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Anyone else finding this as compulsive as I do? Their stock-in-trade skills are pretty awesome to me. The editing obviously combines out-of-sequence shots which make pretty dodgy continuity to trained eyes but I think you get a sense of their passion and ethos. Great stuff! 
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I've noticed things like throttle closed on takeoff haha, must have just used any old shot where the pilot was madly shaking the stick. Much of the show feels ever dramatized but it's a pretty good show
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Yes I like it too, there was a sequence where some climbers/hunters were being "rescued" from a glacier. I note that they took off in a standard piston Beaver but landed in a Turbo!
The other series running concurrently "Alaska's Toughest Pilots" contains similar idiosyncracies. I have noticed the occasional use of the "bleep" something that will no doubt get further use in the forthcoming "Ice Pilots" second series.
The other series running concurrently "Alaska's Toughest Pilots" contains similar idiosyncracies. I have noticed the occasional use of the "bleep" something that will no doubt get further use in the forthcoming "Ice Pilots" second series.
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It's very compulsive viewing, catching both Flying Wild Alaska and Alaska's Toughest Pilots. Not usually one who watches a lot of TV, but can't miss these.
Can't wait for series 2 of Ice Pilots, series 1 was great too.
I think they have to dramatise everything for TV these days, but for sure some of the flying is pretty dramatic in any case.
Can't wait for series 2 of Ice Pilots, series 1 was great too.
I think they have to dramatise everything for TV these days, but for sure some of the flying is pretty dramatic in any case.
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Something that gets my goat with these new docusoaps (not just the two under discussion here) is the constant repetition, viz, "earlier", "meanwhile" and "coming up". With the ad breaks and all these repeated bits, I guess that an hour long show has less than thirty minutes of new material.
The producers should take a lesson or two from Attenborough! Now THAT is quality broadcasting.
The producers should take a lesson or two from Attenborough! Now THAT is quality broadcasting.
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Dawdler, "I have noticed the occasional use of the "bleep" something that will no doubt get further use in the forthcoming "Ice Pilots" second series."
Would that be the stall warning?
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Would that be the stall warning?
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No doubt about it, these programmes are compulsive viewing with people flying in extreme conditions However the morons who produce these series seem to think that the viewers have the attention span of a monkey. They believe that they have to distract the audience with "human story items." Last night they featured skate boarding pilots and base staff doing wheelies on a motor bike. It is not needed. These people have a real story to tell about their work and lives.
Dawdler, it was a Turbo Otter,and Piston Beaver..
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IIRC ice pilots new series starts this coming monday on Quest.
Sycamore: Sorry about my mis-identification, I think I might have attributed to the wrong programme too, but Hey!
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Flying Wild Alaska S01E08 Bush Brawl
In this episode Jim Ponts and his girlfriend are coming in to land at Unalakleet with a snow storm at their tails. Then they show both the aircraft landing very close to each other, one behind the other. Without the first aircraft vacating the runway, the other lands behind.
Is that legal? What regulations cover this in Alaska?
Is that legal? What regulations cover this in Alaska?
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At an uncontrolled airport, like this most likely was, you're responsible for your own separation. If you feel that you can safely land on a runway where another aircraft is operating, you're free to do so. There is no FAR/AIM rule that prohibits this that I know of, except the all-catching "irresponsible and reckless" which the FAA will throw at you if anything would happen.
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