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the intensity of that situation would have me just listening to the aircraft's engines and mechanical systems. I would have to be so in the zone and essentially one with the machine. no distractions. it's it's own music
also i hope that pilot made it back. imagining them just skimming along under 500ft the whole way in and out to stay under radar. sometimes low enough to churn up some sea spray. no "terrain, pull up" because it's been deactivated or was never installed
Systems like TAWS(the "too low, terrain" alarm) aren't in aircraft of that era. The best you're going to get is a red light that turns on when the radar altimeter gets below whatever you set the bug at. The F-5 was made to be a simplistic and cheap plane to export to US allies/puppets, so unless they modernized the systems it might not even have that. A recent-ish picture from inside an IRIAF F14 cockpit I saw looked like it had original avionics, so it doesn't seem likely.