Just some notes but the pilot wouldn't had to have switched the EPU on (unless for some reason the pilot did not put the switch to normal mode during ramp start). Also the hydrazine is fairly safe (well other than being very flammable and highly toxic), the warning was more that the pilot probably has forgot to turn the EPU off (which can be dangerous to ground crew, as the EPU is designed to be used while in the air, not sitting on the tarmac).
Plus the workload is not quite so bad as some seem to think. The radio and engine controls are all by the throttle, and the pilot had his flight doing most of the radio calls for him. Bitching betty calls you just ignore. There is also an emergency stores jettison button which dumps everything other than wingtip ordinance.
Also the pilot didn't go very nose low, only went below 10 degrees when turning towards the runway, most of the time his nose was closer to the 5 degree mark (the nose of the aircraft is the cross at the top of the hud). His desent was steeper than normal, but that was so he could keep his speed up and not stall. All in all that was a picture perfect flameout landing.
oh ya..
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- The HUD is a very busy instrument, but among things to notice are the 'circle' in the middle which represents the nose of the aircraft and where it is 'pointed': "The velocity Vector".
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That is neither the nose of the aircraft nor the "velocity vector", the cross at the top of the HUD is where the nose is (aka the gun cross). The circle in the center is the aiming reticule for air to air missiles. The little circle with the 3 lines is the flight path marker (where the aircraft is going), the left band is airspeed, right is altitude, top is compass.