With
the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) set to make Commercial Drones a reality by
2015 as I’d reported in my blog article
entitled “FAA
ok’s Drones for Hobbyist – Study to determine Commercial Drone Risk as Amazon,
UPS and FedEx Drones get the Kibosh until 2015”, excitement has reached
fever pitch.
And
nowhere is that excitement more felt than among Airplane pilots, who
potentially can make as much as US$50 per hour or US$100,000 per year as Drone
pilots as reported in the article “Drone pilot wanted: Starting
salary $100,000”, published November 25, 2014: 11:32 AM ET By Ben Rooney, CNN Money.
So
says Director of the Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems at the University of
North Dakota, Al Palmer, whose university is now certifying Graduates for this burgeoning
field with a Degree in operating and maintaining UAV (Unmanned Aircraft
Vehicle) Systems.
Especially
if Drones are to work in the cities to deliver packages to people living in
apartments or who may be travelling. No surprise here; if US Army still needs
pilots to fly Drones, then it stands to reason that pilots will be needed for
commercial Drones as well.
FAA releases Commercial
Drones - 100,000 Drone Pilot jobs for the next five years
The
FAA is set to make regulations that will allow certain light-weight Drones to
make commercial flights up to 400 feet. Most likely, these Drones will be flown
by certified pilots or Registered Drone Operators working with large companies
such as Amazon, Google and even Facebook.
Amazon
will be using Drones to power their Amazon PrimeAir 30 minute Drone delivery
service as I'd predicted in my blog article
entitled “Amazon
plans to launch Amazon PrimeAir, their 30 minute Drone Package Delivery Service
for Amazon Prime users - Playing Catch-up as Mailpak launches DealBug in
Jamaica”.
Expect
competition for UPS and FedEx, both of whom have also expressed plans for the
use of Drones for Delivery, albeit to reduce the cost of trans-shipments
in-between its various Package Distribution Centers, also predicted in my blog article
entitled “UPS
and FedEx developing their Own Delivery Drones to compete with Amazon PrimeAir
- Premium Rush Package Delivery Drones herald the coming of Google's Personal
Androids that are Almost Human”.
Translation
for the ordinary American: some 100,000 jobs for Drone Pilots for the next five
(5) years. This despite the slow and steady of Semi-autonomous Drone Systems
such as Project Wing being researched in the Australian Desert by the Google X
Labs as stated in my blog article
entitled “Google
X Labs Project Wing - How to own a Global Satellite based Semi-Autonomous VTOL Drone
Delivery Service”.
So
despite fears of a Robot takeover, especially in the Fast Food biz by 2017 as
predicted in my blog
article entitled “Fast
Food Robot taking over by 2017 - How Drones like Amazon and PrimeAir and not
Humanoid Robots will be the first Robots by 2015”, the fate of Drones seems
largely human piloted for the next five (5) years.
After
all, if during the annual UAV Challenge: Outback Rescue for
the past seven (7) years a semi-autonomous Drone can't find Stranded Joe to
bring him a bottle of water in the Australian outback of
Kingaroy, northeast Australia as stated in the article “Can Drones get water to
stranded”, published 26 November 2014 Last updated at 09:00 GMT, BBC News, then clearly Drones will need pilots.
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