BTW: The reason that I didn't do any landings down at the river was that this is a CONDOR SANCTUARY. Scaring nesting endangered birds out of their nest leaving an egg to die is unthinkable for anyone other than Trevor. In this video I showed that it was possible to glide to an AIRPORT from where his engine "died" with 4 miles to spare so there was no need anyway.
This whole btw was chicken soup for my soul to hear. Not leaving an egg to die😢😢😢 I have no idea what it is to be a pilot and or how you causally know about the birds is everything. Whether it’s just the person in you to know about that stuff or it’s part of the learning process for flying, but that melted my heart. 🤍🤍🤍 Shout our to you for that🤍🤍🤍
@@crystalkerstal Forgot to add that the map has a notice on it: "California Condors (an endangered species) [...] Pilots are requested to maintain a 3000 ft terrain clearance (9000+ MSL recommended) when flying over or near sanctuaries" MSL meaning mean sea level.
Hell without knowing the area and as a pilot of a Cessna 340 with a markedly higher stall speed I was immediately looking at that river bed and thinking, "Yup the insurance company's aircraft might get bent a little but that will work if all else fails". Granted despite having a pair of engines I'd not be making such a flight without an alternate planned for every part of the flight but then I am not a youtube stunt person or a utterly reckless ignoramus.
Scooby, I just saw more stuff on the changes to the plane from the 2016 photo of it. Maybe ask these questions as well? I noticed some other things in his video too. Compare it to the 2016 photos of the plane. What looks like the exhaust pipe on the bottom of the engine, has a very tight cut out hole around it. But after TJ has the plane the hole is enlarged and goes to the top of where the purple and blue pin striping begins. Then look at the engine cover where the cylinder heads are. In the 2016 photo everything looks pristine. In the TJ photos the engine cover in the area where it curves down is beat to crap. And, directly behind it the fuselage is cut in the same area from the engine cover all the way back to the window. Why is that?
One question from here in the UK. When your plummeting toward the ground before deploying your parachute, looking for a suitable landing site, how important is it to swap hands with your selfie stick, roll on your back and carefully frame a shot with the aircraft above you while you remain in frame. Asking for a friend…..
Scooby also had the option of leaving the plane mid flight and positioning the aircraft over his shoulders using the landing gear. Mantaining a straight back and looking forward, landing with his feet carefully by balancing power between the quads, hamstrings and calves. He could then overhead press the plane and lower it safely on the ground.
If he actually looked at the ground enough to ascertain there was nothing down there that would be destroyed by his plane, he would have noticed many great places to land on the river bed :)
Isn’t this similar to say if I was driving on a desert highway in low traffic conditions, experienced brake failure, and instead of taking five seconds and seeing if I could roll off the road to a safe stop just opened the door and bailed out instantly ?
I came here from Jay Alaska's video, expecting a sim demo. Pleasantly surprised to realise you were flying it for real, and yeah I appreciate you making sure your engine was still ticking over happily the whole time just in case you suddenly needed it.
9/11 proved aircraft filled with fuel are a wmd. I hope if Trevor is guilty of intentionally crashing a plane that he gets charged under the post 9-11 terrorism laws and gets locked away a very long time as a resounding lesson to aspiring crash-4-views copycats.
Whistling diesel did a fake plane crash with one of those planes six months ago. Except he was safe and legal. I do like the way the idiot hiked all the way back to the crash to set the switches to match his story for the faa
I bet there's no gas in the plane, just enough in a portable tank for this stunt. The fuel selector is dangling from the side of his head and this was being sold for parts
Totally agree. He could have started a wildfire, hit someone on the ground or who knows what all else. Remember that gender reveal party that started a wildfire and killed like 12 or 14 people? It also did billions of dollars of damages, he could have easily done that, even with running the tank empty. What a shmuck.
Strange how two planes took down three towers in NYC though, right? Still trying to figure that one out. Also, demolition experts and engineers are trying to figure out how 3 buildings fall at 9.8m/s (speed of acceleration of gravity). The only way that would be scientifically possible is if all three buildings floors have way in order to the exact millisecond
What I love about your video is that you don't presume to know the conditions of the fields in the mountains based on a flight sim. You actually flew the same route and followed protocol and landed at an airport. The fields may have been the best option at a lower altitude, but he was cruising high enough to make it to the airport which he should have already noted in flight preparations. Either he's a bad pilot or a bad person.
Another point is, let’s assume he really a) couldn’t land in any valley areas and b) couldn’t cruise to the airport. Wouldn’t the most obvious question be, why would you put yourself in that position as a pilot? You should always have an “out” in case of an engine failure. Your route can’t take you into places where you have zero options if your engine goes out.
If I wasn't sure that I could make it to an airport, I wouldn't risk trying. Putting it down in a field is the best alternative. But in that situation, with enough altitude to glide out of the mountains, there are plenty of farms and fields in flat terrain for landing.
