As someone once put it, operating a drone instead of flying an aeroplane is likely to appeal to those who prefer watching pornography to having sex....
That is a battle for the future. The one that has tried to rename the drone as a remotely piloted air system has probably already been lost.
Indeed. I wonder which journo first picked up on my 'Drones of Death' post some years ago, when some worthless insurgent was plinked by a drone? Other journos soon followed suit - and now 'drone' is the universal term used in the UK by everyone except the MoD and its drone operators.