Rodger Pettichord Posted September 12, 2019 Posted September 12, 2019 Hi all. Lately, I find myself happily identifying planes that make brief appearances in TV shows or movies. It's often the scene where the CIA operative lands in a remote spot, or a drug deal is about to go down, or a political figure is being secreted out of the country. Kings Airs, Kodiaks, Citations, Beech Barons -- the plane shows up, I go whoop, my wife says What The, and later I go fly the same plane in the scene's location. Anyone else get a kick out of melding ORBX world with watching the movies?
adambar Posted September 30, 2019 Posted September 30, 2019 On 9/12/2019 at 4:21 PM, Rodger Pettichord said: Hi all. Lately, I find myself happily identifying planes that make brief appearances in TV shows or movies. It's often the scene where the CIA operative lands in a remote spot, or a drug deal is about to go down, or a political figure is being secreted out of the country. Kings Airs, Kodiaks, Citations, Beech Barons -- the plane shows up, I go whoop, my wife says What The, and later I go fly the same plane in the scene's location. Anyone else get a kick out of melding ORBX world with watching the movies? I watch airplane repo all the time Rodger, you see all kinds of planes. Great show.
Rodger Pettichord Posted September 30, 2019 Author Posted September 30, 2019 55 minutes ago, adambar said: I watch airplane repo all the time Rodger, you see all kinds of planes. Great show. Don't know this show, Adam. Where would I find it?
adambar Posted September 30, 2019 Posted September 30, 2019 31 minutes ago, Rodger Pettichord said: Don't know this show, Adam. Where would I find it? Sorry Rodger. It's on the Discovery Channel.
Rodger Pettichord Posted September 30, 2019 Author Posted September 30, 2019 15 hours ago, adambar said: Sorry Rodger. It's on the Discovery Channel. Thanks for the video. Scary as all get out! I need a warm milk!
Ken Q Posted October 1, 2019 Posted October 1, 2019 I follow Josh Flowers' Aviation 101 channel, and like to visit the airports that he visits on his flights. Usually I fly my usual Mooney Bravo,while he usually flies his 172. Frequently I'll recreate the full flight, but not always. Waiting for an Orbx sale to get Southern Alaska region and a couple of airports to visit some of the airports he explored in his recent series there. Ken
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 2, 2019 Author Posted October 2, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 11:58 AM, Ken Q said: I follow Josh Flowers' Aviation 101 channel, and like to visit the airports that he visits on his flights. Usually I fly my usual Mooney Bravo,while he usually flies his 172. Frequently I'll recreate the full flight, but not always. Waiting for an Orbx sale to get Southern Alaska region and a couple of airports to visit some of the airports he explored in his recent series there. Ken Kem, I just watched two fascinating videos on YouTube, one featuring a pilot doing landings on one-way strips, and the other featuring two fellows doing humanitarian bush flying in the Congo. I'm with you. I want to go where they were and try it myself. Very challenging.
bernd1151 Posted October 7, 2019 Posted October 7, 2019 Rodger, if you are into bush flying, have you seen the series: "Worst place to be a pilot"? They fly in the Indonesian part of Papua. Top notch!! It consists of 4 parts. You can watch all 4 on youtube, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=worst+place+to+be+a+pilot+season+1+episode+1
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 7, 2019 Author Posted October 7, 2019 7 hours ago, bernd1151 said: Rodger, if you are into bush flying, have you seen the series: "Worst place to be a pilot"? They fly in the Indonesian part of Papua. Top notch!! It consists of 4 parts. You can watch all 4 on youtube, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=worst+place+to+be+a+pilot+season+1+episode+1 Yes, bernd, just ran into it the other day. A great companion is "One-way In Strips: No go-around." Love these bush-plane videos because they teach a lot that translates into ORBX flying.
Scott Harmes Posted October 8, 2019 Posted October 8, 2019 I haven't seen it myself but apparently there's a Tom Cruise movie called American Made, about drug running. I heard the Aerostar features in that, as someone made a repaint for the XP11 Avia71 Aerostar. Then of course there's that other classic Tom Cruise movie from the 80's with LOTS of awesome aircraft. In fact I just bought the digital version of that the other day. Then there's Iron Eagle, Con Air........ I will also watch anything on TV with a plane in it. It may sound morbid but one of my favourite shows ever is Mayday, aka Air Crash Investigations. That show is so interesting and well made.
Ken Q Posted October 8, 2019 Posted October 8, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 2:58 PM, Ken Q said: I follow Josh Flowers' Aviation 101 channel, and like to visit the airports that he visits on his flights. Usually I fly my usual Mooney Bravo,while he usually flies his 172. Frequently I'll recreate the full flight, but not always. Waiting for an Orbx sale to get Southern Alaska region and a couple of airports to visit some of the airports he explored in his recent series there. Ken Well, I got my sale, and bought SA, and three airports. With some minor variation I have done the first two flights of Josh Flowers' Alaska expedition. Great fun! But I am used to flying the Mooney Bravo, and for this I am flying a C172. So SLOW! Anyone interested in seeing Josh's series, here's a link to the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdF5y9FufHg&list=PLZUuXpwtz5yBZaoFQdHj0AMKId6N4TWPu Ken
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