On 26 Jul 2006 20:47:47 -0700, "cjcampbell"
wrote in
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Once you start to trample on some rights, you have to accept
that others will use the same excuses to trample on the rest.

I see that trend hasn't escaped your keen eye, even at a distance half
way around the world. :-)

But that's not what has me worried. It's sharing the skies with
another aircraft that is very small which frustrates my ability to
comply with the see-and-avoid regulation, and the UAV's inability to
comply also. This trend toward small UAVs could eventually grow to
the point where they become a serious threat to aerial navigation, and
who is your estate going to sue? How easy is it going to be to locate
the errant operator of the UAV? There is no readily available proof
of who specifically was operating it. Providing blind UAVs exemption
to the see-and-avoid regulation is a prescription for disaster IMO.

Once they get a foothold, it will be very difficult to exclude them
from navigable airspace.