“Their airspace”?? The airspace belongs to all pilots regardless of class or type.
“… he said a hobbyist’s drone chased his aircraft. His pilot managed to avoid it.” is pure hyperbole. The top speed of most small drones is well below the stall speed of any winged aircraft; this is as ridiculous as the claims in the FAA drone sighting database by airline pilots that “the drone followed me”. It only happens in your imagination.
This is typical fear mongering and catering to the paranoid. The panic, here, is completely out of any sort of proportion to reality.
Keep the risk of personal drones in perspective.
There have been more than a million hours of flight of small drones in the U.S., yet there is not one verifiable report of a collision between a small drone and a manned aircraft. Not one. There is also not one verifiable report of a drone crash in the US that resulted in a serious injury as defined by the NTSB* to someone not connected to the flight. Not one. It is a safety rate that all other segments of aviation would be jealous to have.
* A band-aid is not a serious injury. CFR 49 §830.2 contains the definition of “Serious Injury” that the FAA and NTSB use in their aircraft and vehicular accident statistics.
Happy to hear that a drone must be painted in a bright color, our birds are insigna white and dayglo and anyway in some situations are hard to see, a black one is a nonsense not to consider that the sun can heat the structure well above the working temperature of the autopilot.
“Their airspace”?? The airspace belongs to all pilots regardless of class or type.
“… he said a hobbyist’s drone chased his aircraft. His pilot managed to avoid it.” is pure hyperbole. The top speed of most small drones is well below the stall speed of any winged aircraft; this is as ridiculous as the claims in the FAA drone sighting database by airline pilots that “the drone followed me”. It only happens in your imagination.
This is typical fear mongering and catering to the paranoid. The panic, here, is completely out of any sort of proportion to reality.
Keep the risk of personal drones in perspective.
There have been more than a million hours of flight of small drones in the U.S., yet there is not one verifiable report of a collision between a small drone and a manned aircraft. Not one. There is also not one verifiable report of a drone crash in the US that resulted in a serious injury as defined by the NTSB* to someone not connected to the flight. Not one. It is a safety rate that all other segments of aviation would be jealous to have.
* A band-aid is not a serious injury. CFR 49 §830.2 contains the definition of “Serious Injury” that the FAA and NTSB use in their aircraft and vehicular accident statistics.
Happy to hear that a drone must be painted in a bright color, our birds are insigna white and dayglo and anyway in some situations are hard to see, a black one is a nonsense not to consider that the sun can heat the structure well above the working temperature of the autopilot.