And that’s an area of great concern and controversy. Anecdotally many professionals within the aviation industry, from pilots to air traffic controllers, hold grave concerns that it is only a matter of time before a small drone crashes into an airliner on approach or departing an airport, causing a potential disaster.
CASA faces the unenviable task of trying to regulate an area of aviation that is near impossible to properly control. Small drones are cheap and plentiful, all you need to own one is a credit card with a $1,000 balance, a few minutes shopping online at eBay or even Officeworks and voila, you’re a drone ‘pilot’. (We will know we have hit ‘peak drone’ when the drone you order online is delivered to your door by an Amazon.com delivery drone.)