Nearly 200 encounters with remotely piloted aircraft, ranging from amusing to chillingly dangerous, were reported to the FAA between February and November of 2014, according to a report at AOPA.org. Writer Jim Moore notes that a list published by a New Orleans television station May 26 documents the growing use of drones — authorized and otherwise — and their infiltration of the National Airspace System. Many of the reports document troubling encounters, he reports, including unmanned aircraft flying near manned aircraft, airports, or navigation aids. Read the full story here.
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If thhere are to be UAVs, they should have anticollision strobes, a s blid encoding altimeter/transsponder, and an assigned squawk.
And they’re going to steadily increase (NMACs with UAVs) until there are serious fatal mid-airs, …just like with Allegheny 853 on Sept 9, 1969… unless and until FAA dumps their inappropriate ADS-B UAT and ADS-R standard, changes NIC and NAC to simplify it so ADS can be based on using ANY GPS, and then that in-turn allows for having small lightweight, portable, ADS units to even be put in UAVs, LSAs, gliders, any other GA aircraft at vastly lower cost, and even for parachutists. FAA’s current inappropriate policies for both UAVs, as well as airspace, and seriously flawed and over-specified ADS rules (such as requiring WAAS) are actually now CAUSING the entire global airspace system to be LESS SAFE, not more safe.