When I worked for the airlines we were told that any single strike on takeoff or landing to report it as a drone no matter
@stevenkelby2169
6 ай бұрын
Which airlines? Who told you to report bird strikes as drones? Name and shame!
@Ragnarok_FPV
6 ай бұрын
@@stevenkelby2169 if they dont its prob boing (they don't want to die 💀)
@stevenkelby2169
6 ай бұрын
@@Ragnarok_FPV 😂
@DelDredd
5 ай бұрын
Agenda as always same as all EV fires to be covered up.
@PiefacePete46
5 ай бұрын
@@stevenkelby2169 : Is it because the airline he named would then be able to prove he never worked for them, leaving him wide open for litigation? How can anyone be certain anything they see or read is fact or fiction?
@1sheinz
6 ай бұрын
Far more likely that it was hit by a wheel or door from a Boeing flying above it than an ACTUAL DRONE STRIKE. CHEERS BRUCE THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS Steve h
@tazz1669
6 ай бұрын
😂 Great comment
@PiefacePete46
5 ай бұрын
Yeah... before we know it there will not be enough airspace to fly a model without risking your time and money amidst the downpour of airliner debris and falling Starlink satellites!
@rjung_ch
6 ай бұрын
Yes, at the end the FAA said it was a bird. Nice.
@Qwarzz
6 ай бұрын
That's what they would say to not give out that birds are drones! It sure is a bit ridiculous that anything in the air is apparently a drone by default.
@davidwebb4904
6 ай бұрын
Later confirmed by the FAA as a bird
@rogerrabt
6 ай бұрын
Oh c'mon. Birds aren't real! It's a bird shaped drone.
@canofanger
6 ай бұрын
Was a soft, mushy drone.
@MountaineerFPV
6 ай бұрын
The pilot on the mic sounds like an impulsive over-assuming douche. You know what they say when you assume…..
@torpedoLaw
6 ай бұрын
Unbelievable
@mk6315
6 ай бұрын
Better raise taxes on all drone operators to be sure… hate this sh*t
@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen
6 ай бұрын
Unless it was a bloody big drone, a 737 would not even know it had hit it. Total BS as usual.
@100SteveB
6 ай бұрын
Years ago i was driving down the M23 when something hit, and bounced off the bonnet of a van i was driving, had no idea what it was, my mind did not have to time to determine anything more than it's approx size, about half the size of a brick. I was only doing about 75mph - yet i still did not have the time to work out what it was. Strange how some pilots can determine what something is when they are travelling at least 3 times the speed i was.
@vonSchwartzwolfe
6 ай бұрын
They run into other full sized aircraft without seeing each other.🤔
@crashtestrc7213
6 ай бұрын
I appreciate your approach to RID, and other regulations. We need voices like this in the media.
@AL-RCjunkie
6 ай бұрын
I can definitely appreciate this rant and the frustration behind it. I've carried on flying my rc models as usual. No RID. No problems. I do notice myself looking over my shoulder more often, for park police cars. I've always picked sites with no one around, in the middle of a week day to fly. Just to fly a foam toy in a park close to home. 👍
@TheTransformationBodySwap01
6 ай бұрын
Your right Bruce they just bullying drone people for no reason. I know some people who fly drones for fun and they aren’t breaking any laws. Keep preaching the truth Bruce.
@Hotwire_RCTrix
6 ай бұрын
When this happens they (the €!@) are preping the public. They use this to create credible scapegoats. Consider you are a evil conspirator and you wish to remove a man called Ass... with an excuse. It was a dude taking picture😮
@Paxmax
6 ай бұрын
"..EEeehh 1-1-8 we noticed some wildli... RC car running ... ROLLING over the runway..."
@vonSchwartzwolfe
6 ай бұрын
3,000 to 10,000+ birds per Square mile on earth and one Drone per 25 Square miles. The math is really simple.. This one turned out to be a bird. Go figure.🤔
@LazloNQ
6 ай бұрын
I bet that drone had feathers!
@Electrowave
6 ай бұрын
And sticky red oil.
@boogiefpv1982
6 ай бұрын
So true & Thanks for everything that you do for our community!! 😁 Keep doing your thing xjet
@spud3607
6 ай бұрын
Sadly "the truth" has always been a stranger to the news media, good luck trying to change that!
@L8again902
6 ай бұрын
Easier to harass the innocent, than prosecute the guilty.
@geezlefpv9189
6 ай бұрын
Yep. Path of least resistance they will go.
