[The Magical Mischief Tour]

All UAV currently flying today both in military hands and the hands of the CIA are flown by rated pilots.

One of the guys who worked for my former flight department left right after 9/11 to go and fly UAV’s.

They also require maintance technicians to boot, they do have moving parts ya know…

[DannyTN]

It still has got to be cheaper. The things just hover for hours, why pay a person to sit in a helicopter when he can be on the ground doing other things.

Eventually they will get good enough and cheap enough that you won't need expert pilots to fly them and one person will monitor 6 of the things.

[Travis McGee]

All UAV currently flying today both in military hands and the hands of the CIA are flown by rated pilots. Not true. See my above. The ground controller just punches coordinates in on his laptop grid map, the plane flies itself. I forget the name of the model, it's about a 5 foot wingspan, made of foam by the "skunkworks."

[archy]

All UAV currently flying today both in military hands and the hands of the CIA are flown by rated pilots.

One of the guys who worked for my former flight department left right after 9/11 to go and fly UAV’s.

But they're not all officer rated pilots....

-archy-/-