On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:41:10 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
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Larry Dighera wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:07:30 -0400, john smith wrote
in :

What's the big deal?

I can't imagine how a single F-16 pilot can fly his aircraft and be
expected to adequately control five other aircraft simultaneously.

Dale Brown has written about this in his last three novels.

Has he mentioned what happens to the pilotless aircraft if the pilot
controlling them becomes incapacitated?


Dale's pilots are commanding from a B1.

How many crew a B1? How many crew an F-16?

And if something happens to the command ship the UAVs can work on
there own and head for the house or destroy themselves.


I can see this possibly working in a war theater. My fear is that it
will be done in the NAS among civilian flights.