Full flight | Air Canada Express - Jazz Dash 8 Q400 | AC8322 Comox to Vancouver (C-GYJZ)

Welcome onboard the Air Canada Express Q400 once again! Here is my return flight from Comox to Vancouver that I took in October 2022 after spending two weeks on Vancouver Island at the Outward Bound Canada training academy. Like my other Q400 flight, this was very enjoyable, and everything felt very familiar considering my 11 months of flying experience with the FlyJSim Q4XP on X-Plane 11 before these two flights.

The weather was clear for the first half of the flight before entering a smoke cloud that was caused by bushfires on Vancouver Island. That smoke was hovering over our campsite the previous day and had blown over to the mainland when I took this flight.

Overall, the experience was very similar to my other Q400 flight. As a kind request from some of my friends who have watched my videos, I have added Indigenous land information on the locale information on the top right, changing as the flight progresses.

Likewise, I have filmed this exact route on the Pacific Coastal Airlines Beechcraft 1900D in 2021. Though the Q400 has a higher cruising speed, both flights were spent below 10,000 ft which means both were constrained with the 250 knot speed limit. As a result, both flights were almost exactly the same duration.

Filmed on 17 October 2022

Camera: GoPro Hero 8 Black

Aircraft: De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402Q (Dash 8 Q400)
Registration: C-GYJZ
MSN: 4524
Delivered: May 2016
Engines: Pratt & Whitney Canada PW150A
Configuration: Y74
Seat: 4A
Callsign: Jazz 322 (JZA322)
Flight time: 21 min
Departure: Comox Valley Airport (RCAF Comox) (CYQQ/YQQ)
scheduled: 14.35 PDT, actual 14.51 PDT
Arrival: Vancouver International Airport (CYVR/YVR)
scheduled: 15.13 PDT, actual 15.12 PDT

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Outward Bound Training Academy: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAcPN2

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HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00 - intro
00:35 - C-GYJZ pulling into stand 1
01:25 - seat view
03:25 - cabin door closing
03:38 - bleed air off for engine start
03:44 - automated welcome announcement
03:58 - starting engine 2
05:09 - starting engine 1
05:40 - automated announcement for manual safety demo
05:57 - props control: start/feather to max 1020 rpm
06:42 - taxi to runway 12
13:08 - takeoff on runway 12
14:22 - props: 1020 to 900 rpm
16:38 - props: 900 to 850 rpm
16:50 - reached 6,800 ft (2,073 m) for the cruise
17:57 - Texada Island
20:05 - drink service
23:28 - North and South Thormanby Island, Sunshine Coast
25:16 - Trail Islands
26:15 - top of descent
30:55 - Bowen Island in the distance
32:28 - UBC campus in the distance
32:33 - props: 850 to 1020 rpm with Reduced NP Landing selected
34:35 - landing on runway 08L
35:28 - taxi to gate 41
38:14 - engine 1 prop: max 1020 to start/feather
38:46 - parking at gate 41; engine 1 shutdown
39:21 - engine 2 shutdown; props max 1020 to start/feather to fuel cutoff
39:28 - cabin door opening
39:45 - jet bridge moved into position
41:05 - views from gate 41
41:11 - Flightradar24 profiles of our flight