Transport Canada's Video

[Ted Waltman]

Sure be nice to find a source for their instructional video on-line
somewhere.

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.davis@dcsol.com [mailto:mike.davis@dcsol.com] On Behalf Of
Del Schmucker
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:04 PM
To: rebel-builders@dcsol.com
Subject: RE: Mother Lode


Just wondering if any knows the story on the crash?????


Transport Canada has a safety float flying seminar here in Dryden at our
flying club annually. Usually this "Mother Lode" video comes up in the
discussion. They have also used it in a Pilot Decision Making seminar
here as well. They always show us the original unedited version of the
crash. Transport Canada has repeatedly given us the following story how
this happened.

During the shooting of the movie a well-experienced mountain/bush pilot
was hired to fly the Beaver. They had already shot quite a bit of video,
however when it came to the landing shot in this particular lake, the
pilot was asked to fly the and land it as you see it in the video. He
being a experienced bush pilot had concerns about landing where they
were asking him to, something about wind currents being wrong. He
wanted to land approx 150-200 meters further back. This of course would
have changed all the angles, view and dynamics of the shot. The
director refused to allow it to be moved and insisted that pilot go as
planned. The pilot refused to fly the Beaver as he was concerned about
the safety of the doing this and walked off of the set. The director
quite angry of course was receptive to another pilot that was on set.
The pilot had 10,000 plus hours flying and indicated that if it had a
yoke/stick and throttle he could fly it. He had never flown in the
mountains, did not have a float rating, (I did hear another instructor
say that he had very low float time ie. Less than 15 hrs.) did not have
a Canadian license(was from the U.S.), and had never flown a Beaver. I
was surprised that the actor actually rode with him but he did. This was
the first, and only, landing by the "replacement pilot". Luckily no one
was injured (physically) but certainly some bent metal. You hear lots
of swearing and cussing on the tape. By the time Transport arrived on
the scene the pilot had already vacated the country needless to say they
are just waiting for him to set his foot in Canada.

Lessons learned:

Do not fly outside your envelope of experience without proper training.

Do not fly in an environment that put your passengers, yourself and the
airplane in jeopardy.

Do not let yourself be pressured by your employer, friends, fame etc. to
fly in an unsafe situation.

..........etc etc............

Lots of good lessons to be learned here.



Thank You,

Del Schmucker
Information Systems Manager
Keewatin-Patricia District School Board
807-223-1254
807-221-8769 Cell
del.schmucker@kpdsb.on.ca
www.kpdsb.on.ca




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