Big Sky (1997–1999): Season 1, Episode 10 - Balloon Girl - full transcript
(Mysterious music)
(Wind whirring)
- [Lexi] Hey.
- What happened?
- We're nearly there.
- Oh, right.
(Exhaling)
I just had the most amazing dream.
This beautiful girl
came down in a balloon.
(Engine whirring)
- And?
- And nothing.
That's it.
- The balloon didn't explode?
She didn't get out and talk to you?
- No.
She just looked at me.
(Engine rumbling)
(Soft, dramatic music)
Gray, how's it going?
- [Gray] Can't complain.
- [Jimbo] We're here to
pick up a couple of
parcels for big sky.
- [Gray] Big sky?
I'll have a look.
(Soft, dramatic music) (Air whirring)
- That's her.
- Who?
- [Gray] Hey, is this
what you're after?
(Soft, dramatic music)
- Hi, you the pilot of the chieftain?
You going to the city?
Can I get a lift?
(Jimbo gasps)
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Engine whirring)
- So that's a freight run at carnarvon
and the bank executives
in the afternoon.
Scotty that leaves you with
the milk run at dubbo.
- What, just the one job?
- Well yeah, I need you back here
to give Ronnie a hand
sweeping out the hangar.
- What?
- Well, the hangar.
Needs a really good going over.
- Well, why me?
- Because grasshopper,
you are the most junior pilot.
- So you're saying that when
you were a junior pilot,
you used to clean out hangars?
- Yeah, I cleaned out planes
and I did all the boring jobs
and all the rest.
- This is so unfair, every time
there's a lousy job I get it.
- Just think, one day there'll
be someone younger than you
and you can give them
all the dirty stuff.
(Engine rumbling)
- So what were you doing
out there in a balloon?
- Oh, I've done it all my life.
Right now, though, I'm writing
an article on ballooning
for sports Australia magazine.
- Yeah?
- Jimbo had a dream about you.
- Shut up.
- Sorry, what was that?
- Nothing. (Chuckling)
- I've decided to get
my pilot's license.
(Chris grunts)
What's the point of me having all these
occasional lessons if it
doesn't get me anything?
I might as well make it official.
(Chris grunts) (Telephone rings)
What's the problem, you don't
think I can be a pilot?
- Anyone can be a pilot.
That's not the hard bit.
- Well what is it, then?
- Being a flyer.
- What's the difference
apart from semantics?
- Well if you have to
ask you'll never know.
- Who cares if I'm a pilot or a flyer?
- You don't think there's
a difference between
a singer and a diva or an actor
and a star. - Oh, please.
- No, it's true.
It's true.
A pilot pilots a plane but a flyer,
flies a plane.
Sure they press all the right buttons
but they do it instinctively,
there's a feel.
- And that's what you are?
A flyer?
- Well, it's not something
you think about.
It's something you are,
it's something inside.
You just can't pick flying lessons
like you're choosing
a new pair of shoes.
- I run an aviation company,
it makes sense for me to
have my pilot's license.
So I'm booking lessons with you,
(speaks in foreign language)?
- Hey Scotty, can you fix this for me?
It's not printing.
- Shay, have you seen my other
diamond and pearl earring?
- No, did you take it off
while you were talking on the phone?
- No, I've looked all
through the office
and it's not there.
- Oh, sorry.
- Lauren can I see you about something?
- Ah Scotty, I got someone
I want you to meet.
Scotty Gibbs this is Damien Walsh.
Damien's here with us on
work experience this week.
- Hi.
- Hello, how do you do?
- Yeah, well thanks.
- I thought you might like
to take care of Damien while he's here,
after you've done the
hangar and all that stuff.
- [Scotty] Actually I've got
quite a few flights coming up.
- Oh great, that'll give Damien a taste
for what being a pilot's all about.
Scotty's not that much older than you
so you should get on really well.
- Yeah no, I figured that had
something to do with it.
- Excuse me, could I?
- Sure.
(Machine beeps and whirs)
- [Shay] Why, you legend.
- You had it on manual
feed, that's all.
(Shay sighs)
- [Chris] Okay, you
know your checklist.
What's first?
- [Lauren] Open throttle half inch.
- No.
- I meant master switch.
- No.
- What then?
- Seatbelt.
- Oh for god's sake, you don't
have to be so pedantic.
- Lauren, if you don't go by the book
they throw it at you.
I'm just teaching you procedure.
- All you're doing is confusing me.
I've memorized everything,
and now you're just putting me off.
- Okay, what's next?
No.
You check the mixture?
- Oh, because you confused me.
I knew what to do, I
just, you put me off
with that seatbelt stuff.
- Would you listen to you?
We haven't even left the ground.
How are you gonna cope with 10,000 feet
if you don't calm down?
- Would you stop yelling?
- I'm not yelling.
- Yes you are, I know what to do
and you just make me feel like I don't.
- Oh Lauren you can't blame
the instructor all the time.
- So this is all happening
because I don't have your
feel for flying, is that it?
Okay, now.
I've set the mixture to rich.
Now, can I hit the starter?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
(Plane rumbling) (Playful music)
(Plane whirring)
- [Chris] Ease up, ease up.
- Ease up, what's that mean?
- Not so heavy on the throttle.
Ease up, ease up!
- I've eased up on the throttle.
- No, ease up on the left rudder.
- Well how was I supposed to know
it was a different ease up?
You can't just have some
all-purpose instruction
and expect me to know what
you're talking about.
- Will you just concentrate
on what you're doing?
- [Lauren] I am.
(Playful music)
- [Chris] Right!
Right rudder!
- Why?
We're on line, it's straight.
- [Chris] Well no, I can feel
it, you're veering left.
- Yeah because you're sitting there,
you can't see it from my angle.
- [Chris] No, I can just feel it!
Just ease up, ease up!
- Ease up?
What?
- Look!
Look at what you're doing!
- I am, will you stop (Chris mumbling)
Hassling me? - Pressing too hard,
now ease 'em up! - Stop hassling me!
- Tango whiskey Sierra,
this is Sydney tower,
you do not have clearance
to cross runway one six.
You have just violated
the active runway.
- Lauren, you're going off the strip.
Left!
- Yeah, but I've gotta get off
the runway. - Left!
Left! - Yeah, but I
gotta get off the runway.
- Left. (Grunting)
Look!
Ease, will you ease up!
Ease up! (Playful music)
- I am but nothing's happening.
It's stuck, it won't move.
(Engine whirring)
- [Chris] Oh, great.
- Tango whiskey Sierra,
this is Sydney tower.
Are your operations normal?
Do you require assistance?
- [Lauren] Well?
- Well, I'm not telling him.
- Oh, this is not my fault.
- Lauren, you ran off the strip.
- I had to get off - whiskey Sierra.
- The runway.
- This is Sydney tower,
repeat.
Do you require assistance?
(Plane whirring) (Playful music)
- Sydney tower, this is
tango whiskey Sierra.
It seems like we're bogged.
- Congratulations, ace.
(Playful music)
(Crowd applauding)
- Haven't you lot got work to do?
- Back to work, fellas. (Chuckling)
- Oh Lauren, look, I'll get a
tent out there straight away,
there's nothing you
have to worry about.
- Why is everyone assuming
this is my fault?
- Because you ran us off the airstrip.
- [Lauren] Because we were on a runway
we weren't supposed to be on
because you weren't looking
where we were going.
- Thanks very much for the
lift, it was really nice.
- No worries.
- Is there a phone that I
can use to call a taxi?
- I'm a taxi.
I've got a, I mean I've,
well, I've got a car.
I mean, it could be like your taxi,
I could drive you.
- I have to go in the city.
