Modern Drone/UAV Operation Skill

Phantasm · 12-18-2013, 07:19 PM

Piloting a UAV by remote (rather than an autopilot program run by the on-board computer) sounds a lot like a Technique rather than a Piloting skill of its own, I think. Not sure about the details, but my gut tells it it's an Average technique with a penalty of -3 or -4; I wouldn't buy it up above the base skill.

The autopilot programs would use the standard Pilot skill, based on whether the UAV would be a Light Airplane, Heavy Airplane, Helicopter, High-Performance Airplane, or Vertol (lots of TL9 cyberpunk drone UAVs are heli or vertol), all depending on how a living pilot would fly it.

Building and repairing a UAV would be a specialty (or more than one specialty) of Mechanic, I think; Engineer is designing them.

12-18-2013, 07:19 PM	#3
Phantasm Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the road again...	Re: Modern Drone/UAV Operation Skill Piloting a UAV by remote (rather than an autopilot program run by the on-board computer) sounds a lot like a Technique rather than a Piloting skill of its own, I think. Not sure about the details, but my gut tells it it's an Average technique with a penalty of -3 or -4; I wouldn't buy it up above the base skill. The autopilot programs would use the standard Pilot skill, based on whether the UAV would be a Light Airplane, Heavy Airplane, Helicopter, High-Performance Airplane, or Vertol (lots of TL9 cyberpunk drone UAVs are heli or vertol), all depending on how a living pilot would fly it. Building and repairing a UAV would be a specialty (or more than one specialty) of Mechanic, I think; Engineer is designing them. __________________ "Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting