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‘We are not drones’: USAF RPA crews fight back
The US Air Force has come out with some great coverage this week about its remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) operations, as the use of its General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper has broken through the 2 million flight hour barrier.
First came an eye-catching article from official USAF magazine Airman, with the suitably shouty headline ‘WE ARE NOT DRONES’.
“Drones get shot at for target practice. We are not drones,” says Capt Blain, an instructor pilot at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. “There’s a pilot, sensor operator, tactical intelligence, ground commander – a team of humans trained to make decisions at all times. We are just remotely piloted.” The story’s well worth a read, whether you’re for or against the use of RPA, as it succeeds in getting the reader – if not inside the cockpit – then at least inside the ground control station (picture courtesy of Airman’s Flickr feed).
While the USAF is trying to stop short of having to establish a previously-planned 65 unmanned aircraft orbits around the globe, its volume of flight activity with the Reaper and Predator is simply staggering.
On 22 October, the service announced that a crew at Creech AFB in Nevada had logged its 2 millionth Predator/Reaper flight hour, and revealed just how quick that total is now being added to.
“It took 16 years for the community to reach 1 million hours, and a mere two and a half to double those flight hours,” the USAF says. Watch the skies, folks
First came an eye-catching article from official USAF magazine Airman, with the suitably shouty headline ‘WE ARE NOT DRONES’.
“Drones get shot at for target practice. We are not drones,” says Capt Blain, an instructor pilot at Holloman AFB in New Mexico. “There’s a pilot, sensor operator, tactical intelligence, ground commander – a team of humans trained to make decisions at all times. We are just remotely piloted.” The story’s well worth a read, whether you’re for or against the use of RPA, as it succeeds in getting the reader – if not inside the cockpit – then at least inside the ground control station (picture courtesy of Airman’s Flickr feed).
While the USAF is trying to stop short of having to establish a previously-planned 65 unmanned aircraft orbits around the globe, its volume of flight activity with the Reaper and Predator is simply staggering.
On 22 October, the service announced that a crew at Creech AFB in Nevada had logged its 2 millionth Predator/Reaper flight hour, and revealed just how quick that total is now being added to.
“It took 16 years for the community to reach 1 million hours, and a mere two and a half to double those flight hours,” the USAF says. Watch the skies, folks
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