On Saturday, August 31, 2013 1:32:22 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:

to make sure it remembers the mission

is "the fire", not "to fire"!

Predator Drones are not fully autonomous. The human pilot sits in a chair on the ground. I guess that the drone has some autonomous stick and rudder skills sorta like an autopilot to handle turbulence in real time.