- Into the city, that's where
I'm going, into the city.
I mean, I can take you now.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, no worries.
(Claire chuckles)
- Hey jimbo, you can't do that.
You promised to help me find
those consignment slips.
- They're probably in my locker.
- Oh gross, jimbo, I am not
looking through your locker.
- I'll find them.
Are they just the carbon
triplicate variety?
- [Shay] This is Damien, he's
here on work experience.
- Thanks Damien, I owe you one.
- [Damien] Any time.
- Okay, shall we?
- Yep, oh thanks.
(Claire chuckles)
- [Lauren] And if you
were a better instructor
it wouldn't have happened anyway.
- There's nothing wrong
with my teaching,
I knew it was a bad idea for
you to get your license.
- Maybe I could get a feel for flying
if I had someone who was a
little bit more patient
and didn't try and
confuse me all the time.
- I'm sorry to interrupt you guys
but Brian chambers is
here to see you, Chris.
- No prizes for guessing
what that's about.
Brian!
What can I do for you?
- Chris.
Lauren.
It's about that roaming
incursion this morning.
- Yeah look, I'm sorry about that.
It was an accident, it
won't happen again.
- Yeah, I was with a student,
not a very experienced one
and well, I'll put all the
details in a report for you.
- You were the instructor?
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Can I have a look at
your license, please?
- Brian.
- I have to follow
procedure here, Chris.
- [Chris] Uh-huh.
- This is out of date.
- What?
It can't be. (Engine whirring)
Two days.
- Still invalid.
- Fair go, you know I'd
never let that happen.
- Looks like you did.
- Brian, it was an oversight.
What are you gettin' so fussed about?
- About a serious breach
of runway procedure.
- [Chris] Brian you don't
even know the details yet.
- And you're aware I'm going to
have to review your overall knowledge
of aviation procedure?
- Oh Brian, give me a break.
- The arc's responsible
to ensure that all the piloted licenses
are both competent and
capable and as such
we're entitled to conduct
any inquiry. - Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You let me know
when you want to resit the test.
Make sure I have that
report by tomorrow.
Oh Lauren, you do know you'll
need a new chief pilot?
(Somber music)
- [Claire] Have you
always wanted to fly?
- Ever since I was a kid.
- Me too.
- Yeah?
- Oh, my parents were balloonists,
that's how I got the bug.
It's just, well, nothing
else like it, you know?
Like, floating through the air.
- The freedom to go wherever you want.
- We're so lucky, you know.
I mean, most people, they
never get that perspective.
- You know, we're the only people
who get to live in three dimensions.
Anyone who's just stuck on the ground,
they can only go forward and backwards
but we get to go up and down too.
- (Laughing) Well, that's
what makes us special.
- Yeah, it sure does.
- Actually, just stop
here, that'd be great.
- What, here, now?
- Yeah, I've got a
meeting with my editor.
- But, I mean, you don't know
enough about me for a story,
I mean there's heaps of stuff
I've still gotta tell you.
- You could drive around
the block a few times, or?
- Or?
- Or we could talk
again some other time.
- Tonight?
We could, dinner, I mean, if you think?
- (Laughing) I'd love to.
I'll meet you at big sky, say eight?
- Wonderful.
- That's the workshop,
and this is where we hang
out when we're not flying.
See, we gotta make
sure we're well rested
and ready for anything.
You wouldn't believe half
the things we have to face,
electrical storms, search and rescue.
I even had a bomb on board, once.
- Sounds terrible.
Which is jimbo's locker?
- Here.
You know, it's not easy
being a pilot, mate.
They don't just let anybody through.
- Oh that's okay, I
don't want to be one.
- So what are you doing here?
- Well, I tried to get
in with the TV station
but I couldn't.
When I was hanging out
waiting to here from them
I missed all the radio
stations and magazines.
So it's the last thing
I could think of.
- So we were bottom of your list.
- Yeah.
- Pity.
- Here they are.
A lot of rubbish in here.
Do you think jimbo would
mind if I throw it out?
- Won't be needing these.
- They're past the use-by date?
- No I mean, he doesn't need them.
He can't have kids.
- Oh, bad luck.
Still we've been taught
that condoms should be used
to prevent the transmission of disease
as well as conception.
- Yeah, right.
Hey listen, I just remembered
a job that you might like.
You remember where the
hangar is, don't you?
- [Chris] I can't understand it,
I always make a date to renew that
way before it's...
- [Lauren] Oh, what are you doing,
looking for someone to blame?
- Oh, you don't understand.
Chambers has been gunning
for me for ages.
I'm going to get the exam from hell.
- Well, what do you
want me to do about it?
What I want to know
is what I'm gonna do
about a new chief pilot
while you're out of action.
- [Chris] Thanks for your concern.
- It can't be jimbo.
I mean, maybe Lexi.
- [Chris] Oh whoever,
it won't be for long.
- Hey, and what about
my flying lessons?
- See the chief pilot.
I'm busy.
(Playfully tense music)
- You look as if you
got lucky, dream boy.
- I asked her out to dinner.
- [Scotty] Who's this?
- It's a girl he met.
She came out of the sky.
- She's the one.
- [Lexi] The one?
- I can't believe it, like,
I knew it before I knew it.
I knew what she looked like, it's...
- Uncanny.
- No, it's...
- Incredible.
- No, no, it's more, it's...
- Surreal?
- No, no.
It's like I'm...
- Oh, if you say it's a
miracle, I'll vomit.
- It's a miracle.
(Knocking on door)
- Have you seen a diamond
and pearl earring anywhere?
- No.
Have a look at this.
Meteorology.
Pneumatics.
Engine systems.
Aerodynamics.
I haven't looked at
this stuff for ages.
How would you like to resit
your driver's license
and try and remember all that stuff
about not parking two
meters from a postbox.
- People do it.
- Yes, people do it
but they don't have to
know how the car works
or the entire road system as well.
- Why are you panicking?
You're a great pilot,
you know everything there
is to know about flying.
You'll pass easily. (Telephone ringing)
- You don't get it.
Chambers can ask me anything he wants.
He'd like nothing better than
to ground me indefinitely.
- Chris?
Sorry to interrupt.
- What is it?
- I'm having some problem
with the job allocations.
See, if I put Scotty on the
dubbo run in the chieftain
that means he won't be back in time
to do this freight job here
and I can't give it to
Gary 'cause he's on evfr.
And there's a storm warning
for down that way so.
- Just, let me see what I can do.
- Thanks.
How's the study going?
- [Chris] I'm not sure yet.
- That man is totally evil.
I'll let you get back to it.
- That'd be nice.
- He has completely restructured
the booking system.
It is brilliant.
- When did you have time to do that?
- Oh, didn't take very long.
It's only a simple variation
on a spreadsheet.
No big deal.
- You kidding, it's a lifesaver.
Look, I type in the
client's name and bingo,
out comes all the information
on their job, their
length of trip, the cost.
It's all here.
- It's completely gone.
I can't believe I've lost it.
My father's last Christmas present.
- Excuse me, is this
what you're looking for?
- Where did you find it?
- Oh, when I was
sweeping out the hangar.
- Oh Damien, thank you so much.
You don't know what this means to me.
- Glad to be of help.
- Scotty.
Could I have a quick word with
you in my office, please?
- Sure.
- I told you to look after him,
not make him your personal slave.
- What does it matter what he does?
I mean, he doesn't even
want to be a pilot.
He didn't want to come
here in the first place.
- That's no excuse to exploit him.
Sweeping out a hangar
is not work experience.
- Oh, so it's okay for me to
have to do it and not him?
- Well, you're getting paid, he's not.
- I thought I was supposed
to get paid to fly planes.
