Aviation journalist

[baylover]

I ask respectfully about DJ's aviation on YouTube.
I understand fully his enthusiasm for aviation and I applaud it, but dear oh dear he is so incorrect so many times, and any young person wishing to be in aviation I applaud.
I remember Aviation journalist Paul Phelan so much, Paul wrote so many fantastic articles, but he researched his facts.
I wish the bloke from DJ's would do the same.

[Maggie Island]

I ask respectfully about DJ's aviation on YouTube.
I understand fully his enthusiasm for aviation and I applaud it, but dear oh dear he is so incorrect so many times, and any young person wishing to be in aviation I applaud.
I remember Aviation journalist Paul Phelan so much, Paul wrote so many fantastic articles, but he researched his facts.
I wish the bloke from DJ's would do the same.

Please don’t give the guy free advertising. Everyone on this board wants his channel to die a quiet death, don’t click on his videos, don’t even mention him in passing to colleagues and most definitely don’t add any more posts to this one!:}

[baylover]

Oh sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone

[Climb150]

You mean the guy who repeats stuff from press releases and passes it off as his own info?

[Buttscratcher]

I like him, he's a righteous dude.

[Capt Fathom]

Haven't come across that site previously... until now. :E

[LexAir]

Yep, never heard of him until now!

[Buster Hyman]

Accidentally stumbled across it once and almost threw my Mouse at the screen. Avoid it like the plague. The 'Explanes' guy is marginally better, but I generally stick to Simple Flying & Sam Chui. Just personal opinion of course.

Views & comments generate their numbers for revenue, so it's quite easy to avoid rewarding the clips you don't like.

[rattman]

Sam Chui and blanco liro are only youtube aviation channels worth a damn for acutal news.

If you want general aviation theres a few more you can add like Flight chops, Elliot Seguin, mikey from buffelo airways / icepilot did a series last year restoring a DC-3

[Turnleft080]

Add mentour pilot a check & trainer on 73s likes to throw info out their on ops.

[MelbourneFlyer]

Sam Chui and blanco liro are only youtube aviation channels worth a damn for acutal news.

Sam Chui for 'actual news'? Errr, he doesn't deliver any real 'news' via his YouTube videos, and his website stuff is mainly written by a bunch of kids who copy 'news' from other websites, same model as SimpleFlying although SF has gotten better in the past year.

[Blueskymine]

We need another Ben Sandilands. Unfortunately the best we have is ‘the expert’ or the ex airline pilot.

[PPRuNeUser0198]

Chui is only interested in self-promotion and YouTube revenue to fund his travel lifestyle/brand.

[rattman]

Sam Chui for 'actual news'? Errr, he doesn't deliver any real 'news' via his YouTube videos, and his website stuff is mainly written by a bunch of kids who copy 'news' from other websites, same model as SimpleFlying although SF has gotten better in the past year.

He does interesting flights, gets looks in side planes at airshows, i give you not really news as such but he does some intersting aviation videos. Blanco liro isn't really news either, theres no real news channels on youtube, if you want news goto airliners.net

[Boe787]

Vale Ben Sandilands......DJ, Chui a journalistic joke by comparison!

[Buster Hyman]

Chui is only interested in self-promotion and YouTube revenue to fund his travel lifestyle/brand.
Aren't they all? Good luck to them if they are. Fancy making money from an industry you love & enjoy....shameful.

[TBM-Legend]

John Spiers who wrote for the aviation section of The Australian. Only problem was most articles were cut and paste from press releases I thought..

[spektrum]

If you can sit through a Chui video and not laugh once then I have great levels of respect for you.

[MelbourneFlyer]

We need another Ben Sandilands. Unfortunately the best we have is ‘the expert’ or the ex airline pilot.

Ben was a classic the sort of journo they had in the old days, although to be honest I got tired of his constant anti-QF anti-Joyce rants on Crikey's PlaneTalking blog. Steve Creedy when he was aviation editor at The Australian was great, although of course the mainstream media can't go off on a rant like a blogger can. Australian Aviation long ago lost the plot and for 'news' has become pretty useless. Patrick Hatch at The Age is decent although still has to write for a bit of a mainstream audience. The local sources I find which are great for news and who I follow on Twitter are Jamie Freed from Reuters at https://twitter.com/Jamie_Freed, Executive Traveller is on top of a lot of news although its not always 'aviation' as such, and, well, there's not really anybody else who's not behind a paywall these days but from what I've seen those paywall outlets are not worth subscribing to just for aviation news.

