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snoopy
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Big Pistons Forever wrote:

Only CBC could turn Northern bush flying into a chick flic :roll:


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

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It really looked like someone "reimagined" Ice Pilots and threw in some Beachcombers.

We start with a DC3 with an engine problem. Then we meet Joe, err, Mel with the bad temper, who fires a mechanic while having a bitchy moment. At least it wasn't Chuck, err, Cece. Throw in some comments about how everyone gets fired for a while then comes back. After some useless drama and drivel, Joe, err, Mel has some "rampies" load the plane. While in Deline we meet whatshisname who likes his "chips", (didn't Kelly mention that about Seymour?) who says he's out of avgas and how Joe, err, Mel is the only guy still flying "piston pounders".

Yawn. At least Krista is better to look at than Mikey.


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FlyGy
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Kabloona wrote:
I enjoyed the show as well, more than I thought I would. It enhanced my viewing pleasure when Adam Beech got punched right off hop.


Kabloona wrote:
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CBC sucks, Adam Beech sucks. I'll watch anyway. (at least once)

viewtopic.php?f=49&t=77790

At least you have the balls to reconsider your opinions, kudos to you sir.

Now...where're Frosti's thoughts on the matter. :)


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From wikipedia:

A deadstick landing, also called a dead-stick landing is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The term is often misunderstood, as the flight controls in the majority of aircraft are either fully or partially functional, even with no engine power. Instead, the term refers to the wooden propeller (the "stick") being stopped in an engine-out setting.


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CL-Skadoo! wrote:
I missed the dedication at the end, who was it dedicated to?


Trevor Jonasson and Nicole Stacey, the twin otter crew who died in Yellowknife this fall. I imagine it occurred around the same time as some of the filming; the beaver they used belongs to the same company.

I think/hope the pilots would have liked the show. Sure it's corny, but I like that, and anything is better than that reality crap, which is all that is ever on any other channel.


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Anybody notice that it was actually filmed in Buffalo's hangar? The three blade prop hanging on the wall, the CL-215 parked in the back corner, and the green/white paint scheme - Had to be the actual Buffalo hangar...

That and the two Buffalo DC-3 Vertical Stabilizers that you could see in the background of a couple shots! Or am I just behind the times in finding this out...?


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One glaring difference from Ice Pilots is that everyone on Arctic Air has all their teeth, definitely a work of fiction.

careerpilot? wrote:
Anybody notice that it was actually filmed in Buffalo's hangar? The three blade prop hanging on the wall, the CL-215 parked in the back corner, and the green/white paint scheme - Had to be the actual Buffalo hangar...

That and the two Buffalo DC-3 Vertical Stabilizers that you could see in the background of a couple shots! Or am I just behind the times in finding this out...?


Then there's the big number 4 on the vertical stabilizer of the Baron and the CL-215 just purchased from NewFoundland parked on the ramp outside the hangar. It was just on the latest episode of Ice Pilots. ;)

Nice catch.

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.


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They filmed a few times at the hangar thats for sure. I like how they had the baron coming in the hangar, looking through the office window while there was some dialogue. But it was shot through Joe's actual office window. Some good Compu global hyper mega net CGI at work!!
I came back from a flight late one night, and saw a car parked in the back lot with it's headlights on pointing at one of our buildings. I thought they were stealing shit from the Buffalo yard, turns out they wanted my name and why I was there. I take it props and gear in the film industry is expensive.


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Adiabatic wrote:
They filmed a few times at the hangar thats for sure. I like how they had the baron coming in the hangar, looking through the office window while there was some dialogue. But it was shot through Joe's actual office window. Some good Compu global hyper mega net CGI at work!!
I came back from a flight late one night, and saw a car parked in the back lot with it's headlights on pointing at one of our buildings. I thought they were stealing shit from the Buffalo yard, turns out they wanted my name and why I was there. I take it props and gear in the film industry is expensive.


Too bad you're not in the screen actors' guild, you might have been entitled to some money for your impromptu "guest appearance". As it is, you'll have to settle for the rest of us "AvCanada" wankers being really, really impressed that you were awesome enough to be "just coming back from a flight" at Buffalo airways while still being enough of a nobody to have not been told there was filming taking place. Hey!- are you an ICE PILOT???


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Hey, "frozen", he probably IS a member of the screen actors' guild. In which case he had every right to question the presence of production people in the yard of the company he works at, without being told about filming taking place.


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It was better then "Jersey Shore" and "Keeping up with the Kardashians" but not by much.
That was a terrible TV show. With that and "Ice Pilots" and that stupid Alaska one. Those are now 3 hours that I can spend doing things, other then watching TV.


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phillyfan wrote:
It was better then "Jersey Shore" and "Keeping up with the Kardashians" but not by much.
That was a terrible TV show. With that and "Ice Pilots" and that stupid Alaska one. Those are now 3 hours that I can spend doing things, other then watching TV.


Like flip back to the gay porn channel?


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Cheeseball, lame and extremely disappointing.

Cheeseball script and dialogue. Lame acting and extremely disappointing low rent production value rife with inconsistencies, errors and inaccuracies.


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Colonel Sanders
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You mean, just like the Beachcombers?

I haven't watched this new program yet, but if
any of Anne Murray, Rita MacNeil and David Suzuki
make cameo appearances, I'm in!

PS I think I could write a pretty good script about
an episode involving all the of the above, plus a crate of
chickens, 3 tons of chocolate ice cream (always melting -
a metaphor for global warming, get it?), 9 pairs of roller
skates and a lifetime supply of Old Dutch potato chips.


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ch135146 wrote:
I wouldn't watch the CBC even if they had exclusive coverage of the end of the world.

Ditto !!


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PT6-114A wrote:
"NO BY GOD WE ARE MEN OF THE NORTH WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!!!! WE HAVE TESTICLES THAT CLANK!!!!!"

that made it all worth it right there!! I will check it out again.


Thanks for that, i missed the very last part about what the testicles do....

I don't think we are going to see much aviation technical expertise in the scrip-writing but i'd give it a pass for entertainment, when is the last time you saw a guy punched out in a CBC production? :rolleyes:


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Go Juice
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15 minutes into the show and ... OMG!!!


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It's TV show people, it's not supposed to be real, and lets face it, flying is boring most of the time. The Beachcombers was a great show.


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I stand by my opinion that no one can watch a TV show that portrays their career of choice and think it was good...doesn't matter if you are a pilot, doctor, beachcomber or professional dance judge (if the last one even exists).
Arctic Air only re-enforces this. Although I'll probably watch it again just out of morbid curiousity :?


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Big Pistons Forever
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Although I'll probably watch it again just out of morbid curiousity :?


Me too :oops:


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I stand by my opinion that no one can watch a TV show that portrays their career of choice and think it was good...doesn't matter if you are a pilot, doctor, beachcomber or professional dance judge (if the last one even exists).
Arctic Air only re-enforces this. Although I'll probably watch it again just out of morbid curiousity :?


Good point bornagain1340!
Im curious if the truckers in Canada have a forum for "Ice road truckers" and make fun of that show as well?

To the average viewer, Arctic Air is good entertainment. Only our group (pilots) are egotistical enough to let it bother us if they call a deadstick landing (which btw is an accurate call for an engine(s) out landing) what it actually is. :roll:

Its a show people. Enjoy the entertainment factor and dont let the aviation scenes bother you so much (even though I bitch to my wife when they screw up a scene too lol).

I think the show is fun.
Fly safe all.


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flyinthebug wrote:
bornagain1340 wrote:
I stand by my opinion that no one can watch a TV show that portrays their career of choice and think it was good...doesn't matter if you are a pilot, doctor, beachcomber or professional dance judge (if the last one even exists).
Arctic Air only re-enforces this. Although I'll probably watch it again just out of morbid curiousity :?


Good point bornagain1340!
Im curious if the truckers in Canada have a forum for "Ice road truckers" and make fun of that show as well?

To the average viewer, Arctic Air is good entertainment. Only our group (pilots) are egotistical enough to let it bother us if they call a deadstick landing (which btw is an accurate call for an engine(s) out landing) what it actually is. :roll:

Its a show people. Enjoy the entertainment factor and dont let the aviation scenes bother you so much (even though I bitch to my wife when they screw up a scene too lol).

I think the show is fun.
Fly safe all.


I just read the last few posts to my wife and she very nicely told me that the pilot wives/girlfriends/husbands/boyfriends need a support group for this (and many other) problems
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Then we meet Joe, err, Mel with the bad temper....
:mrgreen:

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 Chuck MacEvoy is Bobby's dad...

How am I doing so far and how many episodes will we have to endure before Bobby finds his dad's airplane wreck? I sure hope the whole first season isn't just a dream..
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I can't wait for that poker game comin up....straight out of the ole wild west but i bet no one gets shot..LOL


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I have only watched a part of one episode, but I think it will be a good series for basic entertainment. Considering it is fiction I think it will be a welcome relief from CSI this or CSI that and all the friggen nurse and Dr. shows.
But what do I know? My favorite aviation show was "Airplane". :smt040
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