Vector audio story: Know Your Neighbour

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Mid-air collisions between manned aircraft are an all-too-common event and, as mentioned in this podcast, take a toll in human life. I find it perplexing therefore, that manned aviators can fly alone in cockpits that have very limited visibility for the purposes of situational awareness -- yet someone flying a small plastic drone on their own property using FPV and lower than tree-height is legally required to have a visual observer beside them. This is a ridiculous situation. To be reasonable and effective, regulation must be proportionate to risk -- yet that is clearly not the case in respect to some of the drone regulations under part 101. I've witnessed a number of very worrying "near miss" incidents at NZTO but none of them involved an RC model or drone -- despite the high level of such operations there.