Having all the jets painted the same in 3 plane ACM forces the studs to talk and fly, describing which jet the bandit is in a very dynamic environment... what kind of bullshit alibi would it be when one of the few camo bandit dedicated jets goes down and the bandit is now in an orange and white one...."Uh, I shot my wingman cuz he looked the same as the bandit".... why did you shoot then if you weren't absolutelly sure??????
We instituted the 4x7 g-warm while I was there because Top Gun "said so", we had zero g-locs before it, we had more incomplete flights after it due to the gas it took. I saw the 'new' ACM FTI... There was very little wrong with the 'old' acm syllabus, very very basic fighter maneuvers... Folks continuously try to pretend the T-45 is a grey jet, it aint, don't paint it so. Top Gun smurf catching should never have entered into the TRACOM beyond the very basics (turn circle bubble entry, early late nailed, etc etc etc...). After 2100 hours in the goosehawk in 4.5 years, I'd leave the damned paint alone. (pretty sure the maintainers will see it this way too)