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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

They're Tough. They're Pilots.

Hilarious and a keen feel for satire. Assume the x2 sound and picture was intentional.

As much as my cynical mind assures me the "plot" on this TV series is 90% baked (i.e. it's all been staged for the TV show) I find it hard not to watch. "Drama" aside, probably because of the focus on the mechanical aspects of these charismatic aircraft and also factually it is pretty accurate and educational.
 
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Good stuff, MarkH. I detest reality TV, but make an exception for Ice Pilots for obvious reasons. It certainly does follow the formulaic reality TV format - tense music, dramatic voice-overs, and an utterly pointless fake crisis. Then queue up the happy music, lollipops, and rainbows as fake crisis is averted. Yay!
 
Good 'ole Buffalo Joe. That 'reality show' is a masterwork of self promotion, something Joe has always been good at. It helps the he has a bottomless barrel of federal tax money to keep him afloat, Having worked quite a lot with Buffalo on various projects, the truth is somewhat less glamorous. Colorful is a very polite way to describe Joe; I'd use langauge unsutable for mixed polite company, and I would not get on one of his airplanes to escape hungry cannibals. Ahh, TV truth...
 
lazarus said:
Good 'ole Buffalo Joe. That 'reality show' is a masterwork of self promotion, something Joe has always been good at. It helps the he has a bottomless barrel of federal tax money to keep him afloat, Having worked quite a lot with Buffalo on various projects, the truth is somewhat less glamorous. Colorful is a very polite way to describe Joe; I'd use langauge unsutable for mixed polite company, and I would not get on one of his airplanes to escape hungry cannibals. Ahh, TV truth...
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So that's why I have a colorful Sailor language:icon_lol::icon29:
 
This show annoys me these pilots make a complaint about flying in that sort of weather (yet the Russian's fly in that while learning to fly and alll the time .and all the weather they get is that cold and they don't make a tv show about it, but the facts about the c-46 and other planes i find really nice to hear.
 
Yob said:
This show annoys me these pilots make a complaint about flying in that sort of weather (yet the Russian's fly in that while learning to fly and alll the time .and all the weather they get is that cold and they don't make a tv show about it, but the facts about the c-46 and other planes i find really nice to hear.
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Actually most of the pilots young wise come from the Province's of Canada and train down there then come up to my home in Yellowknife and start on the bottom of the latter. You are very correct on the Russian's. I earned my PPL in Yellowknife with of all things a Twin Otter and two years later in Yellowknife my Rotary on the AS365. Anyone seen Bone?? I'm kinda hungry for lite CRJ snack:icon_lol:.
 
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