How does having a mode C transponder help me see the UAV or the UAV "see"
me? It allows ARTCC to see us both, but not us to see each other.
Did you mean a mode S transponder??

If the government is willing to pay to install a GNS530 with ADS-B in every
aircraft so that we can see the UAV's, than I will gladly do all the seeing
and avoiding, and let the UAV's fly blind. This may however counteract any
economic advantages that the UAV's have.

I also don't see the great economic advantage to using the UAV in the first
place. You are replacing a 300k observation plane with a multi million
dollar UAV, and replacing a highly trained Cessna pilot with a room full of
highly trained UAV operators. It's a plan only a government could love.

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This will force Champ and Cub owners out of the air.
I can see the headlines now:

Spoiled antique airplane owners complaining about new safety requirments.

An easy solution is a blanket notam prohibiting flight without a working
Mode C
transponder, for any area where UAV's are to operate.



Have you got a link to information about that?
Start he
http://www.users.bigpond.com/keepits...de tection%22


Just wait until a UAV inevitably collides with an airliner, or a
runaway UAV crashes into a school yard. Then this issue will get some
serious attention.

General aviation has done both of the above, UAV's have not. (Yet)
Based on your argument I think we should immediatly ban General aviation!


Just saying over and over that the UAV has to do see and avoid is not
going to make it
happen or make it possible. UAV's are just too capable and too attractive
as technology to
go away, we need to start having a real discussion about what can be done
to
coexist or we are going to loose.

Realize there are really two arguments going on here...

1)UAV's are too unreliable and thus dangorous.
I agree with this statement completly, however they will get better
and the reliability will improve. Be careful when arguing risks, arguing
about
risks you don't understand or that are unfamiliar can easily lead us
astray.
The world is not a risk free place, if you really are worried about your
personal safety then you outght to start working to ban teenage drivers
and old drivers for they kill far more people on a daily basis than any
potential
UAV incident. Otherwise your comments just look reactionary.

2)UAV's must do see and avoid. This is just not going to happen.
They can do the equavalent with mode C transponders and
possibly the GPS survalince described in the link above.

Paul