TELEVISION CO. LOOKING FOR FERRY PILOTS FOR DISCOVERY SERIES

[airborne2010]

We are URGENTLY looking for adventurous, risk-taking Ferry pilots for a new Discovery Channel series. If this sounds like you or someone you know email your name & contact information to plaurence@pixcom.com.

[Guido]

We are URGENTLY looking for adventurous, risk-taking Ferry pilots for a new Discovery Channel series. If this sounds like you or someone you know email your name & contact information to plaurence@pixcom.com.

Good lord... if this ain't a fishing expedition...

[AMM]

Post more info!

[2R]

.“Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of success.”

Ernest Shackleton‘s 1907 ad in London’s Times, recruiting a crew to sail with him on his exploration of the South Pole


Could be the start of a jolly good jape and if told correctly could be a ripping good yarn,Count me in so long as i do not have to be unkind to anyone or hurt anybody's feelings

[AMM]

Right now airborne2010 is about a seven.

[Guido]

Perhaps they're looking for these fellows: http://www.torontoport.com/PortAuthorit ... asp?id=253

[into the blue]

[gianthammer]

"THIS IS NO PICNIC
Working and living conditions on this job are as difficult as those encountered on any construction job ever done in the United States or foreign territory. Men hired for this job will be required to work and live under the most extreme conditions imaginable. Temperature will range from 90 degrees above zero to 70 degrees below zero. Men will have to fight swamps, rivers, ice and cold. Mosquitos, flies and gnats will not only be annoying but will cause bodily harm. If you are not prepared to work under these and similar conditions


Do Not Apply"

[Invertago]

90 degrees above zero and 70 below.... the optimist in me says that at some point during the journey the temperature will be 'just right'

[slam525i]

Isn't that just saying "Bad pilots urgently needed?"

You're in entertainment, not aviation, so, please let me politely explain something to you:
Despite the image of a macho, dare-devil, risk-taking "hero", it is not what pilots are and not what we want to portray ourselves as. Whether as recreational pilots flying a fabric covered tail-dragger on the weekends, or flying 800,000 pounds of aircraft across the oceans, we are not "adventurous, risk-taking" individuals. Everything we do is designed to minimize risk. Every portion of flight is thought through with contingency plans in place before we start. To quote an old saying "A superior pilot exercises his superior judgment to avoid situations where he would have to demonstrate his superior skill." Yes, flying is more risky than sitting at home on the couch, but we minimize the risks of flying. Pilots who take unnecessary risks aren't heralded as "heroes"; they're labeled as idiots and outcast. It would be detrimental to general aviation to have an idiot represent us on TV.

Ferrying single-engine aircraft across oceans is indeed an interesting topic (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "ferry pilots"). Only well-trained, experienced pilots undertake this task, and I will guarantee you that the good ones are not "risk-taking" individuals. If you do find an individual responding to your ad as "adventurous" & "risk-taking", please review their qualifications and experience carefully; either they are lying about "risk-taking" or they're lying about knowing what they're doing.

Best of luck in your program, but please, do reconsider the type of person you're looking for.

[Nark]

Ferry:


Pilot

[Randleman]

Isn't that just saying "Bad pilots urgently needed?"

You're in entertainment, not aviation, so, please let me politely explain something to you:
Despite the image of a macho, dare-devil, risk-taking "hero", it is not what pilots are and not what we want to portray ourselves as. Whether as recreational pilots flying a fabric covered tail-dragger on the weekends, or flying 800,000 pounds of aircraft across the oceans, we are not "adventurous, risk-taking" individuals. Everything we do is designed to minimize risk. Every portion of flight is thought through with contingency plans in place before we start. To quote an old saying "A superior pilot exercises his superior judgment to avoid situations where he would have to demonstrate his superior skill." Yes, flying is more risky than sitting at home on the couch, but we minimize the risks of flying. Pilots who take unnecessary risks aren't heralded as "heroes"; they're labeled as idiots and outcast. It would be detrimental to general aviation to have an idiot represent us on TV.

Ferrying single-engine aircraft across oceans is indeed an interesting topic (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "ferry pilots"). Only well-trained, experienced pilots undertake this task, and I will guarantee you that the good ones are not "risk-taking" individuals. If you do find an individual responding to your ad as "adventurous" & "risk-taking", please review their qualifications and experience carefully; either they are lying about "risk-taking" or they're lying about knowing what they're doing.

Best of luck in your program, but please, do reconsider the type of person you're looking for.

This may be the best post I have read on Avcanada. A BIG BIG plus 1!

[flyinhigh]

HAHA, I thought that this was going to be a job ad for buffalo airways. But I guess not.

My question is better this, which company are we to fly for.

The way it is worded sounds like the discovery channel is getting an OC as well.

[CanterburyTail]

Perhaps they're looking for these fellows: http://www.torontoport.com/PortAuthorit ... asp?id=253

I just wish pedestrian access to CYTZ was as good as shown in that illustration. Getting down there is the most hazardous part of my flying experiences.

[5x5]

Hey, it's not such a bad idea. Anyone silly enough to respond to a post like this deserves to self-select onto a list of risk-taking pilots.

Regardless of who is actually behind the OP's alias, I hope it all ends well for any respondents.

[Sulako]

The original post was sent from a pixcom.com ip address. The post is legit, though the premise behind the show appears sketchy at best.

[scopiton]

need a roadrunner ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-y6rLj58Q

sign me off

[Bede]

plaurance,

Would you get in a small airplane with a "risk taking" pilot and cross the Atlantic?

[Lurch]

plaurance,

Would you get in a small airplane with a "risk taking" pilot and cross the Atlantic?

I bet they don't tell the camera crew just how dangerous the pilot/plane is.

Lurch

[SunWuKong]

Yes, flying is more risky than sitting at home on the couch

I am not sure . Concerning airline pilots defenitly not. Domestic mortality rate is much higher than airline pilot at work mortality rate. However I understand what you mean, and I agree with the spirit of your post.
The reality is, i beleive, a bit different than what we all hope, want, concerning safety.
Professionals are not risk takers, in a sense we don't want some risk to make the flight funny, but depending what we fly, and for what purpose, some pilot have to deal with risk, they don't "take" it, they don't provoke or induce risk, but sure have to cop with it. Pilot language doesn't accept the sentence "risk taking" to qualify a professionnal, but in the normal society, taking a risk doesn't necesseraly means you want it.
At the extreme we can think of a stuntman, he doesn't want to add any risk, and plan carrefully his show, he still have to deal with risk, and if we used the everyday language we could say he takes risk.
Keeping that in mind, ferrying a light airplane through Africa, or nepal/western china mongolia, north russia, ocean... Is "taking a risk" compared with the same pilot who decide not taking the job in order to continue being jobless or continue his normal B1900D job for exemple.
If the add is written by a non-pilot (so using non-aviation vocabulary/sentence), and if the job is ferrying a light airplane above non-friendly areas, so it is alright to mention the risk involved right at the beginning using "risk taking", as many pilots won't be interested. There is no one pilot job, it varies a lot, and unfortunately, the risk involved varies aswell depending what you fly. I think it is ok to speak about risk when it comes to ferry a light airplane across the world.

[matt foley]

Shhhhhhhheeeeetttt man! Why just the other day I ran with a pair of scissors directly to the pool only minutes after eating....anyone other than me that applies are just posers i assure you.

MF

[Panama Jack]

Shouldn't this be in the Aviation Job Ads (Free) section?

[. ._]

Chances are- if you're the "risk-taking" pilot that takes this job, you won't have to pay back your training bond.

[Hawkerflyer]

Isn't that just saying "Bad pilots urgently needed?"

[FlaplessDork]

I bet they will get a flood of resume's from low timers.