Easy on British TV 9th May odd event.

[Loose rivets]

Did anyone see Easy tonight or recently - the flight with a flap warning light?

[chuzwuza]

Wing tip brake ecam caution?

[Superpilot]

Over done drama. FLAP/SLAT SYSTEM 1 FAULT (1 of the 2 computers cautioned).

[foxmoth]

Yes, overdramatised and incorrect, the commentator was saying it might make one flap not come down - this is NOT the case, as long as system 2 is ok it just means the flaps will be slow. Also he was saying it was a RED warning light, not AFAIK!

[sky9]

Don't allow them in.

[Chesty Morgan]

And...oh my god....they might have to do a manual landing....:{

[Alsacienne]

But as in all good fairy tales, there was a happy ending ... Deus ex Machina! :ok:

[pilotmike]

The "Let's go gear down" with sound effects for gear going down at 100' just seconds before landing with 3 greens clearly visible was obviously a very badly timed dub.

[VJW]

Additionally if there was a possibility that flaps wouldn’t be working on one side etc - you wouldn’t wait until the approach to ‘see’ if they work!

[Banana Joe]

Why are easyJet even allowing this?

[Livesinafield]

Thats the problem witht these kind of shows, they could be good, and offer an insight and some learning for people not in the know, but instead some folk sit there and analyze the hell out of everything and start asking silly questions about why they did this and that, and thats not safe etc.

Just watch the programme.

[Odins Raven]

This is what happens when they allow pilots to watch TV shows about airplanes... it should have had a warning beforehand that it was designed for the general public and nit factually accurate. We’re talking ITV here not Discovery Channel.

Im sure that a similar documentary about Doctors or Architects would be equally badly constructed.

[vancouv]

I think the doc shows Easy in a good light - the pilots have seemed human and professional. The people it is aimed at are not those that hang around here, but the general public who have no clue how to fly a plane. They're hardly going to be querying what point the gear is lowered.

I'm sure Easy will be vetting what is shown. You probably won't see a full emergency.

[MPN11]

Seemed reasonable to me, and certainly showed The Public some of the things that cause delays (which is all they really care about, yes?). Cockpit details like the 'late gear' will not be noticed by most.

[homonculus]

Im sure that a similar documentary about Doctors or Architects would be equally badly constructed.

Spot on OR. We get lots of surgeons desperate to allow these fly on the wall documentary companies into hospitals to puff up their ego. They are cheap entertainment - cheap that is for these often fly by night companies that pay the participants nothing and are sometimes nothing more than a couple of Go Pros taped to the operating lights or the dashboard of the police car who then sell out at £1000 a minute plus repeat fees. They disrupt the subject and misrepresent what is happening BUT to many people, including I suspect Easyjet, any publicity is good publicity. How much would it cost Easyjet to run 30 minute adverts every week? Entertainment yes, documentary no.

[slowjet]

Wasn't there a thread about last week's programme too ? The feature being Lady pilots who got lost at AMS. Whole thread seems to have been taken down or moved.

[Alsacienne]

Yup ... still here ... look in Jet Blast.

[MaverickPrime]

I was impressed with the lady Captain in the first episode, thought she was very good at her job and had to be; got the impression that it was basically single pilot IFR. She even had to do the cabin crews job, as they couldn’t handle a sick passenger.

[newt]

Would you like a camera in your face when doing base training or your first line landing? I think not!

[Loose rivets]

I would go back if anything was very serious, but for the most part I'd stay belted to the seat.

The "Let's go gear down" with sound effects for gear going down at 100' just seconds before landing with 3 greens clearly visible was obviously a very badly timed dub.

Yep, this was it. Very odd. Edited time-line? Hope so. But who made the first call?

I liked the lady captain, but then, it's probably just a desire to be mothered.

[Reverserbucket]

The German Training Captain early on in last nights episode seemed a little abrupt with the F/O on his first trip - certainly very different to the one conducting base training and the other one on the first line trip for the same cadet. I didn't see all of the first series but I think this puts Easy in a better light based on the couple of episodes I saw last year.

[racedo]

I was impressed with the lady Captain in the first episode, thought she was very good at her job and had to be; got the impression that it was basically single pilot IFR. She even had to do the cabin crews job, as they couldn’t handle a sick passenger.

Problem with anybody focused on is that for rest of career if involved in anything then it refers back to your previous media exposure.

[carousel]

Can't help but notice that in the various comments and criticism of the program, there are few comments about the young lady's training landings and her first time with pax aboard. Fresh in the memorys of some mayhaps?

[RoyHudd]

Far too touchy-feely, I opine. The smiles and looks of uncertainty on the young FO's faces were not representative of the job, which is by and large a serious one. It's clearly an editing issue, with excerpts carefully chosen and Stephen Fry's jolly voice commentating.

It just doesn't feel real to me. More a puff for easyJet.

[Reverserbucket]

Indeed racedo, as the image below of Veldhuyzen van Zanten published in a KLM advertisement shortly before the Tenerife disaster demonstrates.https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/368x270/klm_magazine_that_contains_captain_jacob_veldhuyzen_van_zant en_40c36a9f15a5275adecc014091a9d1e920ba2496.jpg
Source: Project-Tenerife.com - 27 March 1977 - Collision between KLM and PanAm at Los Rodeos, Tenerife (http://www.project-tenerife.com)

[Dave Gittins]

A lot of it's pretty badly mixed and edited. Just landed at Keflavik or Rome yet there is the old scrap DC-9 on Gatwick's south side just outside the window. Still what can we expect it's entertainment not (as somebody said above) Discovery or National Geographic Channel.

easy to start yelling at the telly after a couple of red wines.

[Teevee]

As SLF interested in aviation I can't help but think some of the comments on here sound like my wife who when watching a film drives me mad with her frequent comments of "it isn't like that in the book!" If this was as detailed as some of you want most casual viewers (which most are!) wouldn't understand it and turn off quickly. The things I take from this are that pilots are human, care about their job and take it very seriously (you'd be surprised how that never occurs to many in the back!) and DO care about delays for which THEY are not responsible! (Again which might come as a shock to a few in the cheap seats. It is more about the people than the job and to be perfectly honest that's how I like it because if I understand the person/people at the sharp end as not so different from me I have much more sympathy with them when thing don't go according to plan. For anything else I watch dedicated cockpit videos.

[racedo]

I thought the female captain handled everything so well, never panicked once and kept all the passengers as happy as she could with the delays and was making jokes as well to lighten the mood in the first episode

She is a Captain, there is no such designation as a female captain.

[Chesty Morgan]

She is a Captain, there is no such designation as a female captain.
There was also a male captain in the programme so which captain would you be refering to by just saying captain? :rolleyes: