Air Education and Training Command's RPA Training Next (RTN) effort aims to overhaul how the Air Force builds future RPA pilots and sensor operators, giving Airmen more personalized journeys through the RPA training pipeline instead of making them adhere to a one-size-fits-all path to their careers. "What we determined we needed to do was take a holistic approach to training, take a look at the entirety of the pipeline from what we're calling 'cradle to combat,' and to find better ways of learning [and] better technology to increase the realism of the training in order to produce a higher-caliber pilot and sensor operator for remotely piloted aircraft platforms," said Maj. Adam Smith, the initiative's former director, in a recent AETC podcast episode about the endeavor.
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