JTarmstr
Elite member
I came accross this a while back.
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I shared it in the official Inav telegram and there is a few airline pilots that hang around there and they told me this is pretty much what they are instructed to do, report anything as a UAV.
They also talked about some airliners pilots association that wanted to ban all non-commercial UAVs altogether, one can dream.
I have been told that similar bullcrap is supposed to come in europe, they can hope all they want but I wont register my extremely temporary aircrafts and no one will blame me for that.
So the batwing, UFO (guess they misspelled the acronym, its UAV now), Starship Enterprise and the U.S. Military are now UAVs? Wow only thing they forgot is that house in the movie Up. I remember a quote in the autobiography of Ernest K Gann, (Fate is the Hunter), His mentor Ross while training him to fly the DC-2 for American airlines says “Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.” Its one of my favorite quotes and shows how pilots back then were always prepared when something went wrong, its unfortunates that many corporate pilots cant fly by the seat of their pants and just program the computer. This isn't meant to be a blanket statement but it seems like much of the outward attitude I see is wishing for all the problems to go away because of legislation.
Note: I am not saying all airline pilots are bad, there are many fantastic pilots out there (Captain Sulley, The woman who landed her 737 after the engine exploded), this is just noting a lot of the complaints I see by the airline industry.