Reality checking drone airprox reports
Dear Members of the UK Airprox Board, I would like to commend the UKAB on the publication of report 2024294, which presents a thorough and thoughtful examination of the Police helicopter’s drone airprox report near Lakenheath. This report marks an important moment in UKAB’s handling of drone-related airprox cases, for several key reasons: It [...]
Investigators looking into a series of sightings of a mysterious "jetpack man" flying over Los Angeles say they may in fact have been balloons. After over a year of investigations, officials from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) said they had been unable to find any other witnesses who saw the flying objects. "The FAA has [...]
Simon Dale had a chat about drone airproxes and Airprox Reality Check with Sean Hickey at Geeksvana. Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtz1oqAdxtE&ab_channel=Geeksvana
In case you missed it; our four page article in Pilot Magazine entitled 'The Great Drone Myth' can be viewed here. Please give it a read, and support Pilot Magazine by buying a copy of their excellent magazine.
On 8th August 2019 Simon Dale from Airprox Reality Check met with Steve Forward from the UK Airprox Board. The meeting was positive and productive. Steve Forward accepted our point that the way the drone airprox reports are presented makes them appear like fully proven government reports, when in fact they are not. (They are [...]
Airprox Reality Check briefed Rachel Maskell MP (Shadow Minister (Transport)) on the problem with drone airproxes today - Friday 12/07/2019. Rachel totally understood the problem and has promised to discuss with the Shadow Aviation Minister next week with regards to addressing the issue ASAP. We are very grateful for Rachel's time and we hope that [...]
2019-07-03: A WestJet Boeing 737-700 (WJA935) from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson, ON (CYYZ) to Calgary, AB (CYYC) reported a red drone sighting approximately 100M north of the threshold of Runway 23. A Jazz de Havilland DHC 8 300 (JZA8314) from Sault Ste. Marie, ON (CYAM) to Toronto/Lester B. Pearson, ON (CYYZ) and a WestJet Boeing 737-700 (WJA668) from Calgary, AB (CYYC) to Toronto/Lester B. Pearson,…
Airport ‘Drone’ sighting ‘could have been a bird’ Airprox Reality Check worked with the BBC News team on this article published on their website today: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-48872489 It is great to see the BBC questioning unproven drone reports and considering, and presenting, some balance.
Airprox Reality Check shows that "drone" Airprox 2019057 was in fact a distant A320: http://www.airproxrealitycheck.org/files/2019057-Airprox-Reality-Check-Report.pdf
Click here for the press release in PDF. NEWS RELEASE IMMEDIATE RELEASE 17/06/2019 80% of drone airprox reports are misclassified by the UK Airprox Board Following a Freedom of Information Act request, the UK Airprox Board, the official body which collates airprox (‘near miss’) reports from pilots, described the process they use for [...]