DC-9 Landing on Short Runway + High Mountains
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2019
- In 2002 JustPlanes visited AEROPOSTAL of Venezuela and filmed 14 flights in the cockpit of the airline's Boeing 727, Douglas DC9-20, DC9-30 and DC9-50 from its Caracas base to half a dozen destinations in Venezuela as well as to Aruba and the Dominican Republic.
On this flight operated by a DC9-30 (YV-24C) we follow the unusual approach into San Antonio flying overhead the airport and descending in between the mountains to land on a rather short runway with a mountain at the end.
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i was born in colombia , but i lived almost half of my life on san antonio del tachira ( around 15 years ) , my dad was an Rutaca 737-200 pilot , when he was gonna fly ( almost each day one time ) my mom and me sitted on the little park at the side of the aiport ( the part where the b-57 canberra is exhibited ) and watched my dad takeoff his plane , sadly today this aiport isnt much used on Venezuela , only 2 or 3 flights takeoff from here , today i live in colombia , and sometimes i go back to san antonio and visit my old city. I still love the classic planes of that era , specially the 727-200 ( i flew once on it ) , today i see some private jets like learjets and dassault falcon for no reason , you are a good aiport cipriano!
One of the most challenging airports in Venezuela, is nice to remember the old good days of the Venezuelan aviation.
I particularly liked the ground-crew guy at the end and the way he finished his signaling.
Yeah. Pretty slick move!
Beautiful. MD made some excellent aircraft!
Love the gauges instead of glass.
Yep, when the instrument and overhead panels looked like a real airplane. (DC-9 PIC, 1983-89)
Quite short runway, you guys did it well, also the runway surface quite bumpy but smooth touch-down.
This one is a risky approach, a good test for experienced pilots! Beautiful airport in my home country!
It’s gotta be reassuring to know the captain has a mustache and sun glasses
VERY important! It's mandatory for male captains in that company to have mustache. It's also in the pre flight and after landing checklist. "Captain's mustache, armed and brushed" and "Captain's mustache disarmed and re brushed".
That looks a whole lot shorter when you touch down lol! Great job!
Wonderful clip, thanks.
Amazing approach, can not imagine how challenging the GA procedure must be in that direction :o
Yeah, and the takeoffs usually were performed to the opposite way of landings due the mountains
When I see notifications of the video smile comes on my face 😀😀
We used to fly in and out of this airport on break from doing seismic surveying south of there outside of a town called El Nula in 1984/85. Landings were interesting , but take offs into the “mountains” to get lift and the right hand turn dropping the wing and scooting down the valley were also interesting. Where the terminal is on the right, you could look straight ahead and peripheral vision see both end of the runway...we did it in Avensa 727-100’s too.. the local passengers crossing themselves as we spooled up said it all
Many Latins will do the Sign of the Cross before any kind of departure or starting off something new. It really does not mean anything. This is quite common in Latin America.
Hey Peter, I didn't knew about avensa arrived to El Nula, I'm looking on google maps and I discovered a runway right there, but I don't know if you are referring to Santo Domingo del Táchira, which is also close to El Nula. Do u have pics perhaps?
Aeropuerto internacional Juan Vicente Gómez, San Antonio del Táchira , Venezuela.
San Antonio del Táchira no es en Mérida.... queda precisamente en... Táchira...
Ai chihuaua
Nice work, and you can use the airplane again. Actually I didn't know any -20s made their way down there. (Had the original body size of the -10, the bigger wing and higher thrust engines off the -31/32/33 - the makings of one hot ride.) Only ten were built and SAS took them all. Seems that ValueJet had a few after SAS retired them.
Espero que en los videos antiguos, esté un aterrizaje en el Alberto Carnevalli de Mérida que es un aeropuerto a mayor altura y con una pista más corta, es el aeropuerto a mayor altura de Venezuela y no cualquier piloto podía aterrizarlo con un DC-9-30 o un B727-200, saludos desde Venezuela y excelente material.
I hope that in the old videos, there is a landing at the Alberto Carnevalli in Mérida, which is a higher airport with a shorter runway, it is the highest airport in Venezuela and not any pilot could land it with a DC-9- 30 or a B727-200, cheers from Venezuela and excellent material.
Si hay videos. Busca unos d avensa
esos vuelos se prohibieron porque es literalmente un suicidio xD
Good thing I’m not a pilot, because I couldn’t tear my eyes away from those mountains past the runway. 😂
WOW! That is skill!
