Yanks only: Nova AF447 show

[stepwilk]

I haven't watched it yet--plan to tonight--but there is a PBS Nova show on AF447 that won't be screened until next February but for some reason is available right now if you have a Netflix account. Not only that, you can stream it instantly.

Obviously it will be a TV attempt to encapsulate in 50 minutes the whole complex matter, but Nova is the best of the U. S. documentary series in terms of accuracy and quality.

[vaneyck]

Most Novas are shown as Horizon in GB, and most Horizons are shown on Nova, sooner or later. Has Horizon had a show on AF 447 yet?

[sb_sfo]

Just watched it. Nothing particularly new, and not a drama overload either. Should do a good job of educating the uninitiated, which always helps, particularly WRT to stalling an aircraft.

[stepwilk]

Embarrassing. Particularly the Australian expert stroking his chin while standing in the middle of the wreckage of a Cessna 310 or a Diamant or whatever it was, which we were supposed to assume was AF447. I didn't hear a thing I hadn't learned in the initial two weeks of following PPRuNe, despite their ponderous references to their special expert team going Where No Investigator Had Gone Before...

I'm disappointed in Nova.

[fantom]

The eagle-eyed will notice that it's a 320 sim they used.