Anyone who has sat in a Rafale, looked at the uncluttered panel, seen the big AMLCDs and felt the deliciously smooth, silky switch action will love it, as BV obviously did, and as I did when the Rafale M (was it the M?) made its first Farnborough appearance.
But I'm told that the switches are not likely to last like the Typhoon's more agricultural tested-to-death items, and that once you want to actually operate the systems in the Typhoon's visually less appealing cockpit it's an intuitive joy, but in the better looking Rafale you're working like a one armed paper hangar, with less intuitive modings and with nothing quite falling to hand.
I wonder which Jagmate got the Rafale? Can't have been BV - he'd have told us!
LO:
Very nicely written summary, and nice analogies. With a touch that sure, and that light, a lot of people will recognise who that writer is! But that turntable has provision for a plug in CD player, with all the buttons, all the software in place, and the makers have demonstrated the ability to plug the CD player in and play CDs in moments.