And why was Lexi made acting
chief pilot and not me?
- Scotty, I don't like your attitude.
What sort of example do you
think you're setting Damien?
- Everywhere I go there he is,
he's fixing something or he's
being an expert at everything,
trying to make me look bad.
- Oh, you are just paranoid.
- Yeah, I think Damien's fantastic.
I think we should have
him 'round all the time.
- Are you kidding, he's a weirdo.
I mean no one can be that
perfect, it's not natural.
- You are jealous of a 15-year-old kid,
I don't believe this.
- I am not,
I just think the guy's
too big for his boots.
He needs a few lessons
on the real world.
- [Shay] Oh, you just don't like him
because he's clever and he's cute.
- Cute?
- [Shay] Yeah in a
studious kind of way.
- I thought I was cute.
- Oh get real, Scotty.
You gotta be young to be cute.
(Lexi laughs)
- Yeah, but in balloons the
flying is so much more real
because you're out there, so,
you can feel the wind in your hair
and the balloon riding the currents.
It's the most amazing feeling.
- I know.
I felt it the first time I saw you.
- [Claire] You were on the
ground when you met me.
- No, I wasn't.
Thank you. (Claire laughs)
- Lexi said something today
when we were flying back
about you having a dream.
Tell me, what was that about?
- I had this dream that
you were coming towards
me in a balloon.
Isn't that incredible?
(Soft, thoughtful music)
- It feels funny being
in someone else's dream.
It was really me?
- Yeah, it was you.
It looked like you, it felt like you.
- I'm sorry but I haven't
dreamt about you before.
- It's okay, don't feel obliged.
- (Laughing) Well, I thought you were
pretty cute when we met
so maybe I'll start now.
- I hope so.
- So, I'm your dream girl.
- Not anymore.
Now you're real.
(Soft, romantic music)
24 hours ago, I was a different person.
I can't believe it's happened.
- So, you've met a girl.
You haven't won the nobel prize,
you haven't even won the lottery.
You've met a girl.
- It's happened before,
it'll happen again.
- No, that's the point,
it won't happen again.
This is different.
- They're always different, jimbo.
- You don't get it, do you?
- Of course we do, she
sounds really nice.
- [Scotty] Go for it.
- Nice?
Nice?
This is her!
The one I want to spend my life with.
- Dream girl.
- But.
- But what?
- Does she dream about you?
- Yeah course she does,
she's crazy about me.
We're crazy about each other.
Now will you do it or what?
I haven't got that many
flights to cover for.
(Plane engine whirring)
(Telephone ringing)
- [Lauren] How did it
end up last night?
- Terrible.
- Lauren, you ready to go?
- Yep, sure, I'm coming.
- You're having another flying lesson.
- Yeah, I know you don't
think I'm serious
but I really want to get this license.
- Don't get bogged.
- Yeah, you too.
(Engine whirring)
Who taught you to fly?
- Chris.
- Oh my lordy, I'm amazed
you even got your license.
- Why?
- He's the most impossible instructor.
All he did was confuse me,
I felt like I didn't know anything.
- I thought he was great.
He just sort of eased me into it
until I found my confidence.
He taught me how to feel the fly.
- Maybe it's just me, then.
- What?
- Don't worry.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Claire] You're gonna love it.
It's gonna be the best thing
you'll ever do in your whole life.
- [Jimbo] Not the best.
- Second best, then. (Laughing)
You know, you're the first guy
I've ever taken ballooning.
- Liar.
- No, it's true.
I've never met anyone before
who understood how I felt about it.
Someone that I feel comfortable with.
- I make you feel comfortable, don't I?
- Yeah, you know you do.
(Engine whirring)
(Playfully tense music)
- What?
- Lauren is in there
pretending to be an airplane.
- Oh, it's probably got
something to do with
her flying lessons,
she's pretty edgy at the moment.
- Oh, the poor woman.
- No, she's really
worried she doesn't have
a true feeling for flying.
- I think I can help her.
(Knocking on door)
- We can watch Lauren eat
this little smart ass alive.
- What's he doing in there?
- Thanks a lot, Damien,
that makes a lot of sense.
- [Damien] Glad to be of service.
- Scotty, you could learn
a thing or two from him.
(Keys tapping)
- Maybe it's time you and
I went for a little spin.
Or is that why you don't
want to be a pilot,
you're afraid of flying?
- No, I love flying.
Just wouldn't want it as a career.
It's not interesting enough.
(Intriguing music)
- Maybe I'll make it
a little bit more
interesting then, hey?
(Engine rumbling)
So, you ever done any aerobatics?
- [Damien] No.
- [Scotty] Maybe I should show
you some tricks then, hey?
- What kind of tricks?
- You're not scared are you?
- No.
- Okay.
(Thrilling music)
- That was fantastic, what a ride.
That was great, better
than a roller coaster.
Your nose is bleeding.
- Thanks.
(Soft, romantic music) (Air puffing)
- [Jimbo] You were
right, it's fantastic.
It's better than almost anything.
- [Claire] I knew you'd like it.
- So whose balloon is this?
- [Claire] It's my mum's.
Dad's is being repaired.
- What, they've got one each?
- Yeah, they had to.
My parents split up
when I was little so,
they had to get separate balloons.
- Oh, that'll never happen to us.
We'll be ballooning when
we're old and gray.
- And we'll have lots
of little balloons
so all our kids can come with us.
- Kids?
- Yeah.
You want to have lots
of children, don't you?
- Yeah sure, I'd love to.
- I want seven, at least.
I want a really big family.
- [Jimbo] You're kidding.
- No.
Why, isn't a woman of the '90s
still allowed to want kids?
- Oh yeah, sure, it's just
you seem so certain about it.
- It's important to me.
I don't know.
Only child, two fighting parents,
it wasn't very much fun.
I want a proper family.
What's the matter?
You don't want lots of kids?
- Oh no, I'd like to have as
many as I possibly could.
- So we really are soulmates.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Shay] Good luck
Chris, you'll be fine.
- Just remember, if it
feels right, it is right.
- Nice to know some people take
notice of what I teach them.
- [Lauren] Good luck.
- I know this great technique
for stopping bleeding noses.
Do you want me to show you?
- No, I'm fine.
(Plane rumbling)
- Has anyone serviced
your jukebox lately?
If the arm's not properly
aligned on those old models
the records can get stuck.
Do you want me to show you
what to do if that happens?
- I can't stand this.
Everywhere I go, there you are,
you're fixing things,
you're finding things,
you're showing people how to do stuff.
You're driving me nuts.
Look, why don't you go and
take the rest of the week off?
Go and bludge on the
beach with your friends.
No one will know.
I'll tell them you're sick.
Go on, you never wanted to
be here in the first place.
Why don't you rack off and
leave me in peace, huh?
- The requirements for the conduct
of a visual approach by day,
now that the aircraft
is within 30 miles
of the specified airdrome...
- [Brian] Sorry, that was 30 miles?
- Yeah, 30 miles.
- [Brian] Sorry, that
the aircraft is within
30 miles of the specified
airdrome, and?
- And at an altitude not below
the lowest safe altitude
or minimum sector altitude
for the root segment
and then to establish
the appropriate steps
of the dme (Murmurs) Procedure.
- Which are?
- Which are that the
aircraft is clear of cloud,
it's inside of ground or water,
invisibility is not
less than 500 meters.
- That's it.
- (Grunting) And then for the aircraft
to maintain flight visibility
at an altitude not
less than the minimum
for vfr flight to the circling area.
- Okay.
Next question.
(Thoughtful music) (Engine whirring)
What would your actions be
when below the mda on
a circling approach
and you subsequently enter cloud?
(Soft, dramatic music)
- There's no formal regulations
for that scenario.
