Flying Wild Alaska, July 6

[AggieMike88]

Ariel gets a brand new G1000 equipped C172 to finish up her training.

Gotta love Ariel. Who knew the skyhawks now are infrared equipped.

And after watching the first few moments of the filmed lesson, I'm wondering if the new instructor will survive the flight.

 

[Jim Logajan]

N172FA was registered on 3/28/12. That was brand new!

Um, now about taking her family flying: 4 adults in a 172?

Hmm... She earned her certificate April 21st, but it probably took a week (maybe less) to get that plane up there. Not sure I could have handled the switch from a 152 to a glass panel 172 two weeks before my check ride. That assumes she took the ride in that plane and not the 152.

I think Jim was the only one in the plane over the mythical 170 lb weight, so weight was no doubt within the limit.

 

[Jim Logajan]

FU? Seriously?

Do a web search on the reg number. That will confirm it.

 

[Jim Logajan]

That opening "At Era Alaska, all of our pilots are highly trained professionals. Dont' try this at home." serves to give them the product placement each week.

Actually, they only started doing that after this incident:

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/...show-inspires-pilot-to-fake-emergency-landing
"Discovery's Flying Wild Alaska is not one of those shows that opens with a "don't try this at home" disclaimer, presumably because most people don't have the opportunity to do stupid things with their own small airplanes. Perhaps the show should start running that, however, as pilot Jason Maloney proved last night that people will do pretty much anything they see on television. The 24-year-old medical student was already being goofy when he asked JFK's air traffic controller for permission to fly his single-engine Piper Warrior below 500 feet along Rockaway Beach, in Queens. "Just let me know if we're up in your grill," the pilot reportedly told the controller after gaining the permission. Sometime after that, it seems like he decided he wanted to land and then looked for a reason."