Originally Posted by
TOGAANG
Yeah I would laugh too, in fact I'm laughing now. I just figured it would help inflate my 1600 hrs of Viper time. Atleast then they would see I had to use some CRM. They may not count it now but in 10 years when they can't make pilots fast enough they may count it as something. I'm a fighter guy by trade but I can say that flying RPA all over Afghanistan dodging weather and other aircraft and abiding by all the same flight rules it should count for something. I've flown enough civilian airplanes by autopilot to know that it's not much different. The only difference is you don't always log takeoff's and landings.
Someone had to ask the question. I'm sure if I get a phone call for an interview that my time flying RPA will come up and they will give me the hairy eyeball. Happy to be back in the Viper!
Cheers
Now don't tell me that you are not a convert to the idea of single-seat CRM.
Not ONLY have you used CRM - but you had to conduct such between airplanes, using hand and arm signals, over the radio with other flight members, assets on the ground, the SOF or base radio, and even ATC - all more difficult than looking across the cockpit at the person sitting next to you
Don't sell yourself short.
The value of RPV flying is a highly debated subject on this board and elsewhere.