World's shortest scheduled flight
 

Found on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBXj...related&search=

This is one of Loganair's island hopper BN Islanders in the Orkney Islands, aka 'the tractor'. Turn up your volume to 'deafening' for the ultimate realism! The hard runways are a recent innovation!

Brilliant - did read in an old pilot magazine about that. any ideas where its from and to?

Jinkster

I love the termianl building, sorry, shack! The minibus is bigger then it!

That's REAL flying!

IFR? :confused:

Great.


Personal shortest scheduled flight: 8 min. Jersey - Guernsey

How about everybody else: SHORTEST SCHEDULED FLIGHTS measured in airborne time not block time.

What's the check-in reporting time?

mine is blackpool to douglas IOM.
30 minutes.

In Sydney, there was a scheduled helicopter service, the Helishuttle, with a leg distance of 10nm, taking less than 7 minutes.

Westray-Papa Westray IIRC.

Correct S R Twotter,

EGEW to EGEP, Orkney Islands, North Scotland, approx 59N 3W.

Some more info here:

http://www.alanmoar.flyer.co.uk/orkn...t/shortest.htm

EGEP from FL370:

http://www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/i...number1489.asp

http://www.alanmoar.flyer.co.uk/orkney/Orkney2/007.htm

they have the cutest names oop the far north.

Do you think the RAF pulled-out of Twatt?
There's another Twatt in Shetland.

Wow your sure to pick up alot of time doing that route :}

Oooo........me log books are in the UK:ugh:

I guess that my shortest time on a 'proper' flight (scheduled and Perf A) was between Jersey and Guernsey. Wonder if I beat 8mins. HP7 F27 and ATR

Used to go into Alderney in a Heron....erm, twas 45 years ago, cant remember how long it took.

I flew round Fairisle etc with the stalwart Allan. must have been going to pick up a DC3 or sumink. Seems impossible to think that he has retired. He would suddenly make a turn at some point when you could only see grey grey water. I asked how he new when to turn. "There's an eddy coming off......" (some little spit or another), he knew the shape of the water!:D

Think LoganAir used to hold the record on a beneficially windy day of 53 seconds, somewhere up in the islands of NW Scotland. And this, in an Islander!

Memory dims so don't count on this as Gospel.


Conan

I may be mistaken and at my age it is entirely possible, however, was not the airplane used for years for the Orkney Islands run a Ford Tri Motor?

Personal shortest flight was about 1 minute. Takeoff runway 30 at Hobart and landed runway 24 at Cambridge.

Could have been shorter if Hobart Tower would have let you use runway 27 at Cambridge but it would have meant flying past their tower at an uncomfortably close distance. :eek: :}

For those now wondering, it was in Tasmania Australia and many years ago when they would let you have some fun. :ok:

Old Fort Bay (YFT) to St. Paul's River (YSP), 7 statute miles with an Otter on floats. Or skis, depending on the season. Took about 4 minutes. :p

Connie that Tri-motor sched wasn't Port Clinton OH to some island in Lake Erie up near Sandusky, was it? They ran that with a Tri-motor well into the 1970's I believe.

Very short international flights are between Sint Maarten SXM and Saint Barths SBH and between SXM and Anguilla AXA. They are about 15 minutes. Operated by Twotter or Islander or .....

I am informed by No.1 son that he was in the jump seat of a SWISSAIR MD-11 from Brazzaville to Kinshasa, when the block time was recorded at 9 minutes. The Capt. claimed a record for this, which required getting the right runway out of Brazzaville and lobbing directly into Kinshasa. Runway headings are within 10 deg of each other and the crow flies 14 nms.

I enjoyed the original posting of the LoganAir flight, however it brought back to me the reason I live just a couple of degrees above the Equator, the cold seemed to radiate from that Islander cockpit, and onto my lap(top)

Malmo-Copenhagen in a 737 - about 6 minutes.

MMX Tower Clearance was "Spdbrd xxx, clear take 0ff, climb 2500ft heading 270, clear for ILS runway 30, contact Copenhagen Twr on xxx.xx"

Have known guys shave about 30 secs off the flight time by reaching 350 kts!

Personal shortest flight: Sacramento-San Francisco. 12 minutes in the Brasilia.

Read an article in one of the Airline mags a couple years ago about a positioning flight of an AA 727 from LGA to JFK. Took 2 minutes, if I recall.

