Arctic Air CBC tv show

[Doc]

Only CBC could turn Northern bush flying into a chick flic

About time... Northern bush flying is a chick's gig....

Cheers,
Kirsten B.

I'm willing to bet, if I called you a "chick" I'd wake up about a week later.....

BTW, nice round engine start sounds on a PT6.....I just can't watch this crap!

[Doc]

This is quite possibly the worst TV show I've every tried to sit through. Does CBC do absolutely ZERO research?
I'm out.

[burhead1]

Watched for the first time, It is VERY Canadian. I feel I need to keep watching but not sure why, Like a train wreck.

[sheephunter]

The poker game was good. Has me wanting to see what happens next week.

[FlyGy]

Just go back to watching Pan Am then.

[TheCheez]

The details of flying airplanes are terrible. That aside, it's not a terrible show. Try and look beyond the flying failures and Canadian production values, the show isn't bad for a prime time soap.

[Doc]

The details of flying airplanes are terrible. That aside, it's not a terrible show. Try and look beyond the flying failures and Canadian production values, the show isn't bad for a prime time soap.

And, the Leafs aren't a bad hockey team. They'll win the Stanley Cup this year......

[Go Juice]

A bar in newfoundland advertises : Free food and drinks at every maple leafs playoff games!!

[Lost Lake]

I just watched the second show All in. Maybe I'm taking this too serious, but to me, they make our bush industry look idiotic and dangerous. Forget that The turbine shots were inside a piston beaver, or that the captain called for feathering the engines after they were shut dow. It shows an unskilled and uncertified float pilot taking off without flight following ( 2Cars violations) but also a captain who knowing flew an aircraft without sufficient fuel, or properly securing a load (2 more violations) but also a bumbling fool for a co-pilot. Not only that, but they didn't have any shots from the Black Horse!!

Between Ice pilots and Arctic air, just imagine how the nieve general public must picture the bush flying world. Luckily, Pan Am is in the same time slot. Much more entertaining.

Unfortunately, it is so stupid that I will probably keep watching it during commercials on Pan Am.

[tyndall]

You mean she didn't need to yell at him to put the mixture rich on the turbo beaver?! Next you'll be telling me that when you're miles out and you run out of fuel you don't declare a "deadstick" to the tower. And do you need to feather the props when the engines come to a dead stop when they run out of gas?

[Gear Jerker]

I've got a new drinking game. Take a drink if you see a Buffalo anomaly, and down the drink if you actually see the Buffalo logo.[/quote]

LMAO +1
Maybe we should start a thread here where we post these anomalies - cyber drinking game.

The geology is more realistic than the aviation. Its just like Jersey Shore and Pan Am; every neuron in my brain tells me not to watch it, but I do it anyway.

"Dev" is definitely inspired by the East Indian rampie from Season 1 (I think) who was in Hay River with Jeremy for a few months.

And I'd say Blake is Scott Blue

[flyinthebug]

I caught the show from my hotel room, and really had high hopes for it after the season opener.

I was painfully disappointed, and as Lost Lake said, they make our industry look like a joke...filled with misfits that risk their lives and make stupid decisions.

I was really disappointed in the show. Ill give it one more watch next week, but if its as bad at this one, im out with Doc.

My 2 cents.

PS... The aviation scenes are so completely bad, and unresearched its not worth even commenting on.

PPS... The chick captain really sucks as an actress...despite her "above average" looks. You would think they would want even a BIT of authentic content? They didnt even try on this episode.

[frozen solid]

I am in agreement with Lost Lake. I was really hoping this show would be cool. I knew, as a long-time "beachcombers" fan, that the plots might be corny, and there would be lots of preachy plot "hooks" addressing female pilots, native issues, and the good guy always winning in the end, but I was also keeping my fingers crossed that the show wouldn't depict commercial pilots behaving in a way that would worsen the public's perception of what goes on up here. I know it's fiction and perhaps along with Lost Lake I am taking it too seriously. But so far this show has depicted willful negligence, poor airmanship, unqualified and untrained aircrew, aircraft theft, and just general unregulated chaos. And most of the time, there would have been a way for the plot to have been exactly the same with a completely believable scenario. For instance, Instead of the girl just knowingly taking off without enough fuel to complete her trip, why could they not have had the low fuel scenario be attributed to a problem with the recently-replaced left engine, which was the reason for having the engineer aboard? (a completely dead-end plot detail as it is now) In the first episode, why couldn't they have had worse-than-forecast weather be the reason for landing a DC3 in 200 and 1/2 mile, rather than just willful rule-breaking and a chip shortage?

And really, why couldn't they just use the real sound of the turbo-beaver?

On a side note, don't DC3s have an electric "feathering pump" to feather the engine(s) after they have failed? Isn't this what the red "feather" buttons do? Why wouldn't you feather them? (This is a sincere question: I last flew a radial engine around 1998 and it was on a single) Would feathering the engines not reduce drag if you were gliding after your engines have failed?

Anyway, I think the show could be just as much fun and just as dramatic if the plot elements depicting out-and-out crimes were done away with and explained more reasonably?

