That documentary was a real eye opener for me.

When I found this website looking for, as the home page says "general travel information", I was under the impression from considerable reading, that the site was populated primarily by business travelers who were required to spend a tremendous amount of their time on airplanes and in airports as an integral part of doing their jobs. I thought it was mostly about making a necessary drudgery, if you will, as tolerable as possible.

I never considered that there is, apparently, a sizable group of individuals that simply fly!

The posters in this forum will not detect even the slightest raised eyebrow from me. I have my hobbies that people find to be out of the ordinary as well:



http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/...3d69b0e73f.jpg
Ready to Go by woodyrr, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3921318...7625311045099/

There's a long-standing thread on this production in the CommunityBuzz forum.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/commu...ted-video.html

I'll move this thread to the CBuzz forum. Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator, TravelBuzz.

Glad you put that second photo, I had no idea what that thing was in the back of your truck.

What is that thing in the back of the truck?

Don't want to take the thread too far OT, but it is a decommissioned "air raid" or more commonly known in the midwest, "tornado" siren. I bought it and am restoring it. Here is a link to photos with the story: http://www.flickr.com/photos/3921318...7625311045099/

The point being that, as a poster expressed above, I'm sure that friends, relatives, and coworkers of flyertalkers who fly as a hobby and accumulate and spend "miles" are inclined to look somewhat askance at them, but relatively speaking, flyer hobbyists are not any more crazy than the rest of us. ;)

I really enjoyed being exposed to a new subset of society.

That's quite something on the back of the truck then..:eek:

We all have passion to collect miles.. its interesting to see what we all do on the side..

For myself.. I'm a connosieur of pianos..

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...re-documentary

He's making it into a feature length film and needs backers...
Join me in investing in this project.

An absolutely wonderful thing. Not only put into words but also picture, the exact idea I am repeatedly unable to fully convey to the few people I thought were nuts enough to understand me. Proud to be a mileage junkie (even a newborn one :)). Just backed with what I could at the moment - my first kickstarter participation ever.

Flyertalkers needed to back this project
 

Same here. He's still short of his goal and only has 15 more days to fund this. Even $1 would help. $10 gets you a digital download of the film and $25 gets you a DVD. $100 gets you invited to the premiere. What a great gift for someone ! I loved the short version and think Gabriel did an awesome job. It was first shown on PBS Frontline in 2009.

Hey Flyertalkers - Please back this project !

Any way this could be pushed to busier parts of FT? I come across both the link and this thread by pure random chance, which is a shame - this is essentially a movie about all of us here - and if there's 160k members, and lets say only 20% of these are active, each giving as little as 1$ would supply enough funds to make TWO movies :)

Hey FTers, I'm the filmmaker and wanted to thank you all for helping to spread the word about the Kickstarter campaign and the film. The short has been viewed 60,000 times online and a lot of that is down to support from FT members as well as bloggers who are all no doubt members of this site too.

I'd love for this to be placed somewhere busier--I'll definitely need the help in the last 15 days of the funding drive--but have been hesitant to post it anywhere myself. Thoughts/ideas on that are much appreciated.

In the meantime, happy flying.

I started a new thread. Hope the mods keep it open. I agree, there are so many of us here that we can make this happen !

Loved the film thanks.

And funds are over the mark! Great job FT, good luck Gabriel, looking forward to the premiere and enlightening the masses in the non-mile age :)

Great job MilePoint ;). IIRC, they donated the last $1K needed to fund the movie :)^