Motion picture flying!

[Dan]

Oh, we are off topic again.....

 

[407 Driver]

Back on topic Dan...I guess there are a chosen few in the world who have figured out movie flying and/or have the stomach to take these over Ego''d individuals, but as you can see, the vast majority of us common line pilots don''t have the patience nor the time to deal with it. I''d just as soon hit them on the forehead with a 2x4 as they enter the hangar, vs put up with the BS for a few hours of what normally amounts to bad debits and write-offs.

If you''re in to that kind flying, all I can say is be safe, be very safe. I''ll be calling you if they show up here, that is ...if they survive my "special" greeting at the door

 

[Dan]

407

I'm not in it anymore. But I do believe you have to have patience add alot of guidence and hold your stance on what can be done and what not.

Dave has a preaty good hold on what they want and what can actually be accommplished safely.

One other benefit, you get to meet some very attractive ladies.

 

[412driver]

SEE....there ya go again...talkin'' about CHICKS again!!!

we didn''t get no chicks.......

well kim delaney, but her dumb@ss husband producer guy kept getting in the way....

ramoooooone....GET over HERE........NOW!!!

 

[Randy_G]

I stopped using that one long ago. Tired of, "hey that must be a really cool job", just before turning and running away. Maybe they met some of you guys ?? Instead I tell them I''m a plumber, works much better. Wife still thinks that I''m one, but kinda wonders why some jobs take 6 weeks.

Cheers

 

[407 Driver]

This thread ALWAYS gets back to "Chicks"? I''m just guessing that someone out there is having trouble meeting girls?
Maybe the problem is all in your approach? I''m just guessing that ? "Hi, I''m a helicopter pilot" is not the most successful pickup line ?????

 

[Winnie]

OK so it is an old thread, but I just had to!
Saw this picture ''EXTREME OPS'' the other day, what a crock. But there was some decent helicopter flying with the steam chicken, just wondered if anybody knows who flew for the picture. It looked to me that they had a couple of really near misses, particularly one, flying downhill, doing a flare and the tail was only a few inches of the ground!!! And then of course the tail rotor failure, only the helicopter started to spin the wrong way! So I thing they msut have put an ASTAR rotor for that part of it!

 

[PedalJam]

I too made the mistake this week of viewing this flick.
OOoohh what a riviting plot line, i allmost couldnt watch.
I agree that was very close to striking the tail even with camera angle put in. But i think those pilots must have been foreigners as they were both flying from the other side.
I''ll give it a rating of 1 star for the use of the medium which is allways better than Viagra.

 

[412driver]

Air America, guy bounces the stinger on a 206 on landing.

 

[firehawk]

Watch the movie Rat Race. Astar chaing the truck. Look closly and you see the stinger hit the ground and spark.
Made me kinda shudder. I wonder sometimes why these guys fly the way they do in the movies. Hard bouncy landings, large flares.

 

[Winnie]

Saw this new flick with Steven Seagull the other day too, where they have that nice looking red steamchicken with a smily on the side! Pretty cool!

 

[twinstar_ca]

i saw that landing in air america... made me wince almost as much as robert jr hovering the j holding the cyclic with his knees while talking to the trucker through the bubble, etc., etc., etc.!!!!!!

 

[Rosco]

I saw them film that live in downtown calgary. It was shot right over the center street bridge. Pretty cool I must say.

R

 

[Vortex Ring]

Dumb question. The helo in that Segal movie is a 212 I thinks, why do guys refer to it as the steam chicken?

 

[frenchwrench]

But you get feed all day and that beats any job in the arctic any day. I found that the bigger the production companies name is, then the smaller they are. Did a job once for International something resources out of Vancouver. It turned out to be one guy, one table, one chair............Did a job in Pheonix, where Firestone hired a private starfighter to do touch and goes all day. The sound of afterburners going off was great...