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27 August 2016... Since arriving in April [2016], II Squadron pilots have been scrambled 19 times to intercept a total of 40 Russian aircraft. Back in Britain, by contrast, the RAF has conducted less than five “alpha scrambles” – ones that were carried out for real and not for training – in the whole of 2016.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08 ... baltic-sk/
Un nuevo escuadrón sin fecha
viernes, 26 de agosto de 2016
El programa para completar el armamento del Ala 14 en la Base Aérea de los Llanos con Eurofighter continúa, pero la dotación no será «a corto plazo»
Más de cuatro años después de que los primeros Eurofighter llegaran al Ala 14 de la Base de Los Llanos todavía se espera la dotación del segundo escuadrón, el 141, si bien ya se ha completado la plantilla de 18 aviones para el primero, el 142. Los planes de Defensa y del Ejército del Aire pasan por ir dotando al segundo escuadrón del mismo sistema de armas, pero se trabaja sin fecha concreta.
http://www.latribunadealbacete.es/Notic ... -sin-fecha
Orel escribió:Los aviones para el segundo escuadrón de Albacete, el 141, saldrán de los conservados en espera, pero sin fecha. Interesante saber que el 142 cuenta ya con su cifra final: 18 aviones. No tengo identificados los últimos tres.
The Human Factor
6 days ago
Designed to help the pilot and aircraft communicate efficiently, the Eurofighter cockpit is the culmination of years of testing, valuable feedback from operational pilots and high end engineering.
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Direct Voice Input (DVI) allows the pilot to manage systems and operational tasks. One of the Typhoon’s key cockpit systems, DVI gives the pilot speedy and easy voice control for aircraft systems such as radar, displays and navigation. The idea is to help reduce the pilot’s workload but it is not used for any flight or weapons safety-related functions. All the DVI functions are available by other means but, thanks to DVI, one simple word is converted into a command. The system has a vocabulary of more than 100 commands, meaning a pilot can do things and find out information without taking a hand off the HOTAS.
For anyone doubtful about the effectiveness of DVI because of issues trying to get a smartphone to understand basic commands, don’t worry. Each aircraft is ‘trained’ to recognise the voice of its particular pilot. Unlike smart phones that come with pre-embedded software that can only deal with a finite range of voices, dialects and accents, each Typhoon pilot has their voice recorded and that is plugged into the aircraft. Essentially the pilot’s voice is templated. The system needs to be robust enough to cope with both the noisy in-flight environment and the high-G stresses, which can affect the pilot’s voice and speech.
DVI can be used for a number of tactical tasks, including the following:
- Displaying information
- Selecting the radio
- Navigation route tasks
- Identifying Friend or Foe
- Controlling sensors
- Requesting fuel status
It’s not just a case of the pilot talking to the aircraft. By coupling the DVI system with the warning system voice outputs, the pilot can simply ask for fuel-state and bearing to base, and the cockpit voice will respond.
In addition to the pilot giving voice commands, the aircraft provides safety related warnings to the pilot by voice. These include high or low airspeed and ground proximity warnings.
There are a series of subset commands under each top level command. The following examples are top level commands. When the system recognises a command it ‘listens’ for the next level command in its vocabulary. Some examples of cockpit commands:
PIGEONS Requests the range and bearing to the next waypoint
SQUAWK Prepares system for various IFF commands
RADIO Prepares system for various radio commands
CONTENTS Requests current fuel state
DEST Prepares system for a change of destination
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Voice, Throttle and Stick (VTAS)
The combination of (DVI) and (HOTAS) is what’s now known as VTAS or Voice, Throttle and Stick. It’s this intuitive mix of ingredients that enables a single pilot to control operations, even in the most demanding of scenarios. The pilot controls the mission making inputs via his hands and voice and is given feedback from the aircraft through his eyes and ears. While VTAS is the primary input into the aircraft, the primary output back to the pilot comes from the Head Up Display (HUD) and the Head Down Displays (HDD).
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