Great POST. And when we have one for German aircraft I'm sure GScholz will be an informative source as always.
So what F4u "combat" cockpit procedures did the pilots have to go through pre\during engagement? Didn't F4u engage the Luft a few times? How did that turn out for the overly cockpit complexity taxed F4u pilots?
My father flew cargo in Beech 18. I rode right seat a few times. He had a check list memorized along with sub actions if anything didn't respond correctly from the two radials or any system in the plane. Walk around check, Pre flight cockpit, pre takoff taxi and hold, takeoff, climb out, in destination flight, landing, taxi to the ramp, and shutdown. You could almost say "Rap Music" got it's start with memorized pilot check lists. Especially the warmup then cooling management for radials.
You should have heard him when he was working on his jet ticket. At which time he had is multi engine ticket along with multi engine commercial instructor ticket.
So how did all of the real world pilots in this post ever get their rides off the ground with all of the cockpit management procedures they were saddled with? Becoming a pilot is a self eliminating process. If you cannot excel at the complex multitasking of cockpit management, you don't get your ticket to fly.
So who won WW2...............
