{"id":320,"date":"2009-05-27T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:16:39","slug":"youngest-predator-operators-graduate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/youngest-predator-operators-graduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngest Predator Operators Graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first pilot training graduates to go straight to Unmanned Air Vehicle training for the Predator (as noted <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=248\">previously<\/a>) have recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123146751\">graduated<\/a> from the\u00a0Predator training course.<\/p>\n<p>Some have described the actions as necessary given the high demand for UAV missions in the ongoing conflicts.\u00a0 Others have worried that removing pilots from their pilot role (of actual aircraft) when they have little to no experience may doom their ability to return to the cockpit after 3 to 4 years of\u00a0the non-flying tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first pilot training graduates to go straight to Unmanned Air Vehicle training for the Predator (as noted previously) have recently graduated from the\u00a0Predator training course. Some have described the actions as necessary given the high demand for UAV missions in the ongoing conflicts.\u00a0 Others have worried that removing pilots from their pilot role (of actual aircraft) when they have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2,32,53],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-pilot-training","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}