That looks incredible. Far gone are the days of analogue gauges & displays and toggle switches and huge crank levers lol. Although touch screens seem a bit odd for every application considering the G-forces that fighter pilots experience and reaching for an icon on a touch screen to set or activate a critical component while performing a negative 3G pushover might not be as ideal as a simple switch. Along with all this high tech I'm sure there's a new training procedure for new techniques to deal with such changes that are the result of all this high tech.
With AI infusing almost every facet of our lives, perhaps the current level of voice command used in the latest avionics suites will only get even more prominent with respect to flying these modern marvels.
So based on that pic, LCA is obviously a sidestick, yes?
That's not a simulator with just the screening for training, right?
Ever since the venerable F-16 with its amazing bubble canopy, the 30 degree reclining of the zero-zero ejection seat and especially the locating of the stick to the side instead of the center pedestal and how revolutionary that was seemed like it would be a much better choice for pilots (especially right-handed ones which I think is the overwhelming majority) than having the stick in the center between the legs and one's arm's cross-reach not being nearly as comfortable. It just seemed like a more ergonomically sound design that I figured we would see it almost exclusively in all subsequently new fighter jet designs. Why any new fighter being designed & built post F-16 would have a center stick is puzzling to me.