Maintain constant airspeed and rate of descent, and point it at the end of the runway, followed by maximum thrust reversal, and maximum brakes at 80 Knots..
Nice goodjob✈✈✈✈✈ 👏👏👏👏short landing unbelievable ✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈✈
Great video
Bhhppp.......Bhhpppp.....Bhhpppp......Stab Trim operation. Expected to hear the sound of the reversers on touchdown would have been louder. Great video. Impressive.
Cool video
good video maybe one day publish one of funchal portugal land of my father God take care of them I congratulate you
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That looked like a 360 degree turn in the valley to lose height! - a couple of hundred metres left at the end? Yikes!
360s were done leveled at 20.000 feet west of San Antonio over Merida City, Merida Airport and Bolivar Peak (highest elevation of Venezuela).
Intention was to show the Venezuelan Andes Mountains, flight was planned with extra fuel and overflight of Merida were coordinated with Air Traffic Control.
@@juancarlosblancohernandez8644 thanks for the detail 👍
A short but challenging par 3
Think about this- If they had lost an engine during the flight, they would have had to divert to another airport, because they would not be able to fly the final approach at a low enough speed for the short runway, and they would not have had full reverse thrust capability.If they had lost an engine on final, after they were committed...no way out. It would have been a crash. An over-run. There is no room for anything to be less than just right.Great video, great flying. =PC=
That U Turn was pretty fast!
Donde estarán volando estos panas
Un 787 minimo
WOW!!
Hehe
I was getting anxious - wheels down slightly past the sweet spot
I almost had to pop an ativan. I had forgotten what an incredible short lander the DC-9 is.
@@andytaylor1588 and also aeropostal / aserca used their jt8d-17 dc9s for those short runways, thing was a beast.
two polacks landing on the runway sideways[across the runway]. One says to the other, "man that's the shortest runway I've ever seen". Other one says" yeah but look how wide it is".
remember landing in puerto rico in Navy w/DC-9, it was a rather STEEP APPROACH! LOLOLOL
SVSA elevation 1312 feet.
Lol.. I was like - where is this airport in San Antonio Tx?
Hahaha amigo c'mon, the world is much bigger than Texas, therefore you will find many places named San Antonio. This is San Antonio del Táchira , Mérida, Venezuela. Have a nice weekend :)
@@TIRCQ Indeed!!
pesto12601 Me too. Lol
San Antonio Del Tachira is in the western part of Venezuela right up against the border with Colombia and near Cucuta, Colombia. Part of the approach is flown over Colombia. Didn't you hear the Captain say: "To the right, Venezuela, to the left, Colombia, at the center, We!" just before he did the 180 to the left for his final approach? That's the fun kind of flying, very basic and all flown manually.
@@TIRCQ ,Yes, but none of those other places have the Alamo as a tourist attraction & reminder of how we stole Texas from Mexico fair & square. Plus our runways are 8,500 ft. long.
I was worried they were going to run over the marshaller!
Existe un dios aeronáutico
Designed and located by a golf course designer
6000 ft not short for DC 9 30. 4500 Ft. Would be.
Is this the airport from where that ATR I think it was, took off and hit a mountain? ?
No, that would be Merida (svmd)
Hello
This Airport is San Antonio del Tachira, the airport where the accident of the ATR happened is Merida.
Regards
The one at 1:10 it is, SVMD
Too high on approach looks like, touched down hard middle of runway...
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Que año fue eso? 2000?
2003
6000 ft is plenty of runway
for a dc9
And then factor in the altitude...
until you need more
Hello Good evening
Not exactly a short runway for a DC9 at 1800m long. Beautiful to watch real pros in action. You see here two pilots who are in tune with their equipment, the way they use the controls, easy on the equpment. My pet hate is pilots who slam controls, who are hard on their equipment.
Try that sh*t at night, I DARE ya!!!! LMFAO!!!!!
Chewed up a LOT of runway initially- way past the proper touchdown zone. Had there been heavy rain, the outcome could have been in the weeds.
Joe Patroni still in the touchdown zone. Do not confuse the aiming point with the touchdown zone. Touchdown zone is 1/3 of the runway and guarantees a safe stop in forecasted conditions with the estimated weight. The maximum weight allowed for this operation is determined prior to flight, so as long the weather conditions are the same as in the briefing it will be no problem as long as the pilots do not touch down beyond the last two white lines.
