"benjym" wrote:

What we do know is that the harrier replacement (JSF) will
incorporate
innovations to reduce v-stol pilot workload currently under
development here in the UK. A Harrier prototype has been fitted
with
fly-by-wire controls and a flight management computor capable of
practically landing the plane automatically - the most dangerous
regime of v-stol flight. Controlling parameters like nozzle angle,
thrust, pitch, speed, landing gear etc the computor can land the
aircraft from approach configuration with one button push from the
pilot. Maybe this kind of thinking could be applied to the V-22?

When the V-22 Osprey is landing combat grunts on a hot LZ, do you
really want a computer landing the aircraft slowly and safely? If
not, how and when do you train the pilot to land quickly under those
circumstances?