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According to WIKI, the idea of the T-X (I wonder what they'll really call it?) is mostly to teach situational awareness and information overload. That's not a lot different from the training philosophy back when I taught. The T-37 was to teach flying, and then the T-38 was to teach "century series" fighter performance. In the digital age, it's all about handling the incoming data. Which is necessary, I suppose, but I'm a stick and rudder guy.

When I had a student with better than average ability, I often disregarded the official syllabus for a given flight, and taught the student how to fly. REALLY fly. One of my best tools was an ordinary cumulus cloud. I'd have the student try to stay a set distance from the cloud, maneuvering around, above, and below it. As he got better, I closed the distance he had to maintain. Lord, that was fun. The Tweet didn't have the power to do it for long, but that was a lesson in itself.

Ain't braggin' about noise levels mind you, but if'n you want to hear "loud" sit in the left seat of an OH6 an let rip with the minigun. Muzzle is about 3' from your left knee. It rattles your guts a bit. If you're on the other side and the door gunner opens up you'll have a M-60 muzzle about 2-3' from your right ear. And when those things go quiet you got the transmission about 18" behind your noodle.

What? SPEAK UP!!!!

And from the other perspective..

Yeah DD . . .

BUT it's an OH6.