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Trevor "Hoover" Smith

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I'm a retired F-15E Strike Eagle pilot and current First Officer for a major US-based commercial airline. I founded Pilot Debrief in 2020 to take the way fighter pilots learn from mistakes and bring it to general aviation. 5,000+ hours flying fighter jets and modern airliners. Airline Transport Pilot certificate. Former F-15E and F-18 instructor pilot. Years spent running formal debriefs on combat sorties, training flights, and operational missions — that discipline became the Pilot Debrief Method. I review NTSB accident reports the way I'd debrief a wingman: not to assign blame, but to find the decision point where the flight could have gone differently. The Pilot Debrief YouTube channel has grown to over one million subscribers because that approach, applied to real accidents with real names and tail numbers, gives pilots a structured way to learn from someone else's worst day. The Pilot Debrief Method, the case study archive, the Pattern newsletter, and the Pilot Debrief app all extend that same idea. Every year, roughly 300 people die in general aviation accidents in the United States. Most repeat patterns the NTSB has documented for decades. Pilots who really study those patterns, the way fighter pilots study tactics, fly safer. That's the whole bet behind Pilot Debrief.
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