- Tell me what you'd do anyway.
(Soft, dramatic music)
- It's a custom, goes a long way back.
Like, 1700s in France.
The ballooning got really popular so
they kept landing in
people's farms and things
and they always carried a
bottle of champagne onboard
so they could bribe all
the freaked out farmers
who'd never seen a balloon before.
(Chuckling)
- They wouldn't have
freaked if you jumped out.
- Ooh.
- Can you imagine, (Thoughtful music)
Having to give up something
you really wanted?
- [Claire] Like what?
- Let's say, let's say your balloon.
- Why?
I mean, it's me.
It's what I love doing, it's
what I've always loved doing.
- I can't imagine you
without your balloon.
(Claire giggles)
- They burst, I mean they
collapse, they're just air.
- I don't understand
what you're going on.
- I'm talking about us, our future.
- Would you stop worrying?
I love you.
Sorry, it's way soon to say that.
- Me too.
- So what's the problem then?
- I don't know, it's
all so quick I guess.
- It's great.
I am so glad that found you.
(Thoughtful music)
(Engine whirring)
- Damien, I'm sorry mate.
- Doesn't matter.
- What are you still doing here?
Get over to the beach.
I'd rather be bludging with
my mates instead of working.
- I haven't got any mates.
- Course you do.
- I don't get on with kids my own age.
They don't like me.
The only people who I do
get on with are adults.
Well, some of them.
- I like you.
I do, it's just...
- I wish I could be more like you.
- Me?
- You're so cool,
everybody's your friend.
You don't ever have to try to be liked.
It just comes easily.
And women.
You could have any
girl that you wanted.
(Scotty scoffs)
- Oh.
- I've never even had a girlfriend.
- Well, just try to relax a bit more.
Don't try so hard.
- I just want people to like me.
- They will.
Just don't force it, you
know, just be yourself more.
And just stop knowing
everything all the time
and fixing things, would you?
- But that is me.
- Just go easy on it.
Relax.
- [Chris] All stations wollongong.
Echo whiskey Victor
commencing on ndb approach,
leaving 4,200 feet, tracking
zero five zero from the ndb.
- Your compass just packed up.
- After three minutes
descending to 2,500 feet
I'll commence to turn
back to the station,
tracking two, three, zero.
- [Brian] You just lost
your artificial horizon.
- [Chris] Ah, fair go.
- You want to cancel the test now?
- No, no, I'm fine.
Intercepting inbound track.
- Oh bad luck, you just
lost one of your engines.
- You're a bastard.
- You bet.
(Engine whirring)
(Soft, dramatic music)
- Hi, Claire?
Yeah, it's me.
I didn't wake you, did I?
Oh, sorry.
I was just ringing to say thank
you for a wonderful day.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel the same way about you.
Look Claire,
there's something I wanted
to talk to you about,
about us having children.
Well I thought maybe we should
call the first one cirrus
if it's a boy or a
girl, or maybe nimbus,
you know like the clouds we passed
when we were in the balloon?
Okay look, I'll let you
get back to sleep, okay?
Yeah, you'll be in my dreams for sure.
Okay.
Bye.
- [Chris] What are you
still doing here?
- I didn't feel like going home.
I won't sleep.
- For a bloke in love you
don't look too happy.
- I've blown it, Chris.
- What?
Already?
It's only been one day.
- Yeah I know, but, she's
already talking about kids
and the big family we're gonna have.
- Well I guess that'd
be moving a bit fast
for me in one day.
- Gah, it's more than that.
She mentioned the l word.
I haven't told her about, you know,
not being able to have kids.
- Why not?
- I don't know, because a
family means so much to her
and I just went along with
the dream of what she wants.
Each time I try and tell her
it's just harder and harder.
- Well you can't keep
it from her forever.
(Jimbo sighs)
- She'll never forgive me.
- She'll forgive you even less
two or three years down the
track when nothing's happening.
(Engine whirring)
(Claire giggling)
- [Claire] Surprise!
- Hi.
- Hi!
- I was just about to call you.
- See, we even think alike. (Giggling)
I know this is gonna sound
like I'm rushing things
but I've just been given
notice on my flat
and I thought that
it'd be silly for me to
look for someplace else...
- Claire.
- I am rushing things. (Laughing)
No, no.
Silly of me to ask.
(Claire laughs) - It's not that.
There's something I gotta
talk to you about.
- What? (Laughing)
- I should've told you this earlier.
- Oh my god, you're married.
- No, no, no, it's nothing like that.
- You're seeing someone else?
- No, no, no, no, I swear,
no, you're the one.
(Claire giggles)
This thing about kids.
- (Chuckling) You were
lying when you said
you wanted so many. - No, no, no,
I wanted heaps, honest, it's just
I can't.
- You mean you don't want to.
- No.
I can't.
Literally.
Physically, I can't.
I'm sorry.
- You didn't tell me?
- No, I'm telling you now.
(Claire mumbles)
Claire.
Claire.
Claire!
(Engine whirring)
- [Lauren] Good morning, all.
- Morning.
Sorry Lauren, you can't go in there.
Chris is getting debriefed
by Brian chamber of horrors.
- Any idea how he did?
- [Shay] No, sorry.
- Lauren.
- Brian.
Well?
- Well he actually said it.
He made that test as hard
as he possibly could.
Those arc guys are on some power trip.
He wanted me to fail.
- Oh no.
- He's been
after me for years.
He did his worst.
And he still couldn't get me.
(Lauren laughs) (All cheering)
- Cold taps!
- Oh, thank god I don't
have rosters anymore.
- Aw, congratulations.
It's great, it's good to have you back.
- Thank you.
- Claire?
Claire, it's jimbo,
if you're there, pick
up the phone please.
Claire?
(Engine whirring)
- That is totally
excellent, look Scotty.
When I'm playing a game,
all I have to do is hit this button,
up comes a fake spreadsheet so
Lauren thinks I am working.
(Giggling) Is that cool or what?
- I didn't do that much.
Shay asked.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
My employer's report,
glowing of course.
- Thanks very much for
having me, it's been great.
- Aw, it's been great having you,
I just wish you were old
enough to work here now.
- [Damien] Thanks.
- Thanks Damien, thanks
for all your help.
- And, if you have any
problems with the computer
just give me a call.
- Oh, you bet.
Shame you're not a few years older,
otherwise I'd be calling you anyway.
- [Lexi] We're gonna miss you.
- Scotty, thanks for all
your help and advice.
I don't have an older
brother but I kind of
think of you as one.
(Engine whirring)
It's a hundred shares in my company.
- You got a company.
- It's just a little home
electronic business, nothing much,
but it could be something in
a few years with any luck.
- Mate, knowing you it'll be an empire.
So, that's something that I
thought you might like to have.
I flew the kings a
couple of months back
and they gave me this.
- [Damien] Cool.
- [Scotty] Nah, nah, nah.
That's cool.
(Soft, dramatic music)
(Engine whirring)
- We need to talk.
I didn't know how to tell you.
- You pretended that you
were part of my dreams
and I believed you.
- Claire, look, I want to
have kids with you somehow.
- This isn't about children,
it's about you and me.
We don't have a chance if you
can't be honest with me,
not even on the first day.
- We've got something special.
I love you.
- No you don't!
No, you love a dream girl, jimbo.
I'm no dream girl.
I'm messy and I'm always
late and I get bad pmt
and I hate being lied to.
Look, if you had really loved
me you would've been honest.
I'm sorry.
It's too late.
The dream is over, jimbo.
(Air whirring) (Soft, dramatic music)
♪ Ah ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Soft, dramatic music)
♪ Ah ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Thrilling music)
(Wind whirring)
- [Lexi] Hey.
