Alaska Wing Men Videos, (What do you think?)

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First video, Very interesting what do you folks think?

 
It's probably the best place to learn how to fly...EVERYTHING is thrown at you. Mountains, Ice, short runways...etc
 
The narration is a little dramatic but overall it beats the heck out of the scripted reality shows.
 
New season finally? Or just new to YouTube?

My engine does NOT sound like that when it starts. What am I doing wrong? :D
 
First time I've seen it, interesting although maybe a bit somber with the crash victims and all. Kind of odd that everything is in kilometers including aircraft speeds, I've never seen an airplane with a kph meter. It's National Geographic for heaven sakes, not International Geographic. :rolleyes:
 
It makes the numbers bigger. 150 kilometers sounds more impressive than 90 miles.
 
Your cruise speed is faster using the metric system.
 
But it's America, we don't need no steenking metric system
 
Overall positive impression, but...

Guy is going to a dirt strip he's never been to before, extols the virtues of dead reckoning while on top of overcast, has GPS set on satellite view and only showing raw lat/long, and then complains about mistaking another strip for the right one.

[Preface: I know nothing about how medevac flights are done] Wouldn't the kid have been prepped and at the airport already, instead of waiting for the flight nurse to get there and go to the hospital to prep him? And why wouldn't the kid have been on oxygen during the flight? Does 2k of cruising altitude change make that much difference in cabin pressure?

Easy to nit-pick, but overall pretty good. Up there with Flying Wild Alaska and Most Dangerous Places to Fly.
 
Umm those videos are at least a year old. NOT a new season.


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Sierra Victor said:
Umm those videos are at least a year old. NOT a new season.


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Not for me

Lots to nitpick though like when Don goes to see if there are any usable parts on the wreck they dramatically state he must now land on the same dangerous strip - yea, the one that's been in constant use for the past 50 years and has only ONE wrecked airplane at it :rolleyes:
 
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Silvaire said:
Not for me

Lots to nitpick though like when Don goes to see if there are any usable parts on the wreck they dramatically state he must now land on the same dangerous strip - yea, the one that's been in constant use for the past 50 years and has only ONE wrecked airplane at it :rolleyes:
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Yes this is TV. It's what they do on all these semi-scripted 'reality' shows. They add too much drama. Flying around Alaska is interesting and dramatic enough without the need to overhype it.

I watched all the episodes of this series because I like seeing some of the things they do with small planes in the AK.
 
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petrolero said:
Yes this is TV. It's what they do on all these semi-scripted 'reality' shows. They add too much drama. Flying around Alaska is interesting and dramatic enough without the need to overhype it.

I watched all the episodes of this series because I like seeing some of the things they do with small planes in the AK.
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That is exactly what I watch it for. We know it's too much Drama because we know about airplanes but I think the show targets the uninformed public.


Drama....sells!
 
Van Johnston said:
Overall positive impression, but...

Guy is going to a dirt strip he's never been to before, extols the virtues of dead reckoning while on top of overcast, has GPS set on satellite view and only showing raw lat/long, and then complains about mistaking another strip for the right one.
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My guess on most of these would be editing, editing, editing. All the video/audio is hacked up and put back together to try and tell a dramatic story. The end result makes for good TV, but is generally pretty lacking for someone who knows what's actually going on.

Disclaimer: I didn't watch it.
 
OK, I constantly have this huge question in my head watching these shows.
I know it's completely 'nun-my', but I cannot figure out the economics of what I am seeing.
How on earth can these folks afford to fly everywhere?
I am seeing towns of a few hundred people calling planes in for just about anything. A Beech 1900 I think that one was, to move a few boxes of ammo, not to wealthy game hunters but to a subsistence walrus hunting community (seems like someone forgot to stock up, not like it was an emergency), a birthday cake, a prom, teens to a sports event.
Looking at the towns' infrastructure and general home values, and having a rough idea of what these flights cost - my mind's balance sheet did not even come close when thinking about how these groups can afford so much flying.
The vacationers, rockstar skateboarders, the mountain climbers, the big game hunters, I understand. And I am not talking about the finances of EraAlaska.

Whups, this is about Flying Wild Alaska. Oh well, I'll leave it here.
 
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Thanks for the heads up OP gonna check it out
 
I liked it. It's a little dramatic but that keeps it interesting for some folks. I agree with some of the commenters who question how things work in the real world. I plan to check out additional episodes. Thanks!!
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
OK, I constantly have this huge question in my head watching these shows.
I know it's completely 'nun-my', but I cannot figure out the economics of what I am seeing.
How on earth can these folks afford to fly everywhere?
I am seeing towns of a few hundred people calling planes in for just about anything. A Beech 1900 I think that one was, to move a few boxes of ammo, not to wealthy game hunters but to a subsistence walrus hunting community (seems like someone forgot to stock up, not like it was an emergency), a birthday cake, a prom, teens to a sports event.
Looking at the towns' infrastructure and general home values, and having a rough idea of what these flights cost - my mind's balance sheet did not even come close when thinking about how these groups can afford so much flying.
The vacationers, rockstar skateboarders, the mountain climbers, the big game hunters, I understand. And I am not talking about the finances of EraAlaska.

Whups, this is about Flying Wild Alaska. Oh well, I'll leave it here.
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If you're talking about native communities the government pays for everything. If you want to find a huge waste of $$$ look no further.
 
FloridaPilot said:
That is exactly what I watch it for. We know it's too much Drama because we know about airplanes but I think the show targets the uninformed public.


Drama....sells!
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Me too. We know better than to believe it all, though. Maybe the viewing public in general has, by now, learned to take the drama with a dram of avgas. :dunno:
 
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