I got reported to the FAA
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Someone reported me to the FAA. I was asked to appear in person at the FSDO. This is probably a painfully long video documenting that experience and what I learned. If you've ever wondered what the FSDO can and cannot do, I cover it here based on my experience.
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Don't stop. Double down. You're totally my favorite youtuber.
Ok but are we still on next week for my checkride? It’s hard to find another DPE that only charges $50.
nice try FAA
reported anyway ;)
hahahahahahahaha
I thought that he had to pay as he's hour-building for his PPL.
LOL
One of the funniest things I've ever heard was when you said to the guy, "I thought about calling and telling you I had to reschedule because I had a student that day." Insanely funny.
Sorry you had to go through this, Bryan. I'm glad your FSDO made the experience as pleasant as they could under the circumstances.
Nice job turning all this into yet another funny video!
- Martin
"I thought about calling and telling you I had to reschedule because I had a student that day"
ROFL...
"Can we reschedule? I have a student that day" i flippin love your videos
Best video you've ever made. I'm sad you had to go through this, but the comedic value was incalculable 🤣
Bryan, your videos are in keeping with America’s rich tradition of satirizing even the most serious subjects. They are among my favorite CZcams content. I hope this ridiculous complaint and any concern it caused you don’t stifle your creativity. Keep up the great work, my friend!
Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad some folks enjoy my brand of humor. Thank you.
Five bucks says the jerk who reported you wasn't even a certified airman. Jealousy is a powerful thing.
"Federal Administration Association"
Honestly, the name is a bit more fitting.
That sounds a lot like all of those perfectly inicent and kind HOA's haha
In the distant past, we used to say “Federales Against Aviating”. It really has improved.
I had to contact our local FSDO about an EBay purchase of an aircraft. They were great. When I pointed out to the owner that he had an annual on an aircraft that wasn’t airworthy and the FSDO had previous complaints against his company, he was suddenly happy to let me withdraw my bid. (Aluminum wing skins were perforated with corrosion and IA had signed it off. I suggested he do otherwise, but I did not write a complaint.)
If a pilot ever gets ramp-checked: It is legal for the inspector to force you to produce your documents but it's a federal crime for them to cease your documents without an emergency suspension or revocation order.
I remember seeing your comment and even laughed at it. I agree, its completely absurd that they couldn't take a joke
Bryan I'm in the market for an airplane. The guy I'm buying it from said you can send me a new airworthiness certificate. I just wanted to confirm before I bought it. Thanks
There are too many great quotes for me to pick just one. So I am just going to say that I loved the phone calls. Great job.
every government agency that i dont need anything from. but when you need something from them they are fully booked for 6 months.
Bryan, you're cracking me up here! I'm glad you had a positive experience with the FSDO and appreciate you sharing the follow-up info with us as well. Stay awesome.
People take life FAR to seriously. I really enjoy your approach!
Some people just take things too FAR and AIM to be dicks. I don't think they quite understand the title of the publication.
So the FAA can't take a joke. In other news... you just got another sub. :)
BTW, I had a FSDO experience once. (I won't go into detail. It was an FAA red tape kind of thing.) The ASI I met with was one of the nicest people I've ever met in aviation and super helpful. I still have his name and number and I've called him since then with a regulation question.
Thanks for subscribing. Expect to learn a lot. Welcome to the The League of Extraordinary Aviators!
Bryan, I'm sorry you went through all this but at the same time I'm glad because this was the best video you've produced thus far. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work! Cheers!
Dang. And here I was trying to be funny that you were down at the FSDO. Super glad that went smoothly and you’ve put together a fantastically informative video on how to handle FSDO interactions.
Now it’s time for me to drink some of that “coffee” as I’m going flying now.
You're a life changer. Thanks to you and your approach to legal authorities, I'm invincible from now on and face all my accusations with confident. Please provide me your bank account so I can reward you. Wow, incredible guy. great example and inspiration.
Love you man! My dad had an inflight fire with a passenger at a antique fly inn. No medical or BFF. He worked through it. He was a badass for getting it on the ground and keeping the people with the fire extinguishers away for safety. He was in his 70+ but got his license back . Right seat for him now unless the engine quits then he is pic until we land . If the feds see this they will know him. Keep the videos coming!
