Peekay
It is not a baseline.
It is merely the current state of affairs.
Why should any new activity have to achieve higher safety than old activities?
Birds we can't really stop, but PPLs we could ban tomorrow.
By banning PPls we would definitely stop major accidents.
That is an incontrovertible fact.
Despite this I hear no calls to do so.
By banning drones we merely have reason to believe that we might stop accidents in future. There is as yet no evidence to prove this.
ZOOKER
You keep coming back to this "PPL pilots are trained" cr@p.
It is entirely irrelevant whether they are trained or not. They keep causing accidents and killing hundreds of people!!
Obviously the training is inadequate.
When a PPL hits an airliner it usually takes it down.
When a toy drone hits a Cessna it barely leaves a dent.
If the head of the CAA was given a £1 Million bonus for every life saved in accidents in the UK and had the power to ban either PPL or UAV, which do you think he would choose?
p.s. Does anybody on here really think that a PPL in any way could be described as "takes a lot of financial input, practical experience, theoretical study and common-sense."
Cash, yes it requires it.
The rest, not so much.