peekay4 is spot on. If something can go wrong.....one day it will.
I'll give you one example.
If you look at the STAR charts for EGGP, you'll see there is a holding-pattern to the NW called 'TIPOD'. But why is it called 'TIPOD'?
When the inbound procedures were changed, (a long time ago), and that holding-fix was introduced, it was originally called 'LIVPO'. "Hang-on" we said, that's very similar to the name of the airfield's NDB, 'LPL', (which also had a published holding-pattern), 4 miles east of the field. We were concerned that one day, someone would get them confused. "There shouldn't be a problem", said the Ops department, (who had developed the procedures), "but we'll monitor the situation".
They didn't have to monitor it for long.
I was on the morning, about 2 weeks later, that someone, who had been cleared to LIVPO, went to the NDB by mistake. The NDB is about 15nm west of a larger airport, and conflicts with several of that airport's SIDS. In accordance with one of 'Murph'y Laws, this happened during the larger airport's westbound trans-Atlantic departure period, and for 5 minutes or so, it got very exciting.
The name 'TIPOD was introduced the following day.
All the professionals involved in that scenario were fully-trained and licensed, all and had the best intentions in The World, but succumbed to yet another 'Gotcha'.
99.99% of those customers in the 'drone-market' that peekay mentions will not be fully-trained and licensed.
Last edited by ZOOKER; 6th Sep 2015 at 10:18.