Cop Threatens To Put Me In Jail! 

Would you have taken off anyway? 🤔

A good cop strives to de-escalate situations. That is an important part of the job. He needs to drive a desk for a while.

"If you take off, I'll take you to jail." Lying cops say ridiculous crap. Did he think he could fly after you and pull you over? Was he going to shoot you out of the sky? He made no sense; his threat was a bluff.

just so you know, archive means the exact opposite of delete.

Orlando pilot here...Florida gets a lot of pop-up thunderstorms and sea-breeze storms on the peninsula from the east and west coast breezes colliding in the middle of the state. Any of these storms, or even developing future storms, can develop an outflow or inflow straight-line wind that can extend 20+ miles from the actual storm. If the outflow is onshore and blows out to sea and you fly into it, you would experience exactly what you described. As for the cops, when they pull crap like this, demand a supervisor come to the scene. In Florida, they must call for a supervisor if you demand one. 9/10 the supervisor will end a tyrant cops attack on your rights. That 10th time, find an attorney and hold them accountable. No law, no crime. Not posted, they cannot enforce such a 'rule' or 'policy.' Not sure about other states, but this is the situation in Florida.

Wow!! That cop was DEFINITELY on a power trip! It was GREAT meeting you at Bad Apples!!

Former cop here… dude was totally overreacting. If there’s a “no flying” rule in the park it has to be posted. And then all he can do is make you leave. He can’t arrest you, unless he says “no flying” and then bans you, and you subsequently come back and fly anyway. I would be willing to bet this is how the behind-the-scenes conversation went, though: Park manager calls the Chief of Police and blesses him out about “those dang flyboys in the park yet again! why won’t you stop them!” Then the police chief calls the lieutenant and says “get your officers down there and get the flying guys out of the park.” Crap rolls downhill and that beat cop catches it all, so he’s pissed before he arrives knowing it’s a BS call. All he wants to do is go catch some underage drinkers or something on the beach, but he’s getting fussed at about “these same guys that are always in the park.” That’s how that sort of stuff happens…

You should put in a FOIA request for that officers body cam and get the interaction form the officers prospective.

A cop that was either a bully as a kid or was bullied and now wants to relive his 'Glory' days ... or get revenge. He shouldn't be allowed to be in charge of a lemonade stand.

There's the cops earning the hate!😂

The fact he has to say "im not security" says enough.

Paramotors = psycho cop magnet 👮‍♂️ 🧲

Make sure to share this video with this goofball cop's department supervisors.

Short cop. Prob smol pp. Big mad. You see it everywhere.

"resisting arrest", "fleeing police" these are all citable excuses for power tripping fools to use to hide their misbehaviour behind. You did good, don't fly, consult the park, the county, the city, file a complaint when it turns out he was lying through his teeth and uttering baseless threats.

We the people have a real problem with the quality of policing and the grossly deficient character of those in the profession.

Very brave cop. Definitely serving and protecting here. My thin blue line is so hard right now.

Wow, That officer needs to relax a lil bit. There is no need to inforce the law and be a dick. We have a great Police Dept, and I'm a former Mp. Stay safe Tucker. Fly On!!!💪😁🙌

As you stated, policy is not law. There are too many overlords these days that forget we live in America, not some dictatorship. No disrespect to the honest cops out there who actually uphold the constitution they swore to protect and the communities they are hired to serve, but to all others who fail to get that, you don't deserve to wear the badge let alone carry a weapon.

Sounds like a civil rights violation on behalf of the Police Officer.

I’ve only been following you for about 5 years(I think) and it’s wild to see how much your life has changed in that short time. All the best Tucker!

I am a complete newbie to paramotoring, I love the idea of flying floating just above the ground or treetops ; Tucker you and the other folks into air sports are so amazing , Love the Bro vibe 😀

Hey Tucker. Appreciate you giving us the details. Really wish you still had the video so you could submit it to a channel like Audit the Audit or someplace like that

Excellent footage, as always. Thank you for putting this together!

Great storytelling. It sucks to lose footage but you made the most of that frustrating situation. Thanks for sharing both stories with such vivid detail.

