Brains and eyes: manning a drone from the ground is easy, but on paper only. What the people behind the controls really lack is not only the pants-and-seat feeling, but also the environmental assessment. We tend to forget the incredible benefits we get from stereoscopic vision and the incredibly fast and automatic ability of the eye and brain to adjust or focus on a point of interest.

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Brains and eyes: manning a drone from the ground is easy, but on paper only. What the people behind the controls really lack is not only the pants-and-seat feeling, but also the environmental assessment. We tend to forget the incredible benefits we get from stereoscopic vision and the incredibly fast and automatic ability of the eye and brain to adjust or focus on a point of interest.

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Except for unbelievably irresponsible designs (and yet some made it to active service level) and mechanical failure, drones more often crash for two main reasons: bad handling and loss of environmental reference.

Bad handling is a common occurrence, this because the ground crews are rarely aviators themselves and often lack the aviation spirit generally acquired at light aviation club level by pushing an ...

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