Skaff: When we designed the cockpit, we started with a design philosophy called “return the pilot to the role of tactician.” And the reason we did that was because while the F-16 I flew and the F-15 and the Gripen the Rafale, are all good airplanes, managing their sensors overloads the pilot.

Rather than doing tactical things, the pilot spends his time controlling and tilting radars. So we said, “We’ve got to get away from that. We’ve got to return this pilot to the role of tactician and let advanced processors and fusion do the kinds of things that they can do really well that just burden the pilot.”

In other words, let computers do what computers do best and let pilots do what pilots do best.

Computers can do algorithmic functions extremely well and fast. Pilots do heuristic ‘thinking’ very well, but only when they have time to do it. We’ve got to return time to the pilot.”

And so with that philosophy, we wanted to make sure that the airplane gave the pilot situational awareness and a manageable workload.

Did you simply have a look at tactical representations in eurocanards?

Hmmm…
no intent to troll (i do like gripen), but flight control did fail didnt it?

Lockeed PRs…

Interesting article about Lockedd PR methods on swiss site :

http://www.offiziere.ch/?p=11420

Lockheed’s PR efforts no doubt help protect the Joint Strike Fighter. As Bunting’s story shows, those efforts run deep, reaching into unlikely dens of state politics, far outside the Pentagon or the Capitol, and the obscure warrens of the internet. Piecing together the endorsement requests, government lobbying, donations and pro-F-35 blogs helps explain how the much-criticized F-35 stays flying.

Or how to recycle one year old news…

I love the “Quebec lobby” part, what did they obtain yet?
Apart from that, if canada is in urgent need of fighters, both eurocanards are way safer options then F35. F18 SH is another option. Depending on Canada needs…
IMHO, if u need stop gap, F18 SH is perfect (or Emirati m2k-9 :dev2:). If you want to participate to “world game”, as your governments recently showed… Rafale is best option. If you want purely defend your airspace, Typhoon is probably the best option…Or F15 SE
But what the heck is doing F35 in Canada? (apart of political dependency towards US). It will be in the end an awesome plane, but short legged and originally strikes oriented.

Different priorities, requirements. Apples & Oranges…

Besides, you don’t seem to know whats going on with the likes of Typhoon at the moment.

Updates to block 5… (with tdifferent contents)

C’mon EElighting, i’m sure you can type Rafale, do an effort… 🙂 (upgrades of early blocks to F3-04T)

Calling anything infamous wont change the fact that Swiss army didnt want of Gripen.
And that Conseil des Etats just refused few days ago to finance it…

The Gripen covered by Swiss evaluation was the MS18.

Nope MS 19 in 2009 and later (or am i missing something?).
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showpost.php?p=1868256&postcount=643