Great vid. Thanks. I agree that his crash is suspect. He could claim that he made his decision to bail out early because if he'd waited until later he'd be too low to bail out. But there are many other problems. Flying such a small plane while wearing a parachute is highly unusual. He rarely wore a parachute in his prior flying videos. Also, the 1940 Taylor plane he used isn't seen in his earlier videos. He may have bought this cheap, bare-bones plane just for this video. In the video, he claims he told the FAA/NTSB right away. But, local reporting says he waited several days and didn't report it until urged to do so by airport employees. Worse - he hired a helicopter to recover the wreckage himself and move it to an unknown location. Disturbing aviation crash debris before letting the NTSB investigate is a big no-no and is, itself, probably a crime of some sort. Even if the NTSB can't adjudicate this as a deliberate act, he should suffer a penalty for moving the wreckage without permission. My biggest concern is that he departed the airplane and left it pilotless while in a stable, level glide. With the right winds it could easily have glided miles before crashing and ended up at a location where there were people, vehicles and structures. I hope the NTSB gets to the bottom of this.
It might be hard to sell that altitude was a factor in his decision to bail early when the video shows him falling for at least 20plus seconds. Adding the altitude lost during parachute opening, that puts him 3500ft minimum below exit point when his parachute is fully flying. Thats a lot of altitude to just burn for no reason. Trevor has many hundreds of skydives and is also a skydiving instructor btw, so he knows what he is doing when it comes to parachuting
Totally. Even if he couldn't make it to the airport for being lower there appeared to be a ton of flat area near the airport that Scooby demonstrated in his video that could serve as a good landing pad. He didn't have to land in the mountains at all even though that valley appeared real nice for doing so. It appeared he had plenty of time to make some calculated decisions first but choose to bail out without any explanation as to why. He did not try anything to save the aircraft.
@@MrBrandenS While it was a flight sim, I saw one video of someone taking the approach of landing it in the valley and did so without issue. Again, there are many variables. Wind speed and direction being one of them. And I won’t use a flight sim as proof that he could have landed the plane. But I will use it as proof of his landing options. He had plenty of them.
This is the first time I have ever watched one of your aviation videos - this is actually pretty interesting. I don't know anything about planes, so it's cool to gain insight through controversy. Thanks for the upload.
I remember about ten fifteen years ago when I first saw scoobys videos he used to talk about making the plane and I'm glad we can see her up in the air
basically every [half decent] pilot has been talking about this since it happened. there are a lot more videos and they all bring something unique to the conversation
They dont need my video. They calculate things like this for every investigation. Its pretty stock stuff. They can find the winds aloft for that day and know exactly how far he could have glided from 9000'
Scooby, you got me into fitness 10 years ago but since the pandemic I have let myself go. Today as I was watching Jay Alaska's video I thought to myself "Oh scooby used to have a plane that he built himself. I wonder how he is these days!" and sure enough your comment was right below the video. Might sound strange but this is impetus I needed to start taking my fitness seriously again. Now I just have to find your custom fitness planner in my bookmarks and hope it still works :) Hope you and your partner are doing well.
This is high quality commentary, good work. While your engine at idle does not have the exact same drag as a dead engine, with how large your tires are I would be surprised if that Taylorcraft had a worse glide ratio.
Thanks Jay, I agree. With stock tires, it would be about the same as the Taylorcraft but with those tundra monsters I have, the glide would most likely be worse. Not looking good for our buddy Trevor.
As soon as you announced you were retiring from body building and fitness advice, this is exactly what I was hoping to see from you. Great video, And amazing views. I love California
It's so clear, even if you'd fallen far short of the runway, you'd still be able to reach miles of flat fields on your way to it. Wouldn't even need to disturb condors.
I was watching your home workout videos in early 2011. For some reason I can still imagine a water fountain trickling in the background as you worked out haha. Now I am watching your aviation videos. Thanks for the content!!
Even though I wasn't aware of the Trevor Jacobs situation this video was still a very interesting showing of investigative work on an amateur level! And those views of the landscape are absolutely stunning. Makes me want to go out and see the world :)
Thanks for the great breakdown Scooby! As an aside I used a ton of your vids years ago for workouts and seeing you do some other dope videos now in 2022 makes me so damn happy. Thanks again for being you!
Upon reading more. IMO its 100% certain he intended to crash his plane. He broke so many FAA regulations before even taking off that they could have put him behind bars *before* he crashed.
@@scooby1961 no way we see his video if that happened. No clout in showing you were in such danger you jumped out of a plane that didn’t even get bent without a pilot.
I love it whenever Scooby talks about stuff in a way that encourages people to think for themselves and think critically about the info they are getting. Scooby, flying seems like a wonderful hobby to have. Do you know if there is a practical age limit for this for recreational flying?
This is very interesting. From the original video, it looked like he was deep in the mountains. But, here we see there was actually a lot of fairly flat terrain not that far from where his engine gave out. Also, it's amazing how far those planes can glide.
Scooby, you taught me so much about working out and eating right 10 years ago. Now 10 years later you're teaching me about aviation and flying. So cool. Keep it up Scooby and thanks for your videos!
Can I just say... the video and audio you got for this is spectacular. I mean, wow. and the 3 frames edited together.... I feel like I don't deserve this level of quality without an admission ticket.
Bro, I followed you for fitness advice like 10 years ago. The algorithm brought me to the original Trevor plane crash video, then to this one. Small world! Glad to see you’re still doing so well.
Excellent video, as you said, NTSB and FAA report will be the final word. This does provide good context as to how close the crash site and bail out area is to a good airfield and plenty of flat ground. The Jacob video seems to be edited in a way it seems to imply zero ability to glide to a safe landing.
