problems ahead
I am coming across a NOTAM more frequently that warns the prospective aviator of the presence of UAVs in some particular airspace. I saw this NOTAM for the first time a year and half ago and thought it rather odd. A call to my dispatcher confirmed that it was an unmanned machine in flight. Now the same NOTAM is sprinkled around the flight paperwork with increasing frequency.
On YouTube there is a video of a near miss between a transport category aircraft and a UAV. I believe it was a military transport somewhere in Afghanistan or Iraq. UAVs in “our airspace” will become a problem and unfortunately will probably result in fatalities before safe integration takes place.