ATR 42 Cockpit Flight with Canadian North!

Ever wanted to catch a flight to Arctic Nunavut in northeastern Canada? How about to a beautiful community situated at 71 degrees on the tip of Baffin Island? Well then we've got you covered today. We're flying with Canadian North on the ATR 42500 about two hours up from Iqaluit with a brief stop before heading back down. The scenery is amazing, the flying is excellent, and we've got some great company up here in the flight deck too. Join us. Are you all ready for some ATR flying around Nunavut in Canada? Let's do it. We're heading up to Pond Inlet today and then back down to Iqaluit. All right clearance valid, all wrecks three departure cancelled if not airborne by 1314. Roger it's before 1314 time now 13. Run one and a half contact Montreal center 13455 airborne. All right we'll contact uh center airborne we are shortly Ground approved frequency Baffin 203 we'll see you. Six all wrecks three departure passing 2,300 feet. 20,000 feet. Good day right turns for the climb turn right heading 040 and still church is about 5,000 feet now. All right 5,000 feet right turn 040 Arctic 896. Check. Heading high bank 16B autopilots on. Check. After takeoff checklist taxi takeoff lights off uh blaze on our management line. Black 793 descend to 5,000. Iqaluit ops this is 896 with departure numbers. All right it's uh out time one three zero zero off at one three well one three one three. Departure fuel 7.2. We have 1686 liters for uplift 26 plus one passengers alternate is the glulik and we do require fuel at pond inlet 396. Well thank you very much we'll talk to you later. Like we don't touch these again like we're just going to level off and then we'll go to cruise it sorts itself out okay it's pretty sweet yeah that's the power management knob that's what controls uh different phases of light power uh power settings so you have takeoff thrust max continuous torque very nice and and it's it's 30 30 knots 35 knots quicker actually faster 30 knots faster than the 300. This is uh this is the system that prevents us well uh gives us the option not to stop the the engine but just stop rotating it so it can supply heat to the cockpit the cabin electrical supply as well. All right okay. Which is amazing uh because you're not minus 40 outside you get a crisp cockpit at 150 20 degrees basically. Wow I never would have thought of that aspect but it makes perfect sense. The ATR is definitely I would say as per turboprop probably the best best turboprop in the earth. Yeah how come the dash 8 is so popular then in arctic? Well I do like the dash for sure yeah the dash dash are great the only thing is that the dash in order to maximize the payload they have to remove the APU in the back which is the auxiliary power unit yeah which supplies electricals uh on the ground when both engines are stopped basically the heat electrical supply. I also think they're expensive. And they're expensive and operators remove them to maximize the the payload which the ATR and it's a Canadian plane too so I think Canadian operators definitely went for the dashing. Yeah. Due to the fact it was made in Canada but as per arctic operations uh that will cooperate there maximizes payload and keeps you know the cockpit and cabin and the cabin okay you know minus 40 minus 45 whenever generally when I am a lot of pilots who are working in these kind of environments they they really they really love the flying they love the all about to you know like we uh you know there's being a pilot is all about the routine but it's kind of nice to fly and and um beautiful sceneries as well yeah yeah very nice well on the first fuel checks uh we are on time and 600 pounds up so that's consistent with uh my favorite moment of the day arrives soon actually oh you know exactly what I'm talking about but it's it's it's just something we take for granted basically but uh something I know about you know airlines I've worked a lot in smaller aviation companies and uh working for a scheduled airline with um you know this level of uh quality actually really makes a difference I don't take anything for granted here nice and it's yeah so you don't really have to do much manually to capture altitude nothing at all that's the difference from the older dash as soon as you tip it towards um whatever altitude is in the window yeah when you start going towards it we'll capture it all right and then you just switch it to cruise cruise power on the atr72 which is very raises I think we have a four or five extra percent in torque on the cruise power settings compared to the other atr products that so this gives us the extra because they wanted they wanted a 300 knot airplane I believe exactly I think they have it now which is nice we're lucky to fly it yeah great airplane for the north well