Originally Posted by
N410DC
These are excellent points. I think the FAA would have a hard time proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that an airline pilot spotted a small model aircraft. Any law student (not to mention an experienced attorney) could easily discredit a pilot "witness" on the stand.
How do you figure that? Why would a pilot need to be discredited? Pilot reports a sighting to the tower...pilot knows his altitude, tower knows his altitude..pretty simple.
And the camera on the front of the plane catches the image too...
.....(just kidding, still waiting to hear which planes carry cameras pointing out the windows)