Ice Road Truckers?

[skidbuggy]

With wings.

http://www.icepilots.com/

Hopefully we'll get see it down here in the U.S.








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[cargoflyr69]

Thanks for the post... Looks like it will be a GREAT show.
looking forward to a US release too!

 

[bizjet800]

Not if Al Gore has his way!

 

[Metro752]

bring us ICE PILOTS NOW!

 

[PUNISHER]

Looks awesome, to bad it's a Canadian tv show. On a related note, some reality show producers followed Connie and Doug around with cameras last summer. They were considering making a reality TV show but decided not to.

 

["Luke"]

Is anyone using a different VPN to watch the episodes over the internet from their website? If so, how?

 

[BobbyBiplane]

Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

 

[ratherfish]

Does the Alaskan Arctic not count Bob?

 

[hyper]

Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

Heeeeere fishy fishy fishy.

 

[Victor Meldrew]

The show is pretty good. Young guy's WWII aircraft for the most part (C46's & DC3's). I have many friends that have and do fly up in the great white north and love it. It is brutal at times with highs of -40c but many wouldn't do anything else.

Unfortunatly one big draw back - pay sucks on the whole!!

 

[skygod75]

Unfortunatly one big draw back - pay sucks on the whole!!

I'd bet the pay is lower than the truckers who drive the rigs across the ice road.

 

[CUBMAN]

Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

In your b*tt Bob.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Those guys look like they're having fun AND enjoying their jobs.

 

[acpilot]

That looks like a good show. I don't know about the whole "film everything I do and put it on TV" though. The FAA would have a field day with you.

 

[acpilot]

Too bad that US pilots don't have either the experience or backbone to actually do this work. I have worked with these folks ... they are truely pilots cut from a different cloth. US pilots are too spoiled and lazy to actually work in the arctic.

Bob

Wow. That's arrogance right there!

I think a lot of 135 cargo guys could be trained to do that kind of work, particularly those who have flown SP in the northern states. I don't know enough about the 121 world to venture a guess as to whether thay could "handle it" or not.

 

[GravityHater]

Here is a link to the 10 episodes now available in the US! Very cool show!

 

[acpilot]

Great show! I wish I could have had an opportunity like that!

Thanks for posting the link!

 

[727C47]

ah my brothers reminds me of our winters in the early 90's flying 3's,piston Convairs,and the DC4 out of PTK,never a dull moment,though not quite as cold as NWT.

 

[landlover]

so many poor dispatch decisions made, i was angry just watching.

 

[Captain Oveur]

Don't let it raise your blood pressure, landlover, remember, it's a
tv show. The producers know that drama and conflict raise ratings,
so they add a healthy dose of unrealistic excitement (like all 'reality'
shows do) That said, it IS kind of neat. I remember seeing LaBaTa's
C-46 taking off and landing occasionally at Laredo, before it was destroyed by a tornado.
Those guys at Buffalo Air sure have cojones grandes, operating in those
temperatures.....my hat is off to them.

 

[727C47]

i used to park next to that C46 in LRD back in the early 90's when I was conning a DC3 into Mejico and the hot spots like Ciudad Victoria in the pursuit of aerial commerce. i love the Ice Pilots show,gives me Michigan winter flashbacks of trying to keep those round engines functioning without cracking every jug due to the extreme cold. i remember one day when it was negative 40F at 4000 feet ,heading Toronto-PTk,the only time I ever pulled a contrail in a DC3 !

 

[152hvy]

1000 THANK YOU for the link

 

[PUNISHER]

Here is a link to the 10 episodes now available in the US! Very cool show!

Thanks! Good show

 

[clr4theapch]

Good job, cool show..

 

[GravityHater]

The latest part; pretty dang cool!

(Episode 11)

 

[embpic1]

This is a really cool show.

 

[jimcav]

Wow. That's arrogance right there!

I think a lot of 135 cargo guys could be trained to do that kind of work, particularly those who have flown SP in the northern states. I don't know enough about the 121 world to venture a guess as to whether thay could "handle it" or not.

I don't think it was a slam on the American freight dog. More like the button pushing rj wonder kids.

 

[727C47]

I would put my round engined freight guys and girls DC-3/CV340/DC4 circa 87-99,out of the PTK/YIP dojo in any clime and place and they would excel,heck we had 3's in Alaska on contract, and many forays into the Mejican Sierra Madre,God's grace we have all lived to embellish the tales.

 

[clr4theapch]

Excellent series.. just whatched all of them.. over the past few days.. I want more.. as for dispatching.. well that I'll hold for another discussion.. hard to say just buy watching the series... look fun to fly though..

 

[OrionFE]

I don't think it was a slam on the American freight dog. More like the button pushing rj wonder kids.

And what did you call yourself when you started flying, there Captain?