scott tyrell Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 hey i was just looking at some cockpit pictures of the rafale c, and it appears that it has two throttle controls, or is one just a hotas throttle without the throttle functionality to avoid inadvertant control inputs at high g's with auto-throttle or something? or is the lower one a wrist-rest with buttons?
Nealius Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 Y'know, I have always wondered about these all-glass cockpits. If the the displays fail how is the pilot going to navigate and keep an eye on his engines?
scott tyrell Posted June 9, 2013 Author Posted June 9, 2013 apparently each displays has multiple redundant display elements. I cant remember where i read it but apparently the display in the f35 could be stabbed all the way through with a knife and still function.
Kaiza Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 Yep, not only that, they are all powered off different busses so aside from a total electrics failure (in which case you have bigger problems) there should be no reason for all of them to fail at the same time. Just like in the A-10, if a single display fails you can display the data in composite or other modes on an alternate display. 1 [url=http://www.aef-hq.com.au/aef4/forumdisplay.php?262-Digital-Combat-Simulator][SIGPIC]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2500/a10161sqnsignitureedite.png[/SIGPIC][/url]
Rincevent Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 (edited) You can see in this image at another angle that it is a single piece of hardware, the bottom part is a wrist-rest. And you can see there are additional controls between the two "parts" of the throttle (24 total for the throttle). Edited June 9, 2013 by Rincevent How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? Charles De Gaulle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Kaktus29 Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 i would like to imagine the left "additional" stick is for moving the camera when attacking ground targets.. i always thought how hard is it to sleeve the systems used to observe and target ground targets.. maybe they said why bother with small buttons on the stick and just use the whole stick for BIG movements and then use the button on the stick for gentle movements.. with this you can move fast and find,zoom, inspect all kind of terrain in front of you before you fly over it and endanger your craft.. when flying Su-25 i always had this problem, first of all its fast, so you don't have much time to play with "inspecting the terrain" by using your "FLIR", and when you do know where the target is its still hard to sleeve to the target and lock it in fast way.. maybe this stick is for that.. to make the rafale faster in acquisition of targets or some other "move requirement operations" ..
G00dnight Posted June 9, 2013 Posted June 9, 2013 The aircraft has auto throttle so after take off it is set to auto and the pilot then flies with his hands on the 2 sticks, Only the right one moves to control A/C the right has a wrist rest the left has the throttle as a rest, It is I think quite comfortable. AMD A8-5600K @ 4GHz, Radeon 7970 6Gig, 16 Gig Ram, Win 10 , 250 gig SSD, 40" Screen + 22 inch below, Track Ir, TMWH, Saitek combat pedals & a loose nut behind the stick :thumbup:
Kaiza Posted June 10, 2013 Posted June 10, 2013 This thread may be of interest Scott http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=99051 [url=http://www.aef-hq.com.au/aef4/forumdisplay.php?262-Digital-Combat-Simulator][SIGPIC]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2500/a10161sqnsignitureedite.png[/SIGPIC][/url]
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