<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I find it good to keep it in perspective with manned aircraft... (and decide what you find more concerning)</div><div><a href="https://www.aviation.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/2018-2-aviation-update.pdf">https://www.aviation.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/2018-2-aviation-update.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>For example it indicates..</div><div>* pg16 - About 8000 Close Calls of manned aircraft in 2018</div><div>* pg33 - Social cost of incidents for 2015 was $107,600,000.00 !!</div><div></div><div>* pg18 - Shows more than half the operators of manned aircraft are failing audits<br></div><div>* pg18 - CAA only seems to have time to audit half the operators when about half are failing!! - (obvious place to improve safety!)</div><div>* pg60 - Lists an incident between a paraglider and a drone... (I would not be surprised if it was a paraglider company making a promotional video and hitting their own student)<br></div><div>* pg69 - (looking at Napier) Indicates 22 bird-strikes per 10,000 aircraft movement is acceptable!! => Would that imply 22 drone-strikes per 10,000 aircraft movements to be acceptable too? (if all drones were the size of birds)</div><div>Considering all above... I find it incredible that the CAA can justify spending so much on worrying about drones when it's clearly not a significant problem. What is their metric to justify it?</div><div></div></div><div><br></div>/s<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 11:20, Volker Kuhlmann <<a href="mailto:list57@top.geek.nz">list57@top.geek.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Drone use rules in New Zealand not widely understood - CAA study<br>
6:17 pm on 12 August 2020<br>
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