UAV pilots

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"The USAF Stands Like A Rock
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August 26, 2013: The U.S. Air Force continues to come up short in its effort to supply enough pilots for its growing UAV fleet. Currently the air force has about 1,300 operators for its 280 large UAVs (about half of them Predators, nearly 40 percent Reapers and the rest Global Hawks). UAV operators are now nearly nine percent of all air force pilots, triple the percentage in 2008. But now the air force is unable to get enough manned aircraft pilots to volunteer to do a three year tour as a UAV operator and cannot train non-pilots fast enough to be career UAV operators. Another problem is dissatisfaction with the job. UAV operators leave the air force at three times the rate of pilots of manned aircraft. There are several reasons for this. "...

The US Air Force? Probably one of the only militaries where the officers go to war and the enlisted stay behind the lines.

It does make sense that people that trained to become pilots would quickly tire of playing with a joystick especially when airlines are rotating out baby boomer pilots and offering good money.

Let all the guys who wash out of flight school pilot the drones?

Very interesting article, Thanks!

Perhaps we just stop the drone programs.

on that note wrote: Perhaps we just stop the drone programs.

Replacing it with what?

I there are combat missions to be flown, I like the idea of our people doing it from CONUS.