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Predator Pilots Burning Out
I find this very surprising: pilots of unmanned combat aircraft are burning out faster than pilots of conventional fighter jets.
A US military report says pilots operating the well-known Predator drone aircraft suffer far higher levels of mental stress than flyboys who are physically present aboard their planes.
The revelation that safe, remote drone operations seem to tire pilots and sensor-operators out faster than being airborne above warzones comes in the snappily-titled A Resurvey of Shift Work-Related Fatigue in MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aircraft System Crewmembers (pdf), flagged up at Flight International's DEW Line blog.
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at 14:22 on April 16th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff. Surprising.