Travel Toiletries - Law Enforcement Agencies and Civilian UAV Operators Collide uS Military, dHS, fAA, nTSB,

As they have a responsibility to protect the flying public and those on the ground, the FAA is listening to these recommendations. When a UAV crashed, suggestions and a few recommendations, the NTSB make some comments, recently. The use of UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is increasing at a rapid pace and some are worried about the future crowed skies.

After investigating the UAV crash the NTSB compiled a report with 22-suggestions. Coast guard and military, border patrol, law enforcement, uAVs are being used for civilian operations. This is very serious, injuries of deaths on the ground, and when a UAV crashes there could be property damage, but with wide-spread use there are chances of mid-air collisions, as UAVs have no on-board pilots, no one is going to die inside a UAV if it crashes, obviously.

And that pilots be checked out in a comparable manned aircraft with proper ratings; safety program development, face-to-face meeting with air-traffic control where the aircraft will be operated, having a back-up pilot available, recommendations sent to the Border Patrol for their operations included. The FAA added some additional ideas such as to report all incidents and accidents. Amongst the suggestions were some interesting ideas such as installing a "blackbox" to help in the investigations.

Consider this. We need to be ready for this in the future and we must keep it safe. Just like commuter trams drive themselves along rails, in the future airliners will fly themselves, uAVs are hear to stay and part of our aviation community.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20060509X00531andkey= 1