On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:18:09 GMT, "Tony Cox" wrote in
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I have no problem with UAVs -- if their use is confined to
MOAs or MTRs or anywhere else where we have a 'heads up'
that some 'unusual' traffic can be expected. But if these things are
buzzing around in the NAS, then it's reasonable that they obey the
same rules as the rest of us. Otherwise, lets just dispense with the
PP vision & medical requirements, junk 91.113(b) and have
a free-for-all.

I have a problem with them (as I understand them to currently be
equipped) in all Joint Use airspace, including MOAs and MTRs. To
accommodate UAVs in the NAS, considerably more systems analysis and
testing will need to be conducted before it would even be appropriate
to consider a UAV NPRM. Certainly the FARs would have to be revised
to accommodate UAVs. The MIT project at least provides the means, if
not the best methods, of one getting his arms around the issue.