I did a 6 month contract at Barra. My main role was, after each high tide, to take a rake and remark the piano keys and runway numbers at each end, then rescribe the centreline markers.

Barra is home not only to possibly the friendliest bunch of people you are likely to meet anywhere, but also to some truly stunning scenery. You go there to do very little. Soak in the scenery and nature. If you want lots to do, dont go to Barra.

I want to know who said damn let's use the beach for a run way!

taking the risk of repeating what undoubtedly has been stated before, the first fly-by was probably not a missed approach. It was probably a fly-by to check the condition of the landing-area and the local windconditions. You can see that in the second approach the approach is much lower and the landinglights are on (I'm not completely sure if they were the first time). They switch them off as soon as they decide to abort the landing. Nice video by the way.

This was not a missed approach, it was a flyover to confirm tideline. Loganair pilots very rarely have missed approaches even when the weather really is bad, which it is not in this video.

Great Video!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!

The Otter is the best! beautiful!

Smarty points all round. He did a low pass to check the beach first. You had a good zoom on the camera. I bet that beach has seen a lot of traffic in its time, especially before the runway was built. Nice landing. Even the seagull got out of the way.

Bars,is a tough landing,strictly daytimes,at low tide,but winds make it tougher, and so it goes,great job guys,🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

These are what's called a 'contact approach'..

Judging by some of the comments on here, some people really don't understand or get island life, and sadly they never will.

That must be some unusually hard packed wet sand. I've only known wet sand to be mushy. Must be very fine grained

Wow! That was so cool! I'd love to go there. Nice filming!

Great airmanship.

Good evening

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Good day..Runway is clear..happy landing..FROM AERODROM INFORMATION SERVICES/AFIS.. .nice landing..Capten..very very smooht landing..extrem..cool..amazing..bravo..bravo..bravo..ilove this video..god bless..

Very nice performance 🙏

Nice job of flying. I'd love to ride that down in the right seat.

Saltwater oh my God, best and quickest way to shorten the life of any aircraft.

Nunca tinha visto isso é sensacional fantástico parabéns, from Brazil.

Awesome - thanks

Yes,it's fun....used to land on the beach in a BN-2 at virgin Gorda in PR. And at night we had to buzz the runway at Dorado to run off the cows near same....fond memories....

Nice landing on the beach. I'm gonna do that one day on Barra!

Very short landing... High skill of pilot

Booked my next vacation on this airline. From the plane to the beach right away

A beautifull island and a major holiday resort a lovely place to spend christmas puiteness and seclusion guarantee. Inspiring place to write poetry.

What, no air stairs....?! Loved the bit of sea weed dangling off the yellow trolley.

11:20 You really can't call those guys the 'ground crew'. LoL More like the beach brigade.

I like LoganAir!

Good👍👍👍👍

Actually they found the approach and then landed. Nothing was missed.

Look boss. De plane De plane!!

Looks like the wind is causing the problems to the aircraft

@flightsimvideos2011 infact you can only land at certains times of the day, according to the tide :-)

Three runways, washed twice a day by the tide.

Awesome!!!

Landing video starts at 09:00

For those who don't know. This really is an airport. I looked it up. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_Airport_(Scotland)

Nice engine sound, nice video!

gracias!

I would imagine that the Flybe airoplane has larger tyres to cope with the wet sand but do the wheels still tend to sink into the sand?. It must take quite a bit more power to keep her moving on the sinky sand. Great video though:).

What a great landing!!!

This route to Barra is given to all New pilots very first day on the job. (to get their feet wet ,)

Rest In Peace Flybe 😰😭

Wonder how the take off would be from such a wet and soft sinking beach sand...

They should build an airstrip on that piece of land behind the terminal...It's big enough. I rode a little airline to Clear Lake City(by NASA-JSC) Texas...Had a short STOL strip. And they used the Twin Otter.

" EXCELENTE AVION " DHC-6.

Well it can't be a missed approach if there's nothing to aproach except a seashell and a sand berm!

nothing apart from landing in one of the most weird airports in the world

what about the take off?

This airport may be better suited to helicopters?

were is this place ???

Man so is it landing on frozen water? how many months of the year can you land there? is it checked for thickness before landings and departures or is it just always as it needs to be to stand the stress? this is one of the craziest landing/take off videos i've ever seen. You think you could ever get one from the cockpit?

¡¡¡Asombroso!!! but, was always understanded than the planes can´t to land on the beach....!

if there anyone pilot. I have a small question. in the parking lot do you use engine thrust to steer aircraft?

Jean este é aeroporto é perigoso tem que vir aqui e Cuiabá todo dia Brasil

landing on the beach may cause wheel and landing gear becoame so rusty immediately... is there any special treatment to prevent wheel landing gear from getting rusty?

It's a bit cold there for seaside parties, I'm afraid

nice. Tides only restrictions

Proper flying...

i wanna go there.

Skills

Marvelous

Onde fica esse país

They need a DC-3.

it is landing on a beach which is covered by water at high tide. The old twotter will land on just about anything, this being a wet sandy beach

British bush pilots of Flybe!

Hilarious when the Septics wade in with no bloody idea what they're talking about....as they do.

"yeah we are gonna need 40 a side positive, gpu cart, coffee, ice, papers, and can someone do the windows and exhaust trails?"

SO I take it landing here is not really profitable but more for the communities sake?

Sorry but I didnt understud why not to land on the runway? even with crosswind? (the wind indecator showed little wind) what didnt I sow?

What number is that runway?

Barra is not a conventional airport for sure.

is this heathrow airoport?

It is logan air but in a flybe c/s.

The largest runway in the world!

Why would a company want to subject their aircraft to the brutal salts of ocean water?

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Wish I was there

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Now those are pilots, automation won't help them in these situations

Twin Otter

Why did it take 3 attempts to get it down when the landing space is that wide?

Do you think the camera person knows how to shut off the camera when the plane is no where to be found?

Just another day, nothing more, nothing less.

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Imagine the rust these twins must get from all the salt water on that beach

ਏਸੀਅਾ ਦਾ ਕੋਈ ਹੋਰ ਮੁਲਕ ਹੈ ਜੀ

woooooow never seen such an airport befor !

preflight checks in the sand

This airport is not finished. It must be Berlin 🙈

Only if you ignore the tide-table :)

"severe weather?" Where????? Wind sock had a half stiffy....

Guessing Barra doesn’t have an ILS or RNAV`approach haha

looking again i guess its on sand?? idk its confusing.

You need tripod!

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@lakeseminole because it's the only way they can land on this remote spot

It must be a little unnerving being on approach & seeing all the standing water... you can surely never *quite* be sure in the back of your mind you're not about to land in the surf :D