Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
No! Don't put words in my mouth. I only stated that the airline pilot should be trying to avoid the sUAV. Not that he did not have right of way. In the first instance it is unknown if he had time, the second it looks like they did not. But there have been others where they had time but the article did not say they aborted or otherwise avoided the sUAV. Just pointing out that even if you have right of way you have the duty to see and avoid. BTW in the PSA flight 182 the airline pilots were ruled as violating the "see and avoid" statute even though they had the right of way.
OK, now I would like to know, if the pilot of the drone was within 3 miles of an airport, and was over 400ft.AGL, why should the airliner pilot have to concentrate on a drone, when the drone should not have been in that airspace to begin with?
I agree, all pilots shall "see and avoid" when possible, that was the point I was trying to get across, but when an airliner is slowing down for a landing with flaps down, how can they make a drastic move to avoid anything without stalling?