Has there been any investigation done yet? Or are they still working on it? How long does that usually take for a situation like this? I know for the big airliners with a lot of people and what not it can take a reallyyyy long time but I figured this situation would be pretty cut and dry. Regardless if it were faked or not just wondering how fast a smaller investigation usually takes.
Great video. He needs to be charged for this crime. Bailing out of a completely flyable aircraft is massively illegal and he needs to be punished for it.
When being questioned: Trevor: If you notice in the begning of the video, you can see me concerned when looking at my gauges and was worried about performance. NTSB: But you continued with the flight anyways? Trevor: Ridge Wallet sponsored flight , so I had a financial obligation to continue. NTSB: There's no record of you squwaking 7600 or 7700, why is that? Trevor: The sponsor, Ridge Wallet, it blocks RFID signals... 🤷🏼♂️ NTSB: At what point did you contact ATC, either sector or local to declare an emergency? Trevor: I unplugged my headset NTSB: Before ditching, you had plenty of altitude and weather was good. At what point did you attempt to restart the engine? Trevor: I ran out of fuel NTSB: So you departed knowing you didn't have the fuel to make your intended destination? Tevor: Even though I was sponsored, by Ridge Wallet, 100ll is expensive and I needed a new selfie stick. NTSB: The aircraft was flying and you were clearly in control and maintaining a moderate glide, so why bail out? Trevor: I had my parachute on. NTSB: Do you typically fly with it on and rigged? Trevor: No, it was the first time, I just had a feeling I was going to need it that day. NTSB: What have you that feeling? Trevor: That was the plan from the beginning. NTSB: I see, is that also why you failed to notify us of the incident and tampered with the aircraft and crash site? Trevor: Obviously. Wait, that was a trick question
Trevor: posts the sponsored video so that hopefully people can learn from his mistakes, taught nothing except always wear a parachute Scooby: recreates to the T, actually teaches emergency landing techniques. I hope the truth comes out whether it be purposeful crashing or just that he is an incompetent pilot. Either case Scooby you are a Gem on RUclips!
This is an excellent video, I’ve seen a few simulations of alternate outcomes for this crash performed using consumer grade flight simulators but you performed a reasonable simulation using a real aircraft with similar performance characteristics in the the same area, fascinating video, great work.
Yes! Thanks for covering this, I was hoping for your own take. I'm ashamed to say, when I first saw the story I looked for Dotty's spots on the plane hoping you didn't have to abandon ship LOL.
I would go down in my aircraft even if I did have a chute just to insure it didn't hit someone innocent on the ground. Clearly that was not something that occurred to Trevor.
I haven't seen the whole video and I don't know much info about this so I wonder what his weather conditions were that day in that area. That should be easy to find right? I used to fly a diamond and it was always easy to find and tell the weather.
Truly planned by a 7 year old. It never occurred to him that we would figure out exactly where he was and at what altitude so we could fact check his BS "nowhere safe to land" statement.
Great video! Scooby you never fail to impress us. I will not be surprised if you DIY a boat in the future, sail to the middle of the Atlantic, recreate the exact situation of the Titanic, and tell us what the captain should have done lol
Thank you Scooby for putting video from the actual airspace to what we all have been wondering. I am not a pilot yet and immediately had my own questions, but really appreciate your priceless real world response for an immediate landing site if possible. It appears you don’t follow Trevor’s wear a parachute rule.😉 Are there any pilots out there that wear a chute? I would be surprised if there was. Well done.
Imagine ditching a plane for 476K views? Over the lifetime of the video it might get a million or two. Even if it was a very cheap plane, that can't make any economic sense. And the gliding aspect is why I like planes so much more than a Heli which is inherently unstable. You have to constantly make small corrections just to hover.
I cant wait to see who owned the plane, how much he bought it for, and if it was legally airworthy or not. Flying an un-airworthy plane alone could lose him his liscense.
@@scooby1961 I watched his vid and he just has too many cameras. Even with his story about spreading his friend's ashes, his cameras are too numerous and the camera in the back is perfect for recording a crash. It's very suspicious. He must have thought this would get 1 billion views and he'd be on all the talk shows talking about it.
WOW, great video. Thanks for sharing your findings. Great stuff. EDIT - I'm comparing your position to his and he actually looks a bit higher. Maybe even near 12K, but it's hard to tell. Cameras can be a bit tricky to tell.
I agree. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt by starting from 9000'. It does make sense that he would have been higher to have time for all his selfie stick videos before he pulled the chute
You did an excellent job demonstrating Aviate and Navigate (best glide and picking the landing spot) but before Communicate I would have gone through at least a flow check to try and restart the engine and depending on how much time I had took out the checklist and gone through the restart procedure there. Preparing the cockpit for a potentially hard landing is an important step too.
Very interesting, cool you actually did this. I hope many people that have been discussing this see and share your video. On a random note - do experimentals not get numbers assigned to them?
I was watching Scooby1961 videos 9-10 years ago when I was starting working out etc. And now I get a video recommendation from YT and it's him commenting on the recent Trevor-Jacob-BS and from a pilots stand point no less!!! AWESOME!!!
