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Had a retired airline pilot, now FAA, in my jumpseat.  His main focus is drones vs airliners.  The Delta Maddog JFK drone incident was not a kid with his new drone from Walmart.  People are purposely trying to inflict harm.  I don't know anything about the IAD event. Unfortunately not many are taking the threat as serious as they should be.   It may take an airliner to get some damage/engine failure with a CNN covered headline news emergency to get the powers that be to focus money and time on finding a solution.  Nothing in aviation ever seems to get done until after a tragic event. 

Jason

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1 hour ago, 201er said:

How many drone strikes in the last year? How many bird strikes? Chill.

Chill eh, I was working with the FAA, Wilmington controllers and De state police last summer in an effort to find one in and near KILG airspace after I almost have a collision in downwind at KILG, strong evasive action saved my ass at 800 ft and 100 knots. It only takes fricken one if your that one.

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22 minutes ago, Danb said:

Chill eh, I was working with the FAA, Wilmington controllers and De state police last summer in an effort to find one in and near KILG airspace after I almost have a collision in downwind at KILG, strong evasive action saved my ass at 800 ft and 100 knots. It only takes fricken one if your that one.

Don't get me wrong, I think anyone who gets caught intentionally interfering with aircraft with a UAV should be charged with terrorism. Even accidental drone interference should be a highly criminal offense. But there isn't a mass epidemic of drone issues. Bird strikes happen regularly; drone strikes are yet to happen.

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And furthermore, we don't know what a drone would do to an airliner. Can't we get a youtube video somewhere of a drone being fired into an engine running on a test stand like we do with frozen turkeys? I'm skeptical that a drone would even take out my Mooney on take-off or on approach.

The airlines have been telling us for ever, to turn off our phones in flight as well... 

#CryingWolf

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Just now, gsxrpilot said:

And furthermore, we don't know what a drone would do to an airliner. Can't we get a youtube video somewhere of a drone being fired into an engine running on a test stand like we do with frozen turkeys? I'm skeptical that a drone would even take out my Mooney on take-off or on approach.

The airlines have been telling us for ever, to turn off our phones in flight as well... 

#CryingWolf

Phones are old news. Now they're ok in flight mode. But a bottle of water on the other hand... now that can bring down an airplane!

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