[Eglin F-35 crash]

10 hours ago, ViperMan said:

"The pilot noticed something was wrong with his helmet-mounted display, suggesting it was misaligned in relation to the horizon. The pilot cross-checked his virtual heads-up display and instrument landing system data, and visually adjusted his aim point and glide slope toward the runway’s threshold."

Root cause: F-35 doesn't have a HUD.

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It has a vHUD which is displayed on the glass. So it does have a "virtual HUD."

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1 hour ago, Clark Griswold said:

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I like his general concept but the limitations or firm targets he sets on the dimensions of the aircraft seem a bit optimistic.  .

One thing about his concept for a passive detection focused LWF that I don't see him address is how he will handle opponents practicing their own EMCON discipline and/or being distracted by decoys (ground or air launched).  Cross cueing might solve that but without your own robust radar, seems kinda limited.

 

Exactly.

With a link that is/was highly resistant to jamming, I think that'd be one hell of a tactic. Have a bunch of shooters in FMS raging out front killing with the direction/guidance of quarterbacks in the rear with higher quality sensors out of reach from threats with bigger sticks. Not entirely different from current thoughts, but I'd feel a hell of a lot better in a "F-45" than a legacy Hornet...

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5 hours ago, tgonzo29 said:

Just submitted my package to the Oregon Air National Guard to be an F-15C pilot. Wish me luck!

 

5 hours ago, Kiloalpha said:

Same here, brother. Good luck, maybe I'll see you at the interviews!

 

Klamath?

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8 hours ago, TnkrToad said:

 

BTW, the 8th AF lost more men over Europe than the Marines did in all of the Pacific. Somehow that never shows up in the Marines' propaganda efforts.

There is a reason we've been routinely named the best propaganda machine since Nazi Germany...

 

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I call BS. That would require the AF to admit, even if only on a minor point, that they were wrong to pass on the T-45. AF leadership would rather put out a burning oil well with their own face than ever do this.

I predict us buying used T-50s from the DAKs before the first T-45 says USAF on the side.

Accidentally repped you when I thought that was the quote button. FML.

I'm not saying that is what is going to happen, just reporting what had occurred earlier this year. I have no dog in this fight.

[Replacement to the T-38]

After the AF consolidates nav training at Pcola, the Navy is getting rid of the T-39s; to replace the training radars they are using virtual A/A and A/G radar in the T-45s: Press Release including the ability to fight another aircraft w/datalink off of TCAS etc or a ghost operated by a ground instructor; the A/G simulator pulling in a terrain database and GPS to generate a ground map.

Don't know how well this will work since part of the WSO training was learning how to deal with a real-world flaky radar instead of the predictable returns from the sim.

Before I left Kingsville for Oceana, there was an AF guy hanging out around VT-22 logging a bunch of back seat time in our A/G and A/A events in order to evaluate the feasibility of using the T-45 for the Air Force.

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