The very last FWA will be on Friday night.

Of the season or ever?

In the series finale, after 30 years of running Era Alaska, Jim Tweto sets his eye on a new path. Doug loses all avionics while flying over the North Slope. Ariel comes face to face with the FAA in the last step of getting her pilot's license.

Sorry to see the series end, but for anyone that watches 'Ice Pilots', it just started a new season.
It appears on the Weather Channel, here in the states. As far as Ariel is concerned, as much as I enjoy
watching her, I wouldn't fly with her even at gun point.

Thought this was a MS Flight thread

I had to laugh a little at the recent episode where Ariel was sent out on her long solo cross country flight.. with her instructor sent ahead to scout the route. The 172 was equipped with a G1000 avionics suite(which has a huge moving map display) and she still found herself off course, and still couldn't work the radios properly. It just seemed so far from how most student pilots tackle this part of their training, I have to wonder how much of this is just for the show?

If you haven't watched Ice Pilot's and can get it, it's worth watching. They fly old radial engined aircraft like the C46, C47 and DC-4 out of Yellowknife Canada, though I guess their day's are numbered. Basically, the whole show is about trying to keep them in air. In the season opener, they simulated the famous "Dambuster" raid on the Ruhr Valley dams in 1943, for some video company. They built a small dam at the end of a lake (looked to be about 50 ft. wide and 10 feet high), brought their chief pilot, Arnie Schreder out of retirement and put him in their DC-4, which was rigged with a cement filled 55 gal drum under the plane in some kind of crude release device. After making a test pass using kids float toys floating in the lake as a guide, he came around and doing about 200 mph, about 50 ft off the deck, he made a perfect drop and skipped bombed that barrel dead center right into the dam wall. For a retired 67 year old guy flying a 67 year old plane, it was a pretty nice show of seat of the pants flying. Sadly, Arnie passed away recently.

Yeah I think she got rushed through it for the show. Also the look on here dad's face when he realised she may have gone down was hard to take.

+100.

Sorry to see the show end, as I enjoy watching it. I'm sure to most people, it's probably very repetative.

Same here sorry to hear the show end , one of my favorite insights into the people who live out the last true frontier...