Thanks for the permission to respond. Not rebutting, just adding to the conversation thanks. I'm not trying to divert anything, I've never once said that a MR wouldn't cause damage to a plane, or that the possibility of an impact wasn't a legitimate one. The problem seems to be with any information to the contrary, or a tangential issue being posted. Then the wolf pack comes out to attack as they want to discussion to be focused on the worst case scenario, the horrors of horror. I guess mechanical failures, or people being able to hack into flight controls of a real plane aren't a concern. Odd that I didn't see any angst from you or others when Franklin started talking about the dsmx issue, or when Matt was talking about the AMA insuring FPV racing in the thread. Oh, and then they want to make it personal, with grade school bully tactics like you see above. Some folks just can't pass up the chance, and then wag their finger ala shame shame. All crying for thread purity while simultaneously polluting it. There's a term for that.

Kudos to you starting the post to perhaps make some not aware of the safety concerns regarding drones and MR with civilian aircraft. I honestly don't think the folks here, whom I assume are mostly if not all AMA members didn't know these things. The FAA has posted rules, as does the AMA. I think the overwhelming majority of folks follow them, regardless of what they fly (fixed wing/heli pilots are just as able to break rules, and have in fact). One only has to look at Franklin's recent posts of a turbine pilot as prima facie evidence of this.

Another point I thought I brought up was the statistical probability of something like what we're talking about here actually happening. Nobody wants to go near that as a point of discussion, but I thought it was appropriate to discuss in the context of MR/Drone and civil aviation. Do you have any thoughts on that?