Bryan, please answer the phone. I haven't heard anything about how my wife's gynecological exams went last week
I have a team of "doctors" working on it.
THANK YOU for sharing. It was both entertaining and informative. Even being a pilot for > 40 years, I fear the FAA mainly due to horror stories that we've all heard. My guess is there are 100x or 1000x instances where situations are handled the way yours was and the FAA/FSDO people are decent folks.
It is my understanding that there has been a huge culture change at the FAA and while the "old" FAA did simply punish people for mistakes, the "new" FAA is more about education and training.
BTW, I'll take 1 notarization and a marriage license please
Nice explanation of your FSDO experience...glad it turned out fine! Also greatly relieved to know there IS a prescription for "pudding spilled on X-ray"...
Hey, I need to get my rotary wing time in...can you take me up in the Traveler and spin it a few times so you can sign me off?
This was an excellent video. What they told you is correct....if they get a complaint, especially from a non-pilot, they have to check it out. I’ve been a CFI and FAASTeam member for about 25 years and have had hundreds of dealings with the FAA and never once felt that they were unfair or unreasonable in any way. I know that is not always the case, but I haven’t seen it and am always comfortable dealing with them. To be honest, I’ve been more pissed off by other pilots than I ever have been with an FAA representative.
Hilarious. Just found you after the Trevor Jacob thing and love your videos.
As a pilot who stuck his neck out to lead a flying community for a while, I’ve dealt with the Feds Against Aviation on a lot of levels. Always found the local FSDO folks to be great, pretty much as you described. They have to investigate every complaint, but they figure it out pretty quick. The Washington bureaucrats are a whole different bunch. I’m not sure they’d know an airplane from a toaster.
Nice video - Thanks for the Information and glad to see there is still people that still have a proper perspective - Need more people like you!
Oh thank god it went well!!! I am so sorry you had to go thru that BS. Amanda and I were so worried for you. I'm glad you will continue to entertain us with a little bit this and little of that!! :-)
Social media and the FAA, what an awesome crime fighting combination that is.
Hate to hear it happened to you, but glad it worked out and hope it won’t slow down your satire.
& My two cents: As an A&P and a pilot, I’ve never had a bad experience either, mostly friendly and seemed that they were there to ensure the safety of flight which, oddly enough, is why they exist.. and to aid in deforestation through excessive paperwork, but who isn’t?!
I like your sense of humor. Smooth winds and happy landings!
Sorry you had to go through this - but this was one of your best videos yet - and I learned a lot watching it too. Keep turning lemons into lemonade.
Agree. Excellent lemonade, and no it wasn't too long. The detail from someone observant who's just been there and is willing to go through it in such a clear fashion is very valuable. Hope I never have to use what I've learned from this, but if so I know I'll be more confident and prepared because of it. Sincere thanks.
Just make sure to use hearing protection when you deal with the idiot that turned you in.
As much as I hate big government, those guys seemed okay.
You are hilarious. I love these videos.
I am a CFI, if you ever need help just ask.
Internet trolls give real trolls a bad reputation.
Not a flight instructor, i wasnt paid to teach this but:
"do not crash untill you have to do so. "
Good luck, plz dont report me to the FAA. Thank you!
This is one of the first videos I have watched of yours. After watching a few others (while pausing this one etc) I realize you are just joking around. With this one you were as well however, I feel that you gave some important information to others out there. Now I will need to go look at more of your videos. Safe flying.
Thank you. I've been turned in twice to three FAA for making jokes on Facebook. I tend to just not use Facebook much anymore. The FAA has always taken my side which showed they have a bit of a sense of humor at least
Didn’t watch the video. Just wanted to say you’re the best instructor I’ve ever had. First time I’ve ever played the “take a shot every time you make a mistake” drinking game - and while flying! Totally took the stress out of learning to fly. Not sure how we landed, but we must have done okay since I’m alive (but that post-flying hangover is no joke). Unlike this post, which is obviously a joke. Please don’t report me to the FAA!
