During the California wildfires, rescue operations were halted thanks to unauthorized usage of drones by civilian operators who wanted to capture footage of the disaster.
Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.The coming scramble into the air by civilian operators makes aviation authorities nervous about mid-air collisions and other accidents.
Russian civilian operators are commonly contracted by the UN across Africa to transport supplies and personnel.
Iraq is so unique because you have civilian operators alongside the military.
Gregory Kellstrom, a civilian forklift operator at the American military base in Seoul, decided to go to Wooridul recently to get spinal scans and medication for his back and hip problems instead of returning to the United States.
"Other times brought home the fact that the people on the other end of the lens were human beings too, such as seeing a 'bad guy' playing with his kids".A new collective-bargaining organisation, the Association of Unmanned Operation (AUO), aims to represent civilian drone operators.
But the potential uses of such technology are not solely hostile - it could also be valuable to civilian satellite operators, allowing them to extend the lifetime of high-value assets in space through servicing, re-fuelling or repair on-orbit.
Hence, a repair or reinforcement of the damaged or weakened part of the structure to restore the structural efficiency and thus assure the continued airworthiness of the aircraft has become an important issue in recent years to military and civilian aircraft operators.
Fairbanks received word of the attack on Pearl Harbor via civilian shortwave radio operators who passed the news to the U.S. Army base.
County officials established a phone bank with a single 800-number for the use of all county residents (military and civilian), staffed it with operators from several agencies, and provided the operators with Internet-based training to promote consistency in information released to the public.
