AOPA Pilot Magazine - February 2012 - 63

Era Alaska is the real deal, with more than 70
aircraft ranging from the de Havilland Dash-8
to the Beechcraft 1900D and 1900C, a
Cessna Caravan, and C-23 Sherpa. It carries
from one to 37 passengers and cargo up to
6,000 pounds. The airline serves some 100
communities across the state.
The pilots featured on the show were
not prearranged. So much footage is
filmed that the stories that emerge from
the editing process determine who
appears other than the Tweto family.
Overseeing the content of the show,
Candler is in the field the entire time
the show is filmed. Season one was
filmed from the end of August until the
first week of December. The dramatic
changes in the temperatures—from
60 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 15
degrees—and the effect on life in Unalakleet
were key parts of the story line.
“In the fall, Jim did a lot of off-airport
work, taking hunters out into the bush
in the 180. Then school started and
the ‘kiddie hauls’ began. All of the villages
are so remote that the kids have
to fly to basketball games and wrestling
matches. The teachers fly, too,” Candler
says. “Then the pilots have to prepare
for the cold, dark nights—it’s been
light for 24 hours and then they have
to regain their night skills.”
The aircraft are equipped with small
“lipstick” cameras, but often a cameraman
flies along. “Every seat costs
money. We don’t want to take money
away from the airline,” Candler says.
“The shooters are the producers—one
person does the job of three people. Jim
is our line of communication. We have
three teams of five people and we’re
spread across northwest Alaska, which
is the size of Texas.”
“I think the show is pretty honest,”
says Ariel. “There are a lot of misconceptions
about Alaska and the show
sheds a good light on the problems
out here and on the traditions and
conditions.”
“They tend to over-dramatize it a
little,” says Jim Tweto. But Candler says,
“They do it every day—like an ice river
landing—and we have to remind them
it’s not routine.”
Flying Wild Alaska is a hit with pilots
and nonpilots—and its most avid audience
is men (it’s Discovery Channel’s
number two show for male viewers
after Gold Rush).
At presstime, the series had not yet
been scheduled for a third season.
If it does, it will begin filming in the
summer of 2012. Jim Tweto had better
rest up.
Email the author at julie.walker@aopa.
org.
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AOPA Pilot Magazine - February 2012
Contents
President’s Position
Hangar Talk
AOPA Media
AOPA Action
Letters
Waypoints
Proficient Pilot
Safety Pilot
License to Learn
Pilot Counsel
Fly Well
Pilot Briefing
Rally GA: Pay Up
Budget Buy: Classically Quick
Percival Provost: Fine Englishman
Flying Wild in Alaska
On Brand-New Wings
B-Ball to Biplane
2012 Tougher Than a Tornado Sweepstakes: Water Dog
The Bird and the Leprechaun
Avionics: Pilot Friendly
Technique: Wind Warrior
Wx Watch: The Problem with Pireps
Products: Anywhere Map Septa
Never Again
Fly-Outs
Fly by Wire
Pilots
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