Tucker, you obviously got up and flew around the cruise ship. It wasn't clear from the video, unless I missed a comment... did you comply with the officer, pack up and launch from somewhere else? Or was that a separate flight altogether? Sorry you had to deal with whatever baggage he was carrying from before, but as always, I appreciate your calm, cool approach.

I’m sorry this happened, you have our support, Tucker.

Good looking Shirt Tucker, I wore mine yesterday, and am really enjoying it. I don't know Florida weather, but we get that type of Turbulence here in Washington. Fortunately we are looking for Turbulent air in Free-Flight. My advice is to get information from more than one source for every flight. Understanding the MM5 forecasting charts is very helpful. The Skew-T chart is what I use most often.

Some cops put off an aura of professionalism and authority. That one does the opposite and makes me instinctively want to be non-compliant. He should consider a career change before he gets himself hurt or worse.

Each PD usually has a Facebook page. I would post the video. Every time I have had a problem with an officer in my life, I remember the scene in Police Acadamy, when the guy gets thrown off the bridge in his photo booth. He pops out yelling "I'm going to show you! I am joining the police academy!" I like that you always do the right thing, Tucker. Show respect, let him have his power trip, and you get to walk away. Some cops are just little pric**!

Such policies tied to a physical area "must be posted". If there were signs saying such policy was new and being enforced,...you would've been in the wrong. No signage, and he's abusing his authority with threats of jail before any crime has been committed. He's telling you to leave a public area? Flying near cruise ships may constitute a lawful security threat in 2024. I don't know. But that wouldn't surprise me. We give away our liberties to the state day by day under the guise of safety or health. Cheers.

I love watching you FLY! No dying allowed, Tucker.

Youre a good story teller man fr

Bad Policing! There was absolutley No... 1. No disturbing the public 2. No soliciting 3. No defacing property 4. No vandalisim 5. No reason locals need to call police for using them as intimidation! Omaha N.E. 🇺🇸🌽

It was nice to meet you at Bad Apples. Thanks for inspiring me to start flying. Oh, and my son was stoked that you test drove his Talaria XXX!

Because of you, I found my next adrenaline rush. After years of off road racing out if San Diego and loving that life, I am in omaha. Looking for that next thing. I didn't enter into your giveaway, because I need training before I ride. I've been ultalighting and have tandems paragliding. A couple of skydives, I'm ready for a longer, beautiful view from above. Thanks for your channel.

You can use a blow torch to get your pipe to change to the color you like. It’s all about the right temp to get the color you like. You can look up the color changing to see what colors match what temps

I doubt that cop had any lawful reason to tell you not to fly but they know it doesn't matter. You do it anyway, they get to arrest you and you spend huge sums of time and money proving they were wrong, for which they won't be held accountable anyway. You lose whether you're right or wrong. You made the wise choice to not press the issue.

Love hearing more about a situation that got away from you and how you navigated the piloting. Mother nature can be brutal, but if I ever do get into paramotoring, I'll remember this

I can’t believe your header exhaust cracked.. Man I don’t understand why there are people like this cop that come off all mean and crazy with threats.. great video man! Happy you guys didn’t get in any trouble! People need to relax. But dude I felt some crazy winds at the beach when the winds were changing in the middle of the day!

Dude, it’s just a power trip by a piece of crap

Tucker Gott joins the RU-vid auditor community.

You encountered a ‘shear’ of convergent winds colliding and creating unstable lifting air. Flying coastal sites in a hang glider - we actively seek those shears. They take us well above ridge lift. They can be seen on the wave tops (look for lines of white where the winds are lining up the crests). Shears don’t always have to be on-shore, off-shore direction, they can be aligned differently. Typically created by stronger flows of air moving into more stagnant airflow. They don’t happen regularly but sometimes can be predicted when there is little to no wind on the coast, then a rather quick freshening of wind coming on-shore (again, looking for those wave crests well off-shore).

The windy “HRRR” model is best good at forecasting that (pretty common in Florida) wind shift. We see it when inland wind is W, while beach has E sea breeze. Later in the day, when the sea breeze weakens, the W wind takes over again. Same happens on west coast of Florida too.

