Zemeckis air disaster flick.

[SWA Bubba]

NO NO NO, they put the winglets on to make it look a CRJ so they could pay the actors less money.

TMZ is reporting that they wanted to paint the jet canyon blue/red/orange or poopy brown but Denzel refused to pay for his type rating.

Hmmm...

A little touchy all of a sudden, are we?...

Bubba

 

[Dornier 335]

Totally unrealistic movie. I have NEVER had a flight attendant who looked like Nadine Valezquez.

You should look south of the border, Asia or even Europe. As VS once said on a billboard outside LHR:

"Fly Virgin to America to see your grandmother" or "fly American to see your grandmother work". Sad but true.

 

[kwick]

The movie was an unsuccessful
attempt to update "The Pilot, "
and failed miserably!

More like a MADP infomercial.
(Mothers Against Drunk Pilots."

What a waste of acting and directing
talent.

 

[densoo]

It's an Alcoholics Anonymous educational movie complete with alcoholic functionality, denial, codependency, 12-step meeting, failed sobriety, relapses. It's worth seeing, but that's what it is. The pilot angle is simply anyjob, anyone, anytime background noise. Look for this to shown at every airline's indoc followed by group discussion of "the issues" of how to prevent, report, legal responsibilities for those around you, even union and NTSB first contacts after an incident.

 

[HA25]

so I haven't seen the movie yet, is the airplane some kind of fusion jet? DC9 with CRJ cockpit and winglets or is the cockpit and such accurate? I always have a hard time seeing past the L1011 sized cockpit scenes with 737 exterior shots...

 

[densoo]

so I haven't seen the movie yet, is the airplane some kind of fusion jet? DC9 with CRJ cockpit and winglets or is the cockpit and such accurate? I always have a hard time seeing past the L1011 sized cockpit scenes with 737 exterior shots...

There were inconsistencies but there was more movie set realism than usual. I don't like the dual cue on the EFIS ADI. If it had been a single-cue chevron there's no way they would have crashed.

 

[HA25]

..... I don't like the dual cue on the EFIS ADI. If it had been a single-cue chevron there's no way they would have crashed.

my gosh, really? I find that duel cue (Honeywell) type FD to be idiot proof.. even a monkey can fly an airplane with it.

 

[Lear70]

There were inconsistencies but there was more movie set realism than usual. I don't like the dual cue on the EFIS ADI. If it had been a single-cue chevron there's no way they would have crashed.

Ummm, it's actually much easier to fly once you get used to it, and I find it much more accurate if you stay right on the crosshairs.

Is it less intuitive and does it take longer to get used to? Sure. But once you're used to it, you get to really like it when the crap hits the fan and you're really going down to the brass tacks hand-flying a CAT II ILS.

 

[densoo]

my gosh, really? I find that duel cue (Honeywell) type FD to be idiot proof.. even a monkey can fly an airplane with it.

I guess the names say it well enough. Dual cue vs single cue. Dual you're working two items in the ADI cross check, single you're working just one--putting the delta symbol into a single FD command. Just seems more intuitive to me. I've flown several years with each. Since it's just a software adjustment I have wondered which airlines have chosen one vice the other.

 

[Lear70]

For pilots I'm sure...not so much the rest of the planet.

We're lucky...we only have to sit through a movie every 5-6 years about airplanes and an occasional TV show.

Imagine how cops and nurses and doctors must have to sit for hours and hours watching all the totally impossible, procedurally incorrect stuff on TV and in Movies about their chosen professions?

Half the stuff on television is unwatchable for those poor folks!



YKW

My fiance' and I take turns doing that. She's a physician, so shows that have medical sequences drive her crazy, and as a pilot, movies like these she has to tell me to shut up when I start picking it apart.

I'll catch it when it comes out on video, but the planel looks basically like a 717 with winglets just watching some of the previews.