And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I’m no F-16 guy, but it looks like the canopy is up & half the capsiles on the idiot light panel on the right side panel forward of the stick are loose so they’re not on. Engine gages are all bottomed out too. Neat pic, might be a simulator.
An astute observation. You need somewhere around 3-4 bits of information to stay between the hard air and no air: fuel, airspeed, direction, altitude. The rest of those are to help diagnose and maybe manage a problem. All you really need to know is that none of 'em is jumping up and down screaming look at meeeeee!
Don’t know if this is true, but I was told that there were height limitations for A-4 Skyhawk pilots. Allegedly, a too-tall pilot could get his knees scraped off if he had to eject. B-52H in the left background?
No height/weight restrictions that I ever knew of. Had one pilot appropriately nicknamed "Tiny". We all thought if he did have to eject, the seat would either not go up or he'd loose about 40 lbs of side meat on the sides of the cockpit .
And just a bit more room than a modern airliner
ReplyDeleteJim from down the bayou
or a "mid-size" rental.
DeleteYou gotta wonder how an ejection seat works.
ReplyDeletePull the yellow handle between your legs (not shown) and hang on. They work vey well, worked on them for 20 years.
DeleteYou don't want to be in the hangar when you find out.
DeleteGo to the Kennedy Space Center and sit in the cabin of the space shuttle on display. It makes this dash look like it's in a Volkswagen
ReplyDeleteI’m no F-16 guy, but it looks like the canopy is up & half the capsiles on the idiot light panel on the right side panel forward of the stick are loose so they’re not on. Engine gages are all bottomed out too. Neat pic, might be a simulator.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Canopy rails are too narrow and you wouldn't be sitting on a runway with it up.
DeleteWhere the cup holder iz?
ReplyDeleteRight next to the ashtray…
DeleteYou only need to worry about the flashing red ones....
ReplyDeleteAn astute observation. You need somewhere around 3-4 bits of information to stay between the hard air and no air: fuel, airspeed, direction, altitude. The rest of those are to help diagnose and maybe manage a problem. All you really need to know is that none of 'em is jumping up and down screaming look at meeeeee!
DeleteWhat do you do if you get a leg cramp?
ReplyDeleteEndure or pull the get out quick handle.
DeleteDon’t know if this is true, but I was told that there were height limitations for A-4 Skyhawk pilots. Allegedly, a too-tall pilot could get his knees scraped off if he had to eject. B-52H in the left background?
ReplyDeleteYup
DeleteNo height/weight restrictions that I ever knew of. Had one pilot appropriately nicknamed "Tiny". We all thought if he did have to eject, the seat would either not go up or he'd loose about 40 lbs of side meat on the sides of the cockpit .
DeleteDoesn't look like a lot of room for those speed jeans to inflate.
ReplyDeleteSimulator.
ReplyDeleteOr photoshop.
Take your pick.
And not much to keep track of.
Main note there: your canopy is open, and your engines are off.
Probably not a good way to start a flight.
When did the needle-and-ball become obsolete?
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