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Stringent faa requirements. stringent dod requirements. we want professional pilots flying these. we attack similar targets we want them to act and be operated in the same way. whether it's a manned or unmanned aircraft. >> it's not a video game. you are an actual pilot. describe the room where the rpa operators sit? >> the cockpit or ground control station has two seats. the sensor operator sits on the right. he controls the camera and guides the weapons to the target. the pilot sits on the left. has full away of controls you'd expect in an airplane, but ytin a room. there's a lot of computer...

As well. i'm speaking particularly of drone pilots. >> well, we've -- this is an area of our air force that has grown over the last several years and a great success story for our air force. after 9/11 the number of remotely piloted vehicles in our air force could be counted on a couple hands. >> right. >> now we're pushing 300 aircraft in our inventory. we've created new career fields for pilots, for sensor operators. we've built up the intelligence support that's behind it that makes that system work. it's been a great success. >> what is exactly a drone pilot since it's an unmanned plane, b...

Air to surface missile. >> when you are working in this program could you envision what it has become today? >> absolutely not. but i didn't know where it was going at that point. i looked at where they have gone today and i am just marveled. you are calling them rpa's, remotely piloted aircraft. >> yes, i am. >> you bristle when somebody calls that an unmanned aircraft. >> you get that aircraft you are looking somewhere around 50 air force individuals. there's the aircraft which is thrown by pilots 24/7 it's not a drone it doesn't fly by itself. >> the reaper and predator have a three membe...