Arctic Air CBC tv show

[snoopy]

The show is posted online K.

Thanks! Didn't know that.. I'll have to hunt it down and see what all the fuss is about.
Cheers,
Kirsten B.

[jona]

I watched this for the first time the other night, and I have to say it is a horrible show. The acting just stinks. It tries too hard.

[Gannet167]

I too had hopes for this show. It's tragically a lost opportunity. Most of us on this forum are too well informed to overlook the aviation inaccuracies. It's like watching Ice Road Truckers with the sound of a Ferrari in the background. Or watching an old Duster movie, and John Wayne has a modern rocket launcher instead of a revolver. Or a movie like "Master and Commander", on a sail boat and the Captain uses GPS and orders full steam ahead.

The mediocre drama aside, I would watch this show simply for the airplane porn, except that the producers ruined it for me with that part of the show. This is not the first tv show or movie to have aviation in it, with complete inaccuracies and impossibilities. But like all the rest, I cannot watch it. Airplane is the exception with it's slap stick humour.

How much work would it have been for them to make these things accurate? To me, this is just pure LAZINESS. With the millions of dollars spent (my taxes, a-thank-you) on this and the multitude of things to organize, they could have paid some junior rampie (which might be more than he/she makes normally) to point out the GLARING aviation problems. Not that this show is unique in it's issues.

I can understand somewhat the producer trying to make the story more sexy with a little extra drama. But, getting the sound of an engine wrong? That added no entertainment value - not for the pilots or the general public. Idle chitchat when there's an engine failure going on? This in fact reduces the drama for the average viewer and shows incompetence and laziness the part of the producer/writer. Why not ask a pilot what would occur? Make it a little dramatic: "Left Engine Fire! Engine Fire Checklist! Mayday Mayday Mayday! Confirm Left...." etc. etc.

For anyone who knows anything about airplanes, it ruins the entire show because after you come to terms with the implausibility of it, the premise of the entire story line becomes a farce and I lose interest. I can't continue watching a show with impossibilities in it.

CBC, are you listening? It's bad enough when you call an Airbus 310 a "C-150" in the news. For my taxes, please do a better job.

Consider the crash scene from the movie "Alive," I think this is a relatively accurate portrayal. Pilots freak out, throttles go to the stops, passengers feel the G, noise is correct and increases, airplane pitches up to hang on the props. The whole sequence probably didn't take the 30 seconds that the movie shows but it has an almost documentary feel to it. It's not complete BS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmAMZodaGpE

[jeta1]

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[Doc]

I've yet to see a TV movie or "soap" that is anywhere near accurate in it's depiction of anything "aviation". From the Baron that hit the 747 in the original Airport movie, using a registration that wasn't his actual tail number, to a scene in a certain Soap, showing the star ducking into a Lear 24, to enjoy an inflight cocktail party with 25 guests already on board.....it just doesn't work for us. Most "cop shows" don't work for cops. Except Barney Miller......they tell me that's really what it's like.
Do you thing ER works for doctors? Doubters.
It's like there's nothing unusual to see two twenty-three (give or take) year old women at the helm of a mighty Dak, shutting them both down and "Coming in dead stick...." Yup, totally believable. It hurts my eyes...

[cdnpilot77]

I'll watch a couple more episodes before giving up. Like a book, you need to get into the story before giving up. I'll give them a chance or two

2 will be all you need...by the end of the second one you will be wishing you hadn't even bothered

[plhought]

I've yet to see a TV movie or "soap" that is anywhere near accurate in it's depiction of anything "aviation". From the Baron that hit the 747 in the original Airport movie....

Just a quick correction the "original" Airport film was from 1970 and was based around a winter storm. You're talking about Airport '75...which is awful as well as all the sequels that follow it .



This is my favourite:



Actually the original Airport is probably the closest in terms of getting the aviation bits correct. It's got PAR approaches and all sorts of fancy lingo.

[snoopy]

Ok... well... I just watched all two episodes. I admit, the technical details suck, but the show is kind of fun. Bearing in mind I'm not tainted by Ice Pilots because I refuse to watch that BS. Who knows maybe the acting will improve, and maybe CBC will wise up and get some technical advice from a real bush pilot. About time prime time had a chick captain -at least Canada is leading some frontiers (save for space Captain Janeway). I hope somebody is paying attention to the feedback, and I hope the show makes it.
Cheers,
Kirsten B.
Chick Captain

[Colonel Sanders]

there's nothing unusual to see two twenty-three (give or take) year old women at the helm of a mighty Dak, shutting them both down and "Coming in dead stick...."

I always wondered why we never saw hot, young, skinny blonde women with perfect makeup and hair that have thousands of hours of northern heavy tailwheel time, flying on Ice Pilots NWT.

Does Joe have something against all the hot, young, skinny blonde women with perfect makeup and hair that have thousands of hours of northern heavy tailwheel time, that want to fly for Buffalo? Does he have a special, oversized-but-still-overflowing trash can just for their resumes?

[Doc]

Of course we all may just continue to watch it so we have something to "trash" on avCanada every week....Hot skinny chick captains with perfect make up and hair! And BLOND! Blond, can be spelt with and "e" or without. So, even BLONDES can spell it!

[azimuthaviation]

I always wondered why we never saw hot, young, skinny blonde women with perfect makeup and hair that have thousands of hours of northern heavy tailwheel time, flying on Ice Pilots NWT.

