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Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by MerelyMortal » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 3:22 PM UTC

pigbearpig wrote: post #66

MerelyMortal wrote: post #56

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Here's a short article that does a much better job at relaying the information while being more considerate of the viewer's time: https://simpleflying.com/preliminary-ntsb-report-dallas-cras... (Seriously, the first 54 seconds of the video linked in the parent comment was just talking about local weather and a video of some trees.)

The Blancolirio channel is pretty respected when it comes to covering aviation incidents. (Seriously, the first article of the site linked in the parent comment was just talking about most expensive airports for Christmas car parking.)

> pretty respected

Isn't that some sort of fallacy?

Just because they are respected doesn't mean something else they are doing is wrong.

560,000 views, times a minimum of one man-minute wasted (that's just the intro, I didn't let the person waste away any rest of my life) is 1 man-year and 23 man-days of collectively wasted time, just to add a couple extra dollars of ad revenue.

This person is saying that he values a couple of extra dollars and not the one resource that you can't get more of: time in your life.

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by vannevar » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 3:58 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #72

Former pro video editor here. The second video looks like bullshit. Serious people would show the video at normal speed, then slowed done, and added timecode, as well as documenting their methods. They also wouldn't make assumptions about what was going on, eg 'tries to restart the engine'. These black blobs look to me like compression artifacts, from zooming a video from a phone camera that was compressed for storag…

The NTSB preliminary report points strongly toward negligence, which I'm sure was not lost on the potential defendants, their insurance companies, and their counsel. If I were on the defendants' legal team, I would be very happy to see a video like this surface, regardless of where it came from. I'd be even happier to see it picked up by a major news outlet, which would generally require first that it pop up in popular online news sites, like say HN.

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 4:05 PM UTC

TomSwirly wrote: post #97

akiselev wrote: post #39

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Any advice for a aspiring fighter jet pilot? (goal is to eventually fly an L39 Albatross)

Yes: refuse to participate. The US has engaged in a series of unprovoked wars for decades, killing millions of innocent people and losing almost everyone. Why would you want to participate in this sequence of genocides and war crimes?

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Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by krisoft » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 4:17 PM UTC

jaywalk wrote: post #106

krisoft wrote: post #96

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> GPS transponders I assume you mean ADS-B in? Is the receiver in the drone itself or in the ground station/transmitter?

Drones (generally) don't use ADS-B in or out.

Okay, then what is a “GPS transponder”?

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by jaywalk » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

krisoft wrote: post #114

jaywalk wrote: post #106

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Drones (generally) don't use ADS-B in or out.

Okay, then what is a “GPS transponder”?

I'm guessing the comment was referring to the drone having a GPS receiver and relaying it's position to the base station.

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by chrisbaker98 » Fri, Dec 09, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

leetrout wrote: post #19

chrisbaker98 wrote: post #18

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How can you tell that someone is shadowbanned?

All their comments are dead

I don't get it. How do you know that GP is shadowbanned? The post looks just like a normal post to me; I'm not even sure what it means for it to be dead.

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by maxbond » Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 6:06 PM UTC

maxbond wrote: post #11

aaron695 wrote: post #5

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It doesn't look like a drone. Although possible, war planes should not be as affected by strikes. Why do you think it's a drone?

It looks like a small black spec a few hundred feet off the ground to me. Drone seems pretty likely. Perhaps it's junk that fell off another aircraft, it could be a satellite falling to Earth for all I know, but drone seems like the first hypothesis to rule out. Or that the footage is inauthentic I suppose.

(My current understanding is now that the footage being inauthentic or misunderstood is the most likely.)

Re: Dallas midair tragedy: New videos show startling change in flight path of p-63

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Post by pigbearpig » Mon, Dec 12, 2022, 5:52 AM UTC

MerelyMortal wrote: post #111

pigbearpig wrote: post #66

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The Blancolirio channel is pretty respected when it comes to covering aviation incidents. (Seriously, the first article of the site linked in the parent comment was just talking about most expensive airports for Christmas car parking.)

> pretty respected Isn't that some sort of fallacy? Just because they are respected doesn't mean something else they are doing is wrong. 560,000 views, times a minimum of one man-minute wasted (that's just the intro, I didn't let the person waste away any rest of my life) is 1 man-year and 23 man-days of collectively wasted time, just to add a couple extra dollars of ad revenue. This person is saying that he values a…

The guy is a an actual airline pilot. He's showing the same stuff that NTSB would be analyzing in their investigation.

You're oddly barking up the wrong tree by complaining about a genuine pilot's non-sponsored youtube channel to recommend a website that is passenger focused.

It's like complaining about a scientific journal having too many words and recommending the Yahoo! Health article instead. It's a different audience.