I've been flying for over 30 years and I wouldn't have the nuts to try and land on a tiny strip with a slope. Total respect for you Ryan. Total.

Just watched this video & every time I gain a stronger respect for a skilled professional pilot like Ryan, with that payload & turbulent mountain winds with beautiful but unforgiving terrain.

Not a flight and landing for the faint hearted or unskilled. I am always impressed with your skill, Ryan. You make a very difficult and technical flight look very normal. Thanks for sharing. 🙏

Ryan you rocks! I’m sitting at my desk in Italy and I cannot stop thinking how brave and skilled you are as a pilot. Landing in that tiny strip in the middle of the mountains it is absolutely breathtaking. My eternal respect goes to you for the help you bring to these people. You describe things in such a good way that seems they are so easy, but they aren’t at all! high five from one of your Italian subscribers!

Stunning views of the clouds today getting into this hidden mountain airstrip. What a beautiful place. Thanks Ryan.

I've only got 8.9 total time at this point in my PPL ... You make these look so easy, I now have an appreciation for how skilled you really are. Just amazing

Ryan you are a lovely Guy/Pilot , but the camera set up you have on your craft is so excellent, you make dreams come true on the heavens of your footage in this wonderful Island/Islands. Just superb Great video's I wish I was much younger and had the guts to do what you do, I admire you Good on you, may you have a happy flying life

Incredible flying skills to land on that airfield at full weight, with little room for error. Your flying is so precise it's just amazing! 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

What a fantastic airplane. Your one cool dude. I live in very rural AZ. That's why I was so bummed when your time ended with the Kit Fox. Your channel and it's content is well appreciated. Cheers

Hats off to you Ryan for the approach to Yawan. You've changed your mind about how to fly the approach and landing with experience and today I really benefited from that. In simulation I've found Yawan intimidating even in clear visibility as the terrain is quite confusing even in good weather conditions. Today I nervously simulated a flight as you did from Nadzeb to Yawan with difficult cloud conditions and found that you have taught me (all of us) a great deal in your videos. My simulator is not the most sophisticated but does really good cloud conditions over PNG and lets me land in a lot of wild places. The key to getting into Yawan turned out to be getting down through broken cloud into the small basin where the Urawe and Not Rivers meet, circling to lose height to get below the overcast then following the north cliff of the Urawe River. It is an organic approach, flying close to the hillside and close to the ground, skimming Worin and descending into the recess of Towet which throws you out to the south where the Yarwan airstrip is with the right descent rate. It worked out extremely well - almost like having an ILS!. I was very pleased with how the flight went as a result of your teachings. The flight back to Goroka was uneventful despite the clouds - as you say the Goroka Valley is so often open when you get there as it was on this trip but the "Cloud Breaker" you devised means it is always possible to land there. Thanks Ryan, your videos are inspiring.

Great stuff mate, enjoyed the prep portion before take off and thw back story for the new builing location.

Constantly impressed with your professionalism on a consistent basis. Your terrain and airstrips in particular demand nothing less. The strongest of admiration for what you do.

Awesome, my dose of aviation and nature all at once. Always appreciate you sharing PNG, Thanks!

I love that you show the engine gauges while starting up.

Thank you. It is always nice watching you fly.

Great landing with all that weight on Ryan!! Appreciate the videos brother Gods work is the best work, and what a bonus to fly the amazing Kodiak!! 🙏🏻😊👍🏻

Nice landing in a HIGHLY SPORTY FLIGHT!👍👍….mud on the elevator is a nice touch😄

The Moment when you turned to the strip and the nose pointed perfect to the strip. Unbelivable what you do for living

I had 27 months in PNG in the early seventies and looking into that cockpit reminded me of the distance beween two distinct civilisations .

I leant to fly at Melbourne Australia in 1957 and really enjoy your informative videos Ryan.

I like that your passenger has his towel - following the rules from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Hello from Minnesota USA! Great episode!

Beautifully flown as always; I really admire the precision with which you make every approach, no matter how challenging the terrain. Thanks Ryan and may God continue to keep you safe and bless your family and co-workers. Love from Rick

Do your passengers ever ask who you're talking to? Cheers from Winnipeg.

