• Manuals
  • single engine, single seat, multirole tactical fighter
  • full air-to-air and air-to-surface combat capabilities
  • flaperons on trailing edge of wing combine flaps and ailerons functions
  • vertical tail w/ twin ventral fins gives directional stability
  • control surfaces actuated by hydraulics directed by fly-by-wire system

Cockpit

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Going back-to-front, left-to-right:

Left Console

Aft

Test

Flight Control

Manual Trim

Fuel

Auxiliary Comm (IFF)

External Lighting

Fwd

Emergency Power Unit

Electric

AVTR

  • switch records ACMI, TACview tapes to review flights
  • auto records upon weapon fire
  • on records all the time

ECM

Engine and Jet Start

Manual Pitch

UHF Backup

Audio 1 and 2

Left Auxiliary Console

Threat Warning AUX

Countermeasures Dispenser Set (CMDS)

Gears and Stores Management

Instrument Panel

Upfront Controls (UFC)

Integrated Control Panel (ICP)

Data Entry Display (DED)

Engine Controls Gauges

Right Auxiliary Console

Right Console

Fwd

Aft

Normal Procedures

Takeoff