Trips to Utah and the Grand Tetons would be awesome. Not sure the rules are to fly around the national parks though…

I think you guys are a very friendly and respectful group. The occasional people complaining are most likely just jealous and mad at the whole world because they can't control their own life.

A policy is for employees not the public

I would send this video to his sergeants office. What a disgrace. Great content though!

Thank you for talking about the importance of a reserve and flotation

Most calm and level headed cop

Retired police sergeant here…. So what crime did you all commit?? Law broke?

youre %100 wrong on files getting deleted.. its actually not possible to delete data.. you can only delete the location of the data so the device cant find it.. and then eventually the data is overwritten.. until its overwritten, you can definitely recover the data. you just need a special program designed to find data that doesnt have a registry.

I’m contemplating the purchase of my next motor, Eos 4-stroke or Moster EFI. I would love to see a comparison video or just separate reviews. Great job, as always!

You should come out to UT, we've got a Flight Park up on a ridge in the middle of the city. TONS of paramotors and hang gliders there nearly every day all summer long. Great thermals and updrafts off the ridge. Great views.

What's a police order? Is that like UCMJ Article 14?

A couple of things regarding the LEO contact. The SCOTUS (Supreme Courte of the United States) has ruled that law enforcement may be dishonest with members of the public in pursuit of their goals, whatever they may be. In this case, the cop "threatening" to place you in a cage and take your freedom away from you was a bold faced lie in order to get you to do what he wanted you to do (and completely within the law and his authority). They do this all the time and it is indeed very slimy of them to be this way. Basically, if a cop is talking to you and saying things like "you can't be here, you need to leave, you will be arrested if you don't leave," etc, they are most likely not being truthful. They can tell you that this is private property and you are trespassing and you're about to get arrested for it when NONE OF THAT IS TRUE (for example you're standing in a public park). Most LEOs are on power trips their entire shift...every day. Stay safe out there and NEVER answer questions from a LEO...if they are talking to you, they are trying to find something to charge you with.

Florida is one of those places that gets "popcorn" thunderstorms. (Spring up locally without huge fronts moving through.) So that rotor scenario could have been a precursor type thing to that sort of weather.

Another tough guy with a badge. It’s a shame being’s there’s a lot of cool cops out there.

Give us that cop’s name and his department’s phone number so they can be inundated with complaints.

Hey cool video. I stumbled upon this video and I was wondering are there 2-seat parawing flights? I know little about flying but might like to go for a flight with someone else at the controls. Have fun be safe.

For your header elbow to form oxides in colors, it depends on the header materials and exhaust gas temps. Higher temps (running lean or higher rpm without cooling) cause oxides to form at different rates when reacting with various atmospheric gasses. You could try leaning the motor out slightly and/or running without prop. I imagine the prop pulls enough air over the elbow to provide some decent cooling.

Ever since moving to the updated 50hr exhaust bushing design, I've been struggling immensely to get those off when it's time to swap. I'm always worried that too much hammering and prying on that will slightly bend the mount and lead to leakage out of the cylinder head. I've been sanding down the mating surface before reassembly in hopes of ensuring a good seal. So far no leaks.

For the exhaust color, if you lean out or richen your fuel mixture that will get you the coloring. Look how to do it up for a motorcycle. Same principle should apply.

I have watched more than enough "audit" vids to know that policy never outweighs laws or rights. Technically, that is a lawsuitj for violation of rights. And you have video proof. That footage of flying along the beach with the sunset and the buildings is beautiful! And that Copper Mine footage, thank you again for capturing that epic footage!

I used to lose data all the time for all kinds of dumb reasons. I eventually setup a NAS running a ZFS pool and I haven't lost anything in years even protecting me from my own mistakes.

I'm really glad you put that Goon's face in your video..... hopefully, his boss sees this and enlightens his behavior. What a true feeling of freedom that has to be soaring with the eagles 💙

Wildlife, fly over some cool places with amazing spectacles of wildlife. Like schools of fish, sharks etc, or herds of Buffalo, or some natural wonders like geysers, whirlpools etc. A new vantage point of cool phenomena that most people only see from the ground. Great stuff Tucker, stay safe!

