Are there any real world fast jet pilots here?

That is just too COOL. And the Italian EFs are the prettiest ones, too!

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Hahhahaha, dunnop about pretty but damn loud for sure. And tall, when they sit on the Landing Gear at the apron they look like on stilts.
A pleasure to work under them as Ground crew- or so I’m told.

The F-104 guys were just a bunch of broken knees.

EDIT: I’m just going to pull the picture after a while… Walls have ears.

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Yeah, don’t get yourself in trouble, dude.

Oh, and just in case you wonder if anything is different now, yes.
I’m now at the Tornado simulator- real life requesting some changes in the workplace.
I’m lucky to have this job and my actual boss.

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That’s just basic flight dynamics in a statically stable aircraft without automatic trim or a full-blown digital FCS.

If you let go of the stick after giving a pitch input while the aircraft is still experiencing its transient response to your control input then all you’ve really done is induced a disturbance. The aerodynamic forces on the aircraft are going to push it back towards straight and level flight.

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