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I agree with you. By the law, UAVs should yield ROW to manned aircraft. If they don't, is it because they are challenging the law, or are they unable to i.d. an aircraft in the same airspace?

I started in aviation in '73. When ultralights broke into the scene in the mid-70s, many, including crop sprayers said the same thing about ULs. "They don't belong in our airspace . They are a danger to real planes and people...."

My personal mid-air experiences always involved birds, the living kind with feathers. I think the birds had the same mindset moments before their demise....."you guys don't belong in our airspace...we were here first"....WHAM! They're probably right by hundreds of thousands of years. Remember, always yield the right-of-way to pheasants when you're on your TO roll. Hawks will break out most GA windshields in flight. Geese of course can & will bring down an Airbus 320.

I'm not real sure how to search it on the NTSB site, but I'm guessing most airspace incursions along with mid-airs involve other licensed and manned aircraft. I do have to say that when you guys used to fly R985s & 1340s swinging 7' 2-blade props it was much easier to know you were in the area.