From yesterday's USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016 ... 80002730/#
Drones out-number planes
Moderator: drseti
Drones out-number planes
Aviation Real Estate Broker
Re: Drones out-number planes
Not surprising. Drones cost as little as fifty bucks, airplanes are...more expensive.
Honestly, all the breathless talk about the danger drones pose to aviation is overblown, IMO. There are many times more birds than there will ever be drones, and they have about the same mass. We survive birds sharing the sky with us.
Andy Walker
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Re: Drones out-number planes
The FAA registering drones is kind of a misnomer. That is what they call it, but that is not what it is. What they are really doing is registering pilots. The numbers are over inflated, because the new rule required people who have been flying model airplanes for years under AMA guidelines to register so they can continue to fly those airplanes. My 13 year old and I have registered because we fly model airplanes.
If you take away the model aircraft pilots flying under AMA guidelines that in 2012 Congress said the FAA could not regulate I am sure the numbers would be quite different.
If you take away the model aircraft pilots flying under AMA guidelines that in 2012 Congress said the FAA could not regulate I am sure the numbers would be quite different.
Re: Drones out-number planes
There's a big difference between the two though . . . the birds actually know what they're doing.MrMorden wrote:. . . There are many times more birds than there will ever be drones, and they have about the same mass. We survive birds sharing the sky with us.
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Bill Ince
LSRI
Retired Heavy Equipment Operator
LSRI
Retired Heavy Equipment Operator
Re: Drones out-number planes
LOL. But they don't know what I'M going to do. Hell, most of the time neither do I!Wm.Ince wrote:There's a big difference between the two though . . . the birds actually know what their doing.MrMorden wrote:. . . There are many times more birds than there will ever be drones, and they have about the same mass. We survive birds sharing the sky with us.
Andy Walker
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Re: Drones out-number planes
That makes two of us!MrMorden wrote:LOL. But they don't know what I'M going to do. Hell, most of the time neither do I!Wm.Ince wrote:There's a big difference between the two though . . . the birds actually know what they're doing.MrMorden wrote:. . . There are many times more birds than there will ever be drones, and they have about the same mass. We survive birds sharing the sky with us.
Bill Ince
LSRI
Retired Heavy Equipment Operator
LSRI
Retired Heavy Equipment Operator
Re: Drones out-number planes
FYI - Skyvector added a DROTAM overlay on their charts. Pretty interesting how many DROTAMs there are now across the US.
Aviation Real Estate Broker
Re: Drones out-number planes
DROTAMFlocker wrote:FYI - Skyvector added a DROTAM overlay on their charts. Pretty interesting how many DROTAMs there are now across the US.
Andy Walker
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA
Athens, GA
Sport Pilot ASEL, LSRI
2007 Flight Design CTSW E-LSA