Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 19; Flight Crew Total 153; Flight Crew Type 12
Situational Awareness
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure; Airspace Structure
We encountered a drone at our cruise altitude of 4500 feet. It was clearly identifiable as an unmanned aerial vehicle with a white/red top and black bottom. No evasive action taken because the time between seeing the drone and the drone passing about 150 feet from our left wing was too short (estimate between 0.5 and 1 second).
C-172 pilot reported sighting a drone close by during cruise flight.