[MelbourneFlyer]

He does interesting flights, gets looks in side planes at airshows, i give you not really news as such but he does some intersting aviation videos.

Not 'news' at all but yes, his videos show great access to things like delivery flights, good coverage at airshows etc. Hats off to him for turning his passion into a living!

[Capt Fathom]

There is no comparison with Professional Journalists and Youtube 'reporters'. Youtube is an entertainment outlet.

[MelbourneFlyer]

John Spiers who wrote for the aviation section of The Australian. Only problem was most articles were cut and paste from press releases I thought..

Steve Creedy was really good as The Australian's aviation editor, no idea why he left, but once he went to AirlineRatings it just became press release churn, I'm sure he hates writing that stuff as much as we hate reading it, but back when Friday's The Australian had many pages of aviation news, before blogs etc, it was a must-read. It's just a real shame that Australian Aviation has lost good writers and lost the edge for covering news.

[Turnleft080]

Steve Creedy was really good as The Australian's aviation editor, no idea why he left, but once he went to AirlineRatings it just became press release churn, I'm sure he hates writing that stuff as much as we hate reading it, but back when Friday's The Australian had many pages of aviation news, before blogs etc, it was a must-read. It's just a real shame that Australian Aviation has lost good writers and lost the edge for covering news.

May I add 'The Australian' back in the 80s/90s also had half a dozen job adds going from VFR 210 drivers to twin IFR jobs, Coast Watch, Instructors required, meat bombers, banner towing.
In the 80s the aviation section was printed every Wednesday plus those days you would go to your local newsagent and grab all the aviation news with a array of mags. No apps those days.

[wheels_down]

This fella is a local

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJnv-m7RPye_sJ18HmL0mGg

[Buster Hyman]

There is no comparison with Professional Journalists and Youtube 'reporters'. Youtube is an entertainment outlet.
And that pretty much sums it all up. :ok:

[spektrum]

There is no comparison with Professional Journalists and Youtube 'reporters'. Youtube is an entertainment outlet.

Anyone on YT is better than GT.

[tartare]

Anyone on YT is better than GT.

Ain't that the truth!!!

[1A_Please]

GT was spouting off again on Sky again today. I assume he must be cheap because he's brainless.

Today's wisdom was that the 737MAX was always safe because it took 5 years to develop and the crashes only occurred because of poorly trained foreign pilots. As for the report that went to US Congress about the MAX critical of FAA and Boeing, according to GT, it relied too much on uninformed journalists..... Irony is Dead!

[MickG0105]

GT was spouting off again on Sky again today. I assume he must be cheap because he's brainless.

Today's wisdom was that the 737MAX was always safe because it took 5 years to develop and the crashes only occurred because of poorly trained foreign pilots. As for the report that went to US Congress about the MAX critical of FAA and Boeing, according to GT, it relied too much on uninformed journalists..... Irony is Dead!
If you want to insult your intelligence you can watch GT flub his way through the interview here (https://www.airlineratings.com/news/airlineratings-editor-discusses-major-flaws-us-report-737-max/).

According to GT 'many, many in the industry would argue that there was nothing actually wrong with the 737 Max in the first place'.

He shrugs off key findings raised in the report as being largely driven by 'lay media sources' which is complete and utter nonsense. Although it makes you wonder whether he considers himself a 'lay media source' or do the numerous scale models and replete bookshelves in view over his shoulder confer him with 'expert' status.

He makes no reference to the extensive written and oral testimony of numerous pilots, engineers and safety experts, many of them either current or former Boeing employees, that went into formulating the report.

He seems smugly pleased to be able to point out that Boeing took longer to develop the MAX than it did the 747. He is completely oblivious to the notions that (a) just because it took 5 years that doesn't mean that there weren't timeline pressures and (b) as time is money that extend development cycle necessarily generated cost pressures. On that last point, he made no mention of the following report finding, that

... in order to lower costs of the 737 MAX program, Boeing reduced the work hours involved in avionics regression testing on the 737 MAX by 2,000 hours. It also examined other reductions to save costs, including a reduction to flight test support by 3,000 hours and a reduction to the engineering flight deck simulator (E-CAB) by 8,000 hours.

Frankly, I very much doubt whether he's even read the entire report.

[0ttoL]

I laughed recently watching GT on the TV when he mentioned aircraft "flying chilled pork to the middle east"
(I wasn't sure THAT market would be very big!!)
He later corrected it to "lamb"

[smiling monkey]

This fella is a local

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJnv-m7RPye_sJ18HmL0mGg

Interesting to hear him say Jetstar FOs are flying one trip a month. Is that really the case?