thanks guys :-)

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Curiosity killed the cat, and I'm gonna find out why!
"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
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Boomer wrote:

Hey AK we miss ya over at WT :-)

I thought all AF fighters had the trigger dedicated to the gun, and that
Navy fighters fired selected weapons with the trigger. Am I way off here
or
is it always "personal preferance" ?

I suspect it may be more company preference. The F-8 had AIM-9s on the
pickle
button, guns on the trigger, but the F-4 had everything A/A on the
trigger. The
navy (or McAir) went with the F-4 method for the F-18, while the F-16 uses
the
trigger for guns/pickle for AAMs approach. I know the latter set up led
to at
least two inadvertent AIM-9 launches during DS, when the same F-16 pilot,
on two
different missions, switched from A/G to A/A mode while pulling off
target,
while still holding the pickle button firmly depressed. To be fair, the
situation was rather hectic on both occasions, but after the second
occurrence
his squadron mates rather forcefully insisted that he be returned to the
states,
as they were getting tired of having to watch for errant AIM-9s in
addition to
SAMs and AAA.

Guy