Originally Posted by
Elvis90
Elvis,
Good post. I'll tell you what the FAA is most worried about. When I toured the General Atomics plant outside of San Diego, the project with the most effort, was trying to get the FAA to understand "sense and avoid" was just as safe, if not safer than "see and avoid" for aircraft avoidance in the congested airspace we work in today.
For obvious reasons, nobody wants to be aboard that one manned asset and see an autonomous or remotely operated vehicle closing in on their 3 to 9.
Once governing agencies retire a few "old heads". (Oops, did I say that on a public forum?)
I think we can get past the antiquated thought processes of always needing a "windscreen" to look out of so that we can detect oncoming threats. (i.e. synthetic vision falls into this category)
GJ