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   T-50 cockpit.<br />
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It should be noted that the release of the T-50 cockpit map is not the first exposure of the T-50 cockpit.As early as 2010, when Russia first released its T-50 fighter plane, it had already released pictures of the cockpit. </div>
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Russian media exposed the cockpit picture of T-50 as early as 2010. </div>
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<b>By Zhang Yichi</b>.</div>
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Look at the photos from the current exposure,<strong>T-50
 uses cockpit display control systems that are almost identical to Su 
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<strong>The display system in the cockpit consists of two large color 
multi-function LCD displays, a wide-angle diffraction head up display 
and at least 3 small liquid crystal displays.</strong>Two 15 inch large multi-function display<strong>A series of fighter Su 30 legacy</strong>. </div>
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The
 main display fire control radar, electronic countermeasures and other 
information. 3 small liquid crystal display, a display is installed in 
the bottom of the head up display, mainly display important targeting 
and navigation data, and HUD set parameters; second small display analog
 display indicator; third at the lower right. It is not clear from the 
screen that it has a small display on the left knee similar to the Su 
-35S. Maybe just put this small monitor of sue -35S to the right.</div>
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The details of the T-50 display control system are shown above</div>
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This
 graph is Su -35 cockpit map, although the use of almost the same 
display and control equipment with T-50, but gorgeous lights make it 
seem full of technological sense.</div>
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At
 present, Russia has not yet released T-50 display specific information,
 but can be announced by Russia's su -35S display control system 
information to determine the general performance of T-50 monitors.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>15
 inch MFI-35 multi function display two multi function displays and Su 
-35S are very similar, which can display 5 dimension picture, can 
automatically adjust the brightness and contrast, and includes 40 
peripheral function keys and 2 used to manually adjust the brightness 
and input parameters with the knob, the overall weight of 12 kg</strong>. </div>
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The display can display charts, TV images, or double display, as well 
as split pictures. It should be noted that the monitor is a universal 
display and is also used for the -52 helicopter gunships. From this 
point of view, the T-50 uses the monitor and is likely to be a 
transitional product. T-50 may be using this product because of lack of 
money.For such a Russian military only tens of billions of 
dollars in military projects.</div>
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The
 control panel of a suspected MFPI-35 multi-purpose control panel 
display right, is one of the main interface system pilot and machine, 
the display \/ control panel will past the dashboard complex operation 
function integration. On the Su -35 fighter cockpit, this panel \/ 
display system is located below the left. T-50 is on the right side, it 
may be for the right hand manipulation is more agile and skilled, then 
you can make the left hand to operate the throttle, or the left side of 
the display control panel is installed on the other.</div>
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The
 cockpit shown in Figure two is F-22A, and the F-22 display and control 
system uses 1 head up displays and 6 lower view displays, with a total 
resolution of 1 million 350 thousand pixels and an area of 201 square 
inches.</div>
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At
 least from the outside point of view, the T-50 monitor is better than 
F-22's.. The F-22 display and control system uses 1 head up displays and
 6 lower view displays. The wide-angle full view head display has a 
field of view of 20 degrees and 30 degrees.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>The 6 condition is 
divided into 3 categories: 1 to 8 inches (20 cm to 20 cm) and multi 
function display, 3 to 6 inches (15.2 cm to 15.2 cm) auxiliary 
multi-function display, 2 to 34 inches (7.6 cm to 10.2 cm) above the 
display, each color display for the 5 gray level, all the active liquid 
crystal display, the total resolution of 1 million 350 thousand pixels, 
show a total area of 201 square inches. The final 8 inch display instead
 of the original 10 inch monitor was mainly restricted by the technology
 of the military cockpit display.</strong></div>
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Pictured above is the cockpit of the Typhoon fighter</div>
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Rafale. The
 demonstration and control system of the gust fighter is simple and 
fluent, and the man-machine engineering is fully considered.</div>
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Europe's
 four generation semi fighter, such as "typhoon" and "gust" of the 
display control system, roughly the same as F-22 or worse. From the 
above point of view, the whole set of T-50 display and control system in
 the display area, integration and other basic indicators, even higher 
than F-22 and Europe's four generation semi fighter, such as "typhoon" 
and "gust."". But it does look a little more earthen. One important 
reason may lie in the fineness of workmanship and materials, and the 
color of the instrument panel. Russian fighter planes traditionally use 
light blue panels that do not look so tall, but some analysts believe 
that the color helps lower the pressure of the pilot.</div>
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There is a gap with the top cockpit</div>
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Of
 course, F-22 and the European "double wind" is not representative of 
today's display technology to the forefront of the level of T-50 and 
F-35, if America using explicit control technology than it is not just 
looking at "soil", but also in technology has indeed been behind us the 
most advanced cockpit.</div>
