Frankly, I haven’t worried much about running into a drone as much as other aircraft. I had a close one in an uncontrolled traffic pattern in Florida recently where a guy in a Cherokee dropped onto the downwind—from above—and then broke off and never said a word to three of us established in the pattern. But when a hangar neighbor rolled back in with a story of how she almost smacked a drone when landing at a small field in New Jersey, I reached out to Christian Ramsey at uAvionix for a real discussion.
You probably know the company for its popular sky/tailBeacon series of ADS-B systems, plus the AV-30/20-series retrofit flight displays, but before it ventured into GA avionics, uAvionix specialized in UAV electronics and its current products for UAVs are on the cutting edge and hugely pop