Well, good morning from Vancouver. Quite possibly, in my opinion,
the most beautiful city in North America. Today, we are heading out of Vancouver,
a little bit, not far, just over to Vancouver
Island and a place called Victoria and we're getting there on
board a really cool type of aircraft. I'm a little bit lost. I've got 15 minutes until
check-in closes for my flight the heliport that we're
flying from today is, well, sort of, down there. But I can't get there
without a 30 minutes walk. So, I am going to have to get
a taxi to get from here to here. (door closes) [Noel] Hi, good morning.
I'm alright, I made it. (laughs) [Clerk] ... take a little peek at your...
[Noel] Thank you. [Clerk] Where is it we're off to?
[Noel] Victoria. I'm just travelling to go on
the helicopter, if I'm honest (laughs) [Clerk] Oh, okay, so you'lll be right back.
[Noel] Yeah, I'm coming right back, exactly I've got 3 hours in between
in case of delays and things. Will I have time to get that one back, or?
[Clerk] Oh yeah. What happens is that it's going to be the same flight.
[Noel] Okay. [Clerk] It will be the same...
so basically, you would catch this one here at 8 O'Clock and get in about 8:30,
hang out in the terminal you have to see the
agent to give her your ID hang out there,
and then you'll fly right back here. [Noel] Fine, as long as there's time. (sighs) So, all checked in I've got my coffee, and can relax now. I honestly thought that 20
minutes to walk from there to here would have been more than enough time,
but clearly not. (laughs) But, nevermind We're here, no helicopter yet,
I presume it's on the way in. This is the lounge here, the Helijet
lounge here in Vancouver harbour. They operate a fleet of these
Sikorsky S-76 helicopters which are very, very cool helicopters. The only way you get on
board one of those back home is if you're A. Very Rich, or B. Very
Poorly and need one as an air ambulance. But here, they use them on the helicopter
airline across to Vancouver Island. This is going to be a good flight I'm looking forward to it. (Rotor and engine noise) Right, helicopter's here.
It's going to take us across to Victoria. [Noel] Thank you. Morning. Good morning. (Turboshaft engines spin up) So, then airborne out of Vancouver! On the Sikorsky S-76 (laughs)
of Helijet. This is so bloody cool. I've seen these boys coming and going the entire time I've
been here in Vancouver. And I wanted to try them,
but I was like eh... it can't be that cool,
it can't be as cool as a seaplane. But, lordy, lordy, this is just incredible. That view, straight out there
over Vancouver harbour in the back of an S-76,
I feel like Christian Grey in Fifty Shades. Twice as handsome, though So, despite the fact that this is a flight from Canada to Canada,
in fact from Vancouver just to a little island off the coast, we're actually in the U.S. right now. Those islands down there are
actually part of Washington State Seattle's down that
way somewhere. It's quite interesting, we're going
to be landing over there in a moment which is in Canada, but we're chopping
across a little bit of America first before we can land down in Victoria. [Noel] Thank you. Good morning. Right, landed in Victoria,
time to head back to Vancouver (laughs) [Noel] Hey, good morning, how are you?
[Clerk] Good, and you? You must be the final
person I'm looking for. [Noel] Yes, I've just come off it
and I'm getting straight back on. (both laugh) [Clerk] There you go,
that was easy, okay. [Noel] Nice and easy connection.
[Clerk] I guess, I don't know. (both laugh) So, here then at Victoria
on Vancouver Island such a cool flight,
that was such a cool flight. Over on the S-76 from Vancouver, and now straight back in here because
we're heading straight back on the next flight. I just heard them say
there's ten passengers here on this flight heading back, I think yeah, all good. Another ride on the S-76 is on its way. [Clerk] Thank you have a great flight. [Noel] Hello again. (laughs) [Crew] For you, sir,
a little bit of extra legroom here. [Noel] On the window, yeah?
Thank you. (seat belts clicking) (engine and rotor noise) Alright then, so airborne from Victoria now heading back to Vancouver. Such an incredible experience this is, riding on these aircraft.
On these helicopters like, you can just book a ride on one,
it's nothing special it's just the scheduled airline that goes from Vancouver
to Nanaimo and Victoria it's not too expensive, either. I'll put the price at the end
of the video like I always do. You cannot beat this experience,
it's just incredible look at this. That's the view you want
when you're on a helicopter or on any aircraft Alright, so even cooler,
we get an extra flight on the S-76 we've had to stop at
Vancouver International Helijet's main base, while they get
a little maintenance issue sorted out and then we're going to take
a really cool little hop from here up to downtown on the helicopter certainly, hopefully going to beat
taking the train over there anyway. So, this should be fun. [Pilot] So, you may have noticed...
not entirely sure how much you could really hear over
the noise of the engines, we've just had to pop back
to Vancouver International we've just got a minor,
little, indication issue, we have our engineering staff here, they're going to take a quick look at it,
we should have you on your way shortly I'm just going to go speak to them now, and
I'll have more information for you in about five minutes. [Noel] Ooh, thank you. Headng inside for a little bit to get a coffee or something and then,
hopefully get on our way back down to Downtown. Either way, even if we end up here, it's only a 20 minute ride on the road. But, the helicopter's cooler. So, they've just got a little bit of
a maintenance issue to sort out, they said we should be back in
the sky again in about 10 minutes from now, hopefully, so that's quite cool. We get an extra ride
in a helicopter (laughs) How many people are glad
when they get a diversion because they get extra flights? (laughs) But, me. Especially,
when it's in one of these, anyway. [Noel] Thank you. Shall I take the same seat again?
Is that okay? [Crew] Yeah, preferably same seats.
[Noel] Thank you. (seatbelts click) [Pilot] So we'll be in Vancouver
Harbour in about a nine minute flight. Enjoy your flight, again! [Noel] Beats taking the train, anyway. [Pilot] Very true,
much nicer than the skytrain. (door clunks shut and locks) My flight across to Victoria
and back cost me £206 or around about $280 Now, whilst this isn't the cheapest
way to get to Victoria from Vancouver it's certainly, in my opinion,
the most fun. And even better when you
get a bonus flight out of it as well as I did today. [Passenger] Well, that was a fun adventure. [Pilot] Good thing,
we're not going to charge extra (laughs) [Noel] I get an extra helicopter flight,
I'm happy (both laugh) Thank you very much.
[Pilot] Not a problem, have a good day. [Noel] As always, I'd like to say
a big thanks to my Patreons you can join them at
the link on the screen now for access to my Whatsapp group,
live weekly Zoom calls with me and much more. This guy thinks it's a good idea to
drive his boat into an active heliport pretty cool isn't it? I'm glad we don't just have
muppets like that back home. He's getting very told off by the
people who work here. See ya! Right, here we are then,
back at Vancouver Harbour. Hey, my friend. Haha That was so cool, wasn't it? Over to Victoria and then,
of course, the little diversion on the way back as well, into Vancouver we got three flights out
of that for the price of two even cooler. I really enjoyed that,
you can check out Helijet online they've got some reasonably priced
deals over to places like Victoria and Nanaimo It's really cool here
in Vancouver for flying, with these and Harbour
Air and everything else it's pretty awesome. Let me know what you thought
to it down in the comments What would you take to go over to Victoria? I want to know that down in the comments. Would you take the helicopter
or would you take the floatplane? What is your preference? Or would you stick it old school
and take the rickety old ferry I haven't done that,
because I don't do ferries. Let me know down in the comments. In the mean time, as always,
thanks for watching take care, and from us,
we'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.