- What happened?
- We're nearly there.
- Oh, right.
(Exhaling)
I just had the most amazing dream.
This beautiful girl
came down in a balloon.
(Engine whirring)
- And?
- And nothing.
That's it.
- The balloon didn't explode?
She didn't get out and talk to you?
- No.
She just looked at me.
(Engine rumbling)
(Soft, dramatic music)
Gray, how's it going?
- [Gray] Can't complain.
- [Jimbo] We're here to
pick up a couple of
parcels for big sky.
- [Gray] Big sky?
I'll have a look.
(Soft, dramatic music) (Air whirring)
- That's her.
- Who?
- [Gray] Hey, is this
what you're after?
(Soft, dramatic music)
- Hi, you the pilot of the chieftain?
You going to the city?
Can I get a lift?
(Jimbo gasps)
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Engine whirring)
- So that's a freight run at carnarvon
and the bank executives
in the afternoon.
Scotty that leaves you with
the milk run at dubbo.
- What, just the one job?
- Well yeah, I need you back here
to give Ronnie a hand
sweeping out the hangar.
- What?
- Well, the hangar.
Needs a really good going over.
- Well, why me?
- Because grasshopper,
you are the most junior pilot.
- So you're saying that when
you were a junior pilot,
you used to clean out hangars?
- Yeah, I cleaned out planes
and I did all the boring jobs
and all the rest.
- This is so unfair, every time
there's a lousy job I get it.
- Just think, one day there'll
be someone younger than you
and you can give them
all the dirty stuff.
(Engine rumbling)
- So what were you doing
out there in a balloon?
- Oh, I've done it all my life.
Right now, though, I'm writing
an article on ballooning
for sports Australia magazine.
- Yeah?
- Jimbo had a dream about you.
- Shut up.
- Sorry, what was that?
- Nothing. (Chuckling)
- I've decided to get
my pilot's license.
(Chris grunts)
What's the point of me having all these
occasional lessons if it
doesn't get me anything?
I might as well make it official.
(Chris grunts) (Telephone rings)
What's the problem, you don't
think I can be a pilot?
- Anyone can be a pilot.
That's not the hard bit.
- Well what is it, then?
- Being a flyer.
- What's the difference
apart from semantics?
- Well if you have to
ask you'll never know.
- Who cares if I'm a pilot or a flyer?
- You don't think there's
a difference between
a singer and a diva or an actor
and a star. - Oh, please.
- No, it's true.
It's true.
A pilot pilots a plane but a flyer,
flies a plane.
Sure they press all the right buttons
but they do it instinctively,
there's a feel.
- And that's what you are?
A flyer?
- Well, it's not something
you think about.
It's something you are,
it's something inside.
You just can't pick flying lessons
like you're choosing
a new pair of shoes.
- I run an aviation company,
it makes sense for me to
have my pilot's license.
So I'm booking lessons with you,
(speaks in foreign language)?
- Hey Scotty, can you fix this for me?
It's not printing.
- Shay, have you seen my other
diamond and pearl earring?
- No, did you take it off
while you were talking on the phone?
- No, I've looked all
through the office
and it's not there.
- Oh, sorry.
- Lauren can I see you about something?
- Ah Scotty, I got someone
I want you to meet.
Scotty Gibbs this is Damien Walsh.
Damien's here with us on
work experience this week.
- Hi.
- Hello, how do you do?
- Yeah, well thanks.
- I thought you might like
to take care of Damien while he's here,
after you've done the
hangar and all that stuff.
- [Scotty] Actually I've got
quite a few flights coming up.
- Oh great, that'll give Damien a taste
for what being a pilot's all about.
Scotty's not that much older than you
so you should get on really well.
- Yeah no, I figured that had
something to do with it.
- Excuse me, could I?
- Sure.
(Machine beeps and whirs)
- [Shay] Why, you legend.
- You had it on manual
feed, that's all.
(Shay sighs)
- [Chris] Okay, you
know your checklist.
What's first?
- [Lauren] Open throttle half inch.
- No.
- I meant master switch.
- No.
- What then?
- Seatbelt.
- Oh for god's sake, you don't
have to be so pedantic.
- Lauren, if you don't go by the book
they throw it at you.
I'm just teaching you procedure.
- All you're doing is confusing me.
I've memorized everything,
and now you're just putting me off.
- Okay, what's next?
No.
You check the mixture?
- Oh, because you confused me.
I knew what to do, I
just, you put me off
with that seatbelt stuff.
- Would you listen to you?
We haven't even left the ground.
How are you gonna cope with 10,000 feet
if you don't calm down?
- Would you stop yelling?
- I'm not yelling.
- Yes you are, I know what to do
and you just make me feel like I don't.
- Oh Lauren you can't blame
the instructor all the time.
- So this is all happening
because I don't have your
feel for flying, is that it?
Okay, now.
I've set the mixture to rich.
Now, can I hit the starter?
- Yes.
- Thank you.
(Plane rumbling) (Playful music)
(Plane whirring)
- [Chris] Ease up, ease up.
- Ease up, what's that mean?
- Not so heavy on the throttle.
Ease up, ease up!
- I've eased up on the throttle.
- No, ease up on the left rudder.
- Well how was I supposed to know
it was a different ease up?
You can't just have some
all-purpose instruction
and expect me to know what
you're talking about.
- Will you just concentrate
on what you're doing?
- [Lauren] I am.
(Playful music)
- [Chris] Right!
Right rudder!
- Why?
We're on line, it's straight.
- [Chris] Well no, I can feel
it, you're veering left.
- Yeah because you're sitting there,
you can't see it from my angle.
- [Chris] No, I can just feel it!
Just ease up, ease up!
- Ease up?
What?
- Look!
Look at what you're doing!
- I am, will you stop (Chris mumbling)
Hassling me? - Pressing too hard,
now ease 'em up! - Stop hassling me!
- Tango whiskey Sierra,
this is Sydney tower,
you do not have clearance
to cross runway one six.
You have just violated
the active runway.
- Lauren, you're going off the strip.
Left!
- Yeah, but I've gotta get off
the runway. - Left!
Left! - Yeah, but I
gotta get off the runway.
- Left. (Grunting)
Look!
Ease, will you ease up!
Ease up! (Playful music)
- I am but nothing's happening.
It's stuck, it won't move.
(Engine whirring)
- [Chris] Oh, great.
- Tango whiskey Sierra,
this is Sydney tower.
Are your operations normal?
Do you require assistance?
- [Lauren] Well?
- Well, I'm not telling him.
- Oh, this is not my fault.
- Lauren, you ran off the strip.
- I had to get off - whiskey Sierra.
- The runway.
- This is Sydney tower,
repeat.
Do you require assistance?
(Plane whirring) (Playful music)
- Sydney tower, this is
tango whiskey Sierra.
It seems like we're bogged.
- Congratulations, ace.
(Playful music)
(Crowd applauding)
- Haven't you lot got work to do?
- Back to work, fellas. (Chuckling)
- Oh Lauren, look, I'll get a
tent out there straight away,
there's nothing you
have to worry about.
- Why is everyone assuming
this is my fault?
- Because you ran us off the airstrip.
- [Lauren] Because we were on a runway
we weren't supposed to be on
because you weren't looking
where we were going.
- Thanks very much for the
lift, it was really nice.
- No worries.
- Is there a phone that I
can use to call a taxi?
- I'm a taxi.
I've got a, I mean I've,
well, I've got a car.
I mean, it could be like your taxi,
I could drive you.
- I have to go in the city.
- Into the city, that's where
I'm going, into the city.
I mean, I can take you now.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, no worries.
(Claire chuckles)
- Hey jimbo, you can't do that.