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

I let them know I'm making a video

This is absolutely incredible. The airmanship in its purest form.

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

Thank you

Awesome work

Your missionaries lay flooring?! ... I suppose i need to figure out how that is done, just in case I'm sent to PNG. 😂

@josephnkhata9184

12 күн бұрын

😊

Love all your flights, but I really enjoy the time lapse returns with music. At some point you should bundle a bunch of flights and do a time lapse of 60 minutes of touch and go's with soft meditation music in the background. I can sip some of your coffee, and unwind for an hour after going through your Kodiak training course.

I don't know much about flying but compared to most of your to/landing, that was like a maze with all those converging ridges and a quick return. Yes, now I'm breathing normal again.😊

Thanks again Ryan, love those excellent time-lapse outro's. :-)

Beautifully done Ryan, your flairs are perfect every time kudos Stay well

That was a tough place to land but not a problem for the master, awesome video Ryan👌

OMG!!! What a flight in...wonderful landing....after 6 previous flights????? NICE!!! Stay safe and keep the blue side up!

Awesome flight! Great job!

nice, thank you!

Thank you so much Ryan for sharing, in such an amazing professionalism, your work as a PNG pilot but also as a video editor. I can only imagine how much work you put in the making of those videos beside all the complexity of flying in such a challenging terrain and weather. This brings to my time of flying a BH 212 between the Porgera mine and Mt Hagen, two to three times a day, to carry the mine workers in and out for their time off. IFR was not an option, the load on take off from Porgera did not allow for a lot of extra fuel, the weather in Hagen was not always a sure thing and landing options in between were very limited! Watching your videos, I can truly feel the anxiety that a pilot can experience in such conditions. Always working on a plan B,C and more if needed…is a skill that true bush pilots have. You are certainly one of them! Keep on the great job, fly safe, and happy landings. Cheers.

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

Yeah this past month the plane I've been flying was only VFR due to a faulty secondary instrument. I forgot that feeling of the stress of VFR only

@guyroh1962

14 күн бұрын

@@MissionaryBushPilotThis is when plan C,D,E…come into play…😂

Holy crap!!!!!!! Amazing stuff!! You ARE a pilot!!!!!😊

Picking your way back through the clouds on the time lapse brought back a memory of doing the same thing in an Aztec over Andros. We were KFLL>MYEF at 7500ft just weaving through the late morning buildups.

Ryan your an amazing pilot

Good piloting brother, beautiful view

This is NUTTS That was one hell of an approach. best landing video ever! thanks for sharing Ryan. I really enjoyed it.

Another wonderful video Ryan - the approach in to Yawan is stunning. The school at Worin gives a great reference point on the base leg of the landing.

Am really enjoying this channel.

Wow a lot to keep track of, before and during the flight. Not quite another humdrum day in the office. Thx for the window into your work.

I'm not a pilot, but watch this type of video every now and then, because it's really interesting. I have someone in my family who is a commercial pilot and he watched a part of this video, when he was over here for a visit. He said, and I quote "To become a bush pilot you have to be either very very good or very very crazy". 😂 He also said, that it looks very chill and relaxed and the video doesn't even close tell how difficult flying in such conditions is, the pilot's skill just make it look so easy. I reckon he was impressed, which, knowing him, is not easy to do. 👍

We haven't seen your wife in a while, I don't think since you have come back flying missions. Maybe she can fly with you again.

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

Yeah, I do need to get her on a flight soon

These videos are just unreal both in quality and content. I’ve been following since 12k subs, and never been disappointed!

I am in awe of your flying skills ❤

Totally amazed. Great piloting.

Smooth landing. Love the videoes. God bless.

Your flyingskills are absolutely amazing... 😊

Always a nice flight! Short runway wow.

Love your videos!! Too bad I didn't learn to fly!! Keep up the great work.

Ryan I am a writer and composer in NYC and have been following your adventures from the beginning. You make my day!

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

Glad to hear it

Great flight Ryan.