****e - RD - that was a positioning flight. . . How about FTW to LOV less than five mins in a BN 707 . . . This would have been back before most of the readers on this thread were even born ! ! ! . . . . . . :p

We run scheduled flights in winter between Mt Hotham Ski Resort and Falls Creek Ski Resort, flight time 6 minutes :)

Our tenth season of operations, we usually operate for about 10 weeks each season,and we've carried about 35,000 passengers to date. Because it's to a schedule we have to have Charter Equivalence approval, requiring the JetRanger to be operated and maintained to Transport Class A: a bit of a PITA, but then we do get to operate to Australia's highest helipads at 6000ft :ok:

And have a ski on days off :cool:

Lesotho has some airfields in the mountains in sight of each other but impossible to access by road. A C206 used to do the sched with a takeoff at the upper field, basically getting airborne, cutting power, nosing over and lowering flap to land at the lower after a turn down the valley.

We flew relief workers and supplies between two fields on opposite sides of a flooded area around 200-300m apart. The few seconds logged almost didn't seem worth the effort.

My old pax flight log shows the following:
28 Mar 1980 MIA-FLL EA177 B727-200 N869EA
That's 21nm. Can't have taken very long...!

A few very short scheduled flights are offered from the German mainland to the Frisian islands by LFH (from Harle to Wangerooge, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, Juist, Borkum) and Frisia (from Norddeich-Norden to Juist (and the other islands on request). That's Islander hub-and-spoke traffic! :D

Yes, I do believe that was it, thanks.:ok:

That Loganair video was shot on a flight from Papay (Papa Westray) to Westray and was relatively long because of the wind direction. I know 'cos I was piloting it. Weird to see it on the net. Weather's been lovely and sunny this last week!

Unless things have changed in Miami's airspace, that flight probably took at least 20 minutes! The flight from Moosonee to Moose Factory is about 2 minutes in a KingAir 100.

The take-off roll at Frankfurt is (was) longer than THAT!

Shortest Flight
 

I remember TTA published schedule from KDAL to KGSW was 15 minutes gate to gate. This was a DC3 in the 60's. There was also a KDAL to KELP daily flight with 9 stops (same schedule)

Great video, my pushback yesterday took longer than that...

Visited Fair Isle in my hardcore GA days and had a chat with the Islander chap that landed while we were there. Procedure for finding Fair Isle in crap weather - fly along the sea at 100 ft till you see the cliffs, find a cliff you recognise, climb to airfield level and land!

Nice.

Yep, often the only way going to Sumbrough. I used to hold the Dak at some height between the waves and the cloud-base. The only problem was being careful not to get salt spray on the airframe. More often than not the viz under the cloud was good, and if I could see Fairisle at a good distance, I would be happy to go on to the lead in lights that curved round Sumbrough Head hotel.

With poor the aids of the time, once up in the cloud, most times there was little chance of a successful procedure to get down.

BA got seriously ticked-off by the independents getting in while they circled overhead.

Wow that brings back memories of living in JER!

Gotta love that Acoustic Lift Technology

rawmac,
Must be the 300hp version to lift all that gold bar:ok:

Loganair's Westray - Papa Westray ? Been there, done that, accompanied by Mrs SI and the two SI Jnrs. We were the only pax !

Also done Loganair's Tingwall - Papa Stour in Shetland. Probably about 10 mins duration; 15 nm ? Not too sure.

rawmac, you must have one of the best jobs in the world !

I've done Brussels-Antwerp a few times, 7min30 in an F27, 12min in a Dakota. And since Brussels had no facilities for domestic flights, got a stamp in the passport as well.

I also once had to make an urgent trip by road between the same two airports. It was marginally cheaper to hire a car than to take a taxi, so that's what I did. So I wonder if I hold the record for the shortest ever one-way car hire - 25 minutes.

Whatever happened to passport stamps?
In the 60s/70s they seemed to be regular, then in the 80s they faded out. Too busy? I was also aware (in the 80s) that you could LEAVE a Country without a glance at your passport. I suppose things have changed now (I HOPE so). Yes, I KNOW they have, because AIRLINES now check them to see whether they might be liable for the cost(s) of repatriation.

shortest one on the Dash....YFA to ZKE. Block of 0.2 and 4 minutes air time. Two reserves 5 miles apart! Lot's of fun wheeling the bird around low!;)

I once worked for an ex-TWA F/E who told me of a L-749 Cptn. who was assigned to ferry a ship from KC Muni to Fairfax (2 miles away across the Missouri River).

He got tired of waiting for the F/O & F/E to show up so he did it solo! :=