@TheAngryEagle The worst thing about those post-flying hangovers is the eight hour throttle-to-bottle rule.
Great humor. Laughed my ass off a few places. Though maybe fewer than you wanted. Hahaha.
Don't write "lunch with friend mark" or whatever in your logbook again. Simply log the flight. Only names in a logbook line should be flight instructor, examiners, and safety pilots. The less the FAA has to read the better you know what I mean? :)
I agree. That's what I got from this. I've noticed over the past several months at every Wings seminar or in every FAA video an in their official safety magazine, the FAA is saying we should put more comments in our logbooks about our flight. Not sure how bright an idea that would be.
@@kellytrimble4120 I get that we are dealing with the "Kinder, friendlier FAA" these days. I still wouldn't do it. The only comments I would put down next to a flight are "Flight Review, Checkride, HP Endorsement" etc. Things that a FAA investigator will audit your logbook for to make sure you are current and legal. That way they can quickly flip to the endorsement page, see the HP/Complex endorsement, and then flip to the date to see the flight and then see you did a checkride within two years for flight review. Anything extra is just opening up for further scrutiny. Other things I'd put comments or tabs on are things for DPEs to quickly flip to see you meet whatever requirement you are trying to meet. Keep it legal and professional. Don't think of it as your logbook. Think of it as a government record like taxes. Keep the fun memories for the scrapbook. Weekend warrior pilots who choose only to log hours for recency of experience, currency, etc should reconsider this. They should log every flight for record purposes. That way if under an FAA investigation, they have a record of being an active pilot. Logging the bare minimum makes it hard to argue that you are an active, safe, and proficient pilot who simply had an accident or made a mistake. It doesn't look good to the FAA when your last logbook entry was 3 night landings 80 days ago when they dig up your logbook from the field you just plowed 800 miles away enroute to KOSH. But if they see you did a few XCountry flights and pattern work flights prior, you look better. I hope that makes sense.
You are WONDERFULLY silly and funny and NUTZ! Thank you
Ok, some people are idiots. When can we reschedule my introductory flight, I need my private done before June.
Love the channel and keep it up, love and good wishes from the colder northeast.
Hey at least they gave you some good material for another video ;-)
Immediately sending this video to your state medical board, the Treasury Dept, the people who ordain ministers, and the fake notary public investigating people. 😂😂
In the early 80's when I was a young regional airline pilot a friend of mine was reported to the FAA for landing on one wheel. Really! An FAA inspector called him and ask him to explain. My friend told him sure, I did a crosswind landing so I touched down on the upwind main wheel first. The inspector said OK, then apologized and told him he had to follow up because someone filed a complaint. Case closed. A few years later I received several closely spaced enroute observations by the FAA Principal Operations Inspector of the airline where I was working. The fourth time he showed up I joked "Gee Tim, I'm starting to think the FAA really likes me." In his usual dry sense of humor with a smirk on his face, he replied, "No Curtis, don't ever think the FAA likes you." We both laughed. The vast majority of FAA inspectors that I've run into in my 40 years of flying have just been people trying to do their job.
I was holding on till the doctor’s advice, but I burst out into laughing tears at the second incoming phone call... ha-ha-ha...
Is this one for real? In case, it reminds us all that some people seem to have their how-can-I-be-an-a-hole-today radar up all day, all days.
Keep on doing what you do.
Did you ever find out who reported you? Was it someone you knew, or someone who didn't understand? What did you do with that information?
You make aviation fun again
Just Plane Silly, at 3:00 you gave the damning facebook post pretty much verbatim. It began with "I will be happy..." and everything thereafter was also future tense. It seems to me that I would have started with, 'I thought that this was for something I was supposed to 'have done', not 'will do'.' Where is the substantiating argument for something that you are worried that I might have done. Just a thought, glad it all worked out as well as it did.
Right?
I have been waiting for this video! Glad everything worked out.
Did they say anything about your stash of illegal cloud residue??
dont stop what you're doing please - your almost funny and i am optimisitic you will one day break the lexan ceiling
That's ridiculous. I even remember seeing that post. There is always all kinds of "gray area" advice on that group.
