Originally Posted by
rickair7777
General Atomics is NOT an aviation company, and they certainly had some learning curves...among other things they were late to actually employ rated professional pilots into their development and test programs so they probably didn't understand a lot of procedural processes that we take for granted.
Come again? I agree that the things make more sense to engineers than pilots (particularly virtually everything in the GCS) but GA-ASI has had real pilots on board since before they were GA-ASI.