@audigga4396
6 ай бұрын
I would say that as a pilot , pilots can be unreliable witnesses. I recall an incident of alleged controlled airspace violation by one of our club aircraft. When we queried about the colour of the aircraft they could not identify it. Our only aircraft in the area was bright yellow all over. Needless to say they never bothered us again.
@Wind_Rapport
6 ай бұрын
absolutely perfect points and commentary
@mick813
6 ай бұрын
If thats true about the BA pilots being told to report unknowns as a drone, we could have a field day in court discrediting an incident where there is no evidence. Bear in mind that at that point they wouuld have to produce the data to substantiate their directive.
@53jed
6 ай бұрын
Yes, the world is now a _very_ strange place - and dangerous.
@PiefacePete46
5 ай бұрын
Yep... most of the danger comes from people in power, rather than hobbyists minding their own business!
@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen
6 ай бұрын
Comply with the good rules, ignore the rest and just keep flying...
@fgroen1225
6 ай бұрын
The evidence around remote ID based on that Las Vegas story is that it wakes up big brother.
@ravindeer-Goodman
6 ай бұрын
I suppose the aliens are using drones now, and they're obviously compliant with remote ID 😊
@goaway7346
6 ай бұрын
Maybe the Aliens are sick of bumping into our drones and want them removed from the sky before they launch their invasion. So much for "national security".
@sptrader6316
6 ай бұрын
I guess Birds Must wear Remote ID.
@eadjh98
6 ай бұрын
Thanks for putting the authorities in their place Bruce! We are innocent until proved guilty!👍maybe the pilot should have his eyes tested???
@gmivisualsjason3729
6 ай бұрын
Later confirmed by faa it was a bird strike
@alasdair4161
6 ай бұрын
Well there is still a very strong possibility that his aircraft has hit a drone or two in the past, although it really depends on the proximity of any hives in the proximity the finals of where he's flying. Damage is likely to be minor, although a pitot tube plugged with bee brains may pose a minor problem in flight.
@bigsid3011
6 ай бұрын
What? Government corruption. Government incompetence. A global problem.
@sUASNews
6 ай бұрын
Pilots should be questioned under caution when reporting incidents
@paulwinter9845
6 ай бұрын
More likely to have struck a bit from a previous Boeing. Ps...should all errant Boeing parts be fitted with RID?
@400AGLNET
6 ай бұрын
It has shut me down. I'm a current 107 and my drones are good as bricks.
@goaway7346
6 ай бұрын
Didn't you know Bruce? Aliens are using drones now!
@james_860
6 ай бұрын
Bruce, I think the pilot should of said… ATC I think we just hit a cat, spaceship, no flying car that might of had more credibility. Drone give me a break the only word they know.
@ernestoditerribile
6 ай бұрын
The 1984 reference is on point.
@soursham
6 ай бұрын
Great video 👍 lt seems like FACTS are over raided. Question , if I fly a sub 250 gram drone and not making money or uploading the video. Do I still need remote I.d. ?
@xjet
6 ай бұрын
If you are flying purely for "recreational purposes" then no RID is required on a sub250g drone (yet).
@nickthegardener.1120
6 ай бұрын
A drone collapsed the bridge.☹️
@glencowan3984
6 ай бұрын
A very big one
@albie1
6 ай бұрын
a drone hit a fish, that distracted the whale, that hit the ship - causing a power outage, that hit the bridge...
@stevefoobar
5 ай бұрын
Your analytical skills are impressive. Please keep up the good work.
@scrapveiw
6 ай бұрын
1984 you got that right you just have to look around at everything else going on,Well at least we can say we both lived in a time before everything turned to crap
@chubbyfpv5477
6 ай бұрын
🤙pass blame, before the actual situation is known👍
@alasdair4161
6 ай бұрын
Dont discount the possibilty that the jump seat passenger was flying a tiny whoop around in the cockpit before colliding with the pilots head...
@bigdatapimp
6 ай бұрын
I guarantee none of the "news" articles will mention the bird part and if they do it will be a small footnote.
@bernardhfox
2 ай бұрын
Love you Brother Bruce! Just wanted to tell you, you've made a difference in my life and have taught me so much. Your friend, Bernard Fox, Dalas Texas, USA
@xjet
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the very kind words Bernard, much appreciated!
@PiefacePete46
5 ай бұрын
I have seen the damage caused to the tailplane of a 737 by a birdstrike at Wellington NZ. They hit a black-backed gull, which has a five foot + wingspan. The leading edge of the wing was torn open, and compressed back about ten inches. There is no way anyone could mistake the damage caused by a drone with this... the amount of blood, guts, and feathers removed any possible doubt! Whoever told the engineers it was an interesting and varied career didn't mention this part!