You promised to help me find
those consignment slips.
- They're probably in my locker.
- Oh gross, jimbo, I am not
looking through your locker.
- I'll find them.
Are they just the carbon
triplicate variety?
- [Shay] This is Damien, he's
here on work experience.
- Thanks Damien, I owe you one.
- [Damien] Any time.
- Okay, shall we?
- Yep, oh thanks.
(Claire chuckles)
- [Lauren] And if you
were a better instructor
it wouldn't have happened anyway.
- There's nothing wrong
with my teaching,
I knew it was a bad idea for
you to get your license.
- Maybe I could get a feel for flying
if I had someone who was a
little bit more patient
and didn't try and
confuse me all the time.
- I'm sorry to interrupt you guys
but Brian chambers is
here to see you, Chris.
- No prizes for guessing
what that's about.
Brian!
What can I do for you?
- Chris.
Lauren.
It's about that roaming
incursion this morning.
- Yeah look, I'm sorry about that.
It was an accident, it
won't happen again.
- Yeah, I was with a student,
not a very experienced one
and well, I'll put all the
details in a report for you.
- You were the instructor?
- [Chris] Yeah.
- Can I have a look at
your license, please?
- Brian.
- I have to follow
procedure here, Chris.
- [Chris] Uh-huh.
- This is out of date.
- What?
It can't be. (Engine whirring)
Two days.
- Still invalid.
- Fair go, you know I'd
never let that happen.
- Looks like you did.
- Brian, it was an oversight.
What are you gettin' so fussed about?
- About a serious breach
of runway procedure.
- [Chris] Brian you don't
even know the details yet.
- And you're aware I'm going to
have to review your overall knowledge
of aviation procedure?
- Oh Brian, give me a break.
- The arc's responsible
to ensure that all the piloted licenses
are both competent and
capable and as such
we're entitled to conduct
any inquiry. - Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You let me know
when you want to resit the test.
Make sure I have that
report by tomorrow.
Oh Lauren, you do know you'll
need a new chief pilot?
(Somber music)
- [Claire] Have you
always wanted to fly?
- Ever since I was a kid.
- Me too.
- Yeah?
- Oh, my parents were balloonists,
that's how I got the bug.
It's just, well, nothing
else like it, you know?
Like, floating through the air.
- The freedom to go wherever you want.
- We're so lucky, you know.
I mean, most people, they
never get that perspective.
- You know, we're the only people
who get to live in three dimensions.
Anyone who's just stuck on the ground,
they can only go forward and backwards
but we get to go up and down too.
- (Laughing) Well, that's
what makes us special.
- Yeah, it sure does.
- Actually, just stop
here, that'd be great.
- What, here, now?
- Yeah, I've got a
meeting with my editor.
- But, I mean, you don't know
enough about me for a story,
I mean there's heaps of stuff
I've still gotta tell you.
- You could drive around
the block a few times, or?
- Or?
- Or we could talk
again some other time.
- Tonight?
We could, dinner, I mean, if you think?
- (Laughing) I'd love to.
I'll meet you at big sky, say eight?
- Wonderful.
- That's the workshop,
and this is where we hang
out when we're not flying.
See, we gotta make
sure we're well rested
and ready for anything.
You wouldn't believe half
the things we have to face,
electrical storms, search and rescue.
I even had a bomb on board, once.
- Sounds terrible.
Which is jimbo's locker?
- Here.
You know, it's not easy
being a pilot, mate.
They don't just let anybody through.
- Oh that's okay, I
don't want to be one.
- So what are you doing here?
- Well, I tried to get
in with the TV station
but I couldn't.
When I was hanging out
waiting to here from them
I missed all the radio
stations and magazines.
So it's the last thing
I could think of.
- So we were bottom of your list.
- Yeah.
- Pity.
- Here they are.
A lot of rubbish in here.
Do you think jimbo would
mind if I throw it out?
- Won't be needing these.
- They're past the use-by date?
- No I mean, he doesn't need them.
He can't have kids.
- Oh, bad luck.
Still we've been taught
that condoms should be used
to prevent the transmission of disease
as well as conception.
- Yeah, right.
Hey listen, I just remembered
a job that you might like.
You remember where the
hangar is, don't you?
- [Chris] I can't understand it,
I always make a date to renew that
way before it's...
- [Lauren] Oh, what are you doing,
looking for someone to blame?
- Oh, you don't understand.
Chambers has been gunning
for me for ages.
I'm going to get the exam from hell.
- Well, what do you
want me to do about it?
What I want to know
is what I'm gonna do
about a new chief pilot
while you're out of action.
- [Chris] Thanks for your concern.
- It can't be jimbo.
I mean, maybe Lexi.
- [Chris] Oh whoever,
it won't be for long.
- Hey, and what about
my flying lessons?
- See the chief pilot.
I'm busy.
(Playfully tense music)
- You look as if you
got lucky, dream boy.
- I asked her out to dinner.
- [Scotty] Who's this?
- It's a girl he met.
She came out of the sky.
- She's the one.
- [Lexi] The one?
- I can't believe it, like,
I knew it before I knew it.
I knew what she looked like, it's...
- Uncanny.
- No, it's...
- Incredible.
- No, no, it's more, it's...
- Surreal?
- No, no.
It's like I'm...
- Oh, if you say it's a
miracle, I'll vomit.
- It's a miracle.
(Knocking on door)
- Have you seen a diamond
and pearl earring anywhere?
- No.
Have a look at this.
Meteorology.
Pneumatics.
Engine systems.
Aerodynamics.
I haven't looked at
this stuff for ages.
How would you like to resit
your driver's license
and try and remember all that stuff
about not parking two
meters from a postbox.
- People do it.
- Yes, people do it
but they don't have to
know how the car works
or the entire road system as well.
- Why are you panicking?
You're a great pilot,
you know everything there
is to know about flying.
You'll pass easily. (Telephone ringing)
- You don't get it.
Chambers can ask me anything he wants.
He'd like nothing better than
to ground me indefinitely.
- Chris?
Sorry to interrupt.
- What is it?
- I'm having some problem
with the job allocations.
See, if I put Scotty on the
dubbo run in the chieftain
that means he won't be back in time
to do this freight job here
and I can't give it to
Gary 'cause he's on evfr.
And there's a storm warning
for down that way so.
- Just, let me see what I can do.
- Thanks.
How's the study going?
- [Chris] I'm not sure yet.
- That man is totally evil.
I'll let you get back to it.
- That'd be nice.
- He has completely restructured
the booking system.
It is brilliant.
- When did you have time to do that?
- Oh, didn't take very long.
It's only a simple variation
on a spreadsheet.
No big deal.
- You kidding, it's a lifesaver.
Look, I type in the
client's name and bingo,
out comes all the information
on their job, their
length of trip, the cost.
It's all here.
- It's completely gone.
I can't believe I've lost it.
My father's last Christmas present.
- Excuse me, is this
what you're looking for?
- Where did you find it?
- Oh, when I was
sweeping out the hangar.
- Oh Damien, thank you so much.
You don't know what this means to me.
- Glad to be of help.
- Scotty.
Could I have a quick word with
you in my office, please?
- Sure.
- I told you to look after him,
not make him your personal slave.
- What does it matter what he does?
I mean, he doesn't even
want to be a pilot.
He didn't want to come
here in the first place.
- That's no excuse to exploit him.
Sweeping out a hangar
is not work experience.
- Oh, so it's okay for me to
have to do it and not him?
- Well, you're getting paid, he's not.
- I thought I was supposed
to get paid to fly planes.
And why was Lexi made acting
chief pilot and not me?
- Scotty, I don't like your attitude.
