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Old 08-07-2015, 04:58 PM
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Yeah, I agree with all you guys. I really long for a really good, high quality true to life aviation based show like oh, maybe, Airwolf!
That show was so bad it almost turned me off aviation!
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Old 08-07-2015, 05:19 PM
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That show was so bad it almost turned me off aviation!
Blasphemy! Third grade me would have been shocked at such a scandalous untruth!
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Old 08-07-2015, 05:37 PM
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I liked Flying Wild Alaska.
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Old 08-07-2015, 05:57 PM
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I use to like to watch Buffalo Airways and even got to meet some of them at Oshkosh one year but every flight on the show seemed to be a life or death situation and it got a little old. Plus the owner was the most miserable boss I've ever seen. They need another show like Sky King or Whirlybirds. As least it held my attention when I was young.
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Old 08-07-2015, 08:15 PM
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Default DRAMA

When it comes to the world of entertainment, DRAMA is the coin of the realm. This is true in both scripted and non-scripted (so-called Reality) programming. As this applies to Airplane Repo, most viewers (non-pilots) aren?t interested in watching real life aviation take place. Too boring! It is the drama they create in the plot lines of the show that makes it appeal to the broader (necessary) audience. Heck, even sporting events require drama, as they routinely start losing significant eyeballs (i.e., ratings fall off) when the score becomes lopsided and/or the outcome becomes a foregone conclusion.

In the non-scripted content world, Drama is accentuated, and when necessary, manufactured. Such is the case with Airplane Repo. I?m not making a case for whether this is a good or bad thing, it just is what it is.

Personally I?m not a consumer of this type of content, but it is VERY popular and a HUGE $$ generator for the folks who create/own it. That?s why it has become so pervasive. Remember that TV is an economic enterprise, and therefore comports itself to certain ?realities?.
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Old 08-07-2015, 08:34 PM
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The show has many flaws. We all know that but the fact that it's on its third season says something. I can say that off camera Kevin is one of the nicest most genuine people I've met and avid supporter of general aviation and the future of aviation. Tomorrow morning he and other pilots will be doing young eagles flights at T31.

I wish the show was more about the real repossessions Kevin and the other guys have done. To me listening to Kevin talk about a repossession that actually happened is very entertaining. But apparently that doesn't get the ratings.
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Old 08-14-2015, 01:44 PM
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...ok, a little Rv tidbit.....there was a half-decent Discovery show in 2008, Jetstream, that followed a group of rookies going thru CF-18 initiation at CFB cold Lake Alberta. (410 cougar squadron)
One of the instructors, former Snowbirds team member 'Flailin' Mike Ayling' has an RV-4 stationed nearby!...
That show was pretty cool, binge watched it on U Tube over the holiday's a few years back. All 'real' IMHO, just cameras following some noobs through the CF-18 replacement course. Nothing falling off the jets, no stolen/repoed aircraft, no in-flight emergencies. Everything airplane wise, speaking from a 24 year military aircraft maintenance perspective, I felt, was pretty accurate. The only 'drama' so-to-speak, was watching the studs struggle with the high-speed, low-drag, no-mercy syllabus. Sure they could fly the Hornet, but did they have what it took to be an effective wingman/fighter pilot?

As Len Morgan said years ago, in his column in Flying when referring to his time in a post-war Air National Guard P-51 squadron, and I'm para-phrasing here, "There are people who fly fighters and there are fighter pilots" They're not necessarily the same thing.

OBTW I can't stand the Airplane Repo Show either.
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Old 08-14-2015, 02:02 PM
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Airplane repo is pretty much un-watchable . Black Sheep Squadron was my favorite show as a kid. Haven't seen an episode in 20 years .
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Old 08-14-2015, 02:38 PM
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The Black Sheep series has been on regularly this past year (not sure what network). Probably the best aviation series of it's time and much better than most others currently on today. Love it!

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Old 08-14-2015, 04:42 PM
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"Do you expect trouble?"
"Trouble is my middle name."
"Carlos Danger?"
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