Not sure if you all have heard but there is a story that is a bit related to this.
Few months? ago there was a youtuber who claimed he had an engine failure, while wearing skydiving gear. He said he took the flight to spread friend's ashes. He had a camera mounted on the plane, and on himself. He jumped out of the plane and recorded it crash into the ground. Then, he parachuted down to where the plane was.
My cousin is a commercial pilot, I used to fly with him when he had his private license. The FAA does not mess around. There are usually very thorough investigations of plane crashes.
One of my favorite youtube series is from the AOPA air safety institute channel called Accident case studies. The amount of details in these reports is amazing.
I’m not sure but can we just stop this idiocy of people playing with planes like they’re Luna park attraction and just go back on being serious? Has marketing turned us In a idiot society
Right? I love Red Bull's statement of "going down in history of being the first pilots to take off in one plane and land in another" as if this extremely contrived situation is somehow notable. It's the epitome of hyping something just to hype it. Seems like a really expensive water bottle flip to me.
Barnstorming was at low altitude by slow moving planes. Things have come a long way and we're now dropping planes out of the sky from 3 miles up at 150mph.
I'm thankful the FAA is here to keep this shit under control.
I dont see how slower speeds or lower altitudes invalidates the point that doing dangerous stunts in planes isnt some recent development caused by "idiocracy". Thrillseekers have always existed and Red Bull is just capitalizing on them for marketing. There's no reason for Pearl Clutching.
More than likely it'll be a fine for Red Bull/the pilots involved - and at worst a revocation of the pilot certificates for the pilots involved for continuing ahead despite knowing that an exemption wasn't granted.
Pissing match between stodgy bureaucrats and company that can afford lawyers to fight these fights ensues.
The plan they denied was by no means outside the bounds of normality for the sketchy stunt-man things that the people involved do as part of the normal course of their business. So it should be a good long pissing match.
Yeah. They pulled a stunt that could (and did) crash a plane. Their plane, if they can ensure there's nothing on the ground to be hurt, it should be their own business. The FAA should only care if the ground safety wasn't ensured.
Few months? ago there was a youtuber who claimed he had an engine failure, while wearing skydiving gear. He said he took the flight to spread friend's ashes. He had a camera mounted on the plane, and on himself. He jumped out of the plane and recorded it crash into the ground. Then, he parachuted down to where the plane was.
FAA has revoked his pilots license. I am assuming charges will follow, since FAA said he purposely crashed the plane. https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/youtuber-trevor-jacobs-...
My cousin is a commercial pilot, I used to fly with him when he had his private license. The FAA does not mess around. There are usually very thorough investigations of plane crashes.