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Instructor pilot monitors a training simulator flight.

Qualification Rounds

Keith Pannabecker, a remotely piloted aircraft qualification instructor pilot, left, monitors a training mission using the T-6 Flight Simulator with Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ben, an enlisted RPA pilot student, at the 558th Flying Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, July 17, 2018. Both officer and enlisted RPA student pilots spend 85 days in the RPA Instrument Qualification Course and 30 days in the RPA Fundamentals Course at the 558th FTS during the second phase of the Air Education and Training Command’s RPA pilot curriculum. Last names have been removed and obscured for operational security considerations.

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