Don't tell me Dr C Kopp's comments have infected the UK!! Has one of Australia's self-professed greatest military minds been ruffling a few feathers in the northern hemisphere?
After "flying" the F111 fixed base simulator:
Without doubt the smoothest and best handling large aircraft I have ever had the pleasure to fly. A predictable instrument platform, with crisp response in all axes, perfectly damped, with the best IFR instrument cluster layout I have ever seen. The aircraft rolls and pitches very nicely, and is very easy to fly precisely in basic aerobatic manoeuvres, and at low level. At no time is it obvious that you are handling a 100,000 lb gross weight strategic bomber, the aircraft exhibits fighter like handling through most of the envelope. Pig drivers tell me that the real thing is even nicer than the simulator.
Among others, the reason that the RAAF F/A-18 fleet (or the "Bug" as he prefers to call it) is experiencing fatique problems is because it is underpowered. Whaaat? How does this work??