What sort of example do you
think you're setting Damien?
- Everywhere I go there he is,
he's fixing something or he's
being an expert at everything,
trying to make me look bad.
- Oh, you are just paranoid.
- Yeah, I think Damien's fantastic.
I think we should have
him 'round all the time.
- Are you kidding, he's a weirdo.
I mean no one can be that
perfect, it's not natural.
- You are jealous of a 15-year-old kid,
I don't believe this.
- I am not,
I just think the guy's
too big for his boots.
He needs a few lessons
on the real world.
- [Shay] Oh, you just don't like him
because he's clever and he's cute.
- Cute?
- [Shay] Yeah in a
studious kind of way.
- I thought I was cute.
- Oh get real, Scotty.
You gotta be young to be cute.
(Lexi laughs)
- Yeah, but in balloons the
flying is so much more real
because you're out there, so,
you can feel the wind in your hair
and the balloon riding the currents.
It's the most amazing feeling.
- I know.
I felt it the first time I saw you.
- [Claire] You were on the
ground when you met me.
- No, I wasn't.
Thank you. (Claire laughs)
- Lexi said something today
when we were flying back
about you having a dream.
Tell me, what was that about?
- I had this dream that
you were coming towards
me in a balloon.
Isn't that incredible?
(Soft, thoughtful music)
- It feels funny being
in someone else's dream.
It was really me?
- Yeah, it was you.
It looked like you, it felt like you.
- I'm sorry but I haven't
dreamt about you before.
- It's okay, don't feel obliged.
- (Laughing) Well, I thought you were
pretty cute when we met
so maybe I'll start now.
- I hope so.
- So, I'm your dream girl.
- Not anymore.
Now you're real.
(Soft, romantic music)
24 hours ago, I was a different person.
I can't believe it's happened.
- So, you've met a girl.
You haven't won the nobel prize,
you haven't even won the lottery.
You've met a girl.
- It's happened before,
it'll happen again.
- No, that's the point,
it won't happen again.
This is different.
- They're always different, jimbo.
- You don't get it, do you?
- Of course we do, she
sounds really nice.
- [Scotty] Go for it.
- Nice?
Nice?
This is her!
The one I want to spend my life with.
- Dream girl.
- But.
- But what?
- Does she dream about you?
- Yeah course she does,
she's crazy about me.
We're crazy about each other.
Now will you do it or what?
I haven't got that many
flights to cover for.
(Plane engine whirring)
(Telephone ringing)
- [Lauren] How did it
end up last night?
- Terrible.
- Lauren, you ready to go?
- Yep, sure, I'm coming.
- You're having another flying lesson.
- Yeah, I know you don't
think I'm serious
but I really want to get this license.
- Don't get bogged.
- Yeah, you too.
(Engine whirring)
Who taught you to fly?
- Chris.
- Oh my lordy, I'm amazed
you even got your license.
- Why?
- He's the most impossible instructor.
All he did was confuse me,
I felt like I didn't know anything.
- I thought he was great.
He just sort of eased me into it
until I found my confidence.
He taught me how to feel the fly.
- Maybe it's just me, then.
- What?
- Don't worry.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Claire] You're gonna love it.
It's gonna be the best thing
you'll ever do in your whole life.
- [Jimbo] Not the best.
- Second best, then. (Laughing)
You know, you're the first guy
I've ever taken ballooning.
- Liar.
- No, it's true.
I've never met anyone before
who understood how I felt about it.
Someone that I feel comfortable with.
- I make you feel comfortable, don't I?
- Yeah, you know you do.
(Engine whirring)
(Playfully tense music)
- What?
- Lauren is in there
pretending to be an airplane.
- Oh, it's probably got
something to do with
her flying lessons,
she's pretty edgy at the moment.
- Oh, the poor woman.
- No, she's really
worried she doesn't have
a true feeling for flying.
- I think I can help her.
(Knocking on door)
- We can watch Lauren eat
this little smart ass alive.
- What's he doing in there?
- Thanks a lot, Damien,
that makes a lot of sense.
- [Damien] Glad to be of service.
- Scotty, you could learn
a thing or two from him.
(Keys tapping)
- Maybe it's time you and
I went for a little spin.
Or is that why you don't
want to be a pilot,
you're afraid of flying?
- No, I love flying.
Just wouldn't want it as a career.
It's not interesting enough.
(Intriguing music)
- Maybe I'll make it
a little bit more
interesting then, hey?
(Engine rumbling)
So, you ever done any aerobatics?
- [Damien] No.
- [Scotty] Maybe I should show
you some tricks then, hey?
- What kind of tricks?
- You're not scared are you?
- No.
- Okay.
(Thrilling music)
- That was fantastic, what a ride.
That was great, better
than a roller coaster.
Your nose is bleeding.
- Thanks.
(Soft, romantic music) (Air puffing)
- [Jimbo] You were
right, it's fantastic.
It's better than almost anything.
- [Claire] I knew you'd like it.
- So whose balloon is this?
- [Claire] It's my mum's.
Dad's is being repaired.
- What, they've got one each?
- Yeah, they had to.
My parents split up
when I was little so,
they had to get separate balloons.
- Oh, that'll never happen to us.
We'll be ballooning when
we're old and gray.
- And we'll have lots
of little balloons
so all our kids can come with us.
- Kids?
- Yeah.
You want to have lots
of children, don't you?
- Yeah sure, I'd love to.
- I want seven, at least.
I want a really big family.
- [Jimbo] You're kidding.
- No.
Why, isn't a woman of the '90s
still allowed to want kids?
- Oh yeah, sure, it's just
you seem so certain about it.
- It's important to me.
I don't know.
Only child, two fighting parents,
it wasn't very much fun.
I want a proper family.
What's the matter?
You don't want lots of kids?
- Oh no, I'd like to have as
many as I possibly could.
- So we really are soulmates.
(Thoughtful music)
- [Shay] Good luck
Chris, you'll be fine.
- Just remember, if it
feels right, it is right.
- Nice to know some people take
notice of what I teach them.
- [Lauren] Good luck.
- I know this great technique
for stopping bleeding noses.
Do you want me to show you?
- No, I'm fine.
(Plane rumbling)
- Has anyone serviced
your jukebox lately?
If the arm's not properly
aligned on those old models
the records can get stuck.
Do you want me to show you
what to do if that happens?
- I can't stand this.
Everywhere I go, there you are,
you're fixing things,
you're finding things,
you're showing people how to do stuff.
You're driving me nuts.
Look, why don't you go and
take the rest of the week off?
Go and bludge on the
beach with your friends.
No one will know.
I'll tell them you're sick.
Go on, you never wanted to
be here in the first place.
Why don't you rack off and
leave me in peace, huh?
- The requirements for the conduct
of a visual approach by day,
now that the aircraft
is within 30 miles
of the specified airdrome...
- [Brian] Sorry, that was 30 miles?
- Yeah, 30 miles.
- [Brian] Sorry, that
the aircraft is within
30 miles of the specified
airdrome, and?
- And at an altitude not below
the lowest safe altitude
or minimum sector altitude
for the root segment
and then to establish
the appropriate steps
of the dme (Murmurs) Procedure.
- Which are?
- Which are that the
aircraft is clear of cloud,
it's inside of ground or water,
invisibility is not
less than 500 meters.
- That's it.
- (Grunting) And then for the aircraft
to maintain flight visibility
at an altitude not
less than the minimum
for vfr flight to the circling area.
- Okay.
Next question.
(Thoughtful music) (Engine whirring)
What would your actions be
when below the mda on
a circling approach
and you subsequently enter cloud?
(Soft, dramatic music)
- There's no formal regulations
for that scenario.
