[conspire] Added carrier scrutiny (YouTube Mentour Pilot ...)

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Added carrier scrutiny
> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:40:11 -0700

> Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
>
>> This youTube explains what the handling of the 737 can get a bit
>> dicey under certain conditions and that pilots need to practice it. 
>> Don't remember if someone already shared this, or YouTube suggested
>> it after I watched something else.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlinocVHpzk
>
> That expert training pilot is the fellow using nom-de-Internet 'Mentour
> Pilot', who is very, very good.  I encountered his online material a few few
> days ago, when I encountered the sudden plot twist that the Ethiopian
> Airlines flight 302 pilots _had_ been fully following the Boeing
> emergency checklist to disable MCAS and terminate runaway automatic
> trim.  At the time (just a few days ago!), one of the sources for that
> senational story was an independent investigation by Bjorn Fehrm of
> Leeham News and Mentour Pilot:
>
> https://leehamnews.com/2019/04/03/et302-used-the-cut-out-switches-to-stop-mcas/
>
> Basically, Leeham News and Mentour Pilot had a theory about a reason why
> following Boeing's instructions involving setting STAB TRIM CUTOUT might
> _not_ suffice to fix the runaway automated trim syndrome.  So, Mentour
> Pilot did a video-taped simulator test that appeared to show exactly
> that, and posted it to his YouTube channel.  According to him, he had
> qualms about whether this was a responsible action given that the matter
> is under investigation and that his reproduction was speculative to some
> degree -- so he pulled the video about an hour later.
>
> Listening to Mentour Pilot, I at first wondered if he weren't Norwegian.
> Close!  He's Captain Petter Hörnfeldt, originally from Sweden, now living
> in Girona, Spain with his family and working as a Type Rating Instructor
> (TRI) and Type Rating Examiner (TRE) for RyanAir.
> https://karlenepetitt.blogspot.com/2016/09/petter-hornfeldt.html
>
> Anyhow, I certainly commend his YouTube channel, for anyone interested
> in these subjects.

Yes, it's been a moderate while - but I've seen lots of his stuff on
YouTube.  As far as I can tell, seems pretty dang credible, accurate,
and factual.

And yes, he has qualms about commenting on and doing videos, etc.
of aviation incidents/accidents - and especially/particularly before
all the final investigations and reporting have been completed.
And I can certainly understand much of that - lots of "fans"/"subscribers"/
followers "want to know" - want his
opinion/perspective/take/(/(educated) guesses/...) on what happened,
why/how, and how it might've been prevented, ... and I'm sure there's also
lots of pressure from peers, etc. to not cover it or draw attention to
e.g. airline crashes/failures ... and/or to at least wait until the
full investigations and reporting have concluded.  So, yes, competing and
conflicting interests on what to say/comment(/do video) on - particularly
publicly ... and/or not ... and when.

Anyway, quite good videos he puts out.  They're also pretty well targeted
mostly towards a general audience - so digestable by most anyone.
There are also others who put videos out that are ((much) more) oriented
towards pilots & flight crews (they tend to presume certain base
knowlege in many/most cases, and familiarity with, e.g. typical/common
terminology, regulation, etc.).  Anyway, no shortage 'o stuff on
'da Interwebs - and YouTube, etc. (with of course the caveat that about
10 to 20% of it is cr*p, partially inaccurate, to dead wrong, and
anything between, so ... "buyer"/consumer beware).