Larry Dighera wrote:
For instance, when an air-traffic
controller needs to talk to a UAV's remote pilot, the radio link
should work in the same way as it does for an aircraft with an onboard
pilot - the controller must be able to talk to the remote pilot as if
they were sitting in the UAV, rather than having to be manually
patched through by a radio operator.

I think this is going to be pretty hard for them to do
because ATC has never told anyone to do anything absurd or dangerous...

The thing needs to be like a pilot, listening to ATC, but making it's
own decisions and asking questions... also, anything with voice
recognition will be interesting (there are controlers that are just
harder to understand than others).