I was also at one time closely employed to one of the most advanced Nav/Attack systems on the planet. The system did unbelievable things. Controlled the Airplane better than ANY human pilot. I still don't trust flight control computers where the pilot is not actually connected to the flight control surfaces. Just old fashioned I guess.
Actually, I have faith in the Military Nav/Attack systems. I feel the commercial applications are somewhat sketchy. I vote no confidence.
Yeah. Fly-by-wire sucks. No feedback to the pilot. I worked on the iforget part of the f14, f15,
F16 and the cool one was the f4g update - they Lengthened the airframe and we gave the electronics an upgrade: weasel attack signal processor aka wild-weasel.
The F4G was the "best" of the wild weasel program. The first ones used F105 Thuds and expected the
lead bird do be the "radar decoy" and dodge the incoming :-( ... By the time we did the F4G, they had a dedicated back-seat EWO
and electronic radar-magic - it electronically sent out a "ghost image" about a mile ahead of itself. so when the adversary radar lit up,
the EWO was able to target it and send out a "fire and forget" gift pack assortment and any incoming was off target by over a mile :-)
I always wanted to ride in one of those buckets, even knowing the pilot would try to make the civvy ralph in his mask ....
but when an opportunity arose on an 4fg I COULDNT FIT! Just too damn tall...
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