Airports and air travel of the future

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:02:50 +0200, Mxsmanic
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they are unskilled in the sense that they
don't need to be licensed military or private/commercial pilots.

I would be most interested in seeing a credible source that
substantiates that allegation. If aircraft are being operated in the
NAS (other than Part 103) by non-certificated operators, it would
paint the FAA in a bad light indeed.

Larry Dighera writes:

I would be most interested in seeing a credible source that
substantiates that allegation. If aircraft are being operated in the
NAS (other than Part 103) by non-certificated operators, it would
paint the FAA in a bad light indeed.

The military does what it wants, but from what I recall of the story,
the UAVs in question were not being used in the USA, but in various
military theaters. There are UAVs being used to patrol borders, I
think, but I don't know who flies them.

It's not clear that a remote pilot would need the same credentials as
a pilot in the aircraft. In fact, it's not even clear that the FAA
would have jurisdiction over him. Indeed, one can imagine an aircraft
in which the computer is effectively the PIC, with a human being just
being the equivalent of a mission planner or director, or a weapons
specialist / reconnaissance technician.

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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

What makes you think they are unskilled.

The articles I've read on it. The remote pilots are not unskilled in
the sense of being pulled in off the street to fly something with no
training or experience, but they are unskilled in the sense that they
don't need to be licensed military or private/commercial pilots. The
heavy computerization of the interface makes it possible to pilot the
UAVs to a large extent without in-depth knowledge of flying.


Well, you'd be wrong. I posted the qualifications for UAV pilot that one
company was requiring and they were hardly unskilled. Commercial with
Instrument and instruction UAV exp. preferred.

The military now uses rated officers for many of the UAV flying jobs.

Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Well, you'd be wrong. I posted the qualifications for UAV pilot that one
company was requiring and they were hardly unskilled. Commercial with
Instrument and instruction UAV exp. preferred.

That was one company.

The military now uses rated officers for many of the UAV flying jobs.

What is a "rated officer"? And what about the other UAV flying jobs?

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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Well, you'd be wrong. I posted the qualifications for UAV pilot that one
company was requiring and they were hardly unskilled. Commercial with
Instrument and instruction UAV exp. preferred.

That was one company.

Yes that was one company. It also happen to be the first one that came up in
a google search that was something along the lines of 'UAV pilot
qualifications' Here's another one with the that search string that is
pretty much the same.

http://www.flitejobs.com/aviation_jo...job.php?id=421

So two picked at random while not a perfect study is a pretty good idea of
the requirements.


The military now uses rated officers for many of the UAV flying jobs.

What is a "rated officer"? And what about the other UAV flying jobs?


A USAF rated officer is an officer that is rated to fly an aircraft.