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To clarify: From the content of the article and the comments made, it looks difficult to use for anyone – pilot or not.
Whoah! Before you ‘count coup’ there Dr C, did you happen to actually read the LAST paragraph in my previous comment? Just guess what kind of evaluation I performed on that prototype (it was AAI’s candidate if anyone cares), hmmm? If you’d like, we can begin a running dialogue deconstructing UAV operations using the SHEL model…and boor the laymen to death.
To answer your question SMSgt Mac, it appears the Air Force is unwilling to allow ‘non-rated’ folks to fly the things. We can all agree it needs to be made easier to fly. Let’s get that taken care of before we try to start an inter-service fight.
1. It wasn’t a question to be answered, it was a rhetorical question used as a lament.
2. A more correct statement would be “…unwilling to allow ‘non-rated’ folks to fly the things AGAIN”.(Yes, This is why this a hot button topic for me)
3. The only interservice rivalry involved is mighty my pre-Aspin-BUR Air Force, and the current gutted-shadow-of-what-it-once-was-that-remains Air Force. Please note this more is a comment on the National and Air Force Leadership that made the decisions in the 1993-95 timeframe that set the AF on its current course and the Air Force as an institution than anything else. I work with some mighty fine blue-suiters to this day: there’s just too-few of them and a poorer infrastructure and institution supporting them.(- but that was another post at another time.;-)
I used to think the Air Force was horribly out of touch; now I know for a fact it is true. Thanks, Col. Chambliss. You deserve a Medal of Honor for explaining so succintly why many people think the Air Force is a bunch of whiners.