Honestly, when I heard a famous RUclipsr had crashed a small plane, I thought for a horrible second, it was Scooby So pleased it wasn't, and so glad you made a video on it
Took a while to get to this one (actually watched the clip edit first), and have to say this adds more nails to Jacobs coffin. It's probably been commented but, whether a 912 or a Lycosaurus, if properly set to idle, and the prop is windmilling, you are actually getting more drag than if the prop is stopped (even a three blade), although I'm pretty sure Jacobs got down below best glide to stop the prop for effect. Hint, if you ever have a terminal engine failure (no gas, thrown rod, etc), and you have some height, carefully get as slow as you can to stop the prop, then assume best glide. It will increase your performance a little.
Great breakdown and analysis. Even if he had only been able to get close to the airport,as your video shows there are multiple nice level fields that he could have put down on. I hope other agencies go after him for this deliberate act.
It’s none of anybody’s business, but I really genuinely hope you are able to continue to fly in the sky with your airplane after your surgical operation. Thanks for everything you’ve provided for us Scooby
This is by far the most in-depth video that I've seen about this incident. I mean, he literally put himself in trevor's shoes and showed how easily he could have landed safety. Props to scooby1961
Neat take on it. I'd like to see you glide to the spot right next to where Trevor's plane went down. It looked pretty good. It looked like you may not have been exactly where he was (closer to the airport than his flight path), but that's hard to prove for sure.
@@scooby1961 Im also real glad to see you are flying again. Your flying videos have an asmr component out of all your videos. I got a little worried a few months back when you said you may never fly again. Le Scooby Airlines es Ready!
BTW: The reason that I didn't do any landings down at the river was that this is a CONDOR SANCTUARY. Scaring nesting endangered birds out of their nest leaving an egg to die is unthinkable for anyone other than Trevor. In this video I showed that it was possible to glide to an AIRPORT from where his engine "died" with 4 miles to spare so there was no need anyway.
A shout out to Ridge Wallet for sponsoring these dead condors!
This whole btw was chicken soup for my soul to hear. Not leaving an egg to die😢😢😢 I have no idea what it is to be a pilot and or how you causally know about the birds is everything. Whether it’s just the person in you to know about that stuff or it’s part of the learning process for flying, but that melted my heart. 🤍🤍🤍 Shout our to you for that🤍🤍🤍
@@crystalkerstal Forgot to add that the map has a notice on it:
"California Condors (an endangered species) [...] Pilots are requested to maintain a 3000 ft terrain clearance (9000+ MSL recommended) when flying over or near sanctuaries"
MSL meaning mean sea level.
Hell without knowing the area and as a pilot of a Cessna 340 with a markedly higher stall speed I was immediately looking at that river bed and thinking, "Yup the insurance company's aircraft might get bent a little but that will work if all else fails". Granted despite having a pair of engines I'd not be making such a flight without an alternate planned for every part of the flight but then I am not a youtube stunt person or a utterly reckless ignoramus.
Scooby, I just saw more stuff on the changes to the plane from the 2016 photo of it. Maybe ask these questions as well?
I noticed some other things in his video too. Compare it to the 2016 photos of the plane. What looks like the exhaust pipe on the bottom of the engine, has a very tight cut out hole around it. But after TJ has the plane the hole is enlarged and goes to the top of where the purple and blue pin striping begins. Then look at the engine cover where the cylinder heads are. In the 2016 photo everything looks pristine. In the TJ photos the engine cover in the area where it curves down is beat to crap. And, directly behind it the fuselage is cut in the same area from the engine cover all the way back to the window. Why is that?
One question from here in the UK. When your plummeting toward the ground before deploying your parachute, looking for a suitable landing site, how important is it to swap hands with your selfie stick, roll on your back and carefully frame a shot with the aircraft above you while you remain in frame. Asking for a friend…..
Lol!!!!!
@Brian since you're from the UK, we're going to excuse your ignorance about American flying practices.
Only Richard Branson knows the answer to your question.
Fellow Englishman here :D
That’s in the FAA rules. Always carry selfie stick. 1 full body roll before deploying sport chute. Look it up. 😉
Don't forget about strapping a fire extinguisher to your leg.
Trevor: "There was nothing I could do"
Scooby: "Interesting... let me try!"
Absolute mad-lad. Love you Scoobs.
LOL
Scooby also had the option of leaving the plane mid flight and positioning the aircraft over his shoulders using the landing gear. Mantaining a straight back and looking forward, landing with his feet carefully by balancing power between the quads, hamstrings and calves. He could then overhead press the plane and lower it safely on the ground.
LOL
Or get a skateboard and land up against a wall, and safely skateboard squat to the ground
@@TravelsWithATwist That was my first Scooby video, where he does that!
I thought you were joking..
But remembered he was carrying the Ridge wallet and realized that was a totally possible...👍
@@techsolutions8237 with ridge wallet, all things are possible!
If he actually looked at the ground enough to ascertain there was nothing down there that would be destroyed by his plane, he would have noticed many great places to land on the river bed :)
That river bed would have been a better choice for a parachute touch down also.
Isn’t this similar to say if I was driving on a desert highway in low traffic conditions, experienced brake failure, and instead of taking five seconds and seeing if I could roll off the road to a safe stop just opened the door and bailed out instantly ?
You clearly showed that there was absolutely no need to panic.
At the end of his video. He said the plane came back and almost hit him. How is that even possible? Why would Trever say that?