Thanks for sharing this and the wrap up questions.
I thought your name was familiar. Looks like you did my first BFR. I have your signature right here!
He does my BFR’s in advance. It’s a real time-saver. I’m good ‘til the turn of the century.
I just subscribed to your channel, but right after I did that, I wondered if my name gets put on a list somewhere.
I LMFAO at rescheduling cause you had a student.
You good sir, are absolutely hilarious. Keep it up!
Bryan, there are some weirdos out there. Watch out!
BTW, we are all set for my flight review next week, right? 😁.
Hold that beer for me, buddy ! :-)
I've seen your Trent Palmer Video and this one.
Both are great !
Just subscribed !
I’m really hoping the fsdo guy and his trainee got to see this vid. Phone calls were classic.
I sent him the link. I hope he sees it and understands I my channel is all in jest.
Thanks for sharing, it was a great experience (for you); and lesson for the rest of us.
Awesome video brother!! Glad it turned out to be nothing. Looking forward to flying with you soon.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Keep the shenanigans coming 🤣
While I agree that you are escalating it when your being a lawyer, you do never really know if your going to implicate yourself into something especially if you’re nervous even if you are 100% innocent to your knowledge. No one person can know everything in the CFRs.
Ok but did they subscribe to your channel?
But... the FAA won't take a serious violation seriously if they are close to the charter company that they're supposed to monitor. They have falsified you-name- it, but the POI can't "find" anything. It helps if you have lots of money. However, if you have a sense of humor, as you found out, that's serious shit! I don't call 'em the "effing A A" for nuttin.' The good ones at the FSDOs are all but gone.
I'm an old guy, 64, and have had my ticket for 5 years. I finally realized my lifelong dream of flying later in life and my wife of 37 years and I fly a 1973 182P. She has now started flying lessons at age 65. Just like all most couples you see driving around, my wife will probably do most of the plane driving as I become a doddering old man. I recently busted class D by a few inches to avoid traffic showing up as a green, yellow, then red traffic warning on the ADSB, and got on the radio to report myself after the incident! I had planned to stay just North of and above the class D but the traffic was coming toward me from the north at the same altitude and closing fast. I did try to raise the bogie by radio, to no avail. I had a very short time in which to react, and I turned to the south and descended slightly. Our visual after the fact proved that we had, indeed, been in danger of a mid-air. Other factors were a stiff northern wind and adjusting the bug for the autopilot instead of taking manual control. I do fault myself as if I had disengaged the autopilot and reacted earlier to the aircraft, I could have avoided it and prevented an incursion into class D. The FSDO called me, and we had a meeting over the phone. The investigator was very nice and we wrapped it up in one phone call. I think she understood it was a one off. However, it's amazing they could not see in your case that it was a joke before having you in. I also began to think that despite the advantages, ADSB is more just another tool by which government can keep track of us. So is social media. Love your channel. Thanks.
Still silly. Silly on brother
It's crazy that they can mess with you just because someone saw a message on the internet. Guilty until proven innocent.
You should have called a lawyer to deal with this. Told the FSDO politely that this is an abusive report and nothing happened but a post on social media. I could imagine they would have stepped down if their legal team found out on what the report is based on.
I never understood people using real names on the internet since social media. This is a perfect example why you would hide your identity as an average person. You don't have to be guilty to get in big trouble.
Been watching your videoes. A great Flyer. Very good.
Bryan here's a couple things I want you to remember:
The FAAs mission statement; we're not happy until you're not happy
I feel like maybe I'm reading in between the lines that the phone calls were something similar to what happened during your meeting with the professionals at the FAA???
You getting someone to report you means you are becoming something of a celebrity in the aviation community... Keep it up
Please for the love of all that is right with the world don't let this water down any of your content, you are hilarious and this only proves it more
Lastly. I just want to let you know how utterly disappointed I am in learning all these things that apparently weren't real in your videos. I will now report you to the fun police good day sir
Yes, I've seen that, but you know, over the years I've talked with several FAA guys (none in Enforcement) and they've always been great. Wish I could have done some flying with Martha Lunkin.
