[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by robtek

But then, most fighterpilots fly by the seat of their pants and only care fore the most essential procedures like take off and sometimes landing.

I think you will find that 'Most' successful pilots achieve that status by disregarding their 'seat of the pants' feelings and rely on their training and their knowledge of system that they operate, the instruments that they rely upon and what they know of physics and how they expect their aircraft to react in the situations that they put them in.

Following your seat of the pants feeling will find you in a tight spiral dive into the ground once you lose your visual reference in a cloud or some such!

cheers!