He didn't even go there under the chute.
I came here from Jay Alaska's video, expecting a sim demo. Pleasantly surprised to realise you were flying it for real, and yeah I appreciate you making sure your engine was still ticking over happily the whole time just in case you suddenly needed it.
:)
9/11 proved aircraft filled with fuel are a wmd. I hope if Trevor is guilty of intentionally crashing a plane that he gets charged under the post 9-11 terrorism laws and gets locked away a very long time as a resounding lesson to aspiring crash-4-views copycats.
Whistling diesel did a fake plane crash with one of those planes six months ago. Except he was safe and legal.
I do like the way the idiot hiked all the way back to the crash to set the switches to match his story for the faa
I bet there's no gas in the plane, just enough in a portable tank for this stunt. The fuel selector is dangling from the side of his head and this was being sold for parts
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS the stick in front of the windscreen is the fuel gauge, it reads near full
Totally agree. He could have started a wildfire, hit someone on the ground or who knows what all else. Remember that gender reveal party that started a wildfire and killed like 12 or 14 people? It also did billions of dollars of damages, he could have easily done that, even with running the tank empty. What a shmuck.
Strange how two planes took down three towers in NYC though, right? Still trying to figure that one out. Also, demolition experts and engineers are trying to figure out how 3 buildings fall at 9.8m/s (speed of acceleration of gravity). The only way that would be scientifically possible is if all three buildings floors have way in order to the exact millisecond
What I love about your video is that you don't presume to know the conditions of the fields in the mountains based on a flight sim. You actually flew the same route and followed protocol and landed at an airport. The fields may have been the best option at a lower altitude, but he was cruising high enough to make it to the airport which he should have already noted in flight preparations. Either he's a bad pilot or a bad person.
… or both :)
@@scooby1961
Trevor hates you.......lol
Another point is, let’s assume he really a) couldn’t land in any valley areas and b) couldn’t cruise to the airport. Wouldn’t the most obvious question be, why would you put yourself in that position as a pilot? You should always have an “out” in case of an engine failure. Your route can’t take you into places where you have zero options if your engine goes out.
If I wasn't sure that I could make it to an airport, I wouldn't risk trying. Putting it down in a field is the best alternative. But in that situation, with enough altitude to glide out of the mountains, there are plenty of farms and fields in flat terrain for landing.
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this is awesome that instead of just try and like do some math or pull out a sim, you actually went out and did it for real. hats off!
Yup!
Sim is great but you have to see and smell ot to really see what happened … and I could have glided 4 miles further than airport
Great vid. Thanks. I agree that his crash is suspect. He could claim that he made his decision to bail out early because if he'd waited until later he'd be too low to bail out. But there are many other problems. Flying such a small plane while wearing a parachute is highly unusual. He rarely wore a parachute in his prior flying videos. Also, the 1940 Taylor plane he used isn't seen in his earlier videos. He may have bought this cheap, bare-bones plane just for this video. In the video, he claims he told the FAA/NTSB right away. But, local reporting says he waited several days and didn't report it until urged to do so by airport employees. Worse - he hired a helicopter to recover the wreckage himself and move it to an unknown location. Disturbing aviation crash debris before letting the NTSB investigate is a big no-no and is, itself, probably a crime of some sort. Even if the NTSB can't adjudicate this as a deliberate act, he should suffer a penalty for moving the wreckage without permission. My biggest concern is that he departed the airplane and left it pilotless while in a stable, level glide. With the right winds it could easily have glided miles before crashing and ended up at a location where there were people, vehicles and structures. I hope the NTSB gets to the bottom of this.
correct. he makes a big point of saying he always flies with a chute ... but as you say, he rarely does.
It might be hard to sell that altitude was a factor in his decision to bail early when the video shows him falling for at least 20plus seconds. Adding the altitude lost during parachute opening, that puts him 3500ft minimum below exit point when his parachute is fully flying. Thats a lot of altitude to just burn for no reason. Trevor has many hundreds of skydives and is also a skydiving instructor btw, so he knows what he is doing when it comes to parachuting
Totally. Even if he couldn't make it to the airport for being lower there appeared to be a ton of flat area near the airport that Scooby demonstrated in his video that could serve as a good landing pad. He didn't have to land in the mountains at all even though that valley appeared real nice for doing so.
It appeared he had plenty of time to make some calculated decisions first but choose to bail out without any explanation as to why. He did not try anything to save the aircraft.
@@MrBrandenS While it was a flight sim, I saw one video of someone taking the approach of landing it in the valley and did so without issue. Again, there are many variables. Wind speed and direction being one of them. And I won’t use a flight sim as proof that he could have landed the plane. But I will use it as proof of his landing options. He had plenty of them.
This is the first time I have ever watched one of your aviation videos - this is actually pretty interesting. I don't know anything about planes, so it's cool to gain insight through controversy. Thanks for the upload.
we are not all kooks :)
I remember about ten fifteen years ago when I first saw scoobys videos he used to talk about making the plane and I'm glad we can see her up in the air
basically every [half decent] pilot has been talking about this since it happened. there are a lot more videos and they all bring something unique to the conversation
Come for the planes, stay for the gains 😆
You proved he had more than enough time and altitude to make a suitable landing. Hope FAA watches this and uses it in his prosecution. Thank you.
