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Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by robin_reala »

ricardobayes wrote: post #8
noduerme wrote: post #5

Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by Reason077 »

ricardobayes wrote: post #8
noduerme wrote: post #5

Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

> ”It's up to you to filter out content you dislike”

YouTube’s algorithm is pretty good at doing this for you!

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by wkat4242 »

ricardobayes wrote: post #8
noduerme wrote: post #5

Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!)

There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by [deleted] »

ricardobayes wrote: post #8
noduerme wrote: post #5

Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

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Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by jwrx »

wkat4242 wrote: post #13
ricardobayes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

Not the OP but personally I'm the same. It's Google I don't like and also the video format, I have no patience for watching videos. Written content is much easier for me to absorb quickly and efficiently. Videos are always so tailored to the slowest viewer (especially training videos, I hate those!!) There's only a few YouTubers I have time for like ones that don't hide complexity, such as Dave Jones from EEVBlog.

YouTube now provide a setting to change the speed of a video. This means you can decrease or increase the speed to meet your viewing requirements.

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by midasuni »

robga wrote: post #9

Interesting that they call Lajes a “military airfield”. On the Azorean island of Terceira, Lajes (TER) is a mixed use airfield that is the commercial landing strip of the island since the 1930s, as well as having a multi-national military base on the other side since the 1940s. There is a picture in the story. The NTSB report called it a military airbase, and other reports say “Military air traffic controllers guided…

To cross the Atlantic between NA and Europe you need to be able to travel 138 minutes from an airport, although for almost the entire area it’s 120 minutes.

This is accomplished by having air strips which can take massive planes like A350s at remote places which can’t justify planes of that size normally like Newfoundland, Greenland and the Azores

While these are mainly there for military and temporary emergency use, in 2001 they were used far more - with dozens of planes landing at tiny towns like Gander and St. John’s in Newfoundland, places which only really expect a single large plane to land and refuel rather than 30 with passengers to accommodate for days.

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by deanCommie »

robin_reala wrote: post #11
ricardobayes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.

YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by kqr »

deanCommie wrote: post #17
robin_reala wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume OP’s position is more like never buying a book from a publisher they perceive as being problematic.

YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.

That's also a reason to avoid it, to be honest... any time a publisher becomes closer to a medium than a publisher we're in trouble!

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by noduerme »

ricardobayes wrote: post #8
noduerme wrote: post #5

Against my own inclination to never watch YouTube, I've become a bit obsessed with this one fellow who does excellent reconstructions and analyses of aviation incidents. He covers this one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9becqrhsedE

Seems a bit weird to say "never watch youtube". It's like never reading a book anymore because someone gave you a bad one. It's up to you to filter out content you dislike, just like with everything else.

Er, (parent here), I'd say it's more like "never buy books at the airport bookstore" rather than "never read books."

Re: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Transat flight 236

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Post by noduerme »

kqr wrote: post #18
deanCommie wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube is much closer to a "medium" than an a publisher.

That's also a reason to avoid it, to be honest... any time a publisher becomes closer to a medium than a publisher we're in trouble!

Everyone here is right.
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