Arctic Air -CBC really tells it like it is!
 

Another CBC piece of c**p:

Ask a doctor, lawyer or detective if the stuff shown on TV is anywhere close to what their job is actually like. In the vast majority of cases, the answer is, "No, it's nothing like that".

It's entertainment, not a documentary. :hmm:

Anyone know where I can bump into Candy?

lmfao.

They can make it interesting and entertaining without taking it over the top. Why not get some advisers in?

That might make it too close to reality.:eek:

They are sure using more than their fair share of "Artistic License" on this program.

Jinglie'd

Yeh, the pilots are clean shaven, well groomed, neatly dressed. In reality just the opposite most of the time.

5 minutes in and I already hate it... thought I was watching a re-run of Ice Pilots NWT.

:confused:

Years ago the CBC produced a series called Cannonball. It was about 2 truckers driving in Canada and the US. They never seemed in much of a hurry, were happy and cheerful, and always had some sort of little adventure en route - typical CBC reality. The only thing missing was a Candy - too bad.

rotornut;

Good one! You are abviously no spring chicken if you remember that series. On the farm at that time, we only got one channel, CBC and Cannonball was a time when even the chores had to wait.

Gerry

Yes, it sure dates me. Those guys always seemed so happy! Hardly the reality of trucking these days.
I also remember RCMP - another CBC production.

Oh Candy :O

Yeh, forget the planes just show more of Candy.;)

Yeah, I watched a bit, and saw a bit of flying, kind of... I got a headache though, from the camera work. It was filmed in squirrel vison - CBC needs a stabilized camera for the earth based scenes.

If you want to restore your faith in Canadian TV production, look out for a series called "Defying Gravity", it is excellent!

Nope...bad bad bad...gotta go all the way back to The Beachcombers to see good CBC stuff...:}

737-600
 

So the shows' a bit hokey, it's meant to entertain the unwashed masses after all.
The highlight of the show was the excellent landing and taxi-in of the Westjet 737-600.
That handsome, confident, well dressed,and may I say humble, Captain, sure knows what he's doing!

So McDoo, how much did you get paid to be on the show? ;)

Yes..They certainly do need advisors! Ive only watched one episode and could barely watch it to the end. It makes Ice Pilot's look real good !!! When I saw the cute DC-3 Captain flying along with one Eng. shut down and the other barely running and she's just smiling as if nothing's wrong with 20 miles left to the airport. Sorry but, I'll stick to watching Family Guy or South Park. Much more realistic !! lol
.:rolleyes:

I'm afraid they're all quite unrealistic - the writers and producers don't seem to have a clue.
Remember Street Legal a few years ago? If they knew what really went on in the criminal justice system they could have had a great show instead of the boring "truth and justice" junk.

Hey McDoo long time no hear. How ya doin?

Re the Beachcombers. Here's a bit of info on Robert Clothier, the guy who played Relic.

OMG, bad, just really bad. Pleased I'm rotary, note to CBC, rotary wing...out of bounds please......:ugh:

Relic, a bomber pilot? - I never would have guessed!

As for rotary, couldn't agree more. CBC would undoubtedly use a Bell 47 soundtrack in every helicopter scene.

Somehow I'm sure old Relic would find it all slightly funny...no real acting (or real flying) though...I spent some nice days chatting with Mr Clothier over the fence at my parents summer place near Gibsons during the Beachcomber years...he never mentioned his bomber days...a very nice man he was, and apparently had some talent! :p

I know a couple of WWII ex-bomber guys. It was a tough job and they don't really say too much about it. Not much fun watching those little puffs of smoke around your plane and being front and centre in a cone of searchlights.

In keeping with CBC's "politically-correct" agenda (where anything even remotely entertaining doesn't make the cut) I knew the WASP male head honcho wouldn't last long. Sure enough, he keels over within 15 minutes of the pilot episode.

So, what minority will take command now: the white-collar Eskimo, the cute woman captain, the co-pilot from India, or Nanook, the Siberian Husky?

Frozen minds want to know.

Well Arctic Air dose not do much for me, but that link to Robert Clothier certainly did! Thanks Pigboat!

I second Pilot DAR's comment. Thanks, pigboat

Relic the bomber pilot! Who would have thought it?

Amazing! I did not know that of Mr. Clothier. It seems he was a very accomplished man.

You're welcome fellas. I didn't know about Clothier myself until a few years ago. There was an article in a CAHS Journal, I think it was, about the man. He deserved his awards. Davaar and I toured the Aviation Museum in Ottawa one afternoon some years ago. Of particular interest was the Lanc front section, where you can look down into the cockpit from the catwalk. It was pretty damn sobering to think that in many cases the guy in that single seat was barely out of his teens. This was not long after the CBC had aired the McKenna hatchet job on Bomber Command, implying that that young man was a war criminal. Disgusting.

V2 my money's on Nanook. :p

Well in the old days we had the movie "airplane" 1980..........some pilots were offended......give me a break........just want to make it like christmas and eat more "candy" :ok:

I would write in to the show with some of my northern experiences. Unfortunately most of the good stories either involve alcohol, strippers, drunk passengers, pilots crapping in puke bags or passengers crapping on the floor of the airplanes while aiming at puke bags. Sometimes, combinations of two or three of previous experiences.

Somehow, I don’t think they would put any of that stuff on the show.



oops..edited to add the p.....lots of stories have p in them too!

I totally agree...especially about the "stripers"...sounds kinda fishy to me...:D

...And the reality TV generation strikes again: OMG, it's not real! WTF?
:rolleyes:


Newsflash, boys and girls - it's ENTERTAINMENT

pigboat, yeah, even money on that one.

Let's get back to something that really means a damn (or dam as in the Dam Busters) - those Lanc pilots like Clothier who were mere kids - most of them plucked right off the wheatfields.

The inside of a Lanc is not that big; you have to almost be a contortionist to go from the tail turret to flight deck. I once saw an ex RCAF (in his eighties) scoot from front to back in a matter of seconds. After all these years, he knew exactly where to duck, squeeze, and contort.

He was one of the lucky ones. Half of those in the Bomber Command never saw their 22nd birthday, never mind their 80th.