Outback Pilots on Ch 7

[outnabout]

So, as far as I could tell, the death defying feats from tonight's episode include:
Flying night VFR
Flying into an uncontrolled airstrip (Ayers Rock)
Flying without radar coverage (day AND night which - according to the Voice Of Doom commentator - NO pilot EVER wants to do!)
Flying into an airport after the tower has closed for the day (Alice)

FFS

[fujii]

A plumber dressing a stone chip in a prop blade.

[Clare Prop]

Anyone notice the ambient light on the night landing from final was completely different to the light from the go-pro on the wing, which looked like he was landing about ahem 10 minutes before last light?

[ACMS]

Just watching it now, "oh no he has no radar on his aircraft, how will he separate himself"


Radar Radar, stop going on about bloody Radar......

Grrrrr

[cattletruck]

Watched it with the volume down. Can't understand why they keep chopping through the number of running stories, at least the aircraft and scenery look nice.

Drudgingly made it to the end of the show and the biggest reward was a story on the Super Guppy on another channel had just started

[Captain Dart]

Just saw the Guppy episode on 'Mighty Planes'. Now that is how to make an aviation reality show. Not too much emphasis on the inevitable 'deadline' and not one single 'But...there's a problem'. No 'reminder scenes'. No stupid over the top music crescendos every five minutes (even when a flight deck window shattered at altitude). Educational, even for pilots, and beautiful scenery. And a very interesting old aircraft with unpretentious and competent crews (one captain had flown the Space Shuttle).

Interesting that they disconnect multiple control cables to swing the nose open on the thing. Stratoliner/Stratocruiser? airframe, B52 mainwheels, 707 nosewheel, P3 engines, Herc props!

[BEACH KING]

Everyone on here that thinks the show is rubbish, appear to be very well updated on the goings-on.
So..it begs the question. Why do you continue to watch if it is sooo bad?
I'll watch it over Summer Bay any day, because I like watching anything to do with aircraft.
At an airport. I will watch aircraft taxiing, takeoff, land etc for no other reason than it is more interesting than anything else at the time (unless of course a smoking hot young lady happens to be in eyeshot).
The show is produced for the masses who have no idea of aircraft. If it were 100% accurate in our view, the show would probably be unwatchable by the proletariat who have not the slightest understanding of aircraft.
Apparently it rates quite well and is distributed internationally, so that can only bolster our tourism industry....which provides the vast majority of employment for most on here.
The plumber bloke (who I met recently at YBAS) waiting inline for the hire car at Uluru made me chuckle. Why couldn't one of the local Plods pick him up to go fix their own ****house ?

[Desert Flower]

Originally Posted by fujii

A plumber dressing a stone chip in a prop blade.

So? Is he not supposed to do that because he's a plumber who happens to be flying his own aircraft? Is the flying padre not supposed to dress the prop on his own aircraft because he's a padre?

DF.

[megan]

The show is produced for the masses who have no idea of aircraft. If it were 100% accurate in our view, the show would probably be unwatchable by the proletariat who have not the slightest understanding of aircraft

Unfortunately their understanding is not going to be enhanced by watching this show, quite the reverse. Heroic pilots taking off with a hill X miles away and directly in their path, death defying flying at night, no radar (sob), and having to land after the tower closes (wail). The average Joe is going to have all their negatives of light aircraft reinforced.

[Band a Lot]

Originally Posted by Desert Flower

So? Is he not supposed to do that because he's a plumber who happens to be flying his own aircraft? Is the flying padre not supposed to dress the prop on his own aircraft because he's a padre?

DF.

A plumber like a padre, is not qualified to file a prop.


Owning your own aircraft does not make anyone qualified to fly it.


The OP was indicating that the wrong qualification was being used to file a prop.

But did he have a MA? or was a LAME in the background giving "direct supervision and then signed the MR"?

[fujii]

Originally Posted by Desert Flower

So? Is he not supposed to do that because he's a plumber who happens to be flying his own aircraft? Is the flying padre not supposed to dress the prop on his own aircraft because he's a padre?

DF.

It's not pilot approved maintenance. LAME job.

[Jungmeister]

Its an OK production but as with anything that you have some knowledge of there are glaring errors. I notice that the during the much feared crosswind landing by the plumber a couple of weeks ago, the wind sock was hanging like a limp sausage as he flashed past!

[fujii]

I wonder what the truck drivers think of the show about their industry.

[Desert Flower]

Originally Posted by fujii

It's not pilot approved maintenance. LAME job.

So what are you supposed to do if you're in the middle of the outback, & the nearest LAME is several hundred kilometres away? Guess I had better erase all the memories I have of pilots dressing props & doing other things over the years then. And some of them have been pretty high up in the game too - such as a very senior military person!

DF.

[outnabout]

Desert Flower, the legal thing to do is ground the aircraft, fly in an engineer, and have him / her dress the prop and sign the MR. Legally, it is immaterial if the LAME is next door or in the next state....

[Cloudee]

Originally Posted by Desert Flower

So what are you supposed to do if you're in the middle of the outback, & the nearest LAME is several hundred kilometres away? Guess I had better erase all the memories I have of pilots dressing props & doing other things over the years then. And some of them have been pretty high up in the game too - such as a very senior military person!

DF.

What you are supposed to do is do whatever you need to do but don't do it on national television.

[Desert Flower]

Originally Posted by outnabout

Desert Flower, the legal thing to do is ground the aircraft, fly in an engineer, and have him / her dress the prop and sign the MR. Legally, it is immaterial if the LAME is next door or in the next state....

Yes you made your point - no need to post it twice.

DF.

[PLovett]

Originally Posted by fujii

I wonder what the truck drivers think of the show about their industry.

Their's was on immediately before this one. Also cringeworthy but with more substance to the troubles they face while on the road.

[601]

Its an OK production but as with anything that you have some knowledge of there are glaring errors.

As I keep telling my First Mate, it is a TV show, not real life.

[aroa]

Plumber...PPL. ?? Carrying his tools of trade and goods for sale...Mmm NO CPL or AOC ??

Reg 206 and all that. Is that plumbers and photographers have been roasted and toasted for that..! LAMEs too!! But that's the 'Sky cops' for ya...!!

Oh ...and dont forget 2 (7)d...allowing an aircraft to be used for a commercial purpose.
They can do ya twice...how good is that .

But remember...Empty skies are Safe Skies.