Saturday, August 11, 2012

Air Force faces shortage of drone pilots

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48597497/ns/us_news/

To attract more drone pilots, the Air Force has created a formal new career specialty within the service and is ending the system that forced drone assignments on fighter pilots. The new system creates a separate training pipeline for drone pilots.

In a recent survey, the Air Force asked 500 airmen who started out as pilots but had been shifted to drones if they would like to stay on in the unmanned aircraft field. There were 412 volunteers.

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