Timeline for Why are fighter pilots seated and not reclined?
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 16:47 | comment | added | Voo | @Obsidian If the electronics fail in a modern fighter jet the pilot can only hope that they can eject manually, because they certainly couldn't fly it anymore. And the chances of just the display failing without reason seems negligible. | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 15:55 | comment | added | Obsidian Phoenix | Wouldn't an over-reliance on the digital mounts just cause other issues anyway? With the current seating position, if the electronic display fails, the pilot is still able to physically look, right? If they are reclined too much & the display fails, they have no manual backup? | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 13:03 | comment | added | ww602 | As a note about camera vision systems, the F-22 doesn't have one. It also doesn't have a helmet mounted display required to use one. The F-35 does have one, it's fully functional and has an operational HMD. The camera system is called AN/AAQ-37 Distributed Aperture System (DAS), if you do a quick google you'll find plenty of demonstration videos. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 15:12 | comment | added | abelenky | Pilots look over their shoulder for such mundane things as: "How far away is that runway?" "Which town/road/landmark am I passing?" and "Did my bomb just hit the target?" | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | Trevor_G | "Most modern military planning is about making sure pilots are never even in a position where they need to evade a missile or dog-fight another plane. " doesn't that make the need to look over your shoulder less of an issue not more..... | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 14:47 | comment | added | abelenky | I believe the F-35 is still under development. When complete, it should have a full head-mounted display system, but nothing on that project has gone according to plan. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | CalvT | @abelenky doesn't the F-35 have a fully featured system? | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 13:59 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 12:38 | comment | added | abelenky | The helmet / camera systems are not available on most airplanes. The F-22 might be the only plane that has a fully-featured system. The F-18 was created in 1983 (when digital cameras and advanced processing was completely unheard of). | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 12:36 | comment | added | Trevor_G | Yup as I mentioned, I realize that, but with modern fighter helmets with camera vision systems, that should be a fairly minor technical issue. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 12:33 | history | answered | abelenky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |