What're They Doing? F/A-18 Pilot Breaks Down Carrier Landings
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2018
- A deeper look at two popular RUclips videos featuring day landings on aircraft carriers. If the terms mentioned in this video seem foreign you may want to check out The Fighter Pilot Podcast episodes 13-15 (not 15 and 16 as incorrectly stated in the video) available here on RUclips and on our website: fighterpilotpodcast.com.
Best air show I ever saw was way back in my navy days. Our Canadian destroyer was sailing guard ship on a US aircraft carrier. All day and night it was constant launch and recovery and it was absolutely amazing to see.
What destroyer were you on?
I've seen both of these great videos before but listening to the commentary you've added is so cool. Such a great additional perspective on these videos!
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These are great videos. The thorough explanation truly gives you a sense of what the pilot is going through.
That's the idea!
@Belching Beaver especially considering that the video is not in my language and the translated subtitles are incomprehensible
@@wingstrongwingstrong what is your language? I'll translate. RUclipss autocaptions are shit.
@@OvelNick Thank you, this is no longer relevant
Seen these videos several times, but had no idea what I was missing. Love the commentary, very insightful, keep it up.
In the second video the thumb movement at 9:03 was for uncaging the HUD and not ATC i think, watch the HUD repeater on the left DDI going from caged to uncaged.
Ah yes, good catch. My mistake.
Thanks all for the ride along. Enjoyed your observations.
Dang ...great commentary ...I subscribed. I'm an older VFR private pilot & you fighter pilots are my hero's. I never fail to be "wowed" by these video's.
Superb explanation of action in the cockpit! Worked 23 1/2 years in Air Force Air Traffic Control facilities and many times early in my career had more than 15 to 20 fighters in the pattern at the same time conducting low approaches, touch and goes, and flop and stops!
Absolutely love these breakdown videos! Keep ‘em coming! 🤙
Really enjoying the behind the scenes uploads.
Great as always 👍
One of the best carrier landing videos I have ever watched. Please do more of these informative vids. Well done!
Thanks, James. There are a few more on our channel but, yes, I need to do some new ones.
Watched this again after a while. This is a perfect example of great narrative and no music. Love it.
What an awesome summary with a voice so calm and easy to follow. Very well done. Instructive and entertaining.
Love the narration. Thanks for adding the narration to the videos. The little items you point out and what might be running through the pilots mind and deck personnel is just great. Keep them coming thanks
Keep’em coming, really enjoy these narration videos.
This is a great video. So I was in the Navy as an Interior Communications Electrician In V-2. I controlled and operated the ILARTS and IFLOS(Meatball). I enjoyed hearing this from the pilots perspective. thank you
I love watching videos like this, it’s nice seeing the DDIs, HSIs, HUDs and other gear I fixed while in the Navy in use.
Now that i have the opportunity to ask some who knows about the tech on hornets :D i gotta ask, i just started playing DCS wolrd like 3 days ago. Im only now getting familiar with MK83 2000lbs bombs. And earlier i was playing, i couldnt drop the bombs in CCIP mode because the line and cross indicator on the HUD was fixated on a point on the ground. It wouldnt even drop the bombs when i pressed weapons release button. Now, i suspect it was an INS problem and i have a few questions if you dont mind.
1. When starting up the aircraft why does it take 8 mins to ket the INS do its thing in ground mode, and why cant you put it into NAV mode immideatly?
2. I did a carrier launch on that particular flight earlier and i could not get rid of WING UNLK message on the left DDI, even in flight long after unfolding the wings.
That WING UNLK message blocked the part of the HSI where the countdown is to see if Ground Ok 0.5 to put INS into NAV mode, so i just guessed it was ready and put it into NAV. If i did that too early, could that have messed with my bombings in CCIP mode?
Sry if these questions are really dumb, as said, im only on day 3 of learning to fly the Aircraft in DCS😂😂
Id love to hear from someone who knows his way around the tech in real life about what i did wrong, cheers
@@carloS-jy1fl 1. System needs to align. Takes a while.
2. Push the button back in after unfolding.
@@crimsonsnow2469 thanks mate!
@@carloS-jy1fl Hope you enjoy your journey with the hornet.
Fantastic video. Really glad l found the Fighter Pilots Podcast. You're a natural at content delivery Vincent. Love what you guys do.
Si, Christchurch, New Zealand
Really interesting commentary, thanks for putting this together!
great job at walking us through what you carrier pilots go through...thanks
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Hawk eye props always terrified me. That huuuuuummmmmmm coming from somewhere behind you while you handled maintenance on your aircraft, followed by “props on the move”. You tend to get a lot skinnier, a lot shorter, and a lot closer to your aircraft until you turn and located the sound’s location.
