Originally Posted by
SASless
Mog,
Or. have the engineers made the aircraft far too complex and Pilot's become so reliant upon the machine they lose both flying skills and the ability to effectively control the aircraft systems?
"Children of the Magenta" disease now creeping into Naval Aviation?
It would be interesting to see a video of F-35 Pilots flying approaches to a Carrier (in cockpit view of both hands and the pilot's head with view ahead of the aircraft) and compare those to existing video's of F-18 and legacy aircraft to see the difference in pilot workload and involvement (call it the human/machine interface).
You might find this article relates to what appears to have happened in the F-35 Accident.
The one exception is the F-35 is single pilot and thus the absence of a second pilot eliminates the ability for a check and verify ability that is facilitated by the inclusion of a second human pilot.
The article references a Video which is excellent viewing having watched it before.
https://airfactsjournal.com/2020/09/...-magenta-line/
This reads more like a basic switchology thing, followed by some fairly basic lack of SA on the pilots behalf. It would appear he did not engage APCM having screamed into a truncated break, throttled back to idle and then apparently not noticed his sink rate until too late. The difference here is that no-one on the ship could be aware that APCM wasn't engaged. Normally there are external indications to the LSO that all the gear - and the hook are down and locked. Hence the recommendations for LM and NAVAIRSYSCOM.
F/A18 are mainly single seat as well. Only the D, F and EA18G variants have a RIO.