Dan Gryder

I don’t know him or the other blanco guy; my only issue with them is the impression they give that aircraft accidents are something that can be solved in prime time 1 hour YouTube episode. As well as some of the analysis I’ve seen in a couple of their videos that had me scratching my head as to what investigative process they used to come to X finding or Y conclusion. As someone who has done more than a few full accident investigations in my time and know the extensive painstaking detail, long analysis time, and intensive effort it takes to not only do these investigations efficiently, but accurately, and with zero inherent bias. Only following the trail that facts and evidence take you, and only drawing conclusions that have evidentiary basis, accepting that some things may never be a known why.
 
Surely the opinionated talking head must be right, why would we need experts. It’s a deep state plot etc etc
 
MikeD said:
I don’t know him or the other blanco guy; my only issue with them is the impression they give that aircraft accidents are something that can be solved in prime time 1 hour YouTube episode. As well as some of the analysis I’ve seen in a couple of their videos that had me scratching my head as to what investigative process they used to come to X finding or Y conclusion. As someone who has done more than a few full accident investigations in my time and know the extensive painstaking detail, long analysis time, and intensive effort it takes to not only do these investigations efficiently, but accurately, and with zero inherent bias. Only following the trail that facts and evidence take you, and only drawing conclusions that have evidentiary basis, accepting that some things may never be a known why.
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I'll give JB a little credit in that he only crosses the line sometimes

It's one thing to make a video saying "Here's what we know, and maybe here's a little well-labeled speculation."

Saying it's a suicide 2 days after the fact is just ridiculous.
 
trafficinsight said:
I'll give JB a little credit in that he only crosses the line sometimes

It's one thing to make a video saying "Here's what we know, and maybe here's a little well-labeled speculation."

Saying it's a suicide 2 days after the fact is just ridiculous.
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His analysis of the Dallas airshow midair was chock full of misunderstandings or outright ignorance of formation flight roles and responsibilities, formation flight tactics/techniques/procedures, maintenance of separation sectors and altitudes, as well as basic see and avoid. The only thing he seemed able to focus on was the airshow director. Sure, there were indeed supporting problems with the airshow direction; but there were problems that were primary causal that had to do directly with the flying, that he didn’t seem to understand. And yet, was presenting his views as facts.

Aircraft accidents wrapped up In an hour! All just aviation clickbait.
 
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Me thinks, Mr. Cook is going to own a DC-3 pretty soon.

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MikeD said:
How analysis of the Dallas airshow midair was chock full of misunderstandings or outright ignorance of formation flight roles and responsibilities, formation flight tactics/techniques/procedures, maintenance of separation sectors and altitudes, as well as basic see and avoid. The only thing he seemed able to focus on was the airshow director. Sure, there were indeed supporting problems with the airshow direction; but there were problems that were primary causal that had to do directly with the flying, that he didn’t seem to understand. And yet, was presenting his views as facts.

Aircraft accidents wrapped up In an hour! All just aviation clickbait.
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I understand and agree with your philosophical disagreement with JB. The "instant reaction" to crashes in the media is a bad idea that shouldn't be encouraged. You're absolutly right, it's all clickbait.

However, someone is going to fill that social media vacuum and I think he does a decent job compiling the initial data. He does stretch his "expertise" in numerous videos into areas where he has only a passing knowledge (such as helicopters). Many of the ultimate conclusions are different from his initial videos but I've also seen him make corrections and note where his "first take" was different than the final report.

He is FAR FAR better than Gryder who has made up complete fiction up to an including blaming crashes on suicide, conspiracy, and other complete nonsense. I won't even click on his videos because I don't want him getting credit (even JerryW was entertaining, in a highway crash sort of way).

It's the difference between Dr Phil and Jerry Springer. They are both making spectacle of their guests for TV ratings, but one is a lot classier about it than the other.
 
USMCmech said:
I understand and agree with your philosophical disagreement with JB. The "instant reaction" to crashes in the media is a bad idea that shouldn't be encouraged. You're absolutly right, it's all clickbait.

However, someone is going to fill that social media vacuum and I think he does a decent job compiling the initial data. He does stretch his "expertise" in numerous videos into areas where he has only a passing knowledge (such as helicopters). Many of the ultimate conclusions are different from his initial videos but I've also seen him make corrections and note where his "first take" was different than the final report.

He is FAR FAR better than Gryder who has made up complete fiction up to an including blaming crashes on suicide, conspiracy, and other complete nonsense. I won't even click on his videos because I don't want him getting credit (even JerryW was entertaining, in a highway crash sort of way).
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He also tends to do a final report video later on in addition to the initial video which is generally because his followers are probably blowing him up for comment.

As I say, he does cross the line from time to time, but in the world of "OMG I CRASHED MY KITFOX AGAIN CLICK LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE" he comes across as pretty level headed.

He suffers from the same problem, sometimes, a lot of people who went from military to major do... I posted a thing to facebook once griping about going around thrice at KACV and diverting back to SFO then getting yelled at by a passenger for my obvious incompetence and a mainline acquaintance responded "It's a shame your company is too cheap to spring for Cat II." Well, skippy, two problems there.... 1.) My company does spring for Cat II, and 2.) It's Arcata California.

I found him when he was reporting on the damage and reconstruction of the Oroville Dam spillway, and his coverage of that was amazing compared to anyone else.
 
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trafficinsight said:
I posted a thing to facebook once griping about going around twice at KACV and diverting back to SFO then getting yelled at by a passenger for my obvious incompetence and a mainline acquaintance responded "It's a shame your company is too cheap to spring for CATII." Well, skippy, two problems there.... 1.) My company does spring for Cat II, and 2.) It's Arcata California.
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I just popped the door and yelled “is this Ireland?” when that happened to me and there was raucous laughter.
 
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I really wish I had thought of that. :P
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We went to MFR, a few people got off, gassed, went, we were supposedly filed for SFO as the alternate, we decided in a bit of chicanery to get Redding instead, DX went for it and the Company bussed the people over the hill. This was when it was NOTAM’d up to RVR 40-350’ HAT or so, and Sully himself could have done no better.
 
USMCmech said:
I understand and agree with your philosophical disagreement with JB. The "instant reaction" to crashes in the media is a bad idea that shouldn't be encouraged. You're absolutly right, it's all clickbait.

However, someone is going to fill that social media vacuum and I think he does a decent job compiling the initial data. He does stretch his "expertise" in numerous videos into areas where he has only a passing knowledge (such as helicopters). Many of the ultimate conclusions are different from his initial videos but I've also seen him make corrections and note where his "first take" was different than the final report.

He is FAR FAR better than Gryder who has made up complete fiction up to an including blaming crashes on suicide, conspiracy, and other complete nonsense. I won't even click on his videos because I don't want him getting credit (even JerryW was entertaining, in a highway crash sort of way).

It's the difference between Dr Phil and Jerry Springer. They are both making spectacle of their guests for TV ratings, but one is a lot classier about it than the other.
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Like most of these clickbait types, he’s taken with a very healthy grain of salt. Only because of some of the glaring errors in analysis and conclusion that he has made, will naturally make someone who truly understands how investigations work, suspect and cautious of what is posted.
 
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