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Originally Posted by notorious
Military aircraft avionics are complete shit compared to most civilian aircraft.
I was hanging out in the Amarillo FBO some F-16s pulled up and parked.
I don't ever pass up the chance to talk to the baddest ass mother ****ers on the planet so we chatted about stuff. I was flying a low tail Piper Lance (a very nice one) and they asked me about it. Had dual Garmin 430's in it which was sensational back in 2002. I took them out to show them and they were blown away at how nice the dash was. One guy said he would kill to have one moving map GPS in his plane. They had a light indicator that verified via GPS receiver that LORAN was accurate.
That blew me away. 25 million dollar airplane. I hope things have changed.
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Military Technology generally lags civilian technology by several years.
For example, when I joined the Army in '88 the HAWK system I would work on was still using vacuum tubes in the PAR, or Pulsing Acquisition Radar.