Alaska's toughest pilots....

Oscar Bravo

New series on National Geo now.(Sky 526).Fairly good G.A flying in it!!

Ilyushin76

Flying Wild Alaska is another very good show as-well,season 1 just finished.

!MAVERICK!

Now they are what you call 'Real' pilots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaqhTn7xB8E&feature=related

Dont have National Geo though dam!

David086

Now this is total badass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEN_mwn_NaM

xflyer

Pah! I've taken off on narrower than that:p. Not on a road though I was fascinated to find out that routinely landing on road is quite legal in Alaska. That's a flying lesson I never thought I'd see, being taught to fit in with the flow of traffic. It would never work in Ireland though, too many utility poles.

I'm afraid I didn't really buy into the concluding scene where the Instructor confidently suggested that his nineteen year old student was ready to be a bush pilot. Very much a TV moment that.

InTheTrees

I love the big balloon "Tundra" tires that the bush planes use for off airport landings.

!MAVERICK!

InTheTrees wrote: »

I love the big balloon "Tundra" tires that the bush planes use for off airport landings.

Me too Im considering putting them on my cub.

AirlineMan

Ice pilots nwt is another great programme, seen the first two eps of season two and all of season one.. its a bit tv-ish, but to see the DC-3's and DC-4's still flying is amazing.. gotta love WWII piston pounders..

Oscar Bravo

Not really related to the topic but two other good programmes that use to be on were Flight Deck where a camera crew would sit in on a particular flight with a certain series of aircraft.They did the MD-80,737-400,747-400 etc etc.And Flight Line hosted by Brendan O Brien(covered alot of G.A stuff).

A320

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Not really related to the topic but two other good programmes that use to be on were Flight Deck where a camera crew would sit in on a particular flight with a certain series of aircraft.They did the MD-80,737-400,747-400 etc etc.And Flight Line hosted by Brendan O Brien(covered alot of G.A stuff).

I remember this,The 737 one had a pilot who later appeared in one of the ITVV videos,i also remember a programme on the DC8 cargo aircraft,they were even interviewing the pilots in the hotel over a lash of pints and one clip showed the lads coming in to land with the pilot smoking away!!!!

!MAVERICK!

AirlineMan wrote: »

Ice pilots nwt is another great programme, seen the first two eps of season two and all of season one.. its a bit tv-ish, but to see the DC-3's and DC-4's still flying is amazing.. gotta love WWII piston pounders..

Thats a great programme, I have the first season on my PS3 they also bought an elektra for heavy cargo transport.

joegriffinjnr

Anyone remember skytruckers??

xflyer

Second episode was good but quite honestly didn't anyone at the edit stage notice the difference between a DHC Otter with a turbine conversion and a Beaver with a big radial engine. It was bloody obvious. You really didn't have to be an autistic spotter to notice that.