What if one day you were a pilot, then the next thing you know your job is replaced by a plane that didn’t even have anyone inside it? In today's military, people are saying that unmanned drones will be more common than pilots. I believe that pilots are actually better than the unmanned drones in almost every way.
Drones may have thermal vision that allows them to see people easier, but they can’t look around and react as quickly as pilots can. Pilots can turn their head in multiple directions, while the drone's camera has to stay in a fixed position. When a pilot sees something, they are able to react quickly, while drones might take a little longer.
Pilots are able to make changes in speed, direction, and altitude very quickly while an unmanned drone must stay on its fixed course, usually resulting in it getting shot down. A pilot could perform certain maneuvers that could cause a missile that was following it to be destroyed or fly off in some other direction. Drones cannot do this because of its fixed course.
During dogfights, pilots must perform advanced maneuvers to avoid enemy gunfire and missiles, something drones are not yet capable of. The drones are not designed to be able to pull off the maneuvers required for dogfights like normal planes are. Drones aren't equipped with the air-to-air missiles that are needed in dogfights, which most other planes have.
Our military should consider keeping pilots as our main air units. Things may change in the future that causes drones to be better, but for now pilots are the way to go.
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