Great video of a Twin Otter doing work in Greenland. The PIC had a smile on his face the whole time. Can't say I blame him. What a cool airplane!

[quote="Crzyivan13"The PIC had a smile on his face the whole time./quote]

That's probably because the weather was so nice for a change....

cool video but did anyone else notice the beating the nose wheel got with no effort to try to save it? maybe is there something that I don't know about the 2 otter?

the beating the nose wheel got with no effort to try to save it? maybe is there something that I don't know about the 2 otter?

I remember when a Forest Service Twin Otter landed at McCall ID years ago and somehow the nose wheel was turned left so that when the nose came down the plane made a left turn, ran off the runway, and wrecked. The pilot lost his job over that.

Great Video I like all the different camera angles -must be go pro revelation. Speaking of Go-Pros I may be in a condition to get 8ea Hero 3#s very gently used. I want 2 for my own rest are for sale .

Nice video. The music got annoying but that's why they make volume buttons I guess.

Great airplane. This one's got the bigger tires on it -- the nose fork is the beefed up one they use, when they put a main tire up front.

Not sure what you meant about the nosewheel taking a beating..? That's what it does... and these are really nice strips, not even rough. I've taxied through 3-4' high sagebrush on a particularly windy day, and that airplane will do lots more than that.

And yeah, I'd say the pilots look happy because the sky is that strange foreign color BLUE. When we came across Greenland in the Otter last time, we had to wait for a 5-day blizzard with 67-knot winds to lose strength, and then wait some more, for the airport guys with the plows to find the runway again.

(On a side note, that guy in MYL won his case back when they tried to fire him....)

This is the world's best airplane.. but then I guess I'm prejudiced. Thanks for the video.

Crzyivan13 wrote:Great video of a Twin Otter doing work in Greenland. The PIC had a smile on his face the whole time. Can't say I blame him. What a cool airplane!

Cool, what's not to like, STOL, Turbines, two of them...

Boy Erik the Red sure pulled a fast one on the rest of his people didn't he.

"Hey Erik, we are really getting tired of being on this little island of ice, it's friggin freezing here."

"No problem Sven, I just found this huge island that is a lush paradise, I'm calling it Greenland. It's a third the size of North America which my son Leif will discover soon but that wannabe Columbus will get credit for, and he'll think it's China. Anyway, I only came back to gather up my family. Come on back with me, it's much better then here."

"But Erik, what if we don't like it, I mean we are giving up what we have here, and our friends that are here."

"No problem Sven, if you like your land you can keep your land, if you like your friends you can keep your friends."

"Erik, you're the man, were with you, let's grab our boats folks and follow Erik. We're sure glad your king Erik."

(On a side note, that guy in MYL won his case back when they tried to fire him....)

Any chance you could elaborate on what was going on that the nose wheel wasn't straight?

Hey Evan thanks or sharing.
I had an opportunity to fly in an Otter out of Grenada in the Caribbean last winter. Milk run with about 10 stops.
I managed to upgrade to "first class" after a few stops and fascinated myself with the goings on in the cockpit.
296 glued to the yoke was the primary (only?) means of navigation. Also amusing were some aircraft performance flash cards clipped to the yoke. Prior to each takeoff the pilot would glance over his shoulder, depending on how many and how fat the passengers, would flip to the appropriate card.
Highlite of my trip, great little planes.

180 Marty,
when the plane was in the weeds, the people up there crawled all over the thing, flipped switches, and so contaminated the accident site that their firing of the pilot was held to be illegitimate, since they didn't conduct anything resembling a "normal" investigation.
A retired NTSB gentleman testified to that, and also ultimately offered that a tailwind component may have been enough to cause a loss of control.
The whole thing was just too bad, all the way around.