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CID wrote:I watched the third one. It's like an car accident. I can't look away. It should be renamed "The Absolutely Worst thing to do in ANY Situation Show."
Exactly.

I think this is true for most "reality" drama shows. Do crime scene analysts cringe at CSI? Do doctors laugh at ER? I'm guessing yes.

I know a cop that laughs when the TV cop shoots at the bad guy in the leg or shoulder to wing him and slow him down. He said they aren't taught to do that. When real cops discharge their gun, they shoot to the center of mass to stop the person. Period. Any of this picking on a limb is dangerous should you miss and the perp keeps coming at you.

I didn't know that. But I still enjoy cop shows. And he does too despite their inaccuracies.
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It's not even just aviation inaccuracies anymore: they ended the last episode with a shot of a hawk overlayed with the caw of a raven. That's like showing a dog overlayed with a cow mooing. I'm beginning to wonder if the writers and producers have ever even been outside, let alone in an aircraft. Ugh.
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The most unrealistic thing was the grumpy fat geezer Mel getting under the covers with that hot cougar of a nurse.

C'mon man!
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15 minutes in and I am Cringing already! haha too funny
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Ok I admit I wasnt going to watch this terrible show again, but it was that or Glee last night.

The flying scenes were the worst to date. The Capt calls for an overshoot and tells co-pilot reduce throttles?? Then when she calls for climb power when trying to land, the co-pilots retards the throttles?? Something so simple should be researched for a TV show. This is a true CBC production...and another piece of crap!
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flyinthebug wrote:Ok I admit I wasnt going to watch this terrible show again, but it was that or Glee last night.

The flying scenes were the worst to date. The Capt calls for an overshoot and tells co-pilot reduce throttles?? Then when she calls for climb power when trying to land, the co-pilots retards the throttles?? Something so simple should be researched for a TV show. This is a true CBC production...and another piece of crap!
For a number of reasons i only get one TV channel here and it is CBC, i watch that show now just to see how much worse it can get in the aviation technicality department....but i do consider if fair entertainment.

The thing i ponder is this, The NWT Territory's Dept of Tourism is a prime sponsor and any thinking person watching those flying scenes and considering flying into the NWT themselves, may be having second thoughts about air travel in the NWT.... :mrgreen:
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Really? Seems to me any "thinking person" watching Arctic Air would recognize that it is a fictional show in the genre of drama. Furthermore, I would venture to say that any "thinking person" would be intelligent enough to not be referencing a fictional dramatic CBC television show when doing any sort research/learning/fact gathering, especially as it relates to the realism of air travel. In short, I'm sure a "thinking person" knows enough not to believe everything they see on tv.
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flyinthebug wrote:Ok I admit I wasnt going to watch this terrible show again, but it was that or Glee last night.

The flying scenes were the worst to date. The Capt calls for an overshoot and tells co-pilot reduce throttles?? Then when she calls for climb power when trying to land, the co-pilots retards the throttles?? Something so simple should be researched for a TV show. This is a true CBC production...and another piece of crap!
Guess you didn't notice the entire landing/overshoot sequence was "gear up"... LOL

I still think the show is fun, and I enjoyed the latest episode. Most passengers don' know what half of the levers/switches/knobs (not the pilot) do in an aircraft so are unlikey to know or care about inaccuracies. I'm sure CBC has reviewers out there scouring the internet for feedback and eventually technical details will improve where they matter.

Considering I don't normally watch TV, I've watched all the episodes so far and will continue to do so.

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Is this show for real? It's so bad .... That it's good !
episode 4 reminded of that north of 60 show all over again.....which I could hardly watch before but with some planes...pilots and mechanics arguing.....crazy old dude trying to jump out of the plane. Makes me laugh....it's kinda like a comedy or a spoof show making fun of ice pilots almost. I will continue to watch this show if it stays the same. Like I said it's so bad that it's good!
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As for everybody who compares it to real life .....get a life there actors it's not reality tv...go analyze ice pilots.....not once during the show did I say to myself why did they do this or that's not how ur supposed to do it..
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snoopy wrote:
flyinthebug wrote:Guess you didn't notice the entire landing/overshoot sequence was "gear up"... LOL
It doesn't matter as Dettah doesn't have an airfield anyway :P , I am not sure why they didn't drive out on that nice road that they were flying over? Probably would have taken them to Ingraham Trail.
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Bent wrench wrote:As for everybody who compares it to real life .....get a life there actors it's not reality tv...go analyze ice pilots.....not once during the show did I say to myself why did they do this or that's not how ur supposed to do it..
And not once reading this post did I think to myself: " Where's the punctuation?" or "That's not how you're supposed to spell it.."

