it's new, you're right - only leads to the area where they're constructing the runway extension and other parts of what will be the new and improved Ilulissat Airport from around 2024. Currently closed to the public.

[@thepubliceye]

Why do both pilots keep their hands on the throttle during take-off?

[@topaviator]

There is nobady comin to save your ass lmao 🤣🤣 that FO there 🤟