@gpaull2
6 ай бұрын
737 certified AME…I’ve seen hundreds of bird strikes over the years, with birds as big as Canadian geese. Yes birds that big do major damage. The planes are designed to take it though. Even though drones are made of harder materials, it would take much larger than a hobby drone to do enough damage to bring down an airliner. Cessnas and other small aircraft don’t go fast enough for a hobby drone to do more damage than a bird strike.
@cougar02000
6 ай бұрын
If he hit anything at all, then it's its more likely he hit a bird, and since when did birds have four rotors, one at each corner. It's obvious birds are far more of a danger to full sized aviation by an order of magnitude than any drone or model aircraft, so when are the aviation authorities going to lay the Draconian rules on birds that they've laid on us as drone and model aircraft pilots.
@lambertodgr8
6 ай бұрын
I fly my drone in a cemetery 10 miles from an airfield and never above 500 ft
@WHEATSFPV
6 ай бұрын
theyve had this agenda since well before the gatwick shit too
@airadaimagery692
6 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@MCsCreations
6 ай бұрын
Bruce... You're too hopeful. I do hope they hear you, but we know they won't. 😕 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊 BTW, 1984 was meant to be a warning, not a step by step guide like they're using it.
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
Aaaaah. It's a 1984 Hard Book, not a 1984 Hand Book! Hate that when that happens 😁
@koalatails5711
6 ай бұрын
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, flies like a duck, and hits a aeroplane! It’s called a drone?
@jaceNZ75
6 ай бұрын
How are the media going to make $$ if they cant LIE🤔😂
@evo-labs
6 ай бұрын
They don't consider it lies...they call it 'marketing' 😆
@kmoecub
6 ай бұрын
There have been real documented cases of airlines striking drones. In all cases it's been a military drone with a known flight path, and generally the fault of a sloppy airline pilot.
@hamshackleton
6 ай бұрын
Harry Harrison's book "Make room, make room" is very close to fact as well. (It was later made into a film titled "Soylent Green", but the film totally missed the punch line!) - - - The 'drone strike' was probably a piece that fell off a Boeing that was passing overhead!
@robertkirby3158
6 ай бұрын
Bruce! Are you suggesting that the British Air Lline Pilots Association (BALPA) might distort the truth for an agenda? I suppose that could have been why the rest of the industry called them the British Airways Line Pilots Association in my working days. As for assuming a bang is a drone. In the days before soft fall toilet lids it was wise to check the forward toilet lid was down before take off or make sure you could identify the bang of it closing from the flight deck. Love the Las Vegas raid on the legal just because they have electronic visibility, I must say I never had more than one inspector at a time to check my licence and the $ 350 million insurance certificate. Reminds me of when only operational aircraft had Identification Friend or Foe that is now the transponder required by all short of a Bumble Bee. This was in the 1960s when there was little company above 45,000ft and stats could show a definite link between inconvenient air traffic demands and equipment failure, particularly when outside the range of a raw radar image. Now it would appear if you are out in the sticks and not operating an unmanned intercontinental flight the last thing you want to be is visible to more than the mark one eyeball.
@geezlefpv9189
6 ай бұрын
Awesome rant good sir! It feels like it's opposite day every day now.
@markmiranda2881
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for always being the voice of common sense and honesty. Im afraid the world is being conditioned to believe that what they say is the truth instead of reality-based truths. Scary when morals are replaced by propaganda.
@corneliuswowbagger
6 ай бұрын
Time for Federal bird registration! Radio tags for any bird over the size of a north American robin!
@Name-ot3xw
5 ай бұрын
A cessna creamed one of those $10k DJI drones up in Canukistan a year or so ago. Plane was fine aside from a smashed up nose. Pilot still landed.
@bobwhitewo3b
5 ай бұрын
Bruce I think that we need a study showing the damage caused by a bird strike vs the damage caused by the same sized drone strike. If they are comparable then perhaps the same regulations should be applied to drones as are applied to comparable sized birds. Sounds fair don't you think?
@aaron6516
6 ай бұрын
So when and if this happens to me where I am stopped from doing my job and potentially others afterwards, and if someone records it and posts my business on social media with my business logo and cops fbi etc around I am going to file a lawsuit for damages and losses... if I were that operator I would probably do just that.
@bobbysenterprises3220
6 ай бұрын
Wait. Hold on. What shape is the earth if its not flat?