They dont need my video. They calculate things like this for every investigation. Its pretty stock stuff. They can find the winds aloft for that day and know exactly how far he could have glided from 9000'
Scooby, you got me into fitness 10 years ago but since the pandemic I have let myself go. Today as I was watching Jay Alaska's video I thought to myself "Oh scooby used to have a plane that he built himself. I wonder how he is these days!" and sure enough your comment was right below the video.
Might sound strange but this is impetus I needed to start taking my fitness seriously again. Now I just have to find your custom fitness planner in my bookmarks and hope it still works :)
Hope you and your partner are doing well.
I am in the same situation as you! Let’s get fit again!!! 🏃🏃🏃
Glad something came of Trevors plane crash!
@@tungshoupin5065 Good luck to you too.
Its weird , you're so wise , it seems like you have knowledge on everything
Love you big guy
Thanks! :)
Lesson learned: Don't fly with Trevor as your pilot, unless you want to fly the plane yourself.
His video showed none of proper procedures a competent honest pilot would perform
Honestly I'd probably feel more comfortable once he's bailed. And thats as someone whos had basically no flying experience outside of sims!
It's amazing how much greener it is compared to when Trevor did his stunt. All that rain in just the past few weeks.
This is high quality commentary, good work. While your engine at idle does not have the exact same drag as a dead engine, with how large your tires are I would be surprised if that Taylorcraft had a worse glide ratio.
Thanks Jay, I agree. With stock tires, it would be about the same as the Taylorcraft but with those tundra monsters I have, the glide would most likely be worse. Not looking good for our buddy Trevor.
From the title of the video I didn't get you would simulate the landing options. That is actually a very pedagogical way to comment on it! Brilliant!
:)
As soon as you announced you were retiring from body building and fitness advice, this is exactly what I was hoping to see from you. Great video, And amazing views. I love California
Thanks!
It's so clear, even if you'd fallen far short of the runway, you'd still be able to reach miles of flat fields on your way to it. Wouldn't even need to disturb condors.
Right
I was watching your home workout videos in early 2011. For some reason I can still imagine a water fountain trickling in the background as you worked out haha. Now I am watching your aviation videos. Thanks for the content!!
Thanks! no more fountains! :)
Even though I wasn't aware of the Trevor Jacobs situation this video was still a very interesting showing of investigative work on an amateur level! And those views of the landscape are absolutely stunning. Makes me want to go out and see the world :)
Thank you! Yes, it was a community effort to unravel this mystery
Thanks for the great breakdown Scooby!
As an aside I used a ton of your vids years ago for workouts and seeing you do some other dope videos now in 2022 makes me so damn happy. Thanks again for being you!
I haven't flown in years, miss those days. Seeing people take it for granted is just upsetting.
And they will ruin it for the thousands of really good safety minded pilots
Upon reading more. IMO its 100% certain he intended to crash his plane. He broke so many FAA regulations before even taking off that they could have put him behind bars *before* he crashed.
Once he got out that plane started flying well. Came extremely close to finding its own spot and landing safety.
Without the down trim, it could have made a perfect landing on the riverbed. THAT would have been hysterical
@@scooby1961 no way we see his video if that happened. No clout in showing you were in such danger you jumped out of a plane that didn’t even get bent without a pilot.
I love it whenever Scooby talks about stuff in a way that encourages people to think for themselves and think critically about the info they are getting. Scooby, flying seems like a wonderful hobby to have. Do you know if there is a practical age limit for this for recreational flying?
As long as I can pass the 3rd class medical. Many pilots fly into their 80s
You are right, I DO try to promote THINKING :) Glad you caught that :)
No limit! Even if you were 90 and couldn't get a medical, you could go up with an instructor
This is very interesting. From the original video, it looked like he was deep in the mountains. But, here we see there was actually a lot of fairly flat terrain not that far from where his engine gave out. Also, it's amazing how far those planes can glide.
Yes. Planes without engines make excellent gliders
Dude you are an amazing guy for doing this! Cheers mate.
Well made video with many maps and references. Easy to understand.
I would ride my plane to the ground even if I had a chute to insure the plane didnt crash into some innocent person on the ground.
Scooby, you taught me so much about working out and eating right 10 years ago. Now 10 years later you're teaching me about aviation and flying. So cool. Keep it up Scooby and thanks for your videos!
Scooby I’ve been watching your channel for 10 years thanks for all your knowledge and advice :)
Can I just say... the video and audio you got for this is spectacular. I mean, wow. and the 3 frames edited together.... I feel like I don't deserve this level of quality without an admission ticket.
Im a pro :)
Bro, I followed you for fitness advice like 10 years ago. The algorithm brought me to the original Trevor plane crash video, then to this one. Small world! Glad to see you’re still doing so well.
Excellent video, as you said, NTSB and FAA report will be the final word. This does provide good context as to how close the crash site and bail out area is to a good airfield and plenty of flat ground. The Jacob video seems to be edited in a way it seems to imply zero ability to glide to a safe landing.
Precisely. He was naive enough to think that nobody would be able to figure out exactly where he was.
Has there been any investigation done yet? Or are they still working on it? How long does that usually take for a situation like this? I know for the big airliners with a lot of people and what not it can take a reallyyyy long time but I figured this situation would be pretty cut and dry. Regardless if it were faked or not just wondering how fast a smaller investigation usually takes.
