Be very careful here...

Saying UAV's can't be operated safely in the vicinity of VFR general aviation
has two solutions...

1)eliminate VFR general aviation...

2)Eliminate UAV's

In todays political climate given this choice it's not clear who would loose....


I think it would be much more productive to discuss what changes could be done
to operate safely together.

A UAV will never be able to do see and avoid in the same way a pilot can, that is
byond the state of the art for the forseeable future. Stubbornly asking that they do so
is counter productive and will lead back to the origional choice offered above.
(Vision system in the real world with all its variations are technically a very hard problem)


Some possible solutions:

All UAV's must operate in class A airspace with controled coridors to take off and land.


All air vehicles must cary a transponder or position reporting device.
If the government wants to fly UAV's make them pay for the position reporting deivces.
Some really good work has been done in this area for gliders...


What other solutions give us equavalent safety?


Paul