AvTalk Episode 299: Let’s talk about the drones

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason take a deep breath and discuss the New Jersey drones. What are people claiming they’ve seen, why nearly all of the reports are just aircraft, and why you should never, never shine a laser or fire a gun at an airplane—identified or not.
Plus, AerLingus takes its first (and second) A321XLRs, Boeing restarts 767/777 production, and the FAA finalizes drug and alcohol testing for repair stations outside the US. And NASA completes the first aircraft accident investigation on another planet.

Helpful links for this week’s episode

* DHS, FBI, FAA & DoD Joint Statement on New Jersey drone sightings
* Statistics on laser incidents in New Jersey in December 2024
* FAA’s finalized drug and alcohol testing rule
* The first aircraft accident investigation on another planet
* Flying stinky pigs
* Busiest routes of 2024

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 299 of AvTalk.
0:12.4	I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with Jason Rabinowitz.
0:17.9	Hello, Ian, is this our last episode of the year?
0:21.0	This is our last new episode of the year.
0:24.0	Fantastic. That's correct.
0:26.3	What a year. What a year it's been. I hardly remember last week, but I think 2024 overall was pretty fine.
0:33.9	It was pretty fine. Yeah. I think overall, the story of the year was continued supply chain disruption and what's sort of disappointment of airlines and operators in the ability of maintenance and manufacturers to deliver on their promises.
0:55.9	I think that's the overarching theme of this year's episodes as I've gone back and looked
1:01.6	through the episodes to put together next week's show, which is some of our favorite moments
1:07.5	from this year.
1:08.8	Excellent.
1:09.6	Excellent.
1:10.6	But we couldn't escape the year without falling off an intelligence cliff that seems, I don't
1:20.7	know, mass hysteria, dogs and cats living together.
1:25.5	Okay, let's back up.
1:27.2	Back up a second.
1:28.9	And let's try to pinpoint the exact story where we can pinpoint the moment where
1:35.1	humankind is kind of, I don't know, become unrecoverably stupid to a point.
1:41.1	No, no, no, no.
1:41.9	I think there might not be any coming back from this. This is
1:44.6	where the plot of idiocracy takes over. There's coming back from this because there will just
1:49.3	be the next thing. Okay. We're not done with this thing yet, though. Yeah, we're not,
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