Just like -- as a teacher -- I am irritated by faulty nuances in movies and television about schools, classrooms and teaching, so -- as a student pilot -- I also noticed some, er, "inaccuracies" in this show about flying.
For starters, the pilots had an engine failure on one side and an engine fire on the other (all within the first 10 minutes of the episode, mind you!) and NO YAW!!! Now, I don't fly multi myself, but it seems to me that if one of your engines suddenly cut out, you'd have some pretty serious adverse yaw, lol!
Another distraction was that all the headsets -- even those belonging to the more seasoned pilot characters on the show -- were shiny and new, and in some cases, the pilots kept switching headsets (i.e. different scenes would show different colours of headsets on the same pilot's head!) None of them were labled with the pilot's name (how do you know which set is yours?!), and in most of the airplane scenes, the passengers in the back weren't wearing headsets at all, yet somehow, miraculously, the headset-wearing PIC could still hear them! Lol!
Perhaps the most irritating anomoly was the distance of the headset mics from the pilots' mouths: a good 6 inches distance stood between mouth and mic, yet somehow the pilots managed to communicate with tower and each other without needing to scream into the mics. :)
Despite all the problematic portrayal of the details, I still enjoyed the show -- as Canadians, we must love the traditionally "hokey" plot, setting and characters offered up by CBC's campy television shows. Plus, I got to see a little bit of Northern Canada. And as student pilot who doesn't get to fly nearly enough, it's always fun to watch something aviation related -- especially when the opening scene features a female pilot!!!
Looking forward to the next episode!