airplane repo is faker than I thought

Never understood the draw of prof. wrestling.
The people going don't think it is real do they?
 
If entertainment had to be real in order for people to go to it, nobody would go to the movies or plays.
 
Palmpilot said:
If entertainment had to be real in order for people to go to it, nobody would go to the movies or plays.
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Yeah, but we all know those are put on. Wrestling is trying real hard to be a real sport (or something)

The fans treat it like a sport. not like a movie.
 
Operation Repo filmed a show at Camarillo Airport one time. They used a company called Twin Air as the helicopter (R-22) to fly around the jet as they were getting ready to repo it. The jet was rented for a hour in the Tarmac, two students at Twin Air were the Pilots of the jet as Lou was redoing the plane. The funny thing was a few weeks later the bank called us and asked us to hold on the the R-22 that we had in the shop for a 100 hour. I guess they forgot to make a few payments.
 
The networks make these shows because people watch them and see the advertising that make the networks money. People also buy the National Enquirer at the supermarket checkout, too. They believe that stuff.

Dan
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Yeah, but we all know those are put on. Wrestling is trying real hard to be a real sport (or something)

The fans treat it like a sport. not like a movie.
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Chet Coppock, a local blowhard sports reporter who would MC wrestling matches said, "You look at the ticket. It says Wrestling Exhibition. That's what it is."
 
First, you ignorant yankees need to learn to spell! IT'S "RASSLIN" and it's real!! :D anyone that says otherwise is a communist!!:rofl::rofl::rofl:
I went to a golf tournament about 3 years ago when Wrestlemania was in Atlanta, just about all the guys were there, yucking it up together. I got to play with two young ladies, the Bella Twins. They couldn't play golf, but man, they sure were pretty! :D

 
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I heard a podcast interview with Mikey McBryan from Ice Pilots NWT. He said that under Canadian rules, you cannot create a scenario or situation, film it and claim that is "reality". However, there is no restriction about breathlessly reporting an engine out as life threatening.

I also had a friend, (now deceased) who had hired Buffalo a number of times for mining ops in Northern Canada..he said that what you saw on TV was pretty much what he had seen first hand, the place was full of "characters".

Also, when my Dad was young, he used to wrestle at the local hockey arena before the professional touring "talent" would come on. He loved to tell the story about how he would be in the change room scripting his fight with his opponent, and he would overheard the "pros" doing the same thing at the other end of the room.
 
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Henning said:
Most are quite cooperative, some back country fields where you're repoing the manager's cousin's plane, (every plane on the field belongs to a cousin) then not to much so. What's more entertaining is when you're showing up with the Marshal sand maybe some other feds for a seizure.
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I've yet to do a plane, but have done houses and boats. Even with the family sitting on the drive way while the movers take their belongings out of the house it its really boring.
 
N747JB said:
First, you ignorant yankees need to learn to spell! IT'S "RASSLIN" and it's real!! :D anyone that says otherwise is a communist!!:rofl::rofl::rofl:
I went to a golf tournament about 3 years ago when Wrestlemania was in Atlanta, just about all the guys were there, yucking it up together. I got to play with two young ladies, the Bella Twins. They couldn't play golf, but man, they sure were pretty! :D

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I had to go to a WWE event for professional reasons, and while eating my dinner back stage in their food service area, I noticed that a lot of their female wrestlers are pretty darned attractive.
 
For real wrestling, I love the REAL WWF:

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SixPapaCharlie said:
Yeah, but we all know those are put on. Wrestling is trying real hard to be a real sport (or something)

The fans treat it like a sport. not like a movie.
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There is certainly a display of athleticism, but I doubt that there is a high percentage of fans who don't know that they are only pretending to hurt each other. However, the only way to find out would be to do an exit poll after an event.

I would imagine that it takes some training to be able to make it look like they are hurting each other without really hurting each other.
 
Confession: When I was a teenager, I wondered if the movies that played on Showtime after 1am on Fri/Sat nights was real....I kept watching to try to find out. I had to make sure to catch it next week in the hopes they would finally let me know.

I guess I'm a dunce.:idea:
 
JimNtexas said:
Instead you need to lurk around the fence at midnight, and then cut your way in and snake crawl across the infield to the hanger, where your biker assistant smashes the lock while you steal a tug to pull the airplane out of the hanger.
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Try that around here, and YOU will have to be reposessed. If you're lucky, it will be from the Sheriff's Office in the morning. A little less lucky, and it will be from the Coroner's Office in a couple of days.
 
Look at the "cops" they use in the filming. No identifying badges or name tags, cops cars say "police" on the side. That means they are fake cops.

The whole thing has been made up and I could tell it in the first 5 mins watching it. :dunno:
 
Uhhuh suuure it's fake. I mean what CFI can afford a stearman? :p
 
JB1842 said:
I've yet to do a plane, but have done houses and boats. Even with the family sitting on the drive way while the movers take their belongings out of the house it its really boring.
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Court ordered stuff is boring, when it's a drug seizure of the house and boat it occasionally gets interesting, I've seen a few people face planted. Planes weren't real routine, but they weren't particularly uncommon around here.
 