Great video. He needs to be charged for this crime. Bailing out of a completely flyable aircraft is massively illegal and he needs to be punished for it.
If he is guilty, i agree, lock him up and throw away the key
This is a hell of weekly video! Thank you.
You're so welcome! It was fun!
When being questioned:
Trevor: If you notice in the begning of the video, you can see me concerned when looking at my gauges and was worried about performance.
NTSB: But you continued with the flight anyways?
Trevor: Ridge Wallet sponsored flight , so I had a financial obligation to continue.
NTSB: There's no record of you squwaking 7600 or 7700, why is that?
Trevor: The sponsor, Ridge Wallet, it blocks RFID signals... 🤷🏼♂️
NTSB: At what point did you contact ATC, either sector or local to declare an emergency?
Trevor: I unplugged my headset
NTSB: Before ditching, you had plenty of altitude and weather was good. At what point did you attempt to restart the engine?
Trevor: I ran out of fuel
NTSB: So you departed knowing you didn't have the fuel to make your intended destination?
Tevor: Even though I was sponsored, by Ridge Wallet, 100ll is expensive and I needed a new selfie stick.
NTSB: The aircraft was flying and you were clearly in control and maintaining a moderate glide, so why bail out?
Trevor: I had my parachute on.
NTSB: Do you typically fly with it on and rigged?
Trevor: No, it was the first time, I just had a feeling I was going to need it that day.
NTSB: What have you that feeling?
Trevor: That was the plan from the beginning.
NTSB: I see, is that also why you failed to notify us of the incident and tampered with the aircraft and crash site?
Trevor: Obviously. Wait, that was a trick question
Lol!!!’
The fact you've gone so far as to actually fly out there yourself and investigate this is why I'm still watching this channel. Great video Scoob.
always look forward to your videos posted here scooby, thanks!
Trevor: posts the sponsored video so that hopefully people can learn from his mistakes, taught nothing except always wear a parachute
Scooby: recreates to the T, actually teaches emergency landing techniques.
I hope the truth comes out whether it be purposeful crashing or just that he is an incompetent pilot. Either case Scooby you are a Gem on RUclips!
Lol. Kinda true
This is an excellent video, I’ve seen a few simulations of alternate outcomes for this crash performed using consumer grade flight simulators but you performed a reasonable simulation using a real aircraft with similar performance characteristics in the the same area, fascinating video, great work.
Thanks!!!
That was a seriously cool video Scooby, much respect!
Thanks!
Yes! Thanks for covering this, I was hoping for your own take. I'm ashamed to say, when I first saw the story I looked for Dotty's spots on the plane hoping you didn't have to abandon ship LOL.
Morepeko!
I would go down in my aircraft even if I did have a chute just to insure it didn't hit someone innocent on the ground. Clearly that was not something that occurred to Trevor.
Great job! I was waiting to see someone recreate this
Thanks!!
A real pilot showing how it's really done. Very nice!
Glad you enjoyed it
Came here from Jay Alaska's video, kudos to you man.
I haven't seen the whole video and I don't know much info about this so I wonder what his weather conditions were that day in that area. That should be easy to find right? I used to fly a diamond and it was always easy to find and tell the weather.
You are a wealth of knowledge! Love learning new things about aviation
Thanks!!
Great demonstration and love that paint job>
Thanks!!
The fact I've scouted this exact spot in sim so many times is crazy how familiar I am with the terrain
Truly planned by a 7 year old. It never occurred to him that we would figure out exactly where he was and at what altitude so we could fact check his BS "nowhere safe to land" statement.
Thanks for this video, you’ve given me confidence in GA safety
Great video! Scooby you never fail to impress us. I will not be surprised if you DIY a boat in the future, sail to the middle of the Atlantic, recreate the exact situation of the Titanic, and tell us what the captain should have done lol
LOL
Thank you Scooby for putting video from the actual airspace to what we all have been wondering.
I am not a pilot yet and immediately had my own questions, but really appreciate your priceless real world response for an immediate landing site if possible.
It appears you don’t follow Trevor’s wear a parachute rule.😉
Are there any pilots out there that wear a chute?
I would be surprised if there was.
Well done.
Wow this was an awesome video Scoob!!! And very nice landing. You made that look easy.
Thanks!
This is a very well made video with solid research and thoughtful analysis.
Love the polka dots
Right on point with everything you covered. Excellent analysis. Thanks.
Thanks!!!
Great job Scooby, this was a cool video on an interesting topic.
Glad you enjoyed it
Imagine ditching a plane for 476K views? Over the lifetime of the video it might get a million or two. Even if it was a very cheap plane, that can't make any economic sense. And the gliding aspect is why I like planes so much more than a Heli which is inherently unstable. You have to constantly make small corrections just to hover.
I cant wait to see who owned the plane, how much he bought it for, and if it was legally airworthy or not. Flying an un-airworthy plane alone could lose him his liscense.
@@scooby1961 I watched his vid and he just has too many cameras. Even with his story about spreading his friend's ashes, his cameras are too numerous and the camera in the back is perfect for recording a crash. It's very suspicious. He must have thought this would get 1 billion views and he'd be on all the talk shows talking about it.
AMAZING demonstration of how amazingly these glide, wow! So yeah he could have flown about anywhere .
