Comments by "vk2ig" (@vk2ig) on "Mentour Now!" channel.

@leprechaunbutreallyjustamidget Yep. If the records show that the N2 tacho generator on #1 engine on one aircraft has another 12 months left before it goes "out of life", then you can replace a tacho generator on another aircraft and know it's still good for another 12 months.
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@chitlitlah The conductor is the person who touches the pantograph ...
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@stevencooke6451 The Cold War is back. There are some new rules. We'll all get used to them - for those of us who lived during the Cold War, it will be deja vu; for those of us who were born after the Cold War, it will be something new.
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Russian airlines will have a spares shortage until Russian industry can start making reverse-engineering parts.
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Even if AerCap (or other companies) get their aircraft back from Russia in good order and condition, this puts excess aircraft on the market, thus driving down leasing prices. That's unless AerCap sends off to long-term storage to wait until the return of the "good times" - in other words, it artificially creates a slight scarcity by limiting supply in order not to drive down prices.
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Captain: Now that we've sorted out our differences, please read to me the QRH for having been given a black eye by the FO.
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Every contract I've ever dealt with in delivering telecommunications infrastructure includes a "force majeure" clause as you describe it. It's up there with the IP clauses, etc, as part of a "standard template" for a contract nowadays.
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While such an ending would be well deserved, it would be superfluous.
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@hristohristov6118 Agree that the conflict - if it runs long enough - will likely restart the revival of the Russian aircraft manufacturing sector. It's not something which would start up overnight from its current state; but they do have a bit of a headstart - they can reverse-engineer any impounded Western aircraft or parts thereof and thumb their noses at international protests just like the USSR used to do. And a reverse-engineered aircraft still stays at the level of technology at which it was originally manufactured unless it is upgraded - how many of the USSR's top designers or their proteges are still around to design new or improved models? Russia has a good network of spies worldwide who can purloin industrial secrets, so they will have a steady flow of information coming in from the rest of the world - information which will allow them to build those items that they cannot buy legally due to sanctions. It's like winding the clock back to the days before Perestroika.
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@andyrob3259 There are "flag of convenience" nations for ships. Years ago it was popular to register ships in Liberia and Panama because of tax and regulatory advantages. Accordingly; when the was an oil tanker wreck invariably it would be a "Liberian registered tanker" or "Panamanian registered tanker". Aircraft are no different in that respect.
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Good stories. BTW, the B-29 Superfortress was the WW2 aircraft copied by the USSR. The Stratofortress is the B-52 which entered service with the USAF in 1955.
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@CorgiDudeReacts Just the bit between 1945 and 1991.
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@ajjukevicius4710 Good point. It won't be long before Russian industry produces reverse-engineered parts.
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@JelMain Definitely a SMH response to the OP's statement "fundamentally changed the behavior that caused the issue". For most males, their fundamental character is formed by the age of seven, and brain finishes changing by 25 years of age. Mr Jacobs is what he is - given his age at which the incident occurred, he won't ever be anything else, especially so given his narcissistic behaviour.
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@0xf7c8 The Israelis have been pretty good at reverse engineering.
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Nice question regarding remotely disabling aircraft - obviously asked by a MH370 conspiracy theorist.
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@possiblepilotdeviation5791 ... or should that be @Impossible Pilot Deviation? :) The middle option could have been a scenario where a hunter was about to shoot some wildlife and Mr. Jacobs' aircraft lands on top of the hunter just as they're about to squeeze the trigger?
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@campervanman5340 If it didn't actually crash, lots of people would like to see where it is today and if it still flies.
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@gianfranconicola8645 Why is it the bad guys have names which sound like a synonym for "chamber pot"? E.g. Schettino, Putin, ...
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Seized Russian assets will probably be used to help pay for this. The West cannot allow their aircraft manufacturers to fail.
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@NicolaW72 We shouldn't make any Ilyushins about this?
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Hi Petter, Thanks for this video - very interesting. I'll repeat here a comment I've made below about the long term impact if this conflict and accompanying sanctions run long enough, and this the revival of the Russian aircraft manufacturing sector. It's not something which would start up overnight from its current state; but they do have a bit of a headstart - they can reverse-engineer any impounded Western aircraft or parts thereof and thumb their noses at international protests ... just like the USSR used to do. However; a reverse-engineered aircraft stays at the level of technology at which it was originally manufactured unless it is upgraded. Does Russia possess the same calibre of aircraft designers as the USSR did, or how many of the USSR's top designers of large aircraft (or their proteges) are still around to design new or improved models? Russia has a good network of spies worldwide who can purloin industrial secrets, so they will have a steady flow of information coming in from the rest of the world - information which will allow them to build those items that they cannot buy legally due to sanctions. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
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@Foolish188 They're not that unimportant. As the largest and most influential SSR in the former USSR, they managed to help shape world history between 1917 and 1991. Can the West get along without Russia? Yes, it has done so before and it will do so again. Can the West ignore Russia? No, not unless it wants to invite trouble. None of that means the West should bow to Russia's demands, but it cannot simply ignore Russia's place in the world.
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@Foolish188 Which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia?
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@DavidM2002 That's a good example of why I think this proposed scarcity of parts for Western aircraft won't happen.
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@Foolish188 You appear to be confusing two entities: the USSR and the "SovBloc". The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) consisted of a number of Soviet Socialist Republics, of which Russia was just one, and albeit the largest geographically. I contend that Russia was the most influential of the SSRs - you've stated otherwise, and I have asked you which SSR was the most influential in the USSR if it wasn't Russia. I am still waiting for your answer. The SovBloc consisted of Warsaw Pact countries such as the USSR (of which Russia was still just one SSR, in case you missed it earlier), Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
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@Foolish188 Well I am no adherent of communism in any of the realised forms, but like many I was an involuntary observer during the Cold War. You say the Soviet Union was an empire, but it was not influenced by a SSR called Russia. So I will re-ask my original question: if Russia wasn't the most influential SSR in the Soviet Union, then which SSR was? Who was really calling the shots if it wasn't the Russian SSR? Or do you have trouble with the idea that the Soviet Union was a Union of SSRs because you call it an empire? It's interesting that the Soviet Union never referred to itself as an empire, just as the United States Of America (a union of states) doesn't refer to itself as an empire. Many people around the world think the USSR acted - and the still USA acts - like an empire: the only difference between the two is one has already disappeared due to decay from within, while the other is still decaying from within.
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