Derek Zeanah said:
Yup. I'd think if the bank owned the plane you'd go to the terminal, explain the situation, show them the paperwork, and ask which hangar you need to go to. Hell, I'd think the FBO would open it for you.
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Heck, the FBO probably has the locks changed by then for non payment of hanger rent and fuel bills. That's what we did back in my day.
 
I found the show mildly amusing, but could not tolerate the barrage of commercials! They must have run 13 minutes of ads for each 1/2 hour episode.
 
I knew a guy who had his plane repossessed. (It was a business asset). He owed the FBO money for fuel, etc and he suggested they put a lean on the plane to ensure they got paid.
 
Luigi said:
I found the show mildly amusing, but could not tolerate the barrage of commercials! They must have run 13 minutes of ads for each 1/2 hour episode.
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TIVO is your friend! :D:D We just got a DVR with Direct TV, and I love it!! :yes: I can watch 1 hour of "Wicked Tuna" in 35 minutes!:D It's a fake as any other reality show, but I like fishing and dream of catching a 500 lb tuna, so it's fun. Besides the one captain reminds me of a mate we used to have on our boat, crazy and annoying!:no:
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
strangely, I still see the plane in his hangar. He must have paid the bills and got it back
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No it just hasn't happened yet. You said it's the episode this Friday, right? I guarantee if you check on Saturday that plane will be gone!
 
Maybe the light just wasn't right, or the composition was wrong, or the repo guy couldn't find his motivation.
 
I a sucker for anything with airplanes, so I tried to watch last week's session premier.

What little intelligence I have was so insulted I lasted about five minutes before I deleted it off my dvr forever.
 
I just watch it and shake my head.

My wife thinks they really are going through all that ****....

So yes, there are people out there who don't give a second thought to what they see on TV as being 'real.' They just assume it is since it's on TV. I have to explain every ****ed up thing they get wrong to her. She doesn't know a pitot from a prick. Well, maybe she knows that one, but she's dumb when it comes to TV.
 
I caught the last 5 minutes of the season opener, set my DVR to record the series. I sat through maybe 15 minutes of the first show, it used to be so bad I watched to see what happens next, this was so bad I just deleted the series!!:eek: Guy walking along the ramp at an airshow, sees the airport manager walking towards him and mumbles something to the effect, "she could have me locked up" :dunno: For what?? A bad haircut?? :nono:
It's just too bad for me to watch!! And I'll watch some crap if it's got airplanes!:D

JimNtexas said:
I a sucker for anything with airplanes, so I tried to watch last week's session premier.

What little intelligence I have was so insulted I lasted about five minutes before I deleted it off my dvr forever.
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All these shows have crew on the ground filming them arrive and depart which means they are shooting these TO / landings multiple times.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
This Friday at 9 on airplane repo, my friends stearman (picture a few posts above)
is going to be really repossessed for real by a real repo crew on a real TV show for real not fake at all
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Is this Brandon? I'm gonna be seeing him tomorrow... Might ask about this event.
 
Yeah, I shamefully have it set to record the series on the DVR, and even trying to watch it just for the plane porn is hard because it's so...bad.

The first season with Popovich was believable, and I liked it. But I guess it was too realistic (aka too boring) for "reality" TV, so now they have to dramatize everything.

I almost turned it off when the guy was shutting off the lights in the hangar with the Learjet, while his buddy was outside making car alarms go off. I mean really...who could think this crap is real?
 
I wish I would have taped a repo how they really work 99% of the time: Meet the owner at the hangar/ramp (most are on the ramp because they can't afford any of their bills), they hand me the keys and a folder of logs. We shake hands, I preflight thoroughly and head to wherever the custodian keeps the planes. Ooooo, so dramatic. :rofl: Then there are the out of annual ones, you can catch a shot of a Fax machine spitting out a Special Flight Permit and an A&P signing it off, pretend it's a warrant for the plane's arrest. :rofl:
 
I watch it for the planes. Besides, real or fake, there are not many general aviation planes shown on television. The mini bios of the planes they repossess are kinda cool.
 
KeithASanford said:
I watch it for the planes. Besides, real or fake, there are not many general aviation planes shown on television. The mini bios of the planes they repossess are kinda cool.
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:yes:

There is an aviation show on youtube. I have not watched it, so know nothing of it, only that it is out there.

Tony
 
AggieMike88 said:
Is this Brandon? I'm gonna be seeing him tomorrow... Might ask about this event.
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It is but don't ask.
He will refuse to talk about it until after it airs.
He had to sign about 30 pages of documents discussing what happens if he discusses the episode prior to it showing.

Seems that is the one thing they are very serious about.
All I know came from a Facebook post that he was forced to remove.

Ask him on Saturday.
 
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