- Tell me what you'd do anyway.
(Soft, dramatic music)
- It's a custom, goes a long way back.
Like, 1700s in France.
The ballooning got really popular so
they kept landing in
people's farms and things
and they always carried a
bottle of champagne onboard
so they could bribe all
the freaked out farmers
who'd never seen a balloon before.
(Chuckling)
- They wouldn't have
freaked if you jumped out.
- Ooh.
- Can you imagine, (Thoughtful music)
Having to give up something
you really wanted?
- [Claire] Like what?
- Let's say, let's say your balloon.
- Why?
I mean, it's me.
It's what I love doing, it's
what I've always loved doing.
- I can't imagine you
without your balloon.
(Claire giggles)
- They burst, I mean they
collapse, they're just air.
- I don't understand
what you're going on.
- I'm talking about us, our future.
- Would you stop worrying?
I love you.
Sorry, it's way soon to say that.
- Me too.
- So what's the problem then?
- I don't know, it's
all so quick I guess.
- It's great.
I am so glad that found you.
(Thoughtful music)
(Engine whirring)
- Damien, I'm sorry mate.
- Doesn't matter.
- What are you still doing here?
Get over to the beach.
I'd rather be bludging with
my mates instead of working.
- I haven't got any mates.
- Course you do.
- I don't get on with kids my own age.
They don't like me.
The only people who I do
get on with are adults.
Well, some of them.
- I like you.
I do, it's just...
- I wish I could be more like you.
- Me?
- You're so cool,
everybody's your friend.
You don't ever have to try to be liked.
It just comes easily.
And women.
You could have any
girl that you wanted.
(Scotty scoffs)
- Oh.
- I've never even had a girlfriend.
- Well, just try to relax a bit more.
Don't try so hard.
- I just want people to like me.
- They will.
Just don't force it, you
know, just be yourself more.
And just stop knowing
everything all the time
and fixing things, would you?
- But that is me.
- Just go easy on it.
Relax.
- [Chris] All stations wollongong.
Echo whiskey Victor
commencing on ndb approach,
leaving 4,200 feet, tracking
zero five zero from the ndb.
- Your compass just packed up.
- After three minutes
descending to 2,500 feet
I'll commence to turn
back to the station,
tracking two, three, zero.
- [Brian] You just lost
your artificial horizon.
- [Chris] Ah, fair go.
- You want to cancel the test now?
- No, no, I'm fine.
Intercepting inbound track.
- Oh bad luck, you just
lost one of your engines.
- You're a bastard.
- You bet.
(Engine whirring)
(Soft, dramatic music)
- Hi, Claire?
Yeah, it's me.
I didn't wake you, did I?
Oh, sorry.
I was just ringing to say thank
you for a wonderful day.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel the same way about you.
Look Claire,
there's something I wanted
to talk to you about,
about us having children.
Well I thought maybe we should
call the first one cirrus
if it's a boy or a
girl, or maybe nimbus,
you know like the clouds we passed
when we were in the balloon?
Okay look, I'll let you
get back to sleep, okay?
Yeah, you'll be in my dreams for sure.
Okay.
Bye.
- [Chris] What are you
still doing here?
- I didn't feel like going home.
I won't sleep.
- For a bloke in love you
don't look too happy.
- I've blown it, Chris.
- What?
Already?
It's only been one day.
- Yeah I know, but, she's
already talking about kids
and the big family we're gonna have.
- Well I guess that'd
be moving a bit fast
for me in one day.
- Gah, it's more than that.
She mentioned the l word.
I haven't told her about, you know,
not being able to have kids.
- Why not?
- I don't know, because a
family means so much to her
and I just went along with
the dream of what she wants.
Each time I try and tell her
it's just harder and harder.
- Well you can't keep
it from her forever.
(Jimbo sighs)
- She'll never forgive me.
- She'll forgive you even less
two or three years down the
track when nothing's happening.
(Engine whirring)
(Claire giggling)
- [Claire] Surprise!
- Hi.
- Hi!
- I was just about to call you.
- See, we even think alike. (Giggling)
I know this is gonna sound
like I'm rushing things
but I've just been given
notice on my flat
and I thought that
it'd be silly for me to
look for someplace else...
- Claire.
- I am rushing things. (Laughing)
No, no.
Silly of me to ask.
(Claire laughs) - It's not that.
There's something I gotta
talk to you about.
- What? (Laughing)
- I should've told you this earlier.
- Oh my god, you're married.
- No, no, no, it's nothing like that.
- You're seeing someone else?
- No, no, no, no, I swear,
no, you're the one.
(Claire giggles)
This thing about kids.
- (Chuckling) You were
lying when you said
you wanted so many. - No, no, no,
I wanted heaps, honest, it's just
I can't.
- You mean you don't want to.
- No.
I can't.
Literally.
Physically, I can't.
I'm sorry.
- You didn't tell me?
- No, I'm telling you now.
(Claire mumbles)
Claire.
Claire.
Claire!
(Engine whirring)
- [Lauren] Good morning, all.
- Morning.
Sorry Lauren, you can't go in there.
Chris is getting debriefed
by Brian chamber of horrors.
- Any idea how he did?
- [Shay] No, sorry.
- Lauren.
- Brian.
Well?
- Well he actually said it.
He made that test as hard
as he possibly could.
Those arc guys are on some power trip.
He wanted me to fail.
- Oh no.
- He's been
after me for years.
He did his worst.
And he still couldn't get me.
(Lauren laughs) (All cheering)
- Cold taps!
- Oh, thank god I don't
have rosters anymore.
- Aw, congratulations.
It's great, it's good to have you back.
- Thank you.
- Claire?
Claire, it's jimbo,
if you're there, pick
up the phone please.
Claire?
(Engine whirring)
- That is totally
excellent, look Scotty.
When I'm playing a game,
all I have to do is hit this button,
up comes a fake spreadsheet so
Lauren thinks I am working.
(Giggling) Is that cool or what?
- I didn't do that much.
Shay asked.
- Sorry to keep you waiting.
My employer's report,
glowing of course.
- Thanks very much for
having me, it's been great.
- Aw, it's been great having you,
I just wish you were old
enough to work here now.
- [Damien] Thanks.
- Thanks Damien, thanks
for all your help.
- And, if you have any
problems with the computer
just give me a call.
- Oh, you bet.
Shame you're not a few years older,
otherwise I'd be calling you anyway.
- [Lexi] We're gonna miss you.
- Scotty, thanks for all
your help and advice.
I don't have an older
brother but I kind of
think of you as one.
(Engine whirring)
It's a hundred shares in my company.
- You got a company.
- It's just a little home
electronic business, nothing much,
but it could be something in
a few years with any luck.
- Mate, knowing you it'll be an empire.
So, that's something that I
thought you might like to have.
I flew the kings a
couple of months back
and they gave me this.
- [Damien] Cool.
- [Scotty] Nah, nah, nah.
That's cool.
(Soft, dramatic music)
(Engine whirring)
- We need to talk.
I didn't know how to tell you.
- You pretended that you
were part of my dreams
and I believed you.
- Claire, look, I want to
have kids with you somehow.
- This isn't about children,
it's about you and me.
We don't have a chance if you
can't be honest with me,
not even on the first day.
- We've got something special.
I love you.
- No you don't!
No, you love a dream girl, jimbo.
I'm no dream girl.
I'm messy and I'm always
late and I get bad pmt
and I hate being lied to.
Look, if you had really loved
me you would've been honest.
I'm sorry.
It's too late.
The dream is over, jimbo.
(Air whirring) (Soft, dramatic music)
♪ Ah ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Soft, dramatic music)
♪ Ah ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
♪ ooh ♪
(Thrilling music)