On Jan 12, 6:28*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Jan 12, 7:58*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:

Hasn't been keeping up.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinio...1/17-years-faa...

I wouldn't pay too much attention to the Washington Examiner, they
have been rather shrill over this favorite hobby horse for some
while. *Glider/aircraft collisions are hardly the worst thing to worry
about.

I personally am much more concerned about UAVs that are being used
more and more along our borders and likely soon elsewhere. *We've had
a few lost and out of control in the past year or two and it's only a
matter of time before we have a more serious accident than we've had
already.

Mike

However, they do deliver print copies to all of the elected
representative offices.

I agree, I think that's a real concern along the southern border.
There's a pretty strong lobby to get these into state, county, and
local police use. A large part of North Dakota airspace is already
UAV enabled I believe, but that's for military use and maybe for
border patrol training. I don't see UAV as an NTSB searchable field
yet and don't recall any FAA prelims since the one hit the telephone
pole here in Colorado.

Frank