Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
How will they manage to control gusts of wind that might cause damage to said Easyjet or god forbid another company's aircraft close by ? Perhaps workable with a hangar environment if the engineers wear helmets
Come on you are bringing engineering reality into it. A little jet wash from a taxiing aircraft and you have some damage to inspect with another UAS. Or perhaps an unexpected gust of wind and you watch what happens when a high bypass engine swallows a quadricopter. I cannot see any ramp manager allowing this there are too many things that can go wrong. And unlike a line engineer on a lift finding something strange a UAS cannot check the area to see if its just a dirty mark or a crack.
Then you have the question - as a pilot would you accept an aircraft that had been signed off after only being inspected remotely through a video camera bouncing around in the wind?