THey should just canvas around the film industry a little more. The Cessna-flying scenes in movies like "terminator three", and "2012" were better researched and more realistic. In both of them, when the unlicensed pilot gets into the plane to save the day, they actually go through some snippets of checklists and move the controls in a way that makes sense, I.E., push the throttle forward to make the plane go, pull back on the column to make the plane go up, etc. Maybe the "Arctic Air" people don't need to do more research as such, they should just watch more movies!
I am a litle disappointed in Arctic Air, because, yes though I believe the "It's just a show, only Pilots notice this stuff" crowd are correct
in principle, I also think that if you're going to do a show ABOUT something (In this case planes and pilots), you should try and learn just a little bit about those things. And I'm also sure that, if presented with the basic option, the producers of the show would prefer that Canadian pilots
like the show rather than
dislike the show.
I also still don't like the new character. It's not that I can't accept a woman flying a Canadian bush plane in the North, it's that I don't understand why the producers of the show thought that making her a USAF fighter pilot was supposed to have any resonance with a Canadian audience on Canadian show. Are the RCAF not cool enough? Are their operational experiences not bad-ass enough to satisfy the eager "arctic air" audience? Is there just a larger pool of black women to draw from in the USAF, so someone looking for more "minority" bang-for-his-buck thought this was a more realistic plot vector? Is a story about Canadian bush pilots so intrinsically lame that we need the good ol'USAF to come and save our hides just like they did in dubya-dubya-two?

I hope this isn't because they're trying to attract an American audience. Americans don't watch Canadian stuff. Five miles south of the border, no one has ever heard of the Tragically Hip or "Corner Gas". They would be better served trying to appeal more to Canadians. I can't believe I am ranting about this. The character offends me and I can't understand how come.
However, I'm still going to watch it, partly out of horrified fascination, and partly because I think the turbobeaver and DC-3 are pretty neat aeroplanes and I enjoy watching them flying around, even if the things they are doing don't make sense.