You know how a dog shakes its body when it comes out of water? I still got that shake with the first hummer after we set sail; even after 26 years. Sometimes more than once during CQ.
Absolutely,I was a director on the flight deck and that hum was always terrifying, especially when the pitch of the hum changed.
Read your comment and was interested to know what the Hawkeye sounded like so googled it. Sounds like 1000 pissed off bees! How the hell could you hear anything on deck?
@@Axl_Pose you didn’t. everything was hand signals and some people had headsets in their cranials.
When it was at night, and the pilots were at idle, the pitch of the props was neutral. So there was no prop wash to tell you which hummer was spinning. You never went through the prop arc, EVEN in broad daylight when it wasn't spinning. That habit helps you NOT WALK THRU IT ANYTIME, EVER!
Very informative commentary! Txs ,Vincent.Loving the podcast! Keep the knowledge coming...i'm soaking it up like a sponge... :-)
Great explanation! Very enjoyable content. You have earned a new subscriber from a long time Air Force family.
great upload, seen these clips before and wondered what they were doing
Excellent review. Thanks.
This is an awesome video to help explain carrier landings, thanks for this!
This is GREAT... so nice of you to let us understand such details... Really appreciate it.. !!!!
Surely. 👍
Wow! Break BEFORE the stern. I'm impressed. I've seen a break AT the LSO platform and it was a scramble for him to get to a good start at the 90.
Excellent video and commentry. Thank you.
Very informative. Thanks for the explanations about the deck crew colours, I have often wondered.
Glad to help, Barry.
Thank you! Very nice explained!
Great video Vincent, it's always good to have a pilot break it down to 🇺🇸
Awesome job! VF-11 AO, FID '91. Loved every minute of it!
I spent 2 years on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman and I hadn't seen a lot of 1 wires. A TON of 2s and 3s and a few 4s but I still find it amazing that the men and women who fly these huge and complex machines even land on pitching decks. Never got old to me. I am sure the pilots felt differently though lol
Awesome!! Learned a lot about Carrier Landings!! Thank you
Very cool. Thanks for the detailed insight. Keep em coming!
Nice job explaining the technical aspects. Amazing stuff.
Thanks, Bill. Professional young women & men are doing this very thing somewhere around the world at this moment.
Great review Jello! These videos reviews are awesome.
Thanks!
I love these videos. Keep them coming! :)
Very nice. Thank you, sir. From another country, thank you for your services.
Fabulous video and explanation! Thank you.
Awesome commentary!
Cheers Jello.
Watched these a bunch of times but you gave it more with the explanations.
Ps love your podcast 👏
Easy to follow, well explained.. Cheers mate, gripped and ripped.
Great video. Love the insight. Spent some time on the flight deck of my 1st ship, CV-62 out of Yokosuka. I was a mouse house, flight deck radio tech. and used to watch flight ops from Vulture’s Row for hours. Good times.
Great vid! Really appreciate the insight and explanation!
Loved to ear your comments. Thanks.
Great commentary on the landings. I'm a former red shirt from the USS Kitty Hawk, your explanation of what all the different colors on the flight deck personnel was probably very informative to everyone who was not ever on a carrier. I have seen hundreds of carrier landings in person but it was great seeing it from the pilots perspective. Something you may not know is that we flight deck guys used to also grade the landings, unofficially of course, but just for our own amusement. BTW, when the redshirt gave the pilot the hands up signal, another red shirt was putting the safety pins back in the armament to electrically and mechanically prevent any ordinance from accidentally being fired on the deck.
Also note, he's parked aimed square off the ship so any weapons malfunction will not hit the ship or anything on deck. (we learned that lesson the hard way.)
@@jfbeam I assume you are referring to the Forrestal disaster? And yes, that did change a lot of the way we did things on deck.
Phenomenal video!! So interesting. It all happens so fast.
Loving these videos
Sweet. Seen these videos many times. A lot you don’t notice if you haven’t done it. Thanks
Great video sir as always
Excellent video. Keep them coming,
awesome description… thanks for the insight👌
Learn something new every day! I always thought the burble was created by the island blocking the wind.
Wow! Great video and explanation of what you guys do. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇸🚒
Well done sir
Awesome insight! Thank you
I was 17 years old in 1974. My first ship.was the USS ORISKANY CV-34. Best time of my life. I worked I. Fly1 on flight deck
Cold warrior. Respect.
I served alongside VF-2 on the USS Constellation in 1999 and 2001 when they were still flying Tomcats. Great video!
Thanks, Daniel!
Very interesting commentary. Thanks.
