Aviation movie foul ups and tech errors.....

MikeD said:
It's called "Interceptor" from 1992. We had to watch it in F-117 training because it had that as the cargo.

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So is it just sort of a requirement to watch a movie if it has your aircraft in it? I flew with a captain a while ago who was a retired B-52 pilot. Thinking I was being somewhat cheeky I asked him if he had ever seen Dr Strangelove. He just sort of rolled his eyes and nodded a little.

He then went on to tell me when they were on the "ready alert whatever status to launch in a hurry in case Russia started a nuclear WW 3" that movie was pretty much always playing in the common area.
 
MikeD said (in re: Interceptor):
...The best part was the bad guys crawling down the boom of the KC-10 and into the C-5 through the air refueling door.
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I guess the actors needed to get to an audition. Or take a meeting with their agent.
 
In my airport ops days, during the filming of She's Out of My League I was tasked with escorting the director and head of cinematography to scout a shot of a departure. We pulled up just outside the RSA of 10R IMS right as a PANG KC-135 was lining up to depart. Cinematographer says something along the lines of "That's the plane and shot I want". I made mention that they may want to shop out the V looking thingy in the tail. Pretty sure he didn't hear me with half deafened ears post takeoff, because when he went jogging up to the numbers to see the vantage point he didn't hear me yell for him to stop.

I've only seen about 15 minutes of the movie. Yup, those are the old commuter E gates.
 
MikeD said:
Supposedly, and I don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard that military uniforms in movies are required to have something "incorrect" on them so they're not something like false wear of uniform. Might be an urban legend.
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Is this like the 'Oriental' carpet with an intentionally-wrong stitch 'cause only Allah can make a 'perfect' work and the carpet dude sure isn't a God? The ones in my house sure weren't!

I'd bet on urban legend on this one.
 
None of y'all mentioned this one:
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deadstick said:
Firebirds....that whole thing was just wrong.
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Are you crazy? Lets take roll here. Nik Cage, check. SeanYoung, check. Edge of the seat air to air helicopter action between the mighty Apache figter copter and the venerable Scorpion!

So maybe they got one or two things wrong...the rest of the film is AAA
 
Since I'm currently re-binge'ing it, West Wing has a few. In "Angel Maintenance" they say that due to winds they have to change to Runway 37.
In "25" they reference emergency transponder codes, they get 7500 correct for hijacking, but say 7700 is used when a radio is lost. No mention is made of 7600.

I've found it's easier to keep my blood pressure down by not watching aviation references...
 
ozziecat35 said:
Since I'm currently re-binge'ing it, West Wing has a few. In "Angel Maintenance" they say that due to winds they have to change to Runway 37.
In "25" they reference emergency transponder codes, they get 7500 correct for hijacking, but say 7700 is used when a radio is lost. No mention is made of 7600.

I've found it's easier to keep my blood pressure down by not watching aviation references...
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I don't understand why people get bothered by this so much for some reason. Typically when i watch a movie I am so far disconnected from reality I don't even put these things together. If the TV show or movie said 7700 is squaked for lost coms I would probably just nod my head and agree staying totally into the plot.

I guess maybe I just have a pretty professional level of not giving a crap.
 
I'm the opposite. For some reason, I need a certain level of accuracy. If I can't have that, it needs to be so far fetched, that it doesn't even matter.

Has anyone mentioned "Firefox" (Clint Eastwood). When I was a kid, I tried for months to rent that movie from the video store, but someone always had it! My grandma got all excited, thinking that I liked the 1955 rendition of "Foxfire", which is NOT an airplane movie!
 
oh firefox. I remember that movie looking far cooler than it was. Maybe it was my age, but I found it completely boring.
 
I loved that movie......still do. That is an example of something so far fetched it doesn't even matter.
 
ozziecat35 said:
In "25" they reference emergency transponder codes, they get 7500 correct for hijacking, but say 7700 is used when a radio is lost. No mention is made of 7600.

I've found it's easier to keep my blood pressure down by not watching aviation references...
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poser765 said:
If the TV show or movie said 7700 is squaked for lost coms I would probably just nod my head and agree staying totally into the plot.

I guess maybe I just have a pretty professional level of not giving a crap.
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Maybe they were old school. Back in the day when the procedure for lost comms was 7700 for 1 minute, then 7600 for 15 minutes, then repeat.

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poser765 said:
Are you crazy? Lets take roll here. Nik Cage, check. SeanYoung, check. Edge of the seat air to air helicopter action between the mighty Apache figter copter and the venerable Scorpion!

So maybe they got one or two things wrong...the rest of the film is AAA
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The only realistic thing was an Apache pilot's ego. :cool:

Let's see...what wasn't...
a CW2 owning that car unless he was independently wealthy.
the briefing room.
firing 38 Hydra rockets for an air-to-air kill.

It's been a decade or so since I've seen it, but this what pops to mind at 0630. Seriously, it was as bad as -- maybe worse than -- Cage's Southern accent in Con Air (surprised nobody's mentioned that one yet).

Finally, I had a buddy go through the (real) Apache course in the late 90's. His IP is in the credits as one of the Army pilots. During debriefing one day, he asked his IP about that. The response was something like "You mention that movie one more time, and you will not pass this course." That was the end of that discussion.
 
deadstick said:
The only realistic thing was an Apache pilot's ego. :cool:

Let's see...what wasn't...
a CW2 owning that car unless he was independently wealthy.
the briefing room.
firing 38 Hydra rockets for an air-to-air kill.

It's been a decade or so since I've seen it, but this what pops to mind at 0630. Seriously, it was as bad as -- maybe worse than -- Cage's Southern accent in Con Air (surprised nobody's mentioned that one yet).

Finally, I had a buddy go through the (real) Apache course in the late 90's. His IP is in the credits as one of the Army pilots. During debriefing one day, he asked his IP about that. The response was something like "You mention that movie one more time, and you will not pass this course." That was the end of that discussion.
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lol, poor guy. For some reason that reminds me of the kid who played young Anikin Skywalker in EP1. Poor kid just lost it because of all the crap he got.

No I get it...really. It's was a stupid premise of a movie...but damn it was still cool. I mean come on...Nic Cage in a helicopter!
 
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