Hi Gums - of course, the ‘battle’ to convince Harrier drivers that the new control logic was better fell initially on stony ears as better and different are hard for some to reconcile.
The argument is to an increasing extent irrelevant though, because making a system worse to appease a dwindling proportion of the target audience would be somewhat daft.
Speaking as the un-elected mouth piece for all those who enjoyed the Pegasus Left Hand Juggle - but were prepared to accept progress - I think the JSF team
have done a brilliant job.
I spoke with a real live F-35 driver just the other day and he said that a Vertical Landing was his ‘night time arrival of choice’ as it was the lowest work load of the bunch.
Even allowing for personal preference that’s not something most Harrier drivers would say.