Hollywood does bush pilot survival tale... full movie, for free. Kinda fun, with some good flying footage.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/71314/the-snow-walker

I couldn't finish it, what a stinker. The flying scenes were pretty good I guess, but the crash was all Hollywood.

Zane,

I fast forwarded to the crash..Nice model work....all Hollywood.....shut it off.

I sure wish that they would do a "real scenario" crash in aviation movies.....these "o my, my engine quit and now I can't control the airplane" stuff is what gets the general population that knows nothing about small airplanes scared of them.

Brian

Brian - Steve's Aircraft wrote:.these "o my, my engine quit and now I can't control the airplane" stuff is what gets the general population that knows nothing about small airplanes scared of them.

Right...like "I blew a jug and it took my pitch control with it!"

Classic lines:

"Pull up! Pull up! You bitch!" (from pilot directed at the plane..hahahaha.)

"Is this a Cessna?"
"No, it's a Norseman"
"Wow, you have the pontoons"
"Floats"

I watched it at the fire station. Would have turned it off at home. Need a good sex scene. The girl should have lived and a bear should have eaten the guy. I love getting paid to be a movie critic.

RB

Watched it last night. Mildly entertained with the planes. I don't have my seaplane rating yet, but I'm pretty sure that a blown engine in flight doesn't cause a loss of directional control and the plane to hit the water and hop over rolling tundra hills...3 times?

This is for you idiots making movies these days. Know your audience. If you're going to make a movie featuring a Norseman on floats then have a lot of beer, dumbass pilots doing dumbass things (search this forum for a lot of good ideas), and the occasional naked woman. Hybrid is BS when it comes to cars and doubly so when it comes to movies. Leave the emotional chick-flick stuff in chick-flick movies. Mixing dumbass pilots in a movie with a deep emotional lesson leaves both people on a date saying the same thing for exactly opposite reasons..."that sucked."

I got around to it last night. Quality of production aside, I got out of it, that just because I can figure out how to get the plane started, fly to some far flung destination and back to the ground, doesn't mean that others on the ground won't have what it takes to help me survive until I can get to go throw myself back into the sky again. Some of the places an airplane can get you to, can be unfriendly to the overly arrogant.