If until today everyone wanted to be pilots, now the focus is shifting to the next generation - the remote pilots, who sit in the operating cabin and are responsible for a multitude of tasks - from gathering intelligence, assisting the units attacking on the ground - which they carry out with the push of a joystick.
Unlike drone operators in the American Army, in the Israeli Air Force the operator deals mainly with tasks such as gathering intel and attack and less with the details of flying the plane, which is mostly autonomous.
"The cognitive load increases due to the multiplicity of tasks.
The fact that we are sitting on the ground allows us to receive into the operating car a lot of the information from all the systems of the land army, and of the air force through the command and control systems.
We adapt ourselves to the new developments on their way to us."