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Not mentioned in the article: 1) Flying a drone line-of-sight has been compared to flying a piper cub while looking through toilet paper tubes 2) Flying a drone through satellite link incurs a 5-10 second delay between input and response 3) Steps 1 and 2 are often performed by different teams on different continents that will never meet each other - for example, pilots in Kandahar will launch and land Reapers in Afghanistan that are then turned over to pilots in Las Vegas (if Air Force) or "undisclosed locations" if CIA Something else the article glosses over: "drone" covers everything from this: To this: ...and attempting to form a cohesive, one-size-fits-all policy is foolhardy.
