This activity still trains Pioneer UAV replacement operators and maintainers today. AAI also has worldwide training experience, having taught allied customers to operate and maintain AAI's Shadow systems, and in some cases fly their own UAVs. These payloads typically have very specialized applications, and are best suited for missions that would place the pilot of a manned aircraft in harms way. UAV Flight Testing - AAI has accrued a considerable amount of experience with very unique and special purpose UAVs during the past twelve years. Included in AAI's flight testing repertoire are fixed and rotor wing air vehicles.
Recovery is achieved by wheels, parachutes, parafoils, or nets.
These tasks are accomplished both at day and night, and in a variety of weather and combat operational conditions. AAI has an array of UAVs that match a variety surveillance requirements ranging from one mile mission radius for urban inner city coverage, to one hundred miles mission radius for a major crisis situation.