Something you should watch...

[serviceceiling 135]

...soon in your movie theaters. :wink:

 

[steve howlett 137]

thanks for the find..looks good eh

 

steve-0

[Daniel choen 23]

reminds me of when i flew my private 777 and crashed to munich..(;

[serviceceiling 135]

This looks like a tremendous movie for me.

I mean with Denzel Washington it simply has to be good!

 

Denzel was on David Letterman's Late Night show a few days ago and they talked about this particular movie.

[ajpongress 467]

Couldn't help but think this movie's title & plot is synonymous with Microsoft's latest release... :Whistle:

[Tabs 2,790]

I had the urge to throw things while watching the preview for this that showed the crash sequence... I seem to recall him telling his FO "WE ARE IN A DIVE" as if the guy doesn't know how to read instruments. The plane had an NG-style cockpit but looked like some weird 717 with winglets externally too.

 

Aviation related mistakes/errors in movies and TV are a huge pet peeve of mine. I saw "Argo" the other weekend and there's an absolutely terrible scene involving a 747 in that one lol...

[Airbus Commander 563]

I had the urge to throw things while watching the preview for this that showed the crash sequence... I seem to recall him telling his FO "WE ARE IN A DIVE" as if the guy doesn't know how to read instruments. The plane had an NG-style cockpit but looked like some weird 717 with winglets externally too.

 

Aviation related mistakes/errors in movies and TV are a huge pet peeve of mine. I saw "Argo" the other weekend and there's an absolutely terrible scene involving a 747 in that one lol...

 

This pretty much sums up most aviation related movies for me...

 

 

Regards,

Ró.

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MD90 with winglets and a 737 Nav/PFD but some wierdo ECIAS which is unlike any I'v ever seen.

 

Anyway apparently the movie is more about alchoholics than flying anyway. Just so happens the main character is a Pilot that somehow got away with being an alchoholic for years and landed a broken plane by being very imaginitave and "flipping it upside down" to pitch up.

 

Anyway, whenever I want to watch an aviation movie, I put United 93 on.

[WestAir 2,522]

The crash in this movie reminds me of the very sad and horrible Alaska Airlines MD-80 crash where the horizontal stabilizer fell into a full down position. After the aircraft started an uncontrollable dive from Flight Level, the crew on that aircraft tried to "Roll it on its back" so they could still fly the aircraft.

 

If the author of the script to this movie took the premise from that crash, I say kudos. The crew on that Alaska flight are, and will always be, heroes in my book. If only they had such a happy ending.

[mikea76 184]

I had the urge to throw things while watching the preview for this that showed the crash sequence... I seem to recall him telling his FO "WE ARE IN A DIVE" as if the guy doesn't know how to read instruments. The plane had an NG-style cockpit but looked like some weird 717 with winglets externally too.

 

Aviation related mistakes/errors in movies and TV are a huge pet peeve of mine. I saw "Argo" the other weekend and there's an absolutely terrible scene involving a 747 in that one lol...

 

My girlfriend wants to go see this with me.. probably not a good idea.. I will drive her nuts pointing out all the tech errors.

 

This pretty much sums up most aviation related movies for me...

 

 

Regards,

Ró.

 

All this time I thought thats what they thought you guys to do in emergencies

[JazzPilot 0]

I had the urge to throw things while watching the preview for this that showed the crash sequence... I seem to recall him telling his FO "WE ARE IN A DIVE" as if the guy doesn't know how to read instruments. The plane had an NG-style cockpit but looked like some weird 717 with winglets externally too.

 

Aviation related mistakes/errors in movies and TV are a huge pet peeve of mine. I saw "Argo" the other weekend and there's an absolutely terrible scene involving a 747 in that one lol...

 

Totally agreed. It drives me nuts when I see a 747 outside, the flight deck is from an A300, then in another scene the aircrafts model changed all of a sudden from 4 engines to 2 engines, you see a 737... #####.

 

I mean, in a movie where aviation is a big part of the story, they could've at least put a LITTLE more effort into replicating the flight deck of the aircraft they want to present. Not to mention the physics and the rate the aircraft pitched down, looked like a fighter jet maneuver..

[engwerda 0]

Reminds me of that book "The Pilot" by Robert P Davis. In that novel the pilot had a drinking problem too but the plane remained a DC8 from memory all the way through the story.

 

Gerry

[scandinavian13 5,192]

I had the urge to throw things while watching the preview for this that showed the crash sequence... I seem to recall him telling his FO "WE ARE IN A DIVE" as if the guy doesn't know how to read instruments. The plane had an NG-style cockpit but looked like some weird 717 with winglets externally too.

 

Aviation related mistakes/errors in movies and TV are a huge pet peeve of mine. I saw "Argo" the other weekend and there's an absolutely terrible scene involving a 747 in that one lol...

 

Haven't seen Argo. I'll probably wait for my friends to see Flight before I do, but I'm right there with you. The ATC side is almost worse in some respects. I'd swear to you that the only one that got ATC moderately correct was United 93, and that's because they had people come here to the Command Center and actually...you know...learn stuff about it. Watching Pushing Tin and Ground Control was almost painful for me.

 

Phraseology for both flight-related and ATC-related movies is terrible.

 

I'll give this one some of a pass, though. To me, it seems to be a combination of a couple accidents merged into one: ASA261 (uncontrolled dive, attempted to invert to save it), SAS751 (dual engine failure with a reasonably well-executed off airport landing in a field - everyone survived), with vague allusions to AWE1549 (miracle pilot and the associated media attention).

 

I think the main reason they went with some red-headed stepchild aircraft as a mix of a few different ones was that they didn't want to go deal with any backlash from manufacturers about defamation, or similar. I could be wildly wrong, as Hollywood clearly destroy cars all the time with the badges in plain view, but I think plane crashes have a certain stigma with the public. Just my own theory.

 

This pretty much sums up most aviation related movies for me...

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That made my night.

 

Totally agreed. It drives me nuts when I see a 747 outside, the flight deck is from an A300, then in another scene the aircrafts model changed all of a sudden from 4 engines to 2 engines, you see a 737... #####.

 

I mean, in a movie where aviation is a big part of the story, they could've at least put a LITTLE more effort into replicating the flight deck of the aircraft they want to present. Not to mention the physics and the rate the aircraft pitched down, looked like a fighter jet maneuver..

 

My roommate used to hate me and the third roommate because we'd always comment on it. You'd see a B1900 as people are getting in, and when they switch to the cabin, it's as wide as a 744.

 

The reason I say "used to" is that he now does it on his own. We corrupted him...

[JRBarrett 3,070]

Reminds me of that book "The Pilot" by Robert P Davis. In that novel the pilot had a drinking problem too but the plane remained a DC8 from memory all the way through the story.

 

Gerry

 

That book was made into a movie starring Cliff Robertson as the alcoholic pilot. It was indeed a DC-8 in the film, which, from a technical standpoint. was probably one of the most accurate aviation dramas I've ever seen. Helped no doubt, by the fact that Robertson was a real-world licensed pilot who was deeply involved in many aspects of aviation throughout his life.

 

No crashes in "The Pilot", though Robertson's character came close to losing control of his aircraft when he suffered a serious physical breakdown while at the controls as a result of his own attempt to kick his drinking habit "cold turkey".

 

 

[cosnowboarder_777 11]

Saw it tonight, the stuff Ryan was mentioning was a huge nuisance. The fake plane and crash sequence was really annoying. It was definitely not as good as I thought it would be. Some of the plot was too far fetched. They used the information from the Alaska Airlines Flight 261 in reference to the jackscrew.