“I haven’t met anyone who uses it,” the pilot says about one pointless feature.
Kyle Mizokami – Popular Mechanics Jan 26, 2021
- An F-35 pilot says the Joint Strike Fighter’s cockpit is a technological wonder, using helmet-mounted displays, voice recognition tech, and touchscreens.
- Unfortunately, while all of those features sound great in theory, in practice, they come up short.
- At least one of the features is so useless, the pilot doesn’t know anyone who actually uses it.
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is probably the most advanced fighter jet flying today. The F-35, a.k.a. the “Panther,” is the first jet to use a number of new technologies designed to make it the most lethal and survivable warplane around. The problem? Some of those bells and whistles have landed with a resounding thud.
In an interview with the excellent aviation magazine Hush-Kit, an anonymous Panther pilot describes the F-35’s cockpit and interface system. The pilot says the cockpit itself is “beautiful,” full of screens that allow you to bring up an incredible amount of information about the fighter with just a few finger swipes, and customize the data to tailor it for the particular mission.
The F-35 is the first to use touchscreen technology. Unlike switches, which take up permanent cockpit space, touchscreens allow the same LCD screen space to be instantly repurposed. One minute, a display could be used to pull up data on an aircraft’s fuel reserves, and the next, it could help target an enemy position on a mountainside. That goes a long way toward simplifying the cockpit and not overwhelming a pilot with wall-to-wall physical switches, dials, and single-use displays.
But the problem with touchscreens, the pilot explains, is a lack of tactile feedback. Switches have a nice, satisfying click that instantaneously lets the user know they were successfully flipped. Almost everyone with a smartphone has touched a virtual button on a touchscreen, expected a result … and then nothing happens. The anonymous pilot reports failing to get a result from a touchscreen about 20 percent of the time:
At present I am pressing the wrong part of the screen about 20 [percent] of the time in flight due to either mis-identification, or more commonly by my finger getting jostled around in turbulence or under G. One of the biggest drawbacks is that you can’t brace your hand against anything whilst typing—think how much easier it is to type on a smartphone with your thumbs versus trying to stab at a virtual keyboard on a large tablet with just your index finger.
Other problems include the $400,000 custom-fitted “magic helmet”, which replaces the heads-up display (HUD) as well as sensor displays. The F-35 pilot believes old-fashioned HUDs are superior due to their ability to better display information without the need to “shrink” it to fit the helmet’s field of view. The voice recognition feature also apparently goes completely unused:
Voice input is another feature of the jet, but not one I have found to be useful. It may work well on the ground in a test rig, but under G in flight it’s not something I have found to work consistently enough to rely on. I haven’t met anyone who uses it.
Read about the F-35’s cockpit problems, as well as the pilot’s experiences flying the Panther compared to other aircraft, at Hush-Kit.
Source: Popular Mechanics
And the entire article misses all the elephants in the room. If a 40yr old rocket can damage an Israeli F35, that tells you something. The F35 is aptly described as a ‘flying bathtub’. There are countless problems that require countless billions to put right, assuming they can be put right. The aircraft carrier-based F-35C is compromised on fuel & weapons. In fact, I believe the UK thinks it is so bad that they are going to build their own 6th generation fighters. The US made a similar mistake during the Korean War. Their front line fighters weren’t designed for close combat (dogfighting), so Korean Migs had a field day. The F-35 can’t dog-fight, it is slow to turn, it is woefully underpowered, all because they believe the F-35 can’t be seen. Well, it can.
This contraption often cannot take off in the rain, so if a one hundred year-old bi-plane from WWI can take off, and a bomber onboard can drop bombs over its side to destroy that contraption stuck on the ground, then on that day the bi-plane is the superior aircraft.
The only reason to over-engineer a technology to make it no xxxxxxx good is to make it a boondoggle to earn lots of money whether the contraption works or not. In that case, and this applies to the warmonger Americans also, if they lose a war because their weapons are junk they should hang the bastards who built and sold them.
The Russian SU 57 is superior to the F 35. The SU 57 was developed under a defense budget of $100 Billion, or less. The F 35 is the greatest waste of money in the history of mankind.
Americans cannot defend their country with anything. Millions of foreigners walk in.
Lockheed Martin’s product is wildly successful generating profits and bilking taxpayers. That is the point of modern war, right?
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“Wars are not meant to be won, but prolonged”
I think the same could be said about the entire weapons industry; Why do it right when you can do it over?
Or get another contract.
Or a bigger budget.
Or scrap and start all over.
Hey. It’s just tax-payer/printed money, right?
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