We really ought to UAS flyers

[Gary Mortimer]

I know its pedantic but UAV is such a dated term

[Nigel]

I'm not sure what's wrong with the term UAV.  They are vehicles and they are unmanned.  Having once worked for a large corporate I must say I am very wary of the habit of changing words that everyone understands for new ones just for the sake of it.  For example, we used to have a 'training' department but that got changed to 'enablement' at which point no one outside the company knew what on earth we meant. Personally, I'm for sticking with UAV but I know the military like UAS and so I will defer to the will of the majority on this one - if UAS becomes the norm I guess I will have to change!

[Nigel]

I just found this

http://www.uavs.org/index.php?page=what_is

...which basically says that if we use the term UAV we should only be
referring to the platform whereas UAS refers to the air and ground
systems as a whole.

Cheers,
N

[Gary Mortimer]

Yes and that is what the CAA will eventually licence, the entire
system.

RPAS is the next one that will become popular.

UAV is no longer an ICAO phrase