Patrick Boyd
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Because Nathan Fielder, the actual person, while not making people laugh, one of his hobbies is reading accident reports. He got obsessed with this Canadian TV show called Mayday, which looks at all these different crashes throughout history and what caused them. On a cold day in northern Ontario, a passenger jet is unable to climb above the trees.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And he noticed a trend, which is a real actual thing, which is that there are failures of pilots and co-pilots to communicate.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
He believes that this... this aspect of what's called CRM, crew resource management, in the field needs to be improved. Training needs to be improved. And that this will help aviation safety. Crew resource management is the idea that a flight crew is more than the sum of its parts.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
It's not just a captain doing the captain's job and the first officer doing the first officer's job, but the interaction between them is really important.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
and the field really got its wings as you could say back in the 70s when there was a still to this day the most fatal air accident that ever happened where these two 747s heavily laden with tourists were maneuvering around in the fog at tenerife airport in the canary islands One was about to take off.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
The other one had not yet left the runway, but the first one couldn't tell because it was so foggy. And the first officer, as they're about to take off, the first officer says, I don't think the runway is clear. And the captain's like, yeah, we're good. And they take off and they hit the other plane. And hundreds and hundreds of people died. And so it was realized, well, the problem is that
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Somebody on the flight deck understood that there was a potentially major problem, but they weren't able to communicate it to the person who was in the controls of the aircraft at that time. So you had a lot of people talking about this thing. People in the industry started really taking it more seriously. Now CRM is mandated as part of the training. And Nathan talks about it in the show.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
He feels that even though it's mandated, it isn't sufficient. They don't really do a very good job.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
So Nathan's argument is that there's a big difference between being told something in a PowerPoint presentation or reading it in a book or your teacher telling you about it in a classroom. There's a big difference between that and actually doing it in the cockpit.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
There's a whole field. It's a small field, but it's a field of academic study of this particular subset of CRM where people talk, it's called safety voice. Britain and Europe have different equivalents of the FAA, but they both require a significant amount of time spent getting certified in a particular skill called MCC, which stands for multi-crew cooperation.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And the idea is that when you learn how to fly, you're flying alone, and then when you start to become an airline pilot, you're now in this situation where you have to cooperate. And as I said, the flight crew is more than the sum of its parts. You have to learn how to deal with this other person and work cooperatively, share the information that you need to share, listen, speak, all that.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And so they have a whole course that's devoted just to that and involves a lot of simulator time. So they're pretty much doing, you could argue, exactly what Nathan's proposing. There was a study that one of these researchers did where they asked, they did a survey of pilots, and they asked them, like, how do you feel about... improving your communication skills.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And a lot of pilots were like, that sounds like girl stuff.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Yeah. although I'm not a very serious pilot myself, I haven't dedicated my life to it the way that a professional pilot has, but I do spend a fair bit of time amongst pilots. And I do think that there is a pilot culture. I think that pilots have a certain kind of character to them. And I think that there's a reason for that. You are doing a life or death thing.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
You have to have your ducks in a row. You have to fundamentally take it seriously, or you're not going to be around very long. And so pilots have a certain kind of no-nonsense attitude. But there is something, I think, really smart about recognizing that humility, for instance.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
I mean, I think humility is an important concept both for doctors in the surgical suite and for pilots and captains in the cockpit.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
But I think there's a major caveat to that, which is that we do not live in normal times. There's an old saying, regulations are written in blood. One of the major drivers of regulatory change in aviation has been plane crashes, people dying. And so a lot of the rules that you see in that rule book are there because at least one person died.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And so if your attitude is, every time you want to put in a new rule, we're going to take 10.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Well, that's just opening up the door to more people dying.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
I think the worst probably this century. So what happened was the helicopter was flying along this very narrow route, required the helicopter to be below 200 feet, which is quite low, and with, you know, hugging the bank of the river. And the helicopter,
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
The supervising pilot, who is kind of the trainer of the pilot who was actually at the controls, said, you are out of your lane, you're too far away from the bank. And she was also too high. And we don't know what exactly was going on. We don't know if she didn't hear or she heard and chose not to obey or whatever. But for whatever reason, this is a classic case of,
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
cockpit communications failure, where somebody knew that there was a problem, somehow was unable to convey that information to the pilot at the controls, and catastrophe resulted. So this is exactly, I mean, it's uncanny that this is exactly what he's talking about.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
Yeah. It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up, frankly. And it was one of the things I wanted to ask him about. How did it feel to him? Because on the one hand, it's horrific. I mean, it's the kind, I mean... One wishes one's predictions to come true, except when they're horrible predictions. And that's what happened.
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A comedian tries to fix aviation
And his answer to the question was, he wasn't surprised, that he thought it was just a matter of time. And the timing was really uncanny, but this really demonstrates the stakes. This is not merely someone thumping on a tub. or using it as an excuse to make a TV show, it really, really underlies just how serious this comedy show is at its core.
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Little Marco’s big portfolio
The president has made his argument as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining the United States for economic purposes. The president rightly has concluded that the current status of global trade is bad for America and good for a bunch of other people, and he's going to reset it, and he's absolutely right to do it.
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I've never met Vladimir Putin, but I know enough about him to know he's a gangster. He's basically an organized crime figure that runs a country, controls a $2 trillion economy, and is using it to build up his military in a rapid way, despite the fact his economy is a disaster.
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Little Marco’s big portfolio
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I think the first and most important thing we need to do is we have to help the Ukrainian people.
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Little Marco, I will. Well, let's hear a big, big don. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, Little Marco. Gentlemen.
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Don't come here and create a such scenario where you're going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn't going to work. President Zelensky took it in that direction and it ended in a predictable outcome as a result.
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Well, my parents came to this country because they were looking for a better life.
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Well, I would never tell you that. And you know who else I'll never tell? A judge. Because the conduct of our foreign policy belongs to the president of the United States and the executive branch, not some judge.
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