@David-yo5ws
6 ай бұрын
IIR the TV programme I watched in the 1970's said "It's a Square World." That was when our TV's were in Black & White. Now it's a million shades of grey.
@Richard-h8k
6 ай бұрын
As the guy in Las Vegas with all the documents, registration, remote ID etc is getting harassed by the occupants of 6 police cars for flying his drone, every other person passing by is probably carrying a gun because.... "Nevada gun laws allow for the open carry of firearms without the need for a license or registration"
@username7763
6 ай бұрын
Legal gun carriers get harassed all the time. Our gun laws are so complicated, the police don't know what is legal or not. That is considered a feature as it allows for arresting people who are trying to follow the law. I see parallels with this and drone rules.
@ErraziBProductionS
6 ай бұрын
As A Legal guy in Las Vegas, with all the documents, registration, remote ID, and regularly doing legitimate commercial Part 107 work in the highly complex airspace system we have here, I have little-to-no concern about every person passing by carrying a gun. My concern would be the 6 uniformed people approaching me with them.
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
@@ErraziBProductionS 📌 🔨 (Sorry, Emoji has no nail, hence tack-tical substitute.)
@stevendegiorgio3143
6 ай бұрын
Bruce,you know,when an airliner takes off it gets up pretty high within seconds of rotation (V1).It's takes about a minute for an airliner to be already above 2000 feet.The average drone flys way below that altitude.And if indeed the drone was flying within the boundaries of an airport,than it is the fault of the drone operator.The control zone is a 5 nm.,360 degrees around an airport when the control is in operation.If,it's a drone,I'm sorry to say,it's the drone pilot that is in direct violation of FAA regulations.I am an R/C model flyer,and the full scale airport is the LAST place I would be,and never would fly my plane there.Its just common sense to me.I also happen to be a full scale pilot.
@xjet
6 ай бұрын
Yes... but it *wasn't* a drone or RC model aircraft... it was (as any sane person would expect, based on prior evidence and stats) a BIRD strike.
@DonJoyce
6 ай бұрын
The Canadian remote id story is starting to emerge....video tomorrow.
@FLYANDI
6 ай бұрын
The pilot didn't realize that something detached and not attached to his aircraft 😀
@lukewilkins1190
5 ай бұрын
Hey mate it's Luke here I haven't seen you since I was a little kid I use to fly with you guys in tokoroa with Brent and Barry and all of the other older blokes hope your doing well mate my father perry used to by nitro rc planes off you from your big shed lol look after yourself mate cheers
@JDSchuitemaker
6 ай бұрын
He could as well have said "we have hit a UFO".
@michaelsimpson9779
6 ай бұрын
Thanks Bruce
@GEHDunedin
6 ай бұрын
Drones are to aircraft as mice are to elephants
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
👍🏼🥇 And I saw the 'Mythbusters' prove the Elephant fear spectacularly.
@kpnut59
6 ай бұрын
I find it incredible that pilots are able to see something as relatively small as the average drone, yet there have been many midair collisions & near misses where they haven't seen another aircraft until the last minute! Maybe they are eating a lot more carrots these days? 😊
@bobbysenterprises3220
6 ай бұрын
He was looking at the chart from years ago where it has shapes of birds and a dozen other things labeled as drones
@Sonic_Ox
6 ай бұрын
Fully justified rant. What ever happened to just telling the truth?
@MADKIWI
6 ай бұрын
They have been hitting birds for a very long time.... How are you Bruce?😊
@conorstewart2214
5 ай бұрын
That is pretty disgusting from the British airline pilots association telling their members that anything they can’t identify should be reported as a drone sighting. What risk are drones to them? It doesn’t put their planes or business at risk in any way. Drones are not a threat, economically or physically.
@johncarold
6 ай бұрын
Hi Bruce, well we know that someone will cry drone to sometime, and I'm sick of the B.S that we have to go by all these rules just to fly a drone. Thanks again for the RANT !
@eddiehenrard5251
5 ай бұрын
As per any “registration” farce (drones, cars, guns etc) only the COMPLIANT are inconvenienced and targetted, as crim’s by definition, ignore said registrations/laws.
@mikenowland2739
5 ай бұрын
What’s happened to the flying vid s with your NZ boys Bruce. ?
@MystikSquash
6 ай бұрын
💯
@davepost7675
5 ай бұрын
Obviously, it was a zebra, not a drone.
@benjaminnikolay4400
5 ай бұрын
Maybe the EPA should start regulating the FAA...? Probably should not give them ideas...
@tonysimek
5 ай бұрын
Some pilots have hidden anger against drones. It is irrational.
