Great Series – Jetstream
February 27th, 2008 | 
Author: I have to hand it to Discovery Channel Canada. They put together another amazing reality show! I just caught the end of the last episode of Jetstream, a show that followed Canadian CF18 Fighter Pilot trainees with the 410 Squadron at Cold Lake. I am hoping that Discovery puts this show out on DVD! I would purchase immediately!
Since I was a kid and to this day I love absolutely everything that has to do with fighter planes and the people that fly them.
If you haven’t caught any of the show, I am sure Discovery Canada will be re running it over the next little while, but you can see excerpts and catch ups at http://www.discovery.ca or visit the show site at http://jetstreamonline.ca.
Even my 10 year old daughter was fascinated by this show. If you liked the movie Top Gun you are sure to love this show!
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Hi Stephen,
This is Kerry from the c6s group. I also love this series. I can’t believe how much Discovery channel was allowed to show on-air. Anyway, it was a dream of mine to be a fighter pilot till I realized that you had to have perfect vision. Instead I ended up joining air cadets and got my glider pilots license. Unfortunatly I haven’t kept up with it. Life takes you down so many different paths. … but I’m sure that I’ll get back into flying again.
Hi Kerry,
Actually I was really surprised at what they showed. I have personally flown once and loved it (the Mrs. bought me an introductory lesson). I have flown on the computer since PCs have been around both regular flying and Fighter sims. My one experience in flying a Cessna, I was asked to take off, climb and turn. The instructor asked again if I had ever flown before, and I said no. He then said I would be bored with the usual intro stuff and asked if I wanted to do Spins and Stalls! Of course I said yes!
That’s the only time I have ever come to truly losing my lunch but it was so much fun!
I looked into getting my RP and then to my full license but the time, cost of the lessons and the other costs (life insurance, renting aircraft etc) I temporarily gave it up. Like yo maybe someday.