I’m a pilot. Sometimes screenwriters do a pretty good job with aircraft, sometimes they extremely don’t. They’ll show the wrong instrument when talking about a reading (a vertical speed indicator pointing to 200 feet/min climb over dialog that says "descending through 2,000 feet) or ATC will clear someone to turn to a heading of 540 or clear them to land on runway three niner, and don’t get me started on aircraft engineering.
There’s a scene in The World Is Not Enough where James Bond shoots a powered parachute in the wing and we hear engine struggling sounds.
My favorite has to come from the movie Iron Eagle. Near the beginning, Louis Gossett Jr is tinkering under the oil dipstick door on a Cessna 150, and the following dialog is exchanged:
“How come you’re making my mixture so rich?”
“As lean as you were running, if you went into a stall you’da lost your engine and you’d never be able to pull it out.”
What the Appalachian cousin fuck are you talking about, Louis?
I’m a pilot. Sometimes screenwriters do a pretty good job with aircraft, sometimes they extremely don’t. They’ll show the wrong instrument when talking about a reading (a vertical speed indicator pointing to 200 feet/min climb over dialog that says "descending through 2,000 feet) or ATC will clear someone to turn to a heading of 540 or clear them to land on runway three niner, and don’t get me started on aircraft engineering.
There’s a scene in The World Is Not Enough where James Bond shoots a powered parachute in the wing and we hear engine struggling sounds.
My favorite has to come from the movie Iron Eagle. Near the beginning, Louis Gossett Jr is tinkering under the oil dipstick door on a Cessna 150, and the following dialog is exchanged:
“How come you’re making my mixture so rich?”
“As lean as you were running, if you went into a stall you’da lost your engine and you’d never be able to pull it out.”
What the Appalachian cousin fuck are you talking about, Louis?
I know the exact scene you’re talking about, but you’re misremembering. He doesn’t shoot it, he skis on it.
https://youtu.be/MQQLqRYm4vg?t=269
And then presumably dies from the hard landing as he broke the fall with his legs.
Heh.