This has happened only a couple of times, but today it happened again. After a rather steep dive and gun run on a ground target, after pulling out of the dive, my HUD was cocked at about 45 degress or so and not active. The HUD was completely frozen, yet all of the steam gauges were working correctly. On my way back to the airport, I noticed that all of the other displays were frozen as well. I could see the buttons being depressed around each of the DDIs, but nothing changed.
I managed to make it home and land safely using the Analog airspeed indicator. The Hornet flew fine, but none of the displays worked.
I tried shutting down and restarting, but the displays were all still frozen. I was able to use the radios to get the ground crew to hook up shore power and then after shutting down, I was able to request repair. After 170 seconds, the repair was complete and I was able to start a fully functioning Hornet.
So, I have a few questions.....
Was it my abrupt pull out of a steep dive that caused this..... it never has before.
Is getting the aircraft repaired the only way to solve this issue, or is there a way to simply reset all of the electronics? Turning everything off and on again didn't fix it.