Alessandro Huber works for a small transport company that flies over Suriname. In this country covered with 96% virgin forest, as soon as we move away from the maritime coast, we fly over what some call, the "Green Hell". Seen from the sky, it’s a gigantic emerald-colored rug. On the ground, it is an impassable primary forest with regions that are completely inaccessible by car or boat. Without his plane, it would take many days to connect the communities together. It is used in turn as an ambulance, taxi, freight truck, and armored van for transporting gold from mining companies.
Maheanuu Mourin is a pilot of the only Polynesian airline, Air Tahiti. On board its ATR, a turboprop aircraft capable of carrying up to 68 passengers, this 40-year-old Tahitian serves the most isolated islands of this region as big as Europe. He is the link between the communities. Without his plane, the daily life of the inhabitants of the atolls would be much more complicated.
Alessandro Huber works for a small transport company that flies over Suriname. In this country covered with 96% virgin forest, as soon as we move away from the maritime coast, we fly over what some call, the "Green Hell". Seen from the sky, it’s a gigantic emerald-colored rug. On the ground, it is an impassable primary forest with regions that are completely inaccessible by car or boat. Without his plane, it would take many days to connect the communities together. It is used in turn as an ambulance, taxi, freight truck, and armored van for transporting gold from mining companies.
In the north of Scotland, Colin McAllister is an airplane pilot in the Orkney Islands. In this isolated territory, it is better to embark at its side to move quickly. At the controls of his nine-seater twin-engine, he lands and takes off about ten times a day! Its passengers are doctors, teachers or farmers and are used to the uncertainty of weather conditions…
Formerly employed by illegal loggers or illegal gold miners, Fernando Bezerra has decided to give up everything to take part in the fight for the preservation of the lung of the planet: the Amazon.
The missions of this Brazilian pilot are as varied as they are vital: monitoring deforestation, protecting indigenous communities, emergency medical evacuations and, more recently, participating in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic ...
In Mexico there is an ancestral and devastating pastoral tradition… the burn.
The peasants set fire to their fields to clean them in order to sow the next crops, often these fires escalate and spread to the wooded hills.
Between 20 to 30,000 hectares of natural areas go up in smoke every year in Chiapas!
Faced with this tragedy, José Camacho affectionately nicknamed El Capitan, had this simple idea: to use his small plane to reforest the devastated lands and accelerate the natural process of reforestation ...
In French Guiana, many villages are still very isolated. For many people, the air is the only way to go shopping, to get medical care, to transport schoolchildren, etc. Raymond Cazal, a local child and pilot for 10 years, brings a precious help to the population.
In Colombia, Claudio Petro ensures on board of his DC-3 the air connections. Until the most remote areas (Guainia, Vichada or Amazonia), he launches each time with the same intensity, to the discovery of this unknown and often ignored country...
This young mother of two is an aerobatic champion and dances in the air like no other between the mountains. She amazes everyone who crosses her path and has made it her goal to inspire other young women to follow her example. Spring is the start of climbing season in Denali National Park. Frozen rivers are freed, activities are resuming. Melissa, who lives at 100 miles an hour, begins her second job as an aerial taxi pilot for the most famous taxi company in Alaska. Pilots must master the art of mountain aviation and glacier drop-off. Before joining this group of elite pilots, Melissa will have to pass a series of high-flying tests.