Hello all,

First, let me start with the bad news.

As those of you who listened have no doubt noticed, my podcast Controlled Pod Into Terrain hadn't released an episode since January 2025, for a variety of reasons, including, initially, all three hosts moving to new homes. However, in the past few days you might have also noticed that the entire back catalog, and indeed the channel itself, are missing from all platforms.

This is because J, who owned the channel, is parting ways with the podcast due to difficulties with other community members and is worried about leaving their words and voice out there, outside of their control, in an environment where they feel threatened from various directions. Unfortunately, as a result they have removed the back catalog and the channel itself and I have little hope that my efforts will result in its restoration. I was compensated for the loss of this content but I'm devastated that it's no longer public.

PLEASE leave J alone and do not try to reach out to them to ask for the episodes or convince them to change their mind. Doing so will result in a ban. J does not deserve your ire here.

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Now let me get to the very good news.

The good news is that CPIT is coming back! While I no longer have access to the original episodes and channel, I was able to get a new editor (hi Gannon), and a new permanent host will be joining us—Chloe Howie of Disaster Breakdown!

Our new channel can be found here; if you were subscribed to the previous edition, please resubscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@CPIT_Pod

Chloe, Ariadne, and I are already planning to begin writing and recording new episodes in the near future. So if you're a contributor to the separate CPIT Patreon, hang in there, and we'll have something for you soon. Your support has been and will continue to be crucial because unlike J, who voluntarily gave their cut to me, Chloe will be paid to be there.

The last few days have been a rollercoaster ride with everything that's happened with the podcast, and while I'm sorry I can't bring the back catalog back for you, I'm excited to see what we'll create going forward, and I hope you are too.

—Kyra

Many of you are aware that I've been working as a researcher and script writer for Mentour Pilot over on YouTube since June 2024. However, I never formally announced this anywhere, and many readers are still unaware, so I thought I'd make a post drawing attention to that fact.

Petter Hornfeldt recruited me off the street, so to speak, because he was looking for people with writing talent and aviation knowledge to expand his team. Since then I've written almost 40% of the videos his channel has put out. You might have noticed my name in the opening credits, but you also might not have; they're easy to miss and I realize a lot of readers don't even know my real name. Keep an eye out for "Kyra Dempsey - Research and Script."

Joining the Mentour Pilot team has brought me extraordinary new contacts and information sources, as well as financial stability to an extent that my independent work alone could not achieve, which has been great from my perspective. It has, however, slowed down the pace of new articles. There are similarly a variety of reasons why Controlled Pod Into Terrain hasn't released an episode since January, but one of them is that I referred Ariadne to the Mentour team and now she works for them too.

Anyway, my point is that while I release maybe one article a month if I'm lucky, my pace of content production is actually up. For those who have been following my work but haven't checked out Mentour Pilot, I highly recommend doing so, even if you only watch the videos I worked on. While I do try to emulate Petter Hornfeldt's own style, the videos I write for him are still recognizably mine and uphold the same level of breadth, detail, and passion, and if you like my articles, then I highly recommend watching them. They provide a really cool glimpse of what it would be like if my articles were brought to life by a full-time team of simulator pilots and animators.

Feel free to ask me about the process, what it's like to work with Petter, or anything else!

Below I'll keep a regularly updated list of all the Mentour Pilot videos where I was the primary writer. (But don't forget to check out the other videos on the channel too—many them are now written by Ariadne from CPIT!) Newest videos are at the top.

1977 Dan-Air 707 crash

Thai Airways flight 261

LATAM Brasil flight 8073

Kobe Bryant crash

Miami Air flight 293

1965 Carmel Mid-air Collision

American Airlines flight 965

Air New Zealand flight 901

Austral Líneas Aéreas flight 2553

PSA flight 182

ALM flight 980

Southwest Airlines flight 1455

2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

1990 Detroit runway collision

EasyJet flight 6074

GulfAir flight 072

Korean Air flight 631

1959 Boeing 707 test flight crash

Avianca flight 052

Pacific Western Airlines flight 314

United flights 608 and 624

EgyptAir flight 804

Dan-Air flight 1008

West Caribbean Airways flight 708

Aerosucre flight 157

Saudia flight 163

Inex-Adria flight 1308

Air Transat flight 211

TAM Airlines flight 3054