If it happens to rain, the pilots will calculate the actual landing distance with a margin of 15% usually, that is called the factored landing distance, and that also guarantees a safe stop as long as you touch down in the first 1/3 of the runway.
What you call the touchdown zone is the aiming point. That is the point the aircraft would touch down if the pilots did not initiate a flare. The aircraft must be 50ft above threshhold and depending on the stiuation the flare might be longer or shorter. As long as they do not pass the last two lines on the first third of the runway, a safe stopping is guaranteed.
Inhope i could clarify some things. Cheers
He made a flap 40 landing and was easy on the brakes and stopped just fine. Why? Because he makes a quick turn there and does not want hot brakes that will require a cooldown period. Had it been wet he would have used flaps 50 and heavier braking. Thrust reversers are just gravy and are not counted for stopping distance. He did touchdown towards the end of the touchdown zone, but the runway slopes down there and that's why. He flies the DC-9 quite competently IMHO.
All comments are Interesting!
Some facts: San Antonio is a Special Airport, only day and VFR ops, no VASI or PAPI, touch down zone with Slope down, frequent tail wind for the approach (approach is only in rhe direction of the video).
No AutoBrakes, Reverse were stowed according to procedures and brakes were used bellow 80 kts, at the ramp brakes were cold.
I miss those flights to San Antonio!
It is not 1/3 of the runway. It is 500 to 1500 ft past the threshold for narrow body jets. He was past that.
Thanks@@graceandkevin5017
i wonder what an approach to this airport at night would be like. Does this airport have radar?
It is a day VFR Airport, no radar.
Sounds like a loud cockpit lol
short runway
Great video. On another point. Adverts for shitty games are getting ridiculous on youtube now.
not so bad quality for 2002
The smallest international airport I've ever seen.
I have to see the landing of these dc9s and 727s in Mérida, Venezuela (the one they were passing by at the beginning) which has even shorter runway
Bet the brakes were hot after that.
only a 6000ft runway thats 1300ft up
all a megusta and to share for a free veneciezuela
My prayers for a free democratic Venezuala!
Runway long like a carrier...
Zoom out..
Prise de vue 0
At the minute 8.35 there’s a UFO that comes in and disappears after
Hochee Mama
That's crazzzy. No thank you. Not for me.
Avensa used to put there a fully loaded 727. Once i heard about the 727 pilot's chief was full wrath while looking how some pilots landed on San Antonio or Merida because of the excessive brake and tyre wear cuz manny of them needing to stop the plane as fast as for fear of overrunning the ruwnay.
what kind of risk live of people is this they must CANCEL flight to this place you can see that no single plane on the tarmac mountain left and right with wrong way. GREAT JOB SALUTE FOR PILOT. 👍👍👍
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lmfao 1 what a life achievement.
@@stevethompson222 thank you soo much..go ..... Ueself
@Yashsvi Dixit i didn't ask fr ur pussi shit.soo go cry usself
Capt knows what hes doing. And its a good thing because more than likely that 18yr old looking FO doesnt know a thing about flying and is lucky to have 100 hrs. If that capt fell ill that FO would only knlw how to stuff it at 500mph!! Into the mtns. Iv read alot of accidents from that part of the world. 5000 plus hr capt and 100 hr FO.
Do they still have the potato this was filmed with
Lmao I don’t think a potato from 2002 still exists
Ese Aeropuerto se encuentra en el estado tachira, Venezuela, a menos de 1 milla de la frontera con Colombia. En la ruta por aerovía, está al lado de la cordillera de Los Andes Venezuela, se ven claramente los picos: Bolívar, Bomplant, Toro, Espejo y Humboldt. En la cordillera sur.
La aeronave se aserco para que se pudiese ver la Ciudad de Mérida. Ahí se encuentra el teleférico más alto del mundo. Desde qué pasa lateral a esa ciudad de Mérida hasta donde aterriza en san Antonio del tachira hay más o menos 100NM. Está ciudad está al lado de Cúcuta. Y este aeropuerto se consideró uno de los aeropuertos más peligrosos de Venezuela por tener vientos arrafagados todo el año entre 10 a 25 kts o más. Las tres mangas de vientos a lo largo de pista cada una diferente una de la otra. Ese día de la filmación prácticamente calmado.
No. That potato is now ruining Canada.
Sketchiest landing I've seen.
Show us yours...
@@saito125 I have one on the books that makes this landing into a beautiful dream.