Do Drone Pilots Train On Video Games?

    • Monalisa Chakraborty
    • Publish Date: May 27 2016 6:17PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 5 2016 4:47PM
Do Drone Pilots Train On Video Games?

Now before we start answering the question, let us define a drone. In simplistic terms a drone or an unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft that flies without a human pilot aboard. Its flight is controlled either autonomously by onboard computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle. It is used in the military as well as for civil purposes that include surveillance and aerial filming. A drone pilot’s role differs from that of a traditional aircraft pilot.

He does not need to wear a pressure suit and sit in the cockpit or worry about the aircraft going out of control with hundreds of passengers on board. Rather he spends hours watching his computer screen while navigating his drone.

This might bring us to the question as to how are drone pilots trained then? Are they trained in the same way as regular pilots? But surely a change in job profile should include different training modules, right? Not necessarily. Most of the time, drone pilots are actual pilots who are briefed about the changes in the two kinds of aircraft.  

Interestingly, a study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that it is easier for video game players to pilot a drone because they can pay attention to multiple details on the screen at the same time. ‘Drone’, a fairly recent war-documentary on UAVs by Norwegian filmmaker Tonje Hessen Schei, shows how the US military employed young video gamers as drone pilots to attack targets in Pakistan during the covert CIA drone war. However, there is not enough evidence to corroborate the claims.

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