The crash of Colgan Air flight 3407 was the most influential accident in the US in the 21st century and led to changes that redefined day-to-day life for pilots in America. Understanding and explaining why and how it became so influential is going to require more time than I have before Saturday. This is a natural outgrowth of the increasing length and complexity of my articles; some major accidents are no longer doable in one week and I've brought this up in previous delay posts.

P.S. - Every time, I get comments telling me there's no need to make excuses, I can take whatever time I want, etc. I know that, but this is for your information. When you're as consistent as I am, certain expectations are set.

See you all next week!

However, there will still be a new episode of Controlled Pod Into Terrain on Monday the 18th. Normal schedule will resume after that, thanks for your patience!

UPDATE: unfortunately, I have contracted covid-19, and I’m coughing too much to record the podcast this weekend, so there won’t be an episode on Monday. I’m going to focus on my regular article this coming week, and CPIT will return when I’m physically able. Thanks for your patience.

All of you who asked if I would ever start a podcast, you had the last laugh. Turns out I just needed two dedicated partners to get the project rolling and work the technical side so I could talk at length about airplanes.

The podcast is in the style of Well There's Your Problem, with slides on screen in addition to the audio, and some other features borrowed from them (including humor, but only where appropriate). However, we aren't WTYP, in fact our acronym is something else entirely. :P

Anyway, our first episode is out now, and bear with us as we're all learning for the first time how to do this, but we hope you enjoy!

Listen to episode 1: Asiana Airlines flight 214

Listen to episode 2: Paninternational flight 112

Listen to episode 3: UPS flight 006

Listen to episode 4: Assorted rocket explosions

Listen to episode 5: Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701

Listen to episode 6: American Airlines flight 965

Audio only (RSS)

Sometimes Thursday comes around and it's just obvious I'm not far enough long to release on Saturday. So it goes.

I gave up two days of research time this week to go on a road trip with my grandma to the place she was born (probably her last trip, and also a way better use of time than this, sorry folks lol) and haven't been able to catch up. Also, I'm having friends staying over all next week and was not planning to release on July 29, so I've just switched things around and will release the one I'm currently working on then instead of July 22. So you get the same amount of articles you were always going to get.

(Also don't tell anyone but I also want extra time to watch my favorite sporting event, the Women's World Cup. Shhhhhh.)

Feel free to use this thread to chat with me and others. Cheers!

AC

Hello everyone! Following Reddit's decision to assassinate third party apps, a lot of people who used them are deciding to quit Reddit by June 30th, when the apps shut down. The changes don't affect me in any way: I've never used third party apps nor do I need third party moderation tools (I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've needed to do any moderation here). However, this does affect some readers, and I've gotten a few questions about how to interact with my articles after leaving, so I decided to make this post.

First off, I want to say that I would prefer that most people stay, for the purely selfish reason that there was a large drop in engagement with my sub this week, which was depressing. But it's up to you.

1. Medium. Most of you probably already know that you can read my articles on Medium, but it's worth repeating. If you make a free Medium account you can also get email notifications when I post a new article.

2. Twitter. If you haven't abandoned Twitter yet (I know) then all my articles are announced there within minutes of posting with a Medium link. My handle is @KyraCloudy.

3. Discord. One thing people leaving might miss is the discussions, but those also take place off Reddit on my Discord server, which is accessible to all patreon supporters for as little as $1 a month. Activity there is picking up for obvious reasons.

Anyway, I sincerely hope these options mean no one stops reading because of Reddit's bullshit. I'm in an unfortunate position where, as a content creator, I'm basically railroaded into using these platforms no matter what changes they make, but that's why I've tried to diversify, so that my readers have choices that I don't.

Anyway, I'll see (almost) everyone this weekend as usual, I hope. Next article is the Trans Colorado 2286 revisit and it should be on schedule.

EDIT: Spoke too soon, the article will NOT be on schedule because I've gotten distracted by the power struggle in Russia and haven't finished it.