Originally Posted by Fiddy UK

Yeah i watched a documentary on it, it said without the computers it would be unflyable as there constantly monitoring and changing things. that was the main thing the display pilot raved about when i spoke to him, he said the computers/electronics make it possible for you to do ridiculous manouvers, he also said the human body stops it showing its full potential as the plane can do a lot more than he or any other pilot could cope with, and the pilot is deffinatly the weak link in a eurofighter in his opinion. i asked how it compared to older planes like the tornado etc, he reckons if you tried some of the turns the eurofighter can do in a tornado, it would rip the wings off.