Drone Vs. Powered Hang Glider

[Cymruflyer]

Now your just being argumentative if your telling me that you have never taken your eyes off the road in front of you for a split second to maybe look at one of your rear view mirrors to make a lane change I guess you just live in a more perfect world than I do. In that split second anything could happen be it someone texting or what ever and you are in a situation that is completely unexpected. I am not talking about looking away and maybe read a novel or figure Einstein’s theory.

You just said:
" if your telling me that you have never taken your eyes off the road in front of you for a split second to maybe look at one of your rear view mirrors to make a lane change"

Now that is just a stupid comment, because nothing of the sort has even been remotely suggested, so why even bother to write such a dumb thing?

I understand you, and if you read what I wrote you can clearly see that I am not saying never look away, nor am I saying I never glance away. What I said is that as long as you look around you and see that you have safe space between vehicles and no problems noted, then looking away at the radio etc. for a second is fine and we all do it. But to look away for a second and look up to a big surprise is something that would rarely happen.

What usually happens is the a person thinks they are looking away for a second but in actual fact they have been looking away for several seconds. That is when they may look up to a big surprise, due to them not paying attention to the road, but rather being distracted by the radio, telephone or something else inside their car, for a much longer period than they thought they were.

 

[Deleted member 93449]

Just to keep it simple, everyone has a responsibility to see and avoid for the sake of abiding by the regulations and more importantly to keep everyone alive.

Since drones are much more difficult the spot drone pilots have a higher level of responsibility to see and avoid. That said I don't think the FAA is always going to assign blame to the remote pilot in command anytime there is a conflict. If an individual is operating a drone and a glider comes in from behind him crosses into his line of sight and immediately impacts the drone is the drone pilot necessarily at fault (no reference to glider piloting on the sectional)?

I think the FAA will examine all the evidence and make a determination as to whether it was reasonable that the drone pilot should have been aware of the danger before assigning responsibility.

As for keeping a drone in VLOS, can anyone honestly tell me they have been flying, looked down at the controller and looked back up not to see the drone and take some time (5, 10, 15 seconds or more) to acquire the drone? I know we have manned aircraft pilots here. How many of you have had ATC call out traffic, you spot the traffic, go back to take care of something in the cockpit, get your head up and no longer have the traffic in sight? How long have you waited to search to not find and finally call ATC back to tell them you lost the traffic?