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He totally thought he was going to get away with it too. There's really interesting observations made by the YouTube community - he had a fire extinguisher con
by tragictrash 5y ago
He totally thought he was going to get away with it too.
There's really interesting observations made by the YouTube community - he had a fire extinguisher concealed under his pants right above his ankle.
Great that he got his pilots license revoked. He obviously is not mature enough.
- chrononaut 5y ago> he had a fire extinguisher concealed under his pants right above his ankle. This was also something I just learned about the incident an hour ago, and in fact he has a fire extinguisher on both legs, which are relatively evident in his video: - Bulge on his right calf when jumping out of the plane at 2m06s into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=126s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=126s - You can then see the bottom of the fire extinguisher on his left leg lit up by the sun for a couple frames at 2m11s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=131s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=131s
- jacquesm 5y agoYou have absolutely amazing eyes.
- bfz 5y agoYou can frame-by-frame on YT by pressing '.', but yes, still an amazing catch by parent
- jolmg 5y agoAnd ',' to go back a frame, for those that didn't know.
- smegsicle 5y agompv controls!
- jrockway 5y agoI remember the first time I absentmindedly pressed . or , on YouTube and was shocked that they used MPlayer's keybindings (and implemented such an obscure, but useful, feature). Oddly probably the least copied feature across video platforms, I like it a lot, but nobody else seems to have stolen it. (Can anyone believe that Twitch has gotten away with such a terrible player? I remember people used to send streamers Twitch VODs to review, and every time they paused the video gets greyed out. Twitch never changed this, and now people use YouTube for that.)
- djmips 5y agoEven though those are the correct controls I tend to think of the < and > as the mnemonics because it makes kind of sense (but those are shift)
- diabeetusman 5y agoAnd < and > increase and decrease playback speed, for what that's worth
- Moru 5y agoAnd are placed somewhere completely else on Swedish keyboards but it was an Aha-moment when I realized as a child that the keys ,. was really supposed to be <> for arrows in some games 30+ years ago :-)
- whatever_dude 5y agoThat's why they are the keys in fact. Those are the usual shortcuts for frame navigation in some video editors.
- chrononaut 5y agoHah, I must admit that I didn't catch it the previous times I watched the video when I heard about the incident; It wasn't until I learned he had extinguishers strapped to the back of his legs that I went hunting for them in the video.
- jacquesm 5y agoEven knowing what I was looking for I had to do frame-by-frame a couple of times before spotting them, and once you see them it's obvious but to spot them not knowing they are there is quite a feat.
- geoduck14 5y ago>You have absolutely amazing eyes. blushes thanks
- salawat 5y agoIt was probably more the attention to detail and dataprocessing and recognition loop. You have an amazing brain just doesn't really tickle all the same physiological switches though.
- limaoscarjuliet 5y agoSome of that processing attributed to the brain happens in the eyes themselves, so "amazing eyes" still fits :-)
- iamtedd 5y agoIf someone called my brain amazing I'd blush :)
- davidjgraph 5y agoThe joke is more that "you have amazing eyes" more means "you have beautiful eyes", at least in British English. "you have excellent eyes" would be how I'd comment on someone's eyesight.
- jacquesm 5y agoAnd some of us don't even speak or write English as a first language, imagine! If the op felt I was flirting with them then that's entirely their problem :)
- scoot 5y agoIt wasn't the OP who replied
- scoot 5y ago> "you have excellent eyes" "good eyes" or "well spotted" would be more idiomatic, I think.
- scoot 5y ago
- spookthesunset 5y agoIf you search YouTube for “Trevor Jacob” there is several pilot folks who have spent tons of time going through every little detail of the video. They’ve reconstructed the flight path, where it landed, you name it. It was one of those “hive mind” kind of deals and it was fun to follow during the month or so after the original video was posted.
- beart 5y agoWhat was the purpose of the fire extinguishers? To put out the plane after it crashed?
- gonzo41 5y agoAll I can think is the extra weight on his legs my break his tib/fib, which would not be good.
- mannykannot 5y agoIt would have made for a more gripping video: some real drama for once, with some real rather than badly-acted tension.
- arlcode 5y agoThat's anyones guess. I doubt that by the time he got too the plane there would have been anything left worth extinguishing? Perhaps too prevent a forest fire? Although that would've been equally futile. Maybe someone who intentionally crashes a plan for a few YouTube clicks isn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier after all.
- beeboop 5y agoI think he probably has them for just that reason - to put out any fire his crash might start. He knew there is massive, massive liability and jail time for deliberately doing something that causes a fire and can potentially destroy miles of trees, homes, and people.
- cryptonector 5y agoThose must be some fire extinguishers if he could use just two of them to put out fires spanning "miles of trees, homes, and people"!
- codebolt 5y ago
- jolmg 5y agoYou can also see the bottom of the one on his right leg for a few frames when he changes the camera from his right to his left hand at 2:15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=135s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbYszLNZxhM&t=135s
- CrimsonCape 4y agoMight be some water bottles.
- megablast 5y ago
- dopa42365 5y agoublock origin, sponsorblock, don't sub or donate.