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F-35's
 cockpit represents the world's most advanced levels, and its cockpit 
design has been evaluated by over 1300 pilots and experts in ergonomics.</div>
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In
 the cockpit of F-35, a variety of dashboard and indicator completely 
disappeared, replaced by a large color digital touch type lcd.</div>
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<strong>This
 is a 8 inch, 20 inch (20 cm, 50 cm) single screen full-color 
multi-function display, resolution of up to 1200X3200, easier to fuse 
radar, electronic warfare, photoelectric detectors and other systems 
information.</strong> </div>
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The pilot only needs to touch the corresponding 
area on the multi-function display with his finger, so he can adjust the
 display and display sequence of various information at will, and 
restart the display system. Moreover, the left and right display area 
work does not affect each other and backup each other. F-35 also uses a 
helmet mounted display system with a speech recognition and control 
system that eliminates the previous controller for communications, 
navigation, and identification.Its cockpit design has been evaluated by ergonomics of over 1300 pilots and experts.</div>
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Cockpit F-35.</div>
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Compare with this set of display and control system,T-50 gap is probably the difference between traditional large screen mobile phones and smart touch phones<strong>.</strong>The
 reason why modern fighters pursue larger display area, not to make it 
look "tall", "extravagant", but for the sake of ergonomics 
consideration. The cockpit is a human-computer interaction system 
complex, information intensive, information processing pilots face 
increasingly stringent requirements, often requires a large amount of 
information in a short period of time and rapid response 
decision-making, and prone to high mental workload, even the overload 
situation.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>In order to improve the ability to withstand overload,
 the seat is often backward mounted, and then tilt to make the visual 
range larger, in the same resolution, the required display characters 
must be increased accordingly. The wide field of view enables pilots to 
perform flight operations, low altitude penetration and accurate ground 
attack at night or under severe weather conditions. Studies show that 
the speed of understanding on a large display is much faster than on a 
small display. Tests in Europe and the United States show that pilots 
use "big images" to increase their situational awareness by 100% 
compared to 2 or 3 conventional small multi-function displays</strong>. </div>
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Situational awareness plays a decisive role in air combat outcome. To 
some extent, the essence of air combat is to use superior situational 
awareness to reach the vantage point, destroy the enemy aircraft and 
evacuate safely". Air combat is regarded as a competitive or combat 
advantage to gain situational awareness. The total area of T-50 displays
 is probably not much less than that of F-35, but its distribution is 
dispersed and human friendliness is poor.</div>
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There are still many ping-pong switches left in the cockpit of T-50.</div>
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The
 second point difference in the cockpit display control system of T-50 
lies in the poor integration, and uses a lot of table tennis switches, 
knobs and so on.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>The five generation machine high overload 
duration and the rate of change has increased, the seat usually tilt 
back design, to improve the ability of overload, the pilot may move 
backward, the knee was partially blocked by sight, making the best 
visual dashboard area move, visible area. In addition, the fighters 
reduce the cockpit space for stealth, thus reducing the area of the 
display panel. Therefore, it is necessary to make the best use of the 
display and control system to reduce the use of switches and traditional
 instruments.</strong> </div>
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In contrast, there are many switches around T-50's display, and more scattered.</div>
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The details of the cockpit display system of F-35 are exquisite.</div>
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T-50 (top) and F-35 (down) display system detail comparison.</div>
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In
 addition, from the point of view of the display system control 
technology, the latest display control system in the United States 
completely uses the touch control system, in general, to be ahead of the
 peripheral keys and knobs used by T-50.</div>
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The use of the middle of the driving rod helpless.</div>
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Another
 area of criticism in the cockpit of T-50 has been that it still uses 
the center of the joystick and does not use the side bar technique. From
 the fourth generation fighter, the use of a large number of west side 
rod manipulation techniques, and to the four generation and the four 
generation semi machine is almost uniform side of the control rod, 
including the aviation industry on display at the Zhuhai air show the 
concept of advanced fighter cockpit, the driving rod side.</div>
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Similar to the T-50, Su -35 also uses a mid drive pole, which is beneficial to Russian pilots' reloading training.</div>
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Putting the joystick on the right, plus the arm rest, is more conducive to holding and handling the right hand for a long time.<strong> </strong></div>
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<strong>In
 addition, the side driving rod is more favorable for adopting a seat 
with a larger tilt angle, and the seat is more favorable for improving 
the overload resistance of the pilot.</strong> </div>
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Before against a reason 
for this is that if the right hand was injured, unable to fly back, 
while using a stick, the left hand can be substituted for the operation.
