Yeah, who needs a pilot if there is a potential for a fire sometime soon!
...while trying to activate the EOS, a procedure that calls on the pilot to pull up on a small ring tucked into the side of his ejection seat.
Pilot is low on oxygen, and is having trouble thinking and operating his hands. Let's tuck a small metal ring on the side of the ejection seat, and give him seconds to find it!
...to look to the side or down without hitting the night vision goggles on the canopy, F-22 pilots have to brace themselves to shift their torso...
But lets not make it easy!
This plane control layout and pilot support system is a pile of crap. There might be a special place in Hell for the engineers who did this.
“There might be a special place in Hell for the engineers who did this.”
You mean non-engineering managers. Engineers know better. Aviation companies are run by incompetents.