Experts predict that unmanned vehicles will offer better job prospects than the airlines.
Today, the biggest use of drones is by the military and the Central Intelligence Agency, which operate hundreds of them around the world. At the moment, there are hardly any remote-controlled vehicles in American civil airspace. But the Federal Aviation Administration is under instructions from Congress to fully integrate them by 2015. The agency predicts that 10,000 remote-piloted planes will be operating in American airspace within five years. Equipped with cameras and other sensors, drones of the future will report back on traffic, survey land, inspect pipelines and transmission lines, conduct border surveillance and other law enforcement work, assess damage after storms and earthquakes, and even spot fish. Experts predict that unmanned vehicles will offer better job prospects than the airlines. (Read more)
Today, the biggest use of drones is by the military and the Central Intelligence Agency, which operate hundreds of them around the world. At the moment, there are hardly any remote-controlled vehicles in American civil airspace. But the Federal Aviation Administration is under instructions from Congress to fully integrate them by 2015. The agency predicts that 10,000 remote-piloted planes will be operating in American airspace within five years. Equipped with cameras and other sensors, drones of the future will report back on traffic, survey land, inspect pipelines and transmission lines, conduct border surveillance and other law enforcement work, assess damage after storms and earthquakes, and even spot fish. Experts predict that unmanned vehicles will offer better job prospects than the airlines. (Read more)