Well ya' know all this concern about drones colliding with aircraft?
You say that like drone flying idiots are uncommon.... LOL...
Ah yes. I see you have experience with civilian drone "pilots"?
My first foray into radio controlled flight was a Hirobo Shuttle, 50 scale. It had a rotor span of about four foot and was crashed when i bought it. I learned to build and repair that machine with no instructions before the internet and before flight simulators.
I learned to fly it through sheer will power and lots of money spent on crash repair parts... after I out grew that machine i stepped up to the 90 class birds with a rotor span of almost six foot. These machines will kill you. They can easy take off an arm or cut you in half. With carbon fiber blades and rotor tip speeds approaching super sonic they are toys that require respect.
When I meet someone who "flys RC" and I ask what they fly and its a drone, my mind blanks out and I often try to get away from them ASAP. The thing with drones is they dont take skill to operate and you dont even really "fly" them you just kinda tell them where to go and they do all the work.
For me the enjoyment and addrenaline come from knowing that i built the entire model BY hand. Did I locktight the screws holding the blade grips to the feathering shaft? Did I set up the mechanical servo mixing jist right?
Is this thing gonna try and kill me on start up or when Im spinning up the rotor head?
Will I mess up and stuff 3K worth of parts into the dirt at 70MPH? or will I keep my **** together be able to get that bird back on the ground in one piece? What if I have an inflight failure am I prepared for that and is my skill level ready for it?
Those are some of the reasons i enjoy flying large scale RC.
With drones you just dont get that. So yeah.. im not a fan of drones. They just don't put any lead in my pencil.