I liked tonight's episode because earlier, I was thinking about how Battlestar Galactica had better-researched and more realistic aviation/space scenes.... and now, as though in response, Arctic Air has introduced a character played by my least favourite Battlestar actress!

A U.S.A.F pilot with two tours in "eye-rack" under her belt! Terrific. It would not have been corny enough had the character been a former Canadian fighter pilot. Having originally stuck my neck out and endorsed this show after seeing the first episode, I will now not tolerate anything that isn't completely corny. It's not that I wouldn't totally respect a black foreign ex-servicewoman female pilot whose grandfather was a tuskeegee airman, it's just that the character reminds me of the dead milkmen's song about the "Lesbian Eskimo Midget Left-handed Ninja Albino". Well, never say never.

Now, I know someone will take offense to that statement, but unless you are a black female expat former serviceman war veteran pilot with historical ancestors, OR a Lesbian Inuit Little Person Left-handed Ninja with Albinism, don't bother me.
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The sound crew for Arctic Air were down in Coal Harbour today. Spent a few hours on the HA dock getting accurate sound clips for the planes after what they said were MANY complaints to CBC. You do have to wonder who they have on staff as the aviation consultant for a show about an airline. Oh well....its a tv drama. What does irk me though is blatant inaccuracies and liberties taken on the so called "reality" aviation shows.
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So now a DC-3 taking off is going to sound like a DHC3-T in reverse?
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180 wrote:So now a DC-3 taking off is going to sound like a DHC3-T in reverse?
:lol: :lol: :prayer: :lol: :lol:
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Meatservo wrote: I liked tonight's episode
Same here. I couldn't quite decide if I liked the series or not from the beginning because it seemed like a soap opera with an aviation backdrop and a lot of the latter was inaccurate. Last night's episode actually had a story, although it did try to crowd too much in there. Seems like a lot had been cut out to fit the 40-odd minutes time slot.
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It was a good episode because of Bobby's story. It was special because it had a spiritual theme. Also because Adam Beach did great acting.
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I loved all the guys showing up in Seneca Jackets for the job interviews
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I_Heart_Seaplanes wrote:The sound crew for Arctic Air were down in Coal Harbour today. Spent a few hours on the HA dock getting accurate sound clips for the planes after what they said were MANY complaints to CBC. You do have to wonder who they have on staff as the aviation consultant for a show about an airline. Oh well....its a tv drama. What does irk me though is blatant inaccuracies and liberties taken on the so called "reality" aviation shows.
Not only do the turbine Beavers have piston sound effects, in the last episode after the Baron was shut down they added a sound effect of a turbine spinning down...Maybe they just need to take all the aircraft audio and swap it; then maybe they'd get it right.
The 152 flying for a commercial air service drove me nuts too. How did they get two guys and a load of cargo in there, both in terms of volume and weight? And why was the tarp covering it orange at the beginning of the episode and blue at the end? Worse still, there wasn't anything at all in the back after they landed in the bush. :x
I should probably stop watching, but apparently I'm a masochist...
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anybody else notice how he yanked that little Cessna's throttle all the way back and got full power in return?
And how can that F-16 driver talk so calmly about her experiences and why she is leaving her present employee when she should be sitting sideways in her seat and suffering from leg cramps while dealing with an assymetric-power situation that she created?
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I_Heart_Seaplanes wrote: ...You do have to wonder who they have on staff as the aviation consultant for a show about an airline...
"Mikey McBryan" is listed in the credits ...
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CFR wrote:
I_Heart_Seaplanes wrote: ...You do have to wonder who they have on staff as the aviation consultant for a show about an airline...
"Mikey McBryan" is listed in the credits ...
He should get on this Forum, we can straighten him out....anyone have his e-mail? i'll send him this thread link :mrgreen:
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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? :roll: 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. :x

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.
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The Cessna-flying scenes in movies like "terminator three", and "2012" were better researched and more realistic.
2012 - "This airplane has multiple engines!! I am not qualified to fly this!!" <- My favourite part of that movie. As the ground is falling into oblivion all around the runway, something tells me the concern over an engine failure and Vmc event would be secondary! But hey, it's recognition of something accurate to aviation, so props to the producers!
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Well that episode was awesome...you go Gideon!!!
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