Re: [9fans] Re: Keyboard mapping

[Boyd Roberts <boyd@insultant.net>]

<rog@vitanuova.com> a crit dans le message news:
20010405113524.462F919A1E@mail.cse.psu.edu...

> > read up on HOTAS.
>
> some sort of joystick?

Hands On Throttle And Stick:  all the useful stuff is at your fingertips
so that when it goes 'fangs out' you have everything you need and can fly
the a/c at the same time.

the F-16 uses it and IIRC the F15, except the E model has a RIO/GIB/WO.

i think the pilot with RIO/GIB/WO is a good idea, 'cos it divides up
the workload and you have another pair of eyes; essential in a dogfight.
most kills occur within visual range or the ROEs force visual id.

it may not be well done (as i don't know the F-16 that well) but the
principle is sound.

don't get me started on the Tornado IDS and those two fools who were
turned into heroes after a monumental clusterfuck.  just to get the
bombs 'off the rack' and _maybe_ on the target it takes 23 switches,
on the Tornado -- what a piece of junk.

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