Modern Drone/UAV Operation Skill

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Originally Posted by tbrock1031

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.

I could easily see someone who knows how to pilot a drone better than they can fly live. Other than that, agreed.