RCU Forums - View Single Post - Yes or No , Do you think the AMA was right or wrong to embrace DRONES ?
Old 12-17-2015, 09:02 PM
  #500  
Sport_Pilot
 
Sport_Pilot's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Acworth, GA
Posts: 16,916
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Default

Originally Posted by hairy46
I work at a full size airport and have seen damage cause by Bird strike, one seen where a small piece of metal came off the front landing gear on a twin, hit the prop tore it up an went thought the side of the fuselage, I think some of these drones flying as high as they do could very well kill, sure our planes could too, but we ain't dumb enough to fly them up so high!
Actually we do fly that high. Aerobatics up to a thousand feet and sailplanes even higher. But we do get out of the way if a low flying plane is anywhere in the sky.