Afterwards we were presented to him as members of 1359 Flt RauxAF and he asked us "In layman's terms, what is the difference between the K and the J model Hercules simulator?" I said "Well sir there are four crew members on the K flight deck all teasing out information from our various pieces of kit but on a J there are just two pilots and a computer"
"Who tell them how to get to where they are going?" he asked
"The pilots just plumb it into the computer like you would on the GPS in your car" I ventured.
"'Strordinary" he said, "And what happens if the computer gets shot up?"
"Then they're bu$$ered " said the Flight Eng.
"I see" he said
With absolutely no intent to reserect the 'K v J' thread of long ago there is more than one computer onboard the J but only one Nav (to get shot) on the K so I humbly suggest that the former had greater redundancy rather than less!