That French hobbit looking girl was the resident "babe". Enough to keep me south of 60 for the rest of my life.

[Doc]

That French hobbit looking girl was the resident "babe". Enough to keep me south of 60 for the rest of my life.

Anybody know how to get the coffee I just spewed all over my keyboard off the keyboard. That cracked me up, dude!

[Skymark]

This show is becoming a pathetic comedy (how many screw ups can you find?). I was laughing most of the way through this week’s episode it was so ridiculous.

What's a biscuit shooter?

There's noise and a scuffle in the back, so the "captain" goes back to see what's going on - this SOP? Next the FO is seen holding the guy that got shot. Guess they don't need to worry about a secure cockpit.

The aircraft is 2 hours overdue, but it's "too early" to call someone about it ????

I like how they have no idea where the headphone mic should be. The hijacker had it over his head (until he wanted to talk on the radio). Most times is way out in front of their face.

Again the wanna-be-pilot guy takes off in a plane he has no idea how to fly.

The lady cop was great, didn't seem to have a clue what she was doing.

Why does the CBC get it so screwed up?

[Beefitarian]

Why does the CBC get it so screwed up?

If I read this forum correctly, they're lazy from getting too much public funding.

[MIQ]

I watched it for the first time last night. I'm sorry but it's the biggest bullsh*t I've seen in a long time.
I really didn't expect any aviation accuracy whatsoever but even the acting and the dialogues are just awful! Especially can't stand that Bobby guy (why can't he open his mouth when he talks?) and the female captain with the attitude. And if I want to watch an animated DC 3 gliding down to the runway, 10nm out, then I may as well just buy the Microsoft Flightsimulator. I'm not a big Ice Pilots fan but there I can at least turn the sound off and have a nice aviation 'screensaver' with some great pictures on my TV.

[MrWings]

I watched it for the first time last night too.

Let's all be clear here. This show is not intended for pilots. At least not if you are looking for an actual representation of of commercial flying. Hell, even Ice Pilots doesn't accurately portray everything.

As a comedy, it is great. Kind of a Russ Meyer B-movie feel with airplanes replacing breasts.

[NovaBoy]

The bad aviation I can get by with, the bad acting and really lame plots is another. I gave it 3 episodes, the last one was the worst. So long Arctic Air, hope you die a quick death. Back to Beachcomber reruns.

[GGCC]

I watched it for the first time last night too.

Let's all be clear here. This show is not intended for pilots. At least not if you are looking for an actual representation of of commercial flying. Hell, even Ice Pilots doesn't accurately portray everything.

As a comedy, it is great. Kind of a Russ Meyer B-movie feel with airplanes replacing breasts.

Persactly, the CBC did not make this for pilots, they made this show for the great "aviation unenlightened" Canadian TV audience and, more particularly to torture those of us who actually do know how to fly and have only one TV channel.. The Canadian Broadcorping Castration....

[tyndall]

It's like watching a balloon crash. You keep waiting and waiting for something to happen but you can't look away.

Oh, the humanity!

[flyinthebug]

1st show- held out hope, wasnt too bad.

2nd show- Ridiculous beyond words.

3rd show- Lost me as a viewer.

Its too ridiculous to even comment on. Even as a "drama" the acting is pathetic.

My favorite moment...

Hijacker (with a gun to that Bobby guys head)...

Your going to take me wherever I want to go or Ill blow your @#$! ing head off.

Bobby- Ok.

Female Captain... I cant believe you caved so easily.

Thats when my TV channel changed. Im out!

[black hole]

Just relax folks;This show is for the entertainment of the non aviation people. As for the teck stuff; this i what the masses are used to. They don't know what a turbo -2 is suppossed to sound like; but they seem to know the term "dead Stick". My GF enjoyed it on her terms, and is looking forward to watching it next week. So for you four striped grinders: maybe you should switch back to "Corronation Street:!!!!?

BH

[careerpilot?]

C'mon guys, it's something to watch. I also enjoyed Combat Hospital - As a someone who has done two tours there (and former patient at that very hospital), there were tons of inaccuracies but I still enjoyed the show.... It's nice to see some Canadian shows coming out. My wife enjoyed both shows as well, so it's at least something we can watch together (beats the Young and the Restless, or Dancing with the Stars...)

Then again, I've always kind of been into the B-Movie style stuff.... Rambo? One of my favs. Army of Darkness? Say hello to my Boomstick. It's mindless entertainment folks, turn off your brains and enjoy. If you don't like it, just don't watch it!

Buffalo references for this week:

1. The DC-3 Registry is C-OPNR. One letter off of C-GPNR (one of Buffalo's DC-3s). Civil aircraft registry shows no entry for OPNR, so do the math!

2. The inside of the door of the DC-3 was obviously Buffalo Green and White - Did they actually repaint a Buffalo DC-3 just for the show, or is it computer-generated?

3. More obvious shots of the inside of the Buffalo hangar (at the end)

[MrWings]

Mikey was stumping around with the cast for the launch of Arctic Air. Buffalo is getting a cut somewhere.

[Beefitarian]

Here's an interview with one of the main writers. He worked on "North of Sixty" and "The Rez". I think if those shows were something you liked maybe you'd like this new one. I wanted to like those shows better than I ever did, they were kind of slow going or something for me I guess.

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/scene/other/ ... n-wheeler/

[CID]

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."