Don't FSU gyros move the airplane instead of the horizon? Is that what you're talking about?
Must be part of why you can buy a 1960s-era FSU jet for a relative song.
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Are stick controls really inverted like in the ASTB sim?
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Don't FSU gyros move the airplane instead of the horizon? Is that what you're talking about?
Must be part of why you can buy a 1960s-era FSU jet for a relative song.
Ryan92Dallas
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Brings up so many more questions...do they still have the section where you're shown unfolded cubes with colored panels and have to figure out how they'd look when assembled?
Is there still the biographical section where is asks things like "have you ever gambled for money?" I was always curious how they scored that, because for pilot I got a 9 on biography, but for NFO I got a 5 or something. I guess I wasn't nerdy enough!
The bio section included things like: "I would rather challenge and authority figure vs. I would prefer to blame my problems on other people"
I got nothing about gambling.
I didnt get spacial questions like that. Only the UAV camera orientation (i made a paper compass and oriented it whichever way the cam was facing to answer those qs)
Apparently they've changed it to reflect more relevant things...and things that a significant portion of those taking the test will end up doing.
I bet that's exactly what it is. Those FSU HUDs and gyros are really wild. Another interesting bit of FSU airplane trivia, the radios in some jets were apparently channelized with only a few freqs, such that the pilot couldn't manually see it, set the frequency, or change the channelization of the radio. The story I was told was this was done to deter ideas of defecting to the West, although one would think they had "other" means of persuasion for that.
Shack.
I won't fly that in IFR.
Well... for that matter... unless I'm getting paid, I won't fly IFR.
Simplified things all around, why waste time fiddling with the radio when you only have a few 'buttons' to select?
Fair enough, we also like to channelize as much as practical, but we can set the radio manually and/or re-channelize in the cockpit as well. That was the part I found interesting- it was just a rotary switch (1-10 or something like that) on a panel. No capability for the pilot to change it.
The Russian philosophy towards equipment was often to only do the bare minimum of what worked and not much at all more. It has recently changed a little but the attitude of 'good enough' still pervades much of what they do.