it's uh 26.7 good day arctic 896 atr presently final 220 65 miles north of the gallons is next at uh 1539 arctic 896 we've crossed the uh the line geographic line we're heading there my heading standby is three four three we've crossed the the geographic line where we have to we can't rely on magnetic compasses anymore so we have to rely on true heading oh that's so we're at that point there a lot of pilots get to do that actually yeah oh all right so charles i'm gonna give you coffee with one cream one sugar right i would love that and a parfait if you don't mind of course and i don't mind and captain i'm all i'm all good i don't need anything and gabriel i'll take a parfait too and a black coffee please black coffee coming up thank you so much yeah so this is what i was talking about earlier yeah it's a full bus right i didn't want to i didn't want to sell it you know well you said you were looking forward to something i didn't hear anything i'm like i know i was waiting for it yeah it was all the surprises i was gonna guess i was gonna guess coffee but i didn't know about the parfait part oh this is you know this is what we cannot take for granted and up up here in the north specifically cloud layers it's not as uh nice playing over it and never get used to it yeah so basically weather aviation weather comes out every hour on the hour so uh we got another 12 minutes to wait for the uh the latest weather out of pond inlet to decide which runway we're going to use right most exciting part of the next 13 yep uh so which runway would you like northbound zero two northbound zero two you got your you got your plate up runway two enter approach it's a missed approach course zero two two six hundred feet left turn good morning uh we should be should be on the ground in um just a bit under 30 minutes we have one walk-off wheelchair and that we do require fuel this flight 896 service to pond inlets um yeah i'm just taking the latest weather into pond inlet we'll start descending in a few minutes there it's a beautiful beautiful warm day in pond inlet four degrees sky clear we'll be landing uh northbound runway zero two and uh we should be on the ground in 20 minutes so we thank you for flying for canadian north and we see you on the ground so yeah from the uh from billet island you often see uh twin otters actually coming out of the valleys and refueling in pond inlet well going back in there nice little operation two nine six three just set for stable landing uh he's gonna go to the pumps he's got gas i'm gonna check yeah there's a good chance he does and they did yep yeah they're uh parking leaving us the spots on the ramp thing for the uh for the pumps is it safe to deploy the passengers not right as well captain what do you say i want to talk to pano yeah we'll be taking us in about uh two to five minutes okay if you don't mind just hanging tight we're gonna de-plane our passengers and then once they're done you can go hey joy so the other plane's gonna move hang tight for two minutes they're gonna go farther away all right and then when we get to deplane so uh we'll call you when all right so as soon as they're uh out of the way you are good to deplane okay thank you thank you canadian north flies a mix of atrs and 737s with a focus on nunavut and the north but with a route map spanning quite a bit of the rest of canada too they serve ottawa and montreal edmonton and yellowknife plus smaller communities in the northwest territories and many more in the far reaches of nunavut pond inlet is one of the more northerly destinations but you can go even higher up too and by the way a bit of trivia for you this hamlet was named after john pond an english astronomer but to the inuit it's known as miti matalik forgive my pronunciation all right what a cool spot way up here 71 degrees north pond inlet it's probably hard to hear me this atr now is going to go back to iqaluit a couple hours back down south and i'm going to be on it again no time to linger in pond inlet today but i definitely got to come back here with more time and get out into the wilderness here it looks just amazing and a lot of people come here to see things like polar bears narwhals they're all up here amazing arctic canada my first time this high up in canada and one of the highest north i've ever been in terms of latitude met some of the very friendly guys over here in pond inlet airport say hi everybody hello hello nice little station you have here air time two hours and 12 minutes flight time two hours and 25 minutes i hope you enjoyed this little trip as always we love to hear what you thought down in the comments and stay tuned for more from this epic northern canada trip with more canadian north and others coming soon thanks for coming along in iqaluit for flightradar24 i'm gabriel lee