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Wow!! Notice how dramatic and sexy the nosewheel is...

Wow!!! CC Pococks skill makes big rocks/long props look like childsplay. The only thing dramatic about that video was the soundtrack...

I can see I need longer hair to be a real backcountry pilot.

tom

Could be cool..... Needs bigger tires though...

Looks pretty cool.

I really want to know what brand of ammo he was using in that gun that he blew the car up with though....

Pretty fun stuff....

-rh

Wow...I bet he even swaggers when he talks!

I see not all the enlarged pilot egos reside in the U.S.

Smells like "reality TV" to me. Absolutely formulaic, follows the road map of every other BS high-adventure show.

Step 1) Find the cranky old guy who is the boss of some oddball business with a little danger
Step 2) Find either the good looking guy or the good looking girl who has to deal with the cranky old guy
Step 3) Create conflict between the two, usually disagreement over how to accomplish something
Step 4) Artificially magnify the little danger until it is totally overblown - gunfire or law enforcement showdown is recommended
Step 5) Make sure the cranky old guy can deliver the line - "When I was your age... we had to (fly/drive/swim/fight) through the (jungle/desert/ocean) filled with (great white sharks/commie rebels/hillbilly rednecks) so we could deliver the (medicine/ammunition/ lobster)!"
Step 6) Carefully remove the life-like Big Paulie biker mask from the animatronic robot and install the Grizzled Sea Captain mask or the Grizzled Bush Pilot mask instead
Step 7) DO NOT forget to change the voice synthesizer controls from New York accent to South African or Southern accent because the audience must hear a different voice, and... oh crap I just threw up

Dang... Remind me to not post the trailer for my forthcoming documentary here. Tough crowd!

EZ that sounds just like a normal day at a Skydiving Drop Zone. Cranky owner / Me, Good looking/ Me, Conflict / skydivers, firearms and fires / yes, Late night half naked women / more than expected. Off to start another weekend. Have fun and be safe.

Sorry to be an ogre, it's just that there's so much of that same flavored crap out there. If one person has a hit show, then everyone else is required by some immutable showbiz law to copy it as closely as possible. I'd watch the show just because it involved airplanes of course, but most of the dialogue and fabricated "plot devices" would go right out the other ear.

The reality TV stuff (and the new "reality" game shows etc.) is every bit as old, tired and worn out as that bush pilot's face. I'm sure he personally is a good pilot, and I have no issue or problem with him or the cutie-pie in the trailer. Matter of fact I'd like to negotiate the finer points of the next episode directly with her in some romantic remote location I sincerely hope they achieve their 15 minutes of fame if that's what makes their panties moist.

But having had one or two of those 15 minutes myself in a past life, I would tell them to not give yup their day job and not pin too much of their hopes and dreams on anything involving the entertainment business. Zane, go ahead and sally forth with your documentary with great gusto, take your shot at being a film-maker and enjoy every moment. Just try to do it with cleverness and some new twist on the old road map. Maybe you'll be the next Brian Terwilliger, and I'll happily be one of the cheering masses at your movie premier (like all of us VNY supporters were at the 16R premier)

Skydive206 wrote:EZ that sounds just like a normal day at a Skydiving Drop Zone. Cranky owner / Me, Good looking/ Me, Conflict / skydivers, firearms and fires / yes, Late night half naked women / more than expected. Off to start another weekend.

You ever heard of Van Prey from out here at the old California City jump school???

http://sportsgalaerobatics.blogspot.com/

hmmmm

Hottshot wrote:http://sportsgalaerobatics.blogspot.com/

hmmmm

Ya gotta admit, she's a hellofalot cuter than he is and, living in Canada, is lots nearer to real bush flying.

I would be more impressed with some authentic, unscripted action like STOL take-offs and landings...while being chased by water buffalo, having his plane attacked by a lion or something, having a python crawl out from the backseat cargo area, living off the land (maybe eating the leather from his shoes) until he remembers to use his SATphone and calls for one of his students to come rescue him...or something like that. Wouldn't it be cool to see a cheetah outrunning his plane on a take-off roll out?

I am genuinely curious to know what about his activities in South Africa make it "bush" flying. The guy Pocock might look a bit unkempt and may be reckless by some people's standards, but he might also be really good with that plane.

Some of my comments seem to catch flak, but I'll go ahead and say this anyway. It's not bush if there's asphalt anywhere in sight, you're in cell phone range, and/or a truck drives up to your airplane after you made a safe landing anywhere with a 5 or 6.00x6 tire on the nose...The bush flying is being out in the middle of no mans land, setting down somewhere your airplane barely fits, and putting airplane tracks where few (or none) have been before. I think that's the most fun you can have with your pants on...