Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Mentour Pilot" channel.

I counted at least 5 people who were supposed to directly look at them & check...
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@rong1924 as explained in the video, there may have been a set of streamers in the cockpit, it's also possible that an absence of streamers was expected & disregarded.
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@MentourPilot since you're here, would this aircraft have leveled itself out with nobody at the controls? Would it have done this safely?
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@otmathibidi1958 small civilian aircraft like this (& I believe all non-military & non-aerobatic aircraft) are inherently self-stabilizing into straight level flight if the controls are left alone & will recover from small gusts of wind etc, my question was how much this self-recovery can cope with? This was a real aircraft not one in a movie, they're as easy & safe to fly as the manufacturer can design in & Cessna had decades of experience by the time they designed the Caravan.
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@Blatsen I disagree, an obscenity is more likely to be noticed than anything else. Anyone not noticing is not doing their job properly & needs to be explaining this to their manager.
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@michaelchomiczewski7937 the ground station can measure wind speed & add/subtract from radar-measured speed to estimate air speed. The aircraft has GPS-derived ground speed so between these figures the pilots can estimate a useful number to direct their actions.
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Tallys like these streamers work reasonably well if they're used with absolute strictness but adding extra tallys into the system completely defeats it, as seen here. If extra tallys are to be used they must have special procedures & be obviously different to the regular tallys, perhaps a different colour, in this circumstance I'm thinking maybe the tallys should be tied together onto an extra-long streamer which goes in through the pilot's window or they should have containers & a procedure for handing them over. The control tower should have a note attached to the aircraft to retrieve them. This is something which needs serious thought. Where I've used tallys was as a bus mechanic, we each had a belt to attach to the steering wheel & if there were any tallys on the wheel it was not permissible to start the engine. This was an immediate sacking offence.
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You say Pitot tubes are heated, I'm wondering how hot a Pitot tube would have to be to guarantee vapourizing a mud wasp?
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@SJ-vr4wy on the pictures shown the TO/GA button is on the back of the levers so cannot be operated with the hand on the levers.
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@user-gy8be9cf7i in 3 very busy seconds the pilot should look away from what he's doing to check an automatic system that didn't feed back a fault? Seriously?
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@mikediamond353 at 23:08? The camera angle is reversed, we are looking out of the instrument panel.
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@Milesco the TO/GA button does indeed push the levers forward but once a pre-set speed & altitude are reached it pulls the levers back again. It also engages other functions. I can see a logic to manually moving the levers before pressing the button but I can't see a logic to not pressing it at all. Apparently with Airbus the button is operated by moving the levers fully forward which seems better.
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It seems to me that the TO/GA button should vibrate if pressed when disabled, probably accompanied by an audio warning & possibly a physical lock on the button (though a lock might be a distraction so advice should be sought from pilots). It also seems to me that it's possible for the button to be disabled for the wrong reasons as demonstrated here.
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