Just to add, it's impossible to shield aircraft against EMP.
EMP shields are essentially two layers of copper tubing over every single wire, with insulation between them. Copper acts weird in presence of a magnetic field, almost repels it, when it's properly arranged. The problem is that this arrangement would add a metric tonne to a fighter.
And even then, radar and radio would be exposed to the burst.
the future belongs to those with no electrical systems
These guys shouldn't have been allowed in a Cessna, never mind a passenger jet. Entry and recovery of stalls, spins, and spirals is one of the most basic things you learn in pilot training. And they fucked it up in a way even a ground school trainee still waiting for his first time in the cockpit shouldn't fuck it up.
That kind of stupid could never be cured by the presence nor absence of FBW.
I suspect these Pilots had been properly trained at some point in their lives, but after they got their jobs the airlines didn't want to waste any precious shekels on simulator exercises for the next 30 years.
A-any USAF/NATO pilot anons here?? I'm curious as to the frequency of basic stall&spin recovery refreshers, especially for large aircraft that don't maneuver all that much
T-they still do those, right?
use magnetic amplifiers or vacuum tubes instead of transistors so they are emp impervious
Infantry level of air force experience here, why didn't he point the nose downward and increase thrust at the same time as to increase speed in more ways then one? If he wants to go fast why is he decreasing his odds of success by going up? If he wants to gain altitude, why doesn't he feel the g force of him going down to determine altitude based on his last position? If he has not felt his per peer tingle, hes close to where he was, if he did, OH SHIT NIGGER MAKE IT STOP PLEASE I HATE THAT SHIT!
Nah just more resistant, a stronger pulse would still take them out. Besides this comes again at a huge weight cost, a vacuum tube radar weighs tens of times more than an equivalent range PESA, not just raw mass but the cooling requirements as well.
By the time you're done rad proofing everything, your "fighter" is a pig that will be shot out of the air with artillery.
Fiber optics.
I don't know about Germany, but US law is strict and specific on what a pilot has to do to stay current.
law.cornell.edu
I'm pretty sure (c)(3)(iv) was because of the Air France incident.
that seems pretty standard to stay current, but I don't know when that was put in place. Regardless, it's basic shit and they were still retarded.
of course everything now is about as much flying as someone fucking with an iPad and talking on a radio, so maybe they're all retarded.