Absolutely hilarious content. You earned my sub good sir.
DPE's accept only cash on the regular for check rides for the same reason.
...so we're still on for that flight lesson I was referred to by the FAA Investigators?
Lots of good info in this, thanks for sharing your story.
Probably the same person who dimed P1D because they thought he called “Clear of runway” too early at an uncontrolled airport
Unbelievable. Keep doing what you do!
🙄OMG! sad to say I’m not surprised. Thank you for the very informative part about your experience at the FSDO.
brother..I'm sorry you have to deal with ignorant people. keep doing what you're doing.
Just had this in my suggested vids & thought AGAIN..... but nope it’s CZcams’s strange analytics again
You must have upgraded your production budget with all that instructing money. That green screen work on the final shot was fantastic. It almost looked like you were really flying a plane.
I have a question for your FAA friends. Is it legal for a private pilot license holder to blog about flying for pay, or to run a blog with ads and write about flying. Or, to say create a go fund me for getting a PPC while promising people to write about the experience? To the intent of the law I think such activity is legit but I want to know what the FAA say.
Totally legal.
@@JustPlaneSilly Cool, thanks. A proper celebrity like Harrison Ford messaged me back on the tubes.
@JustPlaneSilly I borrowed some inspiration from you for my GoFundMe page write up...
GWARr on vinyl!!! That's the best thing Ive heard all week!
great info thank you for being so truthfull, i guess at the end of the day we all make mistakes and its good to know we can learn from them without the fear of firing squad
by the way are we still on for wed ifr training?
That ending was priceless. Well done and very interesting
This popped up in my reccomendations three years after release-after Trent Palmer, Trevor Jacob, Red Bull, etc. I wonder if this had happened more recently, and you hadn’t already established a rapport with the North Texas FSDO, would the experience have been the same.
DUDE! Your dedication to humor is truly astounding...You Da Man!
As a fellow Laffaterian & also the World's Brest Pilot, (despite my 42 hours at ERAU in, uh, 1984) this 1 complaint would have snapped my already fragile work ethic. Your overly long & unnecessarily detailed video as well as really poor "jokes" show how stunningly obsessed you are with the aircraft/comedy combination. Perhaps therein is the reason no one else has bothered with the sub-sub-genre, but hey, I do sincerely applaud & appreciate you!
Also, your description of FSDO Man give me new insight into life in a totalitarian state. I'm not kidding: the fatuous stupidity of our species has driven me nearly to...well, a tale for another time, perhaps....
So keep up the good-ish work & always keep the fuzzy side up, as they say. (?)
-Jamie: PPL, NCDL, ESQ, AVG, PHD(abd), ABC(123), ETC.
I don't see how they could even think you were being compensated for the training you provide.. I mean, I have yet to pay anything for any CZcams content, especially yours and I am pretty much ready to solo by the end of this week. All I have left to do is find a way over or under the fence at the airport and hotwire a plane! Nothin to it!
Thanks for making this. I saw your original post and the one of you announcing that someone sent it in. PWAOBE fail....
From someone who isn't a pilot but has to deal with the state and the EPA....
When a complaint comes in they have to take it serious. They may know from the getgo that the complaint is stupid. But the complaint may also be legit from someone. You never know until you investigate. You have to go through the process to prove whether the the complaint is legit or not. The cool thing about the process is it gives power to people do try to correct the wrongs done in the world. The sucky thing about the process is it gives power to people who don't have a clue, or people who are out to get someone, or ..... It's not perfect, but I don't know of a better way.
You wrote a joke in a satirical context.
They checked the words and dismissed the context.
Words without context => failed or incomplete communication.
Officials often miss it. The key question is: why?
No room for fun in the aviation biz 😂
What's taking so long with my fake ID? You said I would have it by two days ago!
I think it's wrong... and honestly illegal in some way to not know who your accuser is on demand.
Amazing. And scary. I've made comments on Facebook that was not a joke and were controversial ... I'm surprised I haven't heard from FAA, even though my intent was to be helpful ... that often is unwelcomed and pisses people off. So sad that someone reported your very entertaining videos.
HILARIOUS!! Great videoes
Thank you