Melchy
Trial DAEDALUS is alive and well.
UAV trial shows non-pilots 'equally skilled', says RAF
They are
de facto pilots having flown solo in a Grob, completed IRs in the Tucano sim and having in excess of 170hrs stick time before being let loose on the MQ-1. There are co-pilots on large multis with less stick time than these "non-pilots". The biggest difference is that the route they took to learn to fly was significantly cheaper than the current pilot training "pipelines".
LJ