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So what's the FFA rules about abandoning the airplane while it's at altitude??
Is that oil? Looks more like mud on the wing strut. No oil coming from engine.
My bet is this is 100% staged. Why have cameras ONLY (that we can see anyway) on the door used to exit the plane and on cockpit dash? Just another narcissist trying for his 15 minutes of fame.
My bet is this is 100% staged. Why have cameras ONLY (that we can see anyway) on the door used to exit the plane and on cockpit dash? Just another narcissist trying for his 15 minutes of fame.
Not buying it.
Besides the multiple camera angles...(and the hike back to the plane to recover them while in "survival" mode?) He never really feared for his life, or the cameras would have been jettisoned / abandoned.
If you are so worried about having to bail out of an airplane that you wear a parachute, would you not also prepare for aftermath by having a personal locator beacon and / or compass, etc?
It appeared to have some video from another chase plane?
Documenting the "injuries"... oh please. Along with all the grunting while brush busting to make it seem harrowing...
And the biggie for me, if the original intent of the trip was to go paragliding and spread his buddies ashes, wouldn't his paragliding rig have been in the plane with everything that was destroyed? But three days later he has it on and is continuing his quest.
Besides the multiple camera angles...(and the hike back to the plane to recover them while in "survival" mode?) He never really feared for his life, or the cameras would have been jettisoned / abandoned.
If you are so worried about having to bail out of an airplane that you wear a parachute, would you not also prepare for aftermath by having a personal locator beacon and / or compass, etc?
It appeared to have some video from another chase plane?
Documenting the "injuries"... oh please. Along with all the grunting while brush busting to make it seem harrowing...
And the biggie for me, if the original intent of the trip was to go paragliding and spread his buddies ashes, wouldn't his paragliding rig have been in the plane with everything that was destroyed? But three days later he has it on and is continuing his quest.
doubt the Future Farmers of America care
As far as FTFAA, they’ll probably be waiting for the NTSB, who these days cashes the paychecks but often won’t go to the scene of a accident unless it makes the news.
First time seeing a pilot wear a chute , more of a stunt pilot with a cheap old plane ready for the junk yard so why not film it crashing.That part was pretty cool and again not usual for engine failure mid flight, jump from plane and pull out your selfie stick. He's a good stunt man not much of an actor though, he should of hired Tom Cruise or Matt Damon for the talking scenes.
Lots of pilots wear them, but it’s people doing aerobatics, dropping skydivers, test flights, etc
And, most of all they are not sport rigs, they are packed different, basically just a reserve, and the containers are flat, vs a sport rig with bulge that would be pushing into your lower back if you were just resting on it in a seat.
Lots of his other videos he’s not wearing a rig, also I don’t see his parasailing rig anywhere in that plane, which was the reason for the flight
Family friend punched out of a F4. I'll ask.
When we jumped from old 180's and 182's the pilot always wore a chute. But, on the way up, we were usually overweight, no door, and half a tank of fuel and, on the way down, he would race us to the ground.
I didn't watch all of it but I question why he didn't land either the plane or the chute on that dirt road under them?
edit ... Looked again, it could be a wide flat(ish) wash.
Thank you,
MrSmith
I didn't watch all of it but I question why he didn't land either the plane or the chute on that dirt road under them?
edit ... Looked again, it could be a wide flat(ish) wash.
Thank you,
MrSmith
Sport rig
Emergency rig
Emergency rig
Too much theatrics & over acting...bad acting, imo. Sorry I wasted so much of my life watching.
So fake it hurts to watch, he should lose his license,
Looks like NC something
Which is the old school way of starting a N number, which matches the year of the plane, and is in a popular size and location
Which is the old school way of starting a N number, which matches the year of the plane, and is in a popular size and location
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Would any of you pilots wear the harness and carry the ‘chute during your evacuation hike?
No radio comms to another aircraft or tower detailing location and distress while still airborne?
Seems a bit odd along with the dramatic documentation commentary….I’m skeptical about authenticity.
No radio comms to another aircraft or tower detailing location and distress while still airborne?
Seems a bit odd along with the dramatic documentation commentary….I’m skeptical about authenticity.
I’d guess he was beyond ATC/Tower radio range there, so I’ll give him that, even though I’d still transmit on 21.5 as most planes near him up in the flight levels had a good chance of hearing him and most monitor guard.
Was also interesting he didn’t bother to leave his sport rig behind, hiked it all the way out, but where was the paragliding rig in the interior shots, or in the post crash shots? Not a small amount of stuff, plus helmet, jump suit, etc
In a real emergency, who would be worried about filming sky diving portion with the hand held go pro. He didn’t make any mayday calls or seem to attempt a restart or try to save the aircraft. But grabbed the camera...
I have been in an engine out situation in a 177, pilot landed safely on an abandoned airstrip in between cow pastures in southern Mississippi.
Edit- but if you’re flying somewhere where you’re pretty sure you’re not gonna have any safe emergency landing places flying with a shoot is damn good. idea. We always flew within glideslope of interstates or major highways to give ourselves an out, luckily during the emergency experience we had a GPS with the nearest airport location, And how we got to that abandoned field, If not we have been landing on I 59.
