PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Number7 on April 22, 2022, 03:55:40 AM
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was not impressed. As The New York Times first reported, the agency sent a letter to Jacob earlier this month, which says his flight was "careless or reckless so as to endanger the life or property of another."
The FAA's acting administrator "finds that you lack the qualifications necessary to hold your private pilot certificate and any other airman certificates issued to you," according to the letter, a copy of which the FAA shared with PCMag. The agency revoked that certificate, issued to Jacob in 2018, and ordered him to surrender it immediately or face fines up to $1,644 per day. He has the option to appeal the decision, though.
Jacob’s footage includes the takeoff, engine failure, his jumping from the plane and freefall, his parachute descent and landing in a thicket, an hours-long hike through the wilderness, visiting the crash site of his plane on the way, and eventually coming across a car at night that gets him back to safety. As his plane was kitted with several cameras, Jacob was also able to capture the entire descent of his plane, up to the point of it crashing, and include it in his video.
The presence of these cameras and the parachute are part of the reason why the FAA believes the crash was a stunt. It also claims Jacob "opened the left side pilot door before you claimed the engine had failed," and made no attempt to contact Air Traffic Control, restart the engine, or look for a safe place the land.
Furthermore, "you jumped out of the [plane] while holding a camera attached to a selfie stick and continued to record the aircraft during your descent," the FAA says.
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Should have been a lifetime ban. No appeal.
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More Youtuber nonsense. Anything to make a video, post it online to get hits.
PoA has it's share of youtubers who make idiotic videos, then go on PoA (and other forums) to start threads in order to redirect people to their channels. And some of these are really, really stupid.
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So he gets the same treatment as Martha Lunken, who only flew under a bridge! 😂😂😂
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More Youtuber nonsense. Anything to make a video, post it online to get hits.
PoA has it's share of youtubers who make idiotic videos, then go on PoA (and other forums) to start threads in order to redirect people to their channels. And some of these are really, really stupid.
More than just that insufferable Brian with a y guy?
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More than just that insufferable Brian with a y guy?
Several. And they are real dipshits that think they are "creative".