@Narnald_Ewman
6 ай бұрын
When the scariest thing is the faa isn't doing their jobs, because order 66.
@grimripperrr
6 ай бұрын
Actually, in the states birds are actually government drones.
@Chilternflyer
5 ай бұрын
Funny that. We had a discussion at the field today about Remote ID coming to the UK. One argued that we wouldn't need it because we were on a BMFA field. I argued that there is no guarantee that our site would be recognised by the CAA so we might have to have Remote ID anyway. Then the tone changed. 50% said F' that I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm not being spied upon. 30% said I'm not having remote ID and the other 20% stayed quiet. My point being that you have to demonstrate the value of something if you want to get people to accept it. Remote ID is a joke, especially when we have full sized aircraft flying over us at our site that are not required to carry ADSB (Class G airspace).
@martiny1804
6 ай бұрын
Had to be a drone, we all know birds dont' fly..
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
For sure, for sure! Here in New Zealand, I am expecting to hear "It was a Kiwi bird strike." report any day now.... 😁
@henniedewet2602
6 ай бұрын
In the end it is about total control!
@lordnilsson
5 ай бұрын
If a Boeing 737 MAX reports an strange noise from the airplane... my first thoughts is not a bird or a drone hit..! But rather the fact... that the report comes from a 737 MAX...!?!
@matthewallen3375
5 ай бұрын
Drone lies matter. Thank Bruce for the reports.
@keithcarpenter5254
6 ай бұрын
As usual, the lie is halfway round the world, before the truth has got it's shoes on......
@mickpurcell272
5 ай бұрын
Being able to fly a drone now as a hobby in the UK is now dead u have to dance through hoops it's ridiculous
@username7763
6 ай бұрын
Bird are unmanned and they are aircraft so that makes them a drone. The question is, was the bird flying recreationally or not. Was the bird flying for the fun of it, or to migrate or escape from predators or find food?
@ATekFPV
6 ай бұрын
wondered why I lost telemetry... lol
@bakertam
6 ай бұрын
Ahh what? So the earth's not flat ! 😂😂
@PeterWinnett
6 ай бұрын
They're all mad and money hungry ... 😥
@robsycko
6 ай бұрын
Birds only fly so high Whats left to asume?
@conorstewart2214
5 ай бұрын
Drones only fly so high too. Plus there have been plenty of reports of bird strikes at relatively high altitudes.
@sacrificialrubber779
6 ай бұрын
Has Anyone done an impact comparison between a drone and a 20 lb goose?🤔🤔🤔🤦♂️🤷🏻♂️
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
There is the 'ol' ol' story' of the airline company, that was firing birds into windscreens to test the windscreens effectiveness. After many failures and strengthening of the windscreens, the engineers reported back to the Head Engineer that the windscreens kept failing. After reviewing the test reports, the Head Engineer pointed out the test article (frozen chickens) being fired at the windscreens, should be fully thawed out first. 🐔
@rikidawson7510
5 ай бұрын
6:25 that's the government in one sentence.
@ibfisher
6 ай бұрын
Yeah but Bruce, what you don't realize, Boeing has instructed all it's pilots to say "drone strike" whenever a door plug blows out, wheels fall off, brake/hydraulic fails etc. It's standard practice mate! Rest assured once these little "mishaps" get all sorted, Boeing will be putting Remote ID's on all parts that may fall off during a normal flight. 🤣
@roachcoachhelis6387
6 ай бұрын
😆👍
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
The Insurance Company's should be calling Boeing out, for falsifying their claims!
@davidwebb4904
6 ай бұрын
It was a drone who caused the door to fall off Alaska
@David-yo5ws
5 ай бұрын
No, the door bolted of it's own accord. 🚪 (I will see myself out.)
@davidwebb4904
5 ай бұрын
BA A321 came within 5 feet, 1.6 meters, of a drone at 10,000 feet over Sevenoaks, Kent yesterday….. as reported by the Independent newspaper. A Category A incident….. or maybe it was the Easter Bunny….
@YellowPinkie
6 ай бұрын
We all register our cars. This opens us up to taxation, which eventually becomes punitive. It opens us up to not being able to use roads our taxes have been used to build (see LTNs in the UK). It opens us up to ‘environmental’ taxes that are set at just the level to generate revenue and not change behaviour. In short, governments across the globe know that most people want to comply with the law and then they can be penalised for it forever. Remote piloted aircraft is just the same.
@ratmanmurray7137
5 ай бұрын
If it was a Boeing, more likely a door or wheel fell off it and hit the drone?
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