The beach winds you described made me think of sea breezes. Towards the end of the day, they change direction.

So, onshore/offshore convergence is a very real thing and it is mentioned in USPPA materials, PPG bible, and many paragliding books. The imagery in your shot of windy here looks like you were right in the convergence zone. Definitely always triple check winds before beach flying! Especially mid-afternoon when the seabreeze is losing its power, and offshore flow picks up. Lots of times I have stayed on the ground and kited until closer to sunset when things calm down.

There is a cool area that would be awesome to see you check out near the Arizona, California boarder. I'm a trucker who frequently drives Arizona to California and back. I noticed about a year and a half ago that there is a couple of cool looking features on the south side of the I-10 between mile marker 38 and 36. I think It is called Eagles eye near New Water Mountains Wilderness. Happy flying and try and stay cool my Arizona brother.

Still so strange seeing you all Beefy! Looking good brother.Love your channel.

I like the high altitude flights!! Would like to see more of those.

@tuckergott Is the exhaust titanium that is what turns the blue, if so heat it with a hand held torch will do the trick have to get it really hot, red hot.

Nice video thx. Your run-in with that cop sounds like a big case going on now in NYC

So in miami, and cocoa beach, really anywhere where there is an ocean and an innercostal waterway down here you will get a huge convergence. Its pretty unpredictable and during mid day warming it picks up like crazy! Kite boarders love it on the inercoastal side as you get some massive low pressure areas with very high winds. As someone whose job it is to rely on the winds down here, it has its own mind and you really have to learn it or it will bite you.

Hey Tucker, did you go to Bisbee yet? Have I missed your footage of Bisbee? If you haven’t, go spend a few days there, worth the effort, the old pt, the old buildings, the craft beer is nice (at the old Stock Exchange).

I'm in Salt Lake at Super Fly right now starting class soon. Maybe take a look at flying around Missoula or Kalispell? Goregous up there with the Mountains and I live up there too.

There are always wind boundaries converging at where land masses meet large bodies of water. While they do their own mesoscale thing, they get impacted by more synoptic weather systems. As you probably know, the afternoon onshore breeze is a result of rising warm air over land, creating a localized trough of low pressure. The cooler air over the ocean (or Great Lake) moves inland to replace that air. That air is in turn replaced by the air that has risen, cooled and is now sinking. You get this whole convective loop situation going, oftentimes at a low enough level that it all happens below the altitude where you get the normal cloud development you'd expect to see with rising thermals (note on certain days how all the cumulus clouds just disappear within a couple miles of the shoreline). This whole onshore-offshore circulation can be anywhere from a couple to tens of miles wide. The whole thing gets further complicated on yet an even smaller scale by a more intense thermal rise off of a large, broad beach that introduces even more localized turbulence. Throw in an approaching weather system and the whole thing becomes a real confused mess. It looked like a really neat flight, and it's too bad you had to deal with some really sketchy air, and a rather unprofessionally behaving cop to top it off. The shoreline is a neat place to fly, but you really have to keep your head on a swivel with all of the other lower altitude air traffic of various modes that seems to be loitering there. Having to contend with both can make for a bit of stressful and frustrating flight. Looking forward to seeing more of what you managed to recover.

Had the same problem with my bronze bushing. They changed them in MY20 and are a lot thicker. It still looked new after 50hrs, so I waited until 100hrs. Even then, it still looked great. But, I had a new one and thought it would be no big deal to swap it. It involved a Dremel and a handful of swear words. It still looked like it had a lot of wear left! I’m not changing this new one until it is obviously used up.

We see a similar weather thing sometimes where I fly, a few miles inland from the beach. Thermals pick up inland during the day, drawing cooler air in from the ocean (seabreeze) at lower levels. We'll have a SSW wind at beach level due to that pull, but higher up the prevailing winds are still blowing NW or whatever. As the sun goes down, there is a sheer layer between the seabreeze and the predominant wind that gets that gets lower and lower until the seabreeze dies. The effect looks similar on Windy to what you were seeing, convergence at some altitude running along the coast and not far from it. I haven't seen it get that severe personally though. Here, the seabreeze doesn't usually develop unless the prredominant wind is fairly light.

