Originally Posted by
FantomZorbin
The cockpit workload must be horrendous!!
Probably not. It's a pretty simple airplane with no air to air sensors or weapons. It started out a day VFR aircraft with no autopilot, no nav systems, and no precision weapon capability. Over the decades it's morphed into an all weather capable aircraft with GPS aided inertial nav and full precision weapons capability using existing, proven systems and software, including helmet mounted targeting displays. For example, it got the F-16's stick and the F-15's throttle levers for the pilot to interface with the new systems. By comparison, most F-16s like the A-10 are single pilot and F-16 has both an air to air and air to ground capability with sensors and weapons system for both. The A-10 is strictly air to ground. It also flies much slower so there's more time for the pilot to process everything.