Great to hear your comments on the pilots actions as they happen. Subscribed and thumbs up. Want to see more :)
Thanks very much!
That was very to cool to hear all the details of a landing. What a rodeo!
Thank you so much this was so helpful
Great explanation ! Thank you
You're welcome, David.
great video Jello, like the narrative
Very informative. Thanks.
Fascinating. Thank you!
First viewing of FPP - great job (Subscribed) looking forward to watching many more. Thanks
Glad to have you! In 2023 our episodes will pivot to including video so you're joining us at a good time.
cool and very informative video!! thanks for the effort
Interesting chat - many thanks
thanks for information
First time I've seen this sight. Awesome !
Awesome! I was stationed on the USS Ranger CV-61 from 1989-Dec. 1992. I was in V-1 Div. Fly 3. I am a yellow shirt. Very fun job...it would be awesome to talk to you about all the different jobs on the flight deck and the interactions I had with pilots before take off, on the CAT, and after recovery. Also, what it is like to put an F-14 on the CAT and put it in tension, and the constant ducking, rolling, and keeping your balance during rough weather and a pitching deck. It looks like to me that the yellow shirt no longer puts the "bird" in tension anymore, then passes it off to the shooter? One guy does it all? Is that correct? Not sure if I am seeing that correctly when it comes to the new carriers and flight ops videos I have been watching. By the way the Airwings were VF-1, VF-2, VA-145? and not sure of the other airwing. Anyway, cool video and I am having major flashbacks now...THANKS!
Great video! Great job by pilots!!
absolutely incredible
I loved this video. Great job!!
really great explanation of all those tiny specials, very apreciated, thanks.
Thanks Jello... Amazing we get to share this and learn of the intricacies involved
Superb! Many thanks.
Great stuff!
Thanks good stuff Mr. Aiello
Brilliant insight
Very interesting video, thanks!
Well done Sir, banging video🙂👍
Outstanding! Two comments, if you don't mind. The de-arm area pointing over the starboard side is absolute. Yellow shirts sometimes have to fight with the SAR bird in starboard delta to remain clear. Forward firing ordnance, especially in the case of AIM-9s, doesn't care if that bird is a friendly. The deck crew and flight deck control call the 6 pack, the area of the flight deck close to the foul line and between el1 and el2 where aircraft are parked with tails facing port. We don't have a 6 pack during recovery. The area up by the Belknap pole (nav pole, crunch pole) is the point. The deck edge between el1 and el2 is the corral. Aircraft parked to the right of cat1 (more forward of the point) are on the 1 row. Thanks for your excellent video breakdown.
That's fascinating to hear about. Glad I somehow found this vid/channel. Cool stuff.
Incredibly interesting watching your videos
Thanks!
Excellent explanation.
Thanks, Richard.
Awesome video! I remembered more than I thought lol. I used to spend hours on the Flag Bridge of the Saratoga (CV-60) watching flight ops (I worked in N2 for CCDG-8). Got busted by the Admiral himself sitting in the Admiral's chair on the bridge (Staffs didn't use the flag bridge in the late 80's). He got a kick out of how high I jumped out of the seat lol. That Admiral's name was Mike Boorda. Yeah... that Admiral Boorda. Thanks for the breakdown - enjoyed it! 🤠
Awesome video... Commissioned the Abe CVN 72 back in 89. V1 division / Fly 2 PO / Roof Rat!! ☺
Keep’em coming, really enjoy these narration videos :-)
Thanks, Soren. Haven't done one in awhile--need to get back to it...
Great video- love your channel & videos. Amazing content & you do a wonderful job explaining everything. In the second clip, I think “poop” of the pukin dogs is probably gonna park (given his state of 5.9). I’m pretty sure looking at the IFEI, it’s probably not CQ’s, though you’d certainly know better. I wondered why the flight deck was so barren, aside from the one F/A-18E on the bow parked & the ‘obligatory’ F/A-18 parked by the LSO‘s. I’ve asked around as it’s a a older video. Was told maybe had something to do with deteriorating weather & a possible storm ahead.
Wow! ...I trained as a commercial pilot and I've been watching clips like that being totally befuddled by what's going on in them. Feel that I will get a lot more out of these vids in the future. Thank You!
Oh man this video was great!
Outstanding....
Hey that's my buddy! NoPRO is a great dude and even better hornet pilot.
That says a lot. 🤩
Excellent. Interesting facts and knowledge. Our carrier pilots must be the best in the world. How can anybody do that. No room for error. Amazing. Thank you US Navy. Brave and smart guys 'n gals.
These are great. More please :)
Nice video! Thank you!
My goodness, Naval Aviators are super stars in my book. 1, 2 , 4 or 3 wire just glad it went well.