Nice to see that you have a copilot this time.

Nice

I don't think "staying to the right to get past the mud hole" is something most pilots have to consider. :D Love your videos. :)

It's kind of funny cause as I know you are briefing us... it looks like you're briefing your copilot... and he has no idea and very worried

best job in the world.

Yeah im deffinatly grabbing this plane on microsoft flight simulator next week. Great flight, i see you got your livery on there as well, excellent! -NightShip282 is my call sign in respect for the pilot that was hit by an unidentified object in 2004, most likely by a UFO. He was working for DHL delivering parcels but i believe there is more too it and was delivering documents for the CIA, nefarious documents. Another great video sir and i may see you in the skies on mc flight simulator.

Appreciate all the vids but the terrain on todays flight was spectacular.. any chance, as a 'special', of a terrain compilation with voiceover description ?

1KG to max weight before take off?! that takes guts

Of all the things to have to fly into the middle of the jungle... Hardwood flooring

Oh you have a co pilot now 😂😂😂

Hi Ryan can you tell me which airstrip in PNG has the highest transverse slope? And have you got a video flying into it?

That's some beautiful wood you loaded on. What type of wood is it?

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

Not sure. I think 2 different types

If i was a billionaire this gentleman would be my personal pilot...

Excuse me, Ryan. I'd like to know your vision state. Is it 20/20 or what is your prescription if it's not? Thank you. 🙂

When doing the weight calculation and so on the edge of what is allowed can you really be comfortable with that load?

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

I've flown so many time on the edge, you can see how the plane sits and on takeoff, I go real slow to feel it to see if I ran it wrong

Hi Ryan, I notice you're not wearing a Bose A30 headset. Just wondering if you wouldn't mind telling me which brand and model you're using. Thanks again for another great video. 🙂

@MissionaryBushPilot

14 күн бұрын

It's a clarity aloft pro. I have an A20, but it traps the head in my head and by the end of the day I get headaches from it

what ever happened to P2-NTE? Was it fixable?

What do your passengers (especially front seat) think of you chatting away to camera? Must be a little odd given only 30 years ago having a camera was enough to get you bumped off by some tribes! (PS how much does the mud on the tailplane and elevators impact your flight characteristics?)

U need a chinook

I’d give a dollar to find out what’s going through the passenger s mind right now,lol

I hope you don't get eaten by a cannibal

Gotta get those Trump bibles to the natives!😂

"KG's"??? The rest of the world says "Kilo's" .....just as easy to say AND more conventional.

Think about it...one final person needs to accept Christ for the "age of grace" to be fulfilled. Maybe he or she...is in your neighborhood? Keep flying dude...so cool.

Damn dude, you make Carrier landings on the boat look like student pilot stuff. Respect to you for this type of flying! 🫡

All I wanna do is fly with you as your FO someday Ryan 🥹 I pray someday my dreams come through

Great landing with all that weight on Ryan!! Appreciate the videos brother Gods work is the best work, and what a bonus to fly the amazing Kodiak!! 🙏🏻😊👍🏻

@AlexejSvirid

9 күн бұрын

This is Christ's question Mathew 15: 3: "But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?" A women say "the Husband has no name". Another ones say "the Husband has many names". Some of women "love the Husband in all his manifestations" like: neighbour, taxi driver, coworker... But, all of those prostitutes say "the Husband is the only". Then they even talk about "trinity of the Husband" and they are not against "the Son taking the Husband's place". In the same way religious prostitutes try to hide their disgusting fornication with different gods. Here is the God's word spoken through Moses, Deuteronomy 11: 16-17: "Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you." So, the God says there are other gods, but blind leaders of blind lead people into trap. "Jesus" means "Jehovah is salvation". This is the name of Christ real christians are hated for. "HalleluJah" means "Praze Jah" (Jehovah). Psalm 83: 18: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth." The problem is Devil runs the world. He is lier and murderer. This is the reason why liers feel so good while righteous people are persecuted. That's why we've got the Gospel about the God's kingdom. Jehovah would put everything in order. The dead will be resurected and we'll meet our beloved ones again! :-)