 However, the superiority of the lateral pole in this extreme situation 
is obviously too narrow. Therefore, the new generation of fighters in 
the world are using side drive technology.</div>
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Data
 show that Russia has also experimented with side bar manipulation, 
technically speaking, it is not difficult to achieve side lever control.
 Russia's eventual absence of side - lever manipulation is likely to be a
 conceptual difference, and analysts say it may be a pilot's choice". </div>
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But it's important to point out that sometimes the habits of pilots tend
 to repel newer technologies. For example, head up display technology, 
pilots who have not used this kind of display, just started the 
operation will be some discomfort, tend to be some rejection. Therefore,
 in the design of aircraft, we should obey the pilots' opinions, but 
they will not adopt all of them.</div>
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Russia
 did not use side bar technology for the T-50, a possible reason for the
 formation of combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Russia has never
 had a side - pole aircraft service before, and from the trainer to Su 
-35, it is a mid - drive.<strong>It's probably not possible to develop a two seater T-50 for facelift training.</strong>Thus,
 if the side bar technology is used, it will cause great trouble to the 
T-50 reloading. The use of traditional mid joystick allows the Su -35 
pilots to quickly switch to T-50 pilots, or use the two seat Su -30MK to
 teach.</div>
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Of
 course, the lever of T-50 were also investigated by man-machine 
engineering optimization, it adopts non-contact button design small 
stroke, without the need for circuit board like keyboard that need 
contact button below, the operation is more ergonomic, and the joystick 
to tilt slightly to the right, the right hand.</div>
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Advanced
 fighter cockpit in China Aviation industry. Not afraid, afraid of goods
 than goods. Although the use of large-scale block display, but compared
 with the F-35, the space utilization is not enough, not tight enough, 
the production is not refined enough, many aspects need to be optimized.
 Of course, this might just be a functional prototype.</div>
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Stealth fighters cockpit cabin look like

T-50 cockpit. It should be noted that the release of the T-50 cockpit map is not the first exposure of the T-50 cockpit.As early a...

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DESPITE the current travails, it appears that the MRCA programme is 
inching towards the final stage. And the aircraft shortlisted has been 
cut to two.<br />
Unsurprisingly, the two are the Eurofighter Typhoon and 
Dassault Rafale.<br />
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Industry and ministry officials said although Boeing and Saab are aware 
of the latest developments they are still plugging away their planes as 
no contract have been signed yet. That said however if the funding 
magically appears tomorrow, it will be either the Typhoon or Rafale that
 will be chosen.<br />
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The decision on the MRCA could be made soon, I am told though funding 
remained the biggest issue on the table. As both UK and France offers 
funding options under a government-to-government deal the tricky issue 
could be resolved.<br />
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If we go for the proposed funding options, the payment period for the 
aircraft may well spread out for at least 10 years based on statements 
made by the Defence Minister in the past. I am no finance expert but I 
think it could go up to 20 years. Which also mean that we will only get 
18 jets only and not more.<br />
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As which one is the more likely candidate for the MRCA programme, my 
guess is as good as yours. Both aircraft have their own merits so at the
 end of the day the political considerations will tip the scale.<br />
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What about the proposals about buying Hornets from Kuwait then? That is 
only a proposal made in this website, it was never AFAIK considered by 
the government.<br />
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Furthermore, how will the MRCA programme affect other projects of the 
Armed Forces? Little or no impact actually as the major programmes – the
 AV8, A400M and LCS – are already accounted for. It is this army/air 
force centric funding that leaves the navy scrambling to find funds for 
its own recapitalisation plans. That resulted in the proposed 15 to 5 
plan.<br />
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Thailand might probably buy four more Swedish jet fighters to add to a 
current squadron of 12 fighters of the same type, said Deputy Prime 
Minister Prajin Juntong on Thursday.<br />
<br />
Prajin, a former Thai air force chief, said that he viewed Saab JAS 39 
Gripen multirole combat aircraft as "technologically advanced" and 
suggested that his successor buy an additional four Swedish jet 
fighters.<br />
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The Thai air force currently deploys the 12 Swedish fighters at Air Wing
 7 in the southern province of Surat Thani. The Gripen fighter squadron 
was procured in 2008 to replace the United States' ageing F-5 Tiger 
fighters.<br />
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"One fighter squadron should not just consist of a dozen aircraft and 
four more should be added to it," said the deputy prime minister.<br />
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One JAS 39 Gripen fighter is currently estimated to cost 69 million U.S. dollars.<br />
<br />
Prajin made his comments following a visit of Swedish ambassador Staffan
 Herrstrom to Government House during which they held talks about the 
Gripen fighters, Swedish digital technology and bilateral trade, among 
other topics.</div>
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