FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals

Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by sokoloff on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:15PM (#18172390)

Good post. Small nit:

> Most commercial flights operate in IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) where air traffic control system guarantees you separation from other aircraft.

IFR traffic is only separated from other IFR traffic and participating VFR traffic. At FL180 (~18000' MSL) and above-0, it's all IFR, but below FL180, IFR is not separated from non-participating VFR and is still responsible for "see and avoid" when meteorological conditions permit in all airspaces (even above FL180).

0 - Yeah, yeah, above FL600, you could be VFR again... ;)

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Re:FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes as Equals by travisjungroth on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:00PM (#18172581)

Since we're nitpicking, ATC also provides separation of all aircraft in Class B airspace. In Class C, they provide separation of IFR aircraft from all other aircraft (VFR-VFR gets advisories).

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