> Honestly, page-based systems that can be accessed with a castle/boat switch is fine for modern fighters and trained pilots. Hearing a trained Eagle driver rat

> Honestly, page-based systems that can be accessed with a castle/boat switch is fine for modern fighters and trained pilots. Hearing a trained Eagle driver rattle off how to get to a specific menu/page from any other page is pretty impressive- "You need to change missile mode but you're on the ECS page? Back, down, down, right, right. [or something like that]" And they aren't even sitting in the plane or looking at the screens, it's just muscle memory. Reminds me of seeing cashiers operating ansi/tui POS without even looking because they had worked up the keyboard muscle memory. Then came the touch UIs and it all seemed to go to hell. Sitting here thinking about it, i wonder if what made it all work was that you used arrow keys to navigate the UI and then hit a specific button to activate the focused element. With mouse/touch oriented UIs there is no concept of activating a element. They are all "hot".