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Hello all,
Not sure whether this belongs here but il ask anyway.
I have a phone interview with a company looking for a UAV pilot. The main thing is im a bit in the dark about the position. I have been told that it involves 60 days away from home in a possibly hostile area.
Anyone that has experience of piloting UAV's tell me a bit about the experience?
Cheers
Nick
Not sure whether this belongs here but il ask anyway.
I have a phone interview with a company looking for a UAV pilot. The main thing is im a bit in the dark about the position. I have been told that it involves 60 days away from home in a possibly hostile area.
Anyone that has experience of piloting UAV's tell me a bit about the experience?
Cheers
Nick
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The advert was from a secondary website and the full details were not given for some reason. I was only given the company name over the phone so im off to do my research.
I take your point,many thanks. It does seem as though I am a bit of a numpty with the initial post
but I assure you that I will do my homework (one of the reasons I asked here).
Many thanks all
Nick
I take your point,many thanks. It does seem as though I am a bit of a numpty with the initial post
but I assure you that I will do my homework (one of the reasons I asked here).Many thanks all
Nick
At least this job is using the older, less confusing title of UAV. In many areas, we are now following the US lead and calling them UASs, so that we now have, for example, a UAS IPT, and a lack of UAS pilots has been widely reported. But of course, this has nothing to do with the other type of UAS with which some on here may be familiar. Wouldn't it be nice if we had an acronym register, so that if one is in current use, it is not available for a new purpose. 
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UAV, UCAV, UAS......
What was wrong with 'RPV'?
Yes, a single acronym list would avoid potential TLA-clasms. Such as the interest which I once briefly expressed in someone coming to give us a 'TCAS' lecture some years ago.....
It turned out to be 'Training Course Administration System' or similar...
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Some IT scheme (which never materialised in the following years - maybe it has now?) But nothing at all to do with the 'real TCAS!
Didn't the Tornado programme once have an acronym list all of its own - agreed between Germany, Italy and UK?
I wish I could find the excellent article once written about 'purple prose' - something to do with 'secure the building'. To pongoes, it meant kick the door in and lob a few stun grenades about to flush out the bad guys. To matelots it meant lock the door and poke off for the weekend - and for the RAF it meant win a contract to buy the building.
Same goes with 'contact' - very different meanings to different folk!
Back to QinetiQ and their unpopulated air chariots - surely some military experience is needed to operate those things? No matter how remotely??
What was wrong with 'RPV'?
Yes, a single acronym list would avoid potential TLA-clasms. Such as the interest which I once briefly expressed in someone coming to give us a 'TCAS' lecture some years ago.....
It turned out to be 'Training Course Administration System' or similar...
... Some IT scheme (which never materialised in the following years - maybe it has now?) But nothing at all to do with the 'real TCAS!Didn't the Tornado programme once have an acronym list all of its own - agreed between Germany, Italy and UK?
I wish I could find the excellent article once written about 'purple prose' - something to do with 'secure the building'. To pongoes, it meant kick the door in and lob a few stun grenades about to flush out the bad guys. To matelots it meant lock the door and poke off for the weekend - and for the RAF it meant win a contract to buy the building.
Same goes with 'contact' - very different meanings to different folk!
Back to QinetiQ and their unpopulated air chariots - surely some military experience is needed to operate those things? No matter how remotely??
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Noprobs...
I once sat through a NATO counter terrorism brief in Germany in the late 1980s with the American lecturer slagging off the RAF for an hour. At the end I pointed out that the RAF in Germany meant more than just the Red Army Faction.
As a sideline - he never once mentioned the IRA who were in the process of killing Brit servicemen at the time. When asked, he said that the IRA posed no threat to NATO.
I wonder where they got their money from?
I once sat through a NATO counter terrorism brief in Germany in the late 1980s with the American lecturer slagging off the RAF for an hour. At the end I pointed out that the RAF in Germany meant more than just the Red Army Faction.
As a sideline - he never once mentioned the IRA who were in the process of killing Brit servicemen at the time. When asked, he said that the IRA posed no threat to NATO.
I wonder where they got their money from?
Remember the nonsense about McDonalds supporting the Irish Republican Army?
It turned out to be a misunderstanding concerning 'employees' IRA payments'.
Which in Spam-speak means Individual Retirement Account - a 'tax-advantaged account designed to help you save for retirement'....
It turned out to be a misunderstanding concerning 'employees' IRA payments'.
Which in Spam-speak means Individual Retirement Account - a 'tax-advantaged account designed to help you save for retirement'....
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Just out of interest but what are the requirements for flying a UAV?
PPL?
Military Flying experience?
Ability to fly Radio Control Models?
Lvl 9 and above on Call of Duty on Playstation?
Knowledge of Portacabins?
PPL?
Military Flying experience?
Ability to fly Radio Control Models?
Lvl 9 and above on Call of Duty on Playstation?
Knowledge of Portacabins?
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Didn't the Tornado programme once have an acronym list all of its own - agreed between Germany, Italy and UK?
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You are correct, it was issued at the start of the MRCA/Tornado program to ensure all the partner nations were using the same TLA's in report writing etc.
Airbus have followed on with this idea by issuing AP2080 - Airbus Reference Language
BEagle
You are correct, it was issued at the start of the MRCA/Tornado program to ensure all the partner nations were using the same TLA's in report writing etc.
Airbus have followed on with this idea by issuing AP2080 - Airbus Reference Language
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RPV means that someone is controlling it remotely. Longer term objective of UAV is to be autonomous (i.e. computer controlled). Only piloting/controlling would be for takeoff and landing (rather like autopilot on an airliner). Eventually even these phases could be cumputer controlled.
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The monkey is correct! UAS is often used incorrectly - how many of the UAVs have the whole system unmanned?
And the qualifications to fly them depend on which one you are talking about. It's like saying what qualifications do you need to fly an aircraft? Microlight? Cessna 152? A340? F22?
And the qualifications to fly them depend on which one you are talking about. It's like saying what qualifications do you need to fly an aircraft? Microlight? Cessna 152? A340? F22?
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I remember in Bosnia in the mid-1990s at the morning brief for the "Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press" we briefed that a Predator UAV had been shot down but the pilot had ejected safely and was in hospital for a check up. Lady from Agence France Presse demanded to know where the hospital was and wanted to interview the pilot. Much amusement all round and collapse of not so stout party.