FAA, you can make all the rules you want, but these crazy drone operators will bring down an airliner at some point with great loss of life and property damage.
Point of clarification:
Know before you fly is not a group, it is a program put forth by the FAA and the AMA. the AMA is a Group.
While I in no way advocate flying near manned aircraft, or airports, restricted zones etc, the public is in FAR greater danger from bird strikes with literally hundreds of strikes reported each year. To my knowledge there have been NO collisions between manned aircraft and Drones.
This does not mean we should not have SENSIBLE Rules and Regulation stiff penalties for violating them, and these should be enforced. At the same time these numbers increase, the constant media exposure and pressure from groups to report even a possible encounter with a drone, new procedures that make it easier to report sightings, and a public backlash against Drones and Radio Control aircraft, all can be contributing factors.
Did you see the latest story about the Drone crashing into Louis Armstrong tennis stadium at the US Open tennis tournament yesterday? Luckily, it didn’t hit a spectator or the players and just merely delayed the match, but it did shake up the players and cops were swarming the stadium trying to determine if it had a bomb in it. NY tends to be very sensitive about these kinds of things. The idiot operator should never have been flying the drone anywhere close to this area.
FAA, you can make all the rules you want, but these crazy drone operators will bring down an airliner at some point with great loss of life and property damage.
Point of clarification:
Know before you fly is not a group, it is a program put forth by the FAA and the AMA. the AMA is a Group.
While I in no way advocate flying near manned aircraft, or airports, restricted zones etc, the public is in FAR greater danger from bird strikes with literally hundreds of strikes reported each year. To my knowledge there have been NO collisions between manned aircraft and Drones.
This does not mean we should not have SENSIBLE Rules and Regulation stiff penalties for violating them, and these should be enforced. At the same time these numbers increase, the constant media exposure and pressure from groups to report even a possible encounter with a drone, new procedures that make it easier to report sightings, and a public backlash against Drones and Radio Control aircraft, all can be contributing factors.
Did you see the latest story about the Drone crashing into Louis Armstrong tennis stadium at the US Open tennis tournament yesterday? Luckily, it didn’t hit a spectator or the players and just merely delayed the match, but it did shake up the players and cops were swarming the stadium trying to determine if it had a bomb in it. NY tends to be very sensitive about these kinds of things. The idiot operator should never have been flying the drone anywhere close to this area.