Flying The Stressful Skies: Drone-Pilot Burnout
Jane Meyer‘s excellent New Yorker article, The Predator War, suggests that the U.S. reliance on drones to carry out overseas assassinations may be quick and efficient, but it’s hardly without consequence. Sticky moral issues aside, delivering death from above—and beyond—has been taking a toll on the drone pilots safely ensconced at their video feeds thousands of miles away.
I found it oddly telling that pilots sometimes feel compelled to, “wear flight suits when they operate a drone?
