Originally Posted by
SpazSinbad
For sure the LSOs need to know when the F-35C is in manual. I would have thought that was in the ball call. "Callsign Fuel Manual (or not)".
Based on the various podcasts discussing PLM, they are going to PLM only, no manual mode. For PLM to fail, other flight systems would have to fail too. No one brought up the fact that someone would leave it off.