LJ, Courtney,
I'm sure that once you get used to the display it'll be one of those things that you could never live without (a bit of colour would help)...I do hope that auto track initiate is a standard function however!
Fire and run, love it! Split my assets, love it even more. If two enemy jets are in the same piece of sky then I only need to look in one place, if they aren't, I get seriously worried! The fire and run theory was used by F16s before they got a BVR capability, although a bit of North European weather could scupper those plans
I loved JTIDS, but I don't think we ever used to the full with say 4 independent, yet supporting fighters...OK someone had to be the leader. I suppose we got close with night/IMC 4 ship ops.
Oh,
In my time on the F3.
Numerous VIB captions in the early days (all went out on throttle back)
No Hyd failures
1 Oil P
Numerous CSAS 1st Fails, all reset (Early days)
1 RHAG engagement (practice)
4ish battery chargers
Many IN runaways (Having two was pointless, you didn't know which one was playing stupid. 3 would have been a better idea) The RLG GPS solved that problem.
10+ main Comp stops/freeze
3 rides in C/F18's, no snags
1 ride in an F18F. Engine failure after 20 mins (Oceana) Jet had 260+ hours on it from new
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