I have been in an engine out situation in a 177, pilot landed safely on an abandoned airstrip in between cow pastures in southern Mississippi.
Edit- but if you’re flying somewhere where you’re pretty sure you’re not gonna have any safe emergency landing places flying with a shoot is damn good. idea. We always flew within glideslope of interstates or major highways to give ourselves an out, luckily during the emergency experience we had a GPS with the nearest airport location, And how we got to that abandoned field, If not we have been landing on I 59.
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So he had the wherewithal to pull back on the yoke to near stall to stop the prop, I'm assuming for added theatrics of the "engine out". Yeah, you could do that to extend the glide but if he was off that mindset he probably wouldn't have bailed. Interested to read the ntsb report
@TurboTrout . point well taken
It’s like hotel California
You can log out anytime you like…but you can never leave lol
Taylorcraft BL-65, N29508: Accident occurred November 24, 2021 near New Cuyama Airport (L88), Santa Barbara County, California
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that Trevor Jacob, a daredevil YouTuber who posted a video of himself last year parachuting o...
There's your n number, be worth keeping an eye on. Typically they do a pretty through look through to figure out what caused an engine out. Unless he's smart enough to have staged a true catastrophic failure I'd assume the investigator would figure it out.
Notice in the dive after he bailed the prop was still spinning. That engine certainly was not locked up.
Taylorcraft BL-65, N29508: Accident occurred November 24, 2021 near New Cuyama Airport (L88), Santa Barbara County, California
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that Trevor Jacob, a daredevil YouTuber who posted a video of himself last year parachuting o...www.kathrynsreport.com
There's your n number, be worth keeping an eye on. Typically they do a pretty through look through to figure out what caused an engine out. Unless he's smart enough to have staged a true catastrophic failure I'd assume the investigator would figure it out.
Looks like it belongs/belonged to Laura L Smith (private pilot)
She’s going to be maaaaaaad lol
Aircraft Inquiry
registry.faa.gov 
Speak for yourself! His plane almost hit my grand champion pig!doubt the Future Farmers of America care
As far as FTFAA, they’ll probably be waiting for the NTSB, who these days cashes the paychecks but often won’t go to the scene of a accident unless it makes the news.
So much wrong with this. The investigation should be interesting.
If you look at his channel, he has other vids of "getting attacked by a cow", kidnapped at airport, depression, almost drowned, almost this, almost that, hey look at me.....
You get the idea.
You get the idea.
Isnt this the same as an ejection seat?
Never underestimate the narcism of the social media celeb wannabes. If there was a passenger in the plane that needed help getting out, the camera would have come first.
That said, the whole thing looks staged. I don’t know what he risked in penalties from the ntsb etc. but I bet they would be life changing if they proved he loosed that plane on purpose.
If it was a real failure, over bad terrain, pilot in command (PIC) has a ton of authority, but needs to back his decisions up with reality, if he decides bailing is the best option to save his life, plus the plane isn’t over any people or property, he gets a pat on the back and a good job bud and becomes a member of the caterpillar club
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_Club
If he staged that, well he’s likely to get some federal “love”
Looks like NC something
Which is the old school way of starting a N number, which matches the year of the plane, and is in a popular size and location
NCC-1701?
Especially in Cali. You are always in contact with someone. Doesn't matter if you are VFR or IFR. You must always practice "Clearance & Avoidance", but you are always under ATC control. That's what I remember, anyways. He did not contact anyone, so, staged. Mac
I used that info to find the approximate location of the bailout and crash site, again approximate but definitely in the area, about 2 miles east of the Manzana Schoolhouse Camp. Bailout happened at about 34.829895, -119.953515 with the aircraft heading approximately NW. The aircraft appeared to do a descending spiral into the ground, impacting at approximately 34.814616, -119.960225 heading approximately SE. Unsure of where dipshit landed but looking at satellite photos there were places he could've set the plane down to the west and a nice flat spot he could've landed his chute right below him.Taylorcraft BL-65, N29508: Accident occurred November 24, 2021 near New Cuyama Airport (L88), Santa Barbara County, California
The Federal Aviation Administration has found that Trevor Jacob, a daredevil YouTuber who posted a video of himself last year parachuting o...
I think he faked it for sure.
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Nah, Scotty would have just give her more power
All BS.
The chute doesn’t bother me. I always wore one when flying the higher performance / aerobatic gliders.
Tragedy for such an iconic aircraft. (That did a pretty good job flying without a pilot)
Tragedy for such an iconic aircraft. (That did a pretty good job flying without a pilot)
You wear a sport rig?
Complete fake. He oughta be fined up the ass.
FAA is kangaroo court (administrative “law”) so they’ll find howver they want
But if this gets kicked to the federal real courts, I’d wager he might have more than just fines to deal with, if that was staged, it should be jail time IMHO
He gave up hope, was dying of thirst, and fell to his knees because he heard a cow in less than a day.
Depends, air fuel spark and all that, having the engine off or inop and a minimal electrical system helped
He needs to have his pilots license permanently revoked for starters.
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