For the exhaust coloring, I forget what it is, but if you lean out or richen your fuel mixture that will get it to turn those cool colors. Look up how to do it for your motorcycle. Same principle.

Tucker do you have any videos on how to use Windy app in detail, what you look for when planning flights, etc.?

@TuckerGott if you are using windows, and you want to restore a folder that you accidently deleted you can actually right click the folder that it was in, and choose "show more options" and then choose "Restore previous versions" you may actually be able to restore that footage. Just an idea if you are utilizing windows.

Tucker, if you are going to be using power tools, particularly that grinding wheel seen at 1:36, then I would recommend using safety glasses

The weather phenomenon you encountered sounds a lot like localised horizontal wind shear it often happens when strong surface wind flows over obstacles like buildings, small hills or trees which often is accompanied by clear air turbulence. Be careful they can be pretty dangerous, they're a nightmare to fly through in light aircraft let alone anything smaller.

🦘🇦🇺What about some high altitude work. We haven’t seen the mid west from 10,000’. Thank you. 🙏

Lost footage could still be recovered if you don't override it with other data. Deletion would usually simply remove the file from allocation table (sort of an "address book" on your storage medium), but it might still have the data itself that has been marked as "available space". There are plenty of recovery tools that could restore the entry in the allocation table and make the data accessible again.

lol, when on the beach, that one guy did some forceful finger moving to the other guy while looking at the windy app 🤣🤣🤣

Did you try disk recovery software? Typically when you delete a file it is still there, it is just marked a deketed and so the folder won't show it. Unless you used bit bleacher or some other scrubber, the files may be able to be recovered.

I slipped a disc in my back at the start of last year then dislocated my shoulder at the end of last. I am absolutely DYING to get back into the air. I think about it everyday. Anyway, your videos keep the dream alive. Thanks man.

Ticker my boy!!! I have not been around for a while. I almost didn't recognize you. Hehehe What happened to your long curly hair? 😊 Looks like you have been working out. Good job señor. Anyway, I am glad to see you again. Seems like you are doing good! Happy for you!!! 😊

When you were explaining the weather event, I was thinking "sounds like convergence", which you of course then hypothesized yourself. You were flying coastal, and I'm guessing an easterly is blowing you onto the shore in that location. If the wind direction is reversed at a higher level, I'd be thinking a localised Sea Breeze.

Wow where are you flying? It looks awesome!

"Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha gonna do..." 😂😂

For Good color on the exhaust, wipe it down with WD-40 then run through a heat cycle, it helps to pull out the blue color. Hope it works for you

From my experience, motorcycle exhaust bluing is typically (depending on the metal used) due to high heat and/or a lean mixture (or air leak). Maybe previous non-bluing could be good cooling air flow over exhaust, the exhaust pipe material, or spot on/bit rich air/gas mixture? Some like the bluing/browning, some don't. I'm not sure, if all else is operating correctly, that I would go out of my way to obtain the bluing. Each their own and I guess that's why they make propane torches...🙂.

The turbulence thing, sounds like a normal sea breeze. The low-level wind is on-shore, and at altitude it's off-shore. IIRC, the sea breeze starts as an off-shore wind at altitude, and the low-level on shore wind develops as a result. This creates wind shear and turbulence.

Say Tucker, it would be great for you to take a trip up to the S.E. corner of Washington by Lewiston, ID and fly up the Snake River ie Hells Canyon. You could film the jet boats and the beautiful area.

Wow Tucker I’ve been watching you for so long and the algorithm kicked you off my feed for a bit and wow you have grown SO MUCH love your content man ❤ risky biscuits ❤

Come out to CA and fly the Mt Lassen and Mt Shasta area. The weather is fairly mellow right now. The land is absolutely amazing and beautiful you’ll never want to leave. Research Devil’s Garden Camp out of Altruas run by the state fire protection in Modoc County.