What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?

For example (but not specifically to) a Eurofighter Typhoon and civlian plane or a larger aircraft (I'm aware that the Typhoon is a jet) but i mean more specifically to the cockpit do they use rudder pedals ? a yoke ? I think they use a joystick yeah? What are the differences with the military interface? Do they use technology that is unavailable eg too expensive for commercial airlines?What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?You have an alarming tendency to get shot at in a military cockpit!!!What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?
The deal, short and sweet, and yes I fly...differences are functionality based. Some true as well as false answers here, like the two hands on the yoke idea. You generally fly at least at take off and landing with one hand on the yoke and the other on the power. Need more but, they are limiting me.

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What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?To roll a plane involves ailerons only, you don't need your feet. The rudder just makes for a nicer more even turn, and allows for side-slipping for crosswind landing and takeoffs. I don't like fly by wire because and EMP can potentially be problematic. Not all designers fly and planes differ...

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Based on many reasons. Fighters are not designed to for creature comforts and commercial pilots do in fact strap in, so this is ludicrous to say they don't. When one is out of a cockpit, the second will strap in and mask up per regs or sop. This way the plane has a pilot in command, should...

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What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?anything happen while 2nd pilot is off stretchign his legs. Not all commercial planes are created for creature comforts either. For example Lear jets are tight for passwengers as well as pilots. a Gulfstream, you can stand in and the pilots have lots more room. You need a jar of vaseline...just to

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What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?
squeeze two pilots into most Lears. And if one is a big boy, like 6'2" and 250 pounds, the cockpit will suck for him. He couldn't bail in an emergency if he wanted to...best if they are both 150 pounds and maybe like 5'8" and I'm not kidding. Cessnas and so on are small as well, and you strap in...

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And lock your seat so it doesn't slide back when you rotate, or you will pull back the yoke or stick and stall the plane and fall from the sky, often with disastrous results. Lots of considerations go into desings and the user who noted red tape for say military, was correct at least for US flyers.

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What is the difference between a military aircraft cockpit and a civilian aircraft one?
During some war games with the Israelis years ago, an Israeli pilot took a wide view stick on mirror and placed it on his dash to see what his craning neck could not and the were kicking the crap out of the then newer F-15s and the like with old F-4 phantoms. For the US pilots to do..red tape galore

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The basic flight controls the same, Fighter planes have sticks while many (but by no means all) civilian planes have a yoke, though sticks are getting more popular again in civilian planes (most sport pilots have always preferred sticks).



The biggest difference is that military aircraft have weapons systems and civilian aircraft do not. Many civilian aircraft have avionics technology that's more advanced than what the military has because they don't have to suffer through the long government procurement cycles.
Fighters will have a stick. However, the F16 stick and the Airbus stick look a lot a like, understand they work differently (flight control systems are the same at "fly-by-wire", after that...). The interfaces are about the same, although there may be an issue of style.
A lot of the warning systems found in civilian planes (stall warning, ground proximity %26amp;c.) are not present in military
Different controls....smaller....
As far as I know Fighters have a control or joystick to leave at least one hand free. If the plane used a Yoke his hands would need to be on both yoke handles, making it harder to work or manipulate the radar ranging systems. Also a Yoke would make it much harder to do rolls and other maneuvers that the control stick make possible. Another feature on fighters is a Head Up Display or HUD. This transmits altitude and range as well as other important information so the pilots eyes are looking straight out of the cockpit. There are still analog or digital instruments that the Pilot can relate to if needed. Yes fighters have rudder pedals also, and on fighters the pilots feet are strapped in so that when the plane does a roll or a loop his/her feet don't slip from the rudder pedals cuseing a loss of control. The straps used on fighther planes are similar to those used on 10 speed bikes used in racing to make for quick escapes if neccesary duting and ejection.



In a commerical plane the airlines use yokes and some use joysticks. Those with joysticks have them mounted on the left and right hand sides of the cockpit rather than in the middle of the cockpit like a fighter. There is no need to make an airliner do a roll or a loop so this is why there is a yoke rather than a joystick. And they also use rudder pedals just like the fighter execpt the pilots feet are not straped in as there is no ejection set. There are anolog or digital instruments and I don't think they have a HUD system like fighters but have weather radar. Both the military and civilians use almost the smae electronics in their aircraft but it depends.

Tip google or yahoo cockpit images and you cna see the the diffrences.

http://en.wikipepedia.org/wiki/Cockpit