A US Air Force F-35 pilot spent 50 minutes on an airborne conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers trying to solve a problem with his fighter jet before he ejected and the plane plunged to the ground in Alaska earlier this year, an accident report released this week says.
Keep in mind that the pilot would have had 9 seconds to determine that the problem is being in ground control law, decide to flip the switch, unguard the switch and flip it. Once the aircraft thinks it is on the ground, it begins to actively crash and if the issue isn’t the flight control law, those wasted seconds risk killing the operator.
decide to flip the switch, unguard the switch and flip it
Are you aware of what the F-35 cockpit looks like? It’s mostly a giant touchscreen. What’s all this nonsense about “flipping a switch”? Surely you mean navigate to the correct settings menu.
Keep in mind that the pilot would have had 9 seconds to determine that the problem is being in ground control law, decide to flip the switch, unguard the switch and flip it. Once the aircraft thinks it is on the ground, it begins to actively crash and if the issue isn’t the flight control law, those wasted seconds risk killing the operator.
Are you aware of what the F-35 cockpit looks like? It’s mostly a giant touchscreen. What’s all this nonsense about “flipping a switch”? Surely you mean navigate to the correct settings menu.
Oh so it’s even worse than I thought. That’s a surprising lack of guarded switches.