Single Seat F-14

[danwild6]

I get the reason all F-14's were two seaters the big radar and missile combo that in order to use fully at least in the 1970-80s needed a dedicated operator but didn't later improvements in avionics greatly reduced the workload enough to allow a single person to operate the system?

 

[Scott Kenny]

I get the reason all F-14's were two seaters the big radar and missile combo that in order to use fully at least in the 1970-80s needed a dedicated operator but didn't later improvements in avionics greatly reduced the workload enough to allow a single person to operate the system?

Maybe?

The USN certainly used F-18Es in the Tomcat-replacement role more than they used -Fs, despite initially planning on using -Fs for most of that work.

But IIRC a dogfight gives the advantage to the 2-seater due to heads being able to look in different directions at the same time.

 

[danwild6]

Thanks for the reply man. From what I've read the pilot could use the system for the AIM-7 Sparrow (even in early versions) and it gave him an advantage due to increased range I believe.