- toomanydoubts 5y agoDoes ublock somehow stops view counts? Or are you strictly talking about monetization? Even though I don't care about adding views, that might make youtube recommend his videos further. He's probably on some kind of shadowban at this point, though.
- hatware 5y agoOh the horror, not views!
- smiley1437 5y agoFor anyone else like me who was curious as to the utility of having a fire extinguisher on one's person when deliberately crashing the plane, the speculation is that 1. It would be useful to fight fire at the wreckage if attempting a recovery of the go-pro footage from the plane 2. To limit a bush fire from spreading (and national park blowback) around the wreckage, although those tiny extinguishers would probably do diddly-squat if a bush fire actually started
- bombcar 5y agoI don’t get the logistics involved - how can you jump from a plane safely and still have it crash near enough you can hike to it? Better to use the extinguishers as extra thrust for a wing suit.
- jacquesm 5y ago
- noitpmeder 5y agoBest to always assume people comment in good faith.
- jacquesm 5y agoI do but this account has come to my attention a couple of times by now and I'm considering pinging a higher power. "Better to use the extinguishers as extra thrust for a wing suit." does not read like something a reasonable person would inject as a contribution to the conversation.
- lolc 5y agoUsing fire extinguishers for thrust is a joke about the futility of carrying them to extinguish a bush fire. That's how I read it anyway.
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- qbasic_forever 5y agoI'm surprised the youtube video is still up, and has 1.7 million or more views. With that many views he's probably earned up to 5 figures of revenue from the ads and such alone. IMHO he kind of has gotten away with it--he's making money and added a ton of subscribers. Youtube should really kick him off the platform.
- ChrisRR 5y agoI think you overestimate how much youtube pays per view.
- KennyBlanken 5y agoFour figures, at best. A quick googling says youtube pays as low as $300 per 1M views, maybe as high as $2k. Really goes to show how shitty the "creator" economy is for the "creator"
- qbasic_forever 5y agoAh, yeah back in the early days of youtube 1.5+ million views was a huge amount of revenue for creators.
- tempestn 5y agoIt depends a lot on the genre. Some pay $3-5 CPM I believe (so, $3k-5k per million). And that's just the youtube ads; once a channel gets a lot of subscribers they can attract external sponsors as well.
- arlcode 5y agoThere used to be a sponsoring segment in the beginning, but, if I recall correctly, they ended the contract after the stunt became known and it was cut.
- scoot 5y agoAffiliate link, not a sponsor. It's a common ruse by YouTubers to refer to them as sponsors to suggest that there's a negotiated commercial relationship when there isn't.
- ehnto 5y agoIt's really transparent to anyone who's flown. He spends no time debugging, no time communicating, no time looking for somewhere to land. He had a lot of altitude and his immediate thought was "Oh ok I guess it's broken, seeeeyaaaaa". Amongst all the other callouts, like why a parachute, why so many cameras strapped up, some timeline incongruities, some camera shot incongruities. His flight path made no sense. It was well executed enough to trick your regular view I'm sure, but it did not stand up to scrutiny, and you better believe the FAA was going to scrutinize.
- PUSH_AX 5y agoAs a regular viewer (I don't fly) it still looked off.
- qwertox 5y agoHis door already being open while the engine turns off.
- traceroute66 5y ago> He spends no time debugging, no time communicating, no time looking for somewhere to land. Yup. He spent most of his time doing absolutely nothing, just maintaining back-pressure on the yoke and holding the aircraft in the stall. I suppose at least he was lucky enough to pick an aircraft with docile stall characteristics. Somehow he does not strike me as the sort of person who could manage to recover from a wing-drop and induced spin. Frankly shame on YouTube for allowing the video to remain on their platform
- Breza 4y ago> he was lucky enough to pick an aircraft with docile stall characteristics Evidence suggests he may have bought the plane explicitly for this stunt. He's an experienced sky diver, so I imagine he knows what kind of plane is good for a pilot looking to bail.
- jhugo 5y ago> Frankly shame on YouTube for allowing the video to remain on their platform I was nodding until this bit... why do you think YouTube should censor this? It's a real video of a real thing that he did (which he misrepresents the circumstances of). I could possibly get on board with "put an explanatory note next to it" or "don't let him get ad revenue from it", but what possible reason would there be for deleting it?
- danielrhodes 5y agoHe also jumped out of the plane holding a selfie stick. Call me old fashioned, but if I was bailing out of a crashing plane, that wouldn’t be the first thing I would reach for.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoA fire extinguisher per se is pretty normal aboard an airplane. A fire in the cabin is one of the scariest situations for a pilot. However why conceal it? Most planes just have a place for them. That's suspicious. There were also loads of empty roads to land safely. I agree this whole thing looks really staged. Jumping out with a selfie stick.. :X Such a waste of an airplane.
- londons_explore 5y agoHe probably has still gotten away with it... He probably will just be banned from flying for life, but will still have a much enlarged youtube audience and ad revenue that more than pays for the lost plane. I highly doubt he'll spend even a day in prison.