Monitoring the condition of the transmission lines maintains the health of the power system, prevents unwanted outages, and reduces the costs of repairs and maintenance. This study aims to present a method for monitoring the UAV status and detecting insulation defects in transmission lines with a new hybrid classifier based on the type-2 fuzzy and neural networks. To this aim, the data are preprocessed and balanced, along with the mapping feature vector. Then, two new classifiers are proposed for the image and numerical datasets. The proposed hybrid structure for numerical data contains a Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) optimized with Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO) algorithm, and Deep Neural Network (DNN). For image data, the proposed structure is considered as a combination of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for feature extraction and three class perceptron classifiers with a hidden layer, SVM optimized with GWO algorithm, and DNN. Finally, the output of the three classifiers enters the Interval Type-2 Mamdani Fuzzy Logic system (IT2FLS) optimized with the Chaos Game Optimization (CGO) algorithm to determine the final state in order to monitor the UAV status and detect the insulation defects. To verify the validity the above-mentioned structure, it is implemented in the MATLAB environment and a laboratory setup is prepared to receive information from the Internet and display the status on the user's mobile phone. The results of the hybrid classifier are compared with those of the previous study. In addition, the classifier proposed for other applications is assessed with two test datasets from the UCI Machine Learning repository to check the generalizability. Based on the results, the proposed hybrid classifier exhibits more accuracy than the other conventional ones.