Sorry but no. Either P1D is incredibly naive and just plain stupid or he knew what he was doing when he made that video. Doxing has been in the media enough that you'd have to be living under a rock to claim you didn't know what was going to happen and no regular youtube content creator with followers can make such a claim. He willfully lit that match and threw it on the box of fuses leading to the dynamite; he doesnt get any sympathy from me just because he was upset. It was a serious lack of judgement and unprofessional behavior on his part.
As someone else said, this video is that email you type up, walk away from, then return to and hit delete. P1D chose to hit send but worse he chose to hit send after having time to gather his thoughts about what he was going to say, say it while filming the video and then review it while editing the video and presumably going through a final review all before uploading the video. He still hit send.
Frankly P1D comes across as the bigger crybaby here. Nothing came of the call to the FAA except notification of a complaint. Thats it. His threat to pull his videos from youtube? That's a 3 year old's response to not wanting to share their toys and taking them and going home... They're my toys/video, I dont have to share if I dont want to and if you dont like that well that's too bad because they're mine and I'm taking them home with me.
As to the kid being a crybaby? We dont know how that conversation went. What we know is he went to the FAA which we all agree was a major and unnecessary escalation but it is also the escalation we are told we should follow. This is probably even more so true now than it was in the past as the FAA's whole educate and comply regime has seen newer instructors, especially in 141 schoosl, starting to cast the FAA as a "friend" to pilots and not an "adversary." I think the change is good but there is still enough nonsense coming from the FAA on things like medicals and other issues that I'm not quite ready to go full on "lets be friends" myself but I'm also not in the "anything involving the FAA is bad" camp either. As someone else said on here, most of you have never had to deal with the FAA directly and it shows and again the kid lacks experience and judgement to know what he doesnt know, which in this case was, ask others first, dont involve the FAA except as a last resort.
As to an apology? I think both need to apologize to each other, P1D more so than the kid. The kid's only guilty of unnecessarily escalating a minor issue, in which he was technically correct about, into one involving the FAA but nothing came of it. P1D on the other hand has been in my opinion condescending and dismissive of the kid from the start with a holier than thou attitude and is now directly responsible for the kid being doxed and harassed.