And considering the crappy run of luck they've had in Yellowknife, I think depicting the flying community as a pack of undisciplined, irresponsible, criminal yahoos is a little crass.

[sheephunter]

This is a television show for entertainment. It just happens to be with regard to "our" industry and I would think that if they tried as hard as they could they still wouldn't get it right but closer, yes. I wonder if shows like ER which I couldn't tell you if the terminology is correct but it sounds good to me has doctors all over the world crawling around laughing at them using a lower intenstinal procedure for a heart transplant or the criminalogists cringing at what Ducky is doing in the CSI morgue. To me, it all looks/sounds good because I just don't know but I still go to a Dr. Maybe we're taking it too seriously. I'll keep watching it... oh and a couple good one liners like "everyone bumps into Candy" and "ever wonder why people knock out your teeth". Anyway, well, anyway.

[frozen solid]

Yeah, I reckon you're right, sheephunter, it's just that I had higher hopes for the thing. I'll be watching next week of course. Some of the show is just the way I was hoping, corny and over-dramatized (just like Ice Pilots) but some of the other stuff, man. I mean honestly, they are making a caricature of the very worst stereotype of northern flying at a time where we are basically agreed that that kind of behaviour is a thing of the past. There is the ability to laugh at ourselves and then there is..this. A TV show about you and me, made by the same people that ask a 13 000 hour twin otter pilot if he is "building up time for his commercial license". I'm sorry but we can turn on the TV and watch a meticulously researched show about drug dealers or the life of a call-girl that is accurate to the last iniquitous detail but they come in fifty years too late and a million dollars short when trying to depict the life of a commercial pilot in the North. I really wanted to like this show.

AND, I watched ER for a couple of seasons back when Goose and George Clooney were on the show, and not once did I see any of them say "we''ll just sew his rectum onto his lips, start a glucose drip, administer 20ccs of adrenaline, and then turn on the heart monitor, and then play cards for three and a half hours, and hopefully he'll pull through". That's basically what we're watching with respect to any of the flying scenes in this show.

[Indanao]

+1

[CID]

Lost Lake...+1

I watched it and it was brutal. The concept has potential but they spent so much on CGI they had nothing left over for technical advisor.

I'm not super picky about technical inaccuracies but you have to at least be in the ball park. This show isn't presented as a comedy, it supposed to be a drama. Unfortunately, it makes northern operators look like dangerous morons.

The aviation community should be quick to disassociate themselves from this show until they clean up their act.

[HighBypass]

Then we meet Joe, err, Mel with the bad temper....

So here's my take:
- Mel is Joe
- Krista is Justin
- Hailey is Kelly
- Kirby is an anorexic Adam Smith / Curtiss Dyson on oestrogen supplements.
- Loreen is Mikey
- Blake is Devon
- Cece is a cross between Roddy, Jimmy Essery and the guy who ran the store on North of 60'.
- Dev is Gideon from Summit
- Oh; and . MacEvoy is Bobby's dad...




'48

The Indian Cobra eh? Now your dating yourself a bit. Not sure if Omni has met him.

[floatpilot]

Mabe we'll get lucky and will get some sort of buisness scheme when t.v. shows up looking for a ride to lynx river!

Now that would make viewing

[Diadem]

This is a television show for entertainment. It just happens to be with regard to "our" industry and I would think that if they tried as hard as they could they still wouldn't get it right but closer, yes. I wonder if shows like ER which I couldn't tell you if the terminology is correct but it sounds good to me has doctors all over the world crawling around laughing at them using a lower intenstinal procedure for a heart transplant or the criminalogists cringing at what Ducky is doing in the CSI morgue.

But ER used actual doctors to advise the writers. Most medical, police, and other such shows use advisors from within the industry to make sure they at least get the terminology right. Such is not the case with "Arctic Air". One would think they could find a couple of pilots in Yellowknife to review the script, but perhaps because most of the show is filmed in Vancouver there isn't a plethora of bush pilots at their disposal. If only there were an aviation forum on which they could find some people with expertise...

[snoopy]

Maybe that IS where they're getting their expertise from... LOL
**disclaimer... don't have TV so waiting for the show to be posted online before I comment....**
Cheers,
Kirsten B.

[Go Juice]

The show is posted online K.

[WileyCoyote]

Just watched it after recording it a while ago. All I have to say is wow. It's crap like this that makes me wonder why we continue to fund this moneypit...

[tyndall]

But ER used actual doctors to advise the writers. Most medical, police, and other such shows use advisors from within the industry to make sure they at least get the terminology right. Such is not the case with "Arctic Air". One would think they could find a couple of pilots in Yellowknife to review the script, but perhaps because most of the show is filmed in Vancouver there isn't a plethora of bush pilots at their disposal. If only there were an aviation forum on which they could find some people with expertise...

Considering that every episode is ripped straight from old Ice Pilots episodes, the production company seems to be the same, and they even used the Buffalo hanger, you'd think they'd at least have Mikey on retainer.

[Prairie Chicken]

I'm with Doc & the Coyote. Utter crap! And it really annoys me that we have to pay for it!

My first thought was that it was typical Canadian television, but we do have some good shows coming out of Canada now ... just not this one, and damed rare from CBC!