Awesome 💪✌️ I'm starting ATP next month.. I have about 18 hours of logged time can't wait to solo 💪💪💪✌️✌️✌️
Please do not hire trevor as a mechanic nor an instructor :)
WOW, great video. Thanks for sharing your findings. Great stuff. EDIT - I'm comparing your position to his and he actually looks a bit higher. Maybe even near 12K, but it's hard to tell. Cameras can be a bit tricky to tell.
I agree. I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt by starting from 9000'. It does make sense that he would have been higher to have time for all his selfie stick videos before he pulled the chute
I was waiting for this one lol ik how passionate scoob is
You know me
Trevor IS a GTA character, it’s kind of what they do.
LOL!!!!
You did an excellent job demonstrating Aviate and Navigate (best glide and picking the landing spot) but before Communicate I would have gone through at least a flow check to try and restart the engine and depending on how much time I had took out the checklist and gone through the restart procedure there. Preparing the cockpit for a potentially hard landing is an important step too.
Scooby really likes your venturing into the aviation realm keep the aviation videos coming scooby ✈
More to come!
This is sooo awesome! Nice work!!
Very interesting, cool you actually did this. I hope many people that have been discussing this see and share your video. On a random note - do experimentals not get numbers assigned to them?
Yes
At airports without towers, its best practice to describe plane visually rather than giving tail numbers.
I was watching Scooby1961 videos 9-10 years ago when I was starting working out etc. And now I get a video recommendation from YT and it's him commenting on the recent Trevor-Jacob-BS and from a pilots stand point no less!!! AWESOME!!!
Honestly, when I heard a famous RUclipsr had crashed a small plane, I thought for a horrible second, it was Scooby
So pleased it wasn't, and so glad you made a video on it
I would ride my plane to the ground even if I had a chute to insure the plane didnt crash into some innocent person on the ground.
Took a while to get to this one (actually watched the clip edit first), and have to say this adds more nails to Jacobs coffin. It's probably been commented but, whether a 912 or a Lycosaurus, if properly set to idle, and the prop is windmilling, you are actually getting more drag than if the prop is stopped (even a three blade), although I'm pretty sure Jacobs got down below best glide to stop the prop for effect. Hint, if you ever have a terminal engine failure (no gas, thrown rod, etc), and you have some height, carefully get as slow as you can to stop the prop, then assume best glide. It will increase your performance a little.
I instantly thought of you when I heard the idiocy, always a pleasure Sir Scooby
:)
This is why Scooby is the best old school fitness influencer, there's no way Zyzz would have been able to demonstrate the holes in Jacob's story.
Yes but Zyzz was HOT! :)
I love these kinds of vids!!
They are fun to do!
love you scooby, its just too good.
Fantastic video!
Glad you liked it!
Great breakdown and analysis. Even if he had only been able to get close to the airport,as your video shows there are multiple nice level fields that he could have put down on. I hope other agencies go after him for this deliberate act.
this is amazing we need more in depth flying videos with dotty, please.
Careful what you ask for!
You're a legend, Scooby.
Thanks!
Much love from Fiji....
Dreamland!
It’s none of anybody’s business, but I really genuinely hope you are able to continue to fly in the sky with your airplane after your surgical operation. Thanks for everything you’ve provided for us Scooby
Great video Scooby. I'm I glider pilot and I agree in all your points. Lesson 1: Never jump from a plane that flies
What he did was unheard of. NOBODY bails out because of an engine failure. A structural failure, yes, an engine failure - never.
Incredible video, thanks
Brilliant mate, simply briliiant!
Thanks!
This is by far the most in-depth video that I've seen about this incident. I mean, he literally put himself in trevor's shoes and showed how easily he could have landed safety. Props to scooby1961
Neat take on it. I'd like to see you glide to the spot right next to where Trevor's plane went down. It looked pretty good. It looked like you may not have been exactly where he was (closer to the airport than his flight path), but that's hard to prove for sure.
I literally would have been too high to see it, and besides, rumor has it he hired a helicopter to remove the crash evidence
Great video, thank you for this.
If it turns out that Trevor is guilty of staging a plane crash, I hope he gets life in jail under 9/11 terrorism laws.
I didn’t even know you knew how fly that crazy Scooby👍
You sound so wise
Every word you say sounds like truth
No, just old and experienced
Not to mention after you turned around I could see many more landing off airport options presented themselves.
Yes, all kinds of fields!
Loved that Buddy Guy's "Polka Dot" livery. 😂
Yes! I was waiting for scooby's take
Took me a few days to get there
@@scooby1961 It's short, gets to the points of concern, and you don't claim to know for sure. Very informative👌 thank you!
wow you did this perfectly!
Bloody legend! Love it!
Thanks!
Thanks for the flying videos, Scooby. I am planning to start learning to fly later this year. Any tips?
Pass you faa written first!
@@scooby1961 Im also real glad to see you are flying again. Your flying videos have an asmr component out of all your videos. I got a little worried a few months back when you said you may never fly again. Le Scooby Airlines es Ready!
Very interesting watch, you get a like from me!
It’s amazing what people think they can get away with. Stupidity can’t explain that only narcissism
Brilliant, beautiful video
Thank you! Cheers!
Man look at all the options he had. Crazy
Yup
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it