dronerdave
Well-Known Member
See I always thought the FAA required sUAS operators to give way to manned aircraft and the reason you are supposed to visually look at your AC enough to make sure you will see a full sized aircraft approaching, then do what's necessary to avoid collision. So if anybody is like me, I'd have to have a spotter looking for other aircraft as I set up my photographic shots as well as flying at longer VLOS distances. It's one reason I don't fly alone as I fly where there is a lot of crop dusting going on. When I see them begin to work an area I'm in, I return and bug out. Another spot I fly at has somebody who loves to fly very low over a lake with his cub. It doesn't stop me from flying there, but I keep an eye out for him after a very close encounter. But at this time I don't think having low level manned flights require authorization is needed, only unmanned aircraft need to give way to manned because there's a human life involved. The future may indeed be a different story but as far as making manned aircraft requiring authorization below 400', be careful what you ask for. If that's required sUAV pilots might end up with a much more testing required to fly.