Saturday, February 10, 2007

CF-18 pilot training series for Discovery Channel

"Jetstream": Scheduled to air this fall:
Every year around this time a flight of CF-18s pass over 4 Wing Cold Lake in a one-of-a-kind graduation celebration for Canada's newest fighter pilots.

What differs this year is that five pilots were followed by camera crews right through arguably the hardest nine months of training of their lives.Canada's newest fighter pilots are Capt. Yannick 'Blow' Jobin, Capt. Riel 'Guns' Erickson, Capt. Tristan 'T-Bag' Mckee, Lt. Shamus 'Carney' Allen and Lt. Dave 'Tickler' McLeod. A film crew working on behalf of the Discovery Channel has been documenting the five pilots through the nine-month fighter pilot course (FPC) at 410 operational training squadron, where students learn how to fly Canada's most potent air asset, the CF-18 Hornet...

Paperny Films out of Vancouver, B.C. is the company making the series about the pilots. The series, tentatively titled Jetstream, is scheduled to air this fall...

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