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Ohh nice!

I've been following her articles for a year or so, but I recently stopped checking her site because the articles are so few and far between now. They used to come very regularly. I'm glad she's still making new ones. The last one about egyptair was months ago. So I wasn't sure if she'd stopped or something.

I guess she's either not got much material left to write about or she's busy with other work. But I'm always happy to read new stuff <3 and it's worth waiting for.

Ps it might be a bit of a morbid interest but I fly myself and I get really interesting insights from it. I only fly small stuff but still.

Ps2 this is the second B17 crash she's written about. There's not a lot of them left now in flyable condition :'(

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She wrote an update last year about the frequency changes: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/why-so-few-articles-late...

Definitely worth subscribing to email updates!

Ah thanks I didn't see that. Also didn't know she had a podcast as well (I don't listen to podcasts anyway so it wasn't on my radar). I did notice the articles getting longer and better though. Makes sense!

I didn't realise this was her job, I thought it was more of a side thing.

The podcast is super fun! It takes the “Engineering Podcast with Slides” model that WTYP originated, but instead of having one knowledgeable person and two comedians, all 3 know different parts of the industry.

What’s the name of the podcast?

I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot

Ugh what a waste of her talent. I don't know this guy but his YouTube channel is so clickbaity. Every video title has some exaggerated screamy headline. I would never bother even looking at one.

And yet the quality of that channel is absolutely excellent, and the polar opposite of what the thumbnail clickbait suggests. I'd say it's on the same level of the Admiral Cloudberg blog actually.

And to be clear I completely agree with your reaction to the clickbait. If I didn't already know the channel I would probably avoid the videos too. And I've seen this happen with other channels. It seems to be an unfortunate effect of the current youtube "meta".

Yep. Watched a few videos, was overall impressed. Subscribed. A week later blocked the channel because the value of the videos was less than the annoyance of seeing the thumbnails and titles in my feed. No great loss.

DeArrow [1] or Clickbait Remover for Youtube [2] would help with that.

1. https://dearrow.ajay.app/

2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f... would help

Neither are available on AppleTV, to my knowledge.

Hm ok, I've never seen it. It has appeared for me before but the clickbaity titles and images put me off. Perhaps it works to game the youtube system but it certainly doesn't to get my interest.

But I don't have much patience for videos anyway. I prefer long reads.

Shame really - his is the best in depth aviation accident channel on YouTube, and he is the real deal.

Ah to be honest I really hate watching videos anyway. I prefer the long reads she does. I just don't have the patience for video.

I sometimes use youtube for things where you really need video, like for a review where you have to see the product. But even for things like repair instructions I don't like videos. I much prefer the iFixit writeups.

I suspect the Youtube algorithm means you have to use clickbait thumbnails. Nevertheless the quality of his analysis is usually excellent (and so is Kyla Dempsey's).

Also from TFA:

"Thanks for your patience in waiting for this article! After publishing my piece on EgyptAir 804 in December, I moved half way across the country in a long, messy relocation process fraught with other struggles along the way. But here I am, and here it is. Thank you!"

Ah yeah I didn't have a chance to read it yet. I take my time with those :) But that explains a lot.

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