Robots NOT
Deja vu one mo' time, huh ?
I only flew with "help" for a few hundred hours in the VooDoo. We lowly pilots were not allowed to mess around with the high tech radar system, so the guy in the back seat operated the avionics ( except the radio and autopilot and tacan). Alledgedly, the RIO was also a "navigator", but I saw a few times that worried me, heh heh.
Our main job was to fly the plane, make radio calls, land the plane ( blowing snow, 20 kt crosswind, etc) and " steer the dot" once the RIO had a good lock on. Seems to me hat the pilot could have been a robot.
And then I went single seat for anothe 3,500 hours in three different jets. So for awhile it was brutal, but by early 70's the avionics came to replace the human navigator. I still had to follow orders, fly the jet, hit the target, land it in blowing snow with a crosswind, and all the things we human pilots were supposed to do.
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I really like Flippy, but too expensive for my BBQ on the patio. Also, Flippy doesn't know all the hot dates at our old TDY bases.
Oh well, those days are gone and we should just let them go.
Gums muses....