Re:New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Fe...
by wyager on Monday December 14, 2015 @03:21PM
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A plane will smoke a civilian quadcopter every single time.
The only place where pilots should be close enough to the ground to hit a quadcopter are near airports, where quadcopters are already banned.
This is a non-issue. Pilots are complaining about nothing. They did the same thing with lasers a few years back. Civilian diode lasers have such a high divergence that they pose no risk to a pilot more than a few thousand feet off the ground, but pilots kept fear mongering and claiming that we needed to ban lasers everywhere. Again, the only vulnerable locations were airports.
The only place where pilots should be close enough to the ground to hit a quadcopter are near airports, where quadcopters are already banned.
This is a non-issue. Pilots are complaining about nothing. They did the same thing with lasers a few years back. Civilian diode lasers have such a high divergence that they pose no risk to a pilot more than a few thousand feet off the ground, but pilots kept fear mongering and claiming that we needed to ban lasers everywhere. Again, the only vulnerable locations were airports.