Dangerous Flights TV Show

BenZwebner said:
They actually have a shot of a plane buzzing a waterfall in south america! Can you imagine being the owner of that plane and then seeing that the pilot was doing that kind of crap with your six figure aircraft?
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The shot at the Kaieteur falls was made with an aircraft of a local company, foreign reg aircrafts, unless they are part of a missionary group or hired for survey flights are not allowed to buzz around the interior of the Guianas or to land at any of the airstrips in the interior.
 
av8or91 said:
So is flying for an airline and also doing ferry flights on the side Ok? I was always under the impression it was not.
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******** does not hire, farm out or contract our ferry flights to Career Airline Pilots, Flight Instructors that are time builders, or pilots that want to be a weekend ferry pilot. Our pilots are Career Ferry Pilots and Aircraft Ferrying is the only thing they do all year long.
 
BenZwebner said:
"Dont worry, we will edit the drama in."
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In all the ferrying I've done, I've had very little drama in the airplane itself. A few mechanical issues. One mayday (By the way, if you're keeping a list of things NOT to do in life... never call a mayday in South America. You'll much rather crash and burn than deal with the soup sandwich that your gonna have to eat if you land and survive).
The drama is not in the flying, it's with all the BS one has to deal with on the ground. Crazy, corrupt customs officials trying to impound your aircraft, 'cause baby needs a new 'Benz. That sort of thing. They flying is the restful part. At least in my experience.
If one tried to actually do the kind of nonsense seen on TV, you'd end up with a prison drama, not an aviation show.
 
Crop Duster said:
If one tried to actually do the kind of nonsense seen on TV, you'd end up with a prison drama, not an aviation show.
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In one of my freight jobs we'd go down to Meheeco every once in a while. Pretty much cured me of the Romance of The Third World the first time I had to fish a couple hondos out of the "emergency cash box" for an unhappy Commandante and his AR-toting underlings. I did get a receipt, though, God bless them!

Returned a few years later as El Capitan on the Bitchjet. Amazing what carrying someone with Local Bigshot status can do! The Commandante pretty much sheparded us to the hotel, after he'd glanced in to the first 3 feet of the cabin and told the customs lady that "no inspection was necessary". Money always talks, but it freaking SHOUTS down there. And you'd have thought I was Mick Jaeger at the hotel. I think I was like 33, looked like I was about 25 (acne and all), and that just about turned the corner for me...maybe Mexico isn't so bad... ;)
 
This was my inspiration for being a missionary pilot...
 
av8or91 said:
So is flying for an airline and also doing ferry flights on the side Ok? I was always under the impression it was not.
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It's not. Any commercial flying (121, instructing, repo, banner tow etc) is counted against your 8/30/100/100 limits. Some places allow pilots to do it but only after ensuring that they won't go over the limits.
 
In the show they mention Randy Mcgehee is an airline pilot. Wonder if he used to be an airline pilot or still is but he makes references to working hard for 3 weeks and has not had a break in one of the episodes.
 
av8or91 said:
In the show they mention Randy Mcgehee is an airline pilot. Wonder if he used to be an airline pilot or still is but he makes references to working hard for 3 weeks and has not had a break in one of the episodes.
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I`m sure that on some specific AC types they need pilots that do something else in their life, I have seen some airline pilots doing ferry flights of rare AC types just because they had the experience on type. Met an Air Pacific Capt that ferried a Trislander from Greece to the South Pacific, there weren't just enough pilots around with the experience on that airplane I guess.

Some of the ferry pilots I would meet ferrying airplanes from the US to Australia had also other jobs, most were crop dusters , contract pilots, test pilots,...
 
BobDDuck said:
It's not. Any commercial flying (121, instructing, repo, banner tow etc) is counted against your 8/30/100/100 limits. Some places allow pilots to do it but only after ensuring that they won't go over the limits.
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Do a quick search for ferry pilots on barnstormers and you'll find 6 dozen people with "airline privileges". Funny thing is they use their name and phone number. At least when I jumpseated using the privileges for such things was a big no no.
 
z987k said:
Do a quick search for ferry pilots on barnstormers and you'll find 6 dozen people with "airline privileges". Funny thing is they use their name and phone number. At least when I jumpseated using the privileges for such things was a big no no.
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Maybe they just have many airline pilot friends that give them Buddy Passes? At least this is what some of my ferry pilots do...

But honestly it makes totally sense that an airline would not allow you to ferry on the side, I`m not even allowed to flight instruct.
 
'Reality' Television had better have quotes around that word. No script, but a pretty good outline (they don't like to waste shooting time & tape). Constant, constant re-use of the same shot in little re-cap reminders every 2-3 minutes (see above about wasting) and over-sensationalizing about crashes, sharks, whatever. Inserting drama - absolutely. The cable networks who refined these bastard programs don't pay anywhere near the screen-minute rates of genuine documentaries, which also operate under various strictures that insure values like accuracy, factual correctness and fairness.

If you can see the many distortions and fabrications in a 'reality' show in your field, think about what is happening on every other one.

Reality Television is to Real Television as Fox News is to News, or Jello is to nutrition.
 
Hahaha come to find out I auditioned for this show!!!
About 2.5 years ago I was ferrying 210s for this one company, and a producer and a casting director contacted all of us because they thought that we did dangerous long distance ferry flights like on this show. We did Skype interviews with the casting director and everything, but they determined that our flying was too boring.
Never did hear what came of it, then I saw this show.
 
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