Marco Leon wrote:


I knew this thread would soon turn to the inaccuracies! Should we expect
less from us pilots??


Of course not! It's what we do.

I don't normally watch the show, but I happened to catch the action while
channel surfing. The J-3 doing 100 kts, with fairly sophisticated autopilot
(not just a wing leveler) was pretty impressive. At one point, the Archer
pilot is instructed to "squawk your transponder" so that he can be located,
but they don't give him a code to squawk. I don't have Tivo, so I'm still a
bit leery of how the Archer was able to hit the J-3 hard enough to pitch it
up into a stall, yet avoid what should have been a fairly major prop strike.
Also, the terrain was obviously CA and not AR.

I checked the registration on the Archer and it apparently was registered
to a new owner about 3 weeks ago. I wonder if the new owner was surprised to
see his new bird bashing J-3s on TV :-)

Overall, for an aviation-related Hollywood production, they didn't do too
badly on the technical details. I've seen a lot worse.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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