Readers React: Watch out for those drones
A drone flies during a demonstration of a search and rescue operation on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015, in Dublin, Calif.
To the editor: As a private pilot, I am extremely concerned about drones. There have been a number of near-misses between small aircraft and drones, many documented on video.
(“The threat of hobby drones,” Editorial, Sept. 20, and “FAA to look into drone crash,” Sept. 17)
It is just a matter of time before we have a collision that causes an aircraft to fall out of the sky and kill those on board. When that happens, I doubt the victims will care whether the drone was operated commercially or by a hobbyist.
Perhaps then the FAA and state and local governments will pay proper attention to this problem.
Crista Worthy, Boise, Ida.
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To the editor: Your editorial regarding “hobby drones” wisely concluded that this is an area for the individual states to regulate.
This is fortunate, because if federal legislation were required, I worry that conservative legislators would block any restrictions, citing that our Founding Fathers made no mention of drones in the Constitution.
Jordan Austin, Port Hueneme
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