Explanation regarding ending of video (Patreon)

Hi everyone.

For the first time since I started producing this videos I’ve received quite negative feedback from a few of you guys so I wanted to address that.

In my latest video about the Colganair crash I decided to change up the storytelling up a bit. Instead of putting all the causes and outcomes at the end, I wove some of them into the actual story (the fatigue, the crash pads, the non-sterile chatter as well as the likely reason for the captains opposite handling of the event)

I did that because I wanted to focus more, in the end, on the legislative outcome of the crash which was the 1500h get rule and the fact that that this rule came about WOTHOUT any recommendation from the report.

In the original video I also talked a bit more about the changes to simulator training around the stick-pusher and upset/recovery training but decided to just fold that into “improved training” to focus on the main point.

Doug mentioned that I didn’t “close the sack” properly at the end and there might be some truth to that but I figured that my question in the beginning; “it changed the US aviation industry, but was it for the correct reasons?” Was answered by the very end statement of how this accident led to the senate creating a law that had very little to do with the actual accident.

I will try to keep the ending quite short and to the point, going forward, and the reason for that is simple. When we look at the audience retention of our videos, there is a clear “drop of” after the accident happens where the people don’t stay and listen to the outcome. In order to teach people as much as we can from these accidents, we need to get the learning points into the story as much as we can.

There is a new NOW video being produced right now that will look even deeper into the effects of the 1500h rule, I hope that will also straighten out some question marks.

I am sorry if the codeo disappointed some of you. There is almost always more details to go into in these reports but we pride ourselves in destilling down the most important ones.