Got my copy of this DVD yesterday, though I would give a short review:

Flying to Churchill on Hudson Bay(2005 Wilderness Airplane Adventures)

I didn't really know what to expect from this DVD, since nowdays anybody with a camcorder and an PC or Mac can make their own movie and burn it to DVD. Since this movie was produced with the help of the local PBS station, the quality and production value were excellent.

It's just a kicked back, relaxed documentary about 2 couples flying from northern Minnesota up into Canada, using a zig zag route to connect fuel stops, and checking out the remote town of Churchill on Hudson Bay. The music is very relaxing, like some indian sounding flute jams that actually overrelaxed me and put me to sleep.

The scenery is beautiful, and easy to enjoy since all the flying take place below 1000' AGL, or so it appears, much considerably lower. The Aviat Husky featured in the film has cameras mounted on the wingtip and on the aft of the float, so we get some interesting views.

It's not extreme bush flying, but definitely representative of the kind of flying regular backcountry pilots enjoy and do often. Easily worth the money to watch some good cub flying from inside and outside the cockpit while the weather here is bad.

Zane

Zane - just a follow up to that, the relaxing Indian flute music was by Jon Romer, a music prof from Gustavus Adolphus (private lutheran college in St. Peter, MN). He now performs his music at Indian wedding, funeral ceremonies. It's interesting to see a retired lutheran in soft earth tones surrounded by Indians in their ceremonial get-up. He also restores motorcycles at his home in the woods by a lake near Bemidji. The banjo music is by a guy who used to be on Hee-Haw.

There are actually 5 cameras on the Husky. One thing they didn't point out was that when the Cub was at the waterfowl research station it threw a rock in the prop tip. Great fun all 'round.

Brad