F-16 Cockpit video: Glider pilots fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon!
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2020
- Make sure to turn on subtitles (CC) for extra inflight commentary.
What's it like to fly the F-16 when you only have a normal glider pilots license?
Read the full article about gliding and F-16 also available in english on nordicgliding.com/mit-andet-f...
RAW video. Glider pilot and editor of nordicgliding.com, Jens Trabolt, was invited to fly the Royal Danish Airforce F-16 on a Red Air Exercice (not Red Flag as stated in video) in september 2020.
Jens flew with the F-16-pilot GER, a glider pilot in his free time, and a participant in the Danish Aviation Cadets programme (link below)
nordicgliding.com/vil-du-vaer...
In the second F-16 and acting as Mission Flight Lead is GUY, also another glider pilot.
No airsickness bags was used during the production of this video!
Music credits: Dan Henig | Berlin at Night
As an ex South African Glider pilot - this was good value to watch - love the gliding formation flying
I loved flying the F-16N....it was like sitting in a lawn chair with a beer in each hand!
F16 navy??
Fantastic images ! I might die from jealousy. Greetings from France !
We have a different view of flight !!!
Thanks, my friend !!!
How cool is that ... ??!! really fantastic! Most people would give a lot to have such an adventure once in their lifetime like you had !
BTW: I love your magazine, as you often bring of out-of-the-box articles!!
Thanks Rudi :-)
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Underrated video
Jeg kan også godt den dag! ;-) Fed oplevelse, misundelige tillykke hilsner herfra!
Puuff Spectacular!!! Great!!!
Congratulations!!!
Beautiful country ❤
How friend must I become to your friend to get a complimentary spin on the F16 too? :D
Amazing!!
Thx for share,
This is cool!
so cool Greetings from USA!
Very cool!
that must be so coooool! I´d love to take a ride in that thing
Ok, jeg er mega misundelig! Jeg kunne jo godt have fløjet med på bagsædet af nr. 2 ;)
Fed video. Kommer til at savne F16 i DK.
Maaaan, it ought to be against the LAW to have soo much "FUN" like that!!😃👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👌🏾👍🏾❤💯
OK you win all the gliding videos :O
You must be in the militairy to get this lucky.... What a way to do a cross country flight. ( great waether this day ) Loved it!!
No, I am a standard civilian glider pilot. But being an editor of a magazine certainly helps. It was an amazing experience - way more than I could handle!
awesome
Perfect.
Nice. Godt gået :)
Got 2 rides during my 20 year career as a weapons troop. Best 2 days of my life hands down period!!
Great! Where did you fly and how was it?
@@jenstrabolt with the 310th FS out of Luke AFB in Arizona. Once on a training sortie dropping BDU-33's and the second time we were TDY to Tyndall in FL and this was in a "slick CAT 1 configuration" 9 G's sustained. Never passed out of threw up on either rides. The only bad thing about those days was all i have is memories and HUD tapes. Not go pro's that they have today with amazing video footage.
awesome dude
viper pilots probably refueled 6-9 times in that flight 🤣. awesome video man 🤙🤙🤙
Thanks - we flew the whole mission on a single load of fuel - approx 12 000 punds, I believe.
@@jenstrabolt yeah lol. it’s still an ongoing joke of the airforce is that when a viper takes off he needs to refuel right after because of the small fuel tank. obviously it’s not true but we joke around 🤣😜🤙
Lol that has to awkword flying back seat w/o the hud up top and having to use one of the MFD's for the hud. Don't see formation landings to much any more 🤙
In fact, did you see the landing towards the end of the video? - here we perform a formation landing.
Oh how i would love to have ago in one of those.
Thanks for the nice video! What block are these F-16 Ds? I thought they would have a green monitor between front and rear seat.
Those are F-16A/B Blk 15's.
Yes but with MLU done
Full article on the flight - also available in english (a link in the beginning of the text) nordicgliding.com/mit-andet-fly-er-en-libelle/
Part without music starting around 2:20.
I want to be a fighter pilot!!!
I’m thinking of being one too ✈️ definitely go for it!
Study and test well and make that dream come true.
Unfortunately I am too small...
@@annelaureleeuwerck2584 I’ve seen being too tall causing some issues but never too small...
@@adamrasmussen1839 Maybe not in USA, but in Belgium it is a problem.
that landing.
Beautiful Video!
But tell me please: Why did you have to pixel the radar displays at (time index) about 4 min. ?
Aren't there even f16 manuals available on the internet lmao. Sometimes this redaction shit makes no sense. But it also could have shown some capabilities limitations in radar range or eccm or something else who knwos
The airforce was not too keen to show any radar/weapons-capabilities, so that's the reason I have blurred it.
@@possiblyadickhead6653 Yes, you can find basic declassified F-16 manuals on the internet. Quite entertaining to read about performance and handling, but they contain no information on weapons and radar systems obviously.
@@jenstrabolt okay where you guys locking / tracking another plane and it displayed amraam range estimate?
Doubtful its probably displaying basic radar info but if unblurred you could see the exact distance the radar could see against a specific target.
4:54
warning panel: seat not armed
?!?
really? why?
The french airforce had an incident in 2019, I believe, where a civilian passenger accidentally ejected himself from a Rafaele Fighter jet only 30 seconds after departure. With this in mind I made the arrangement with my front seat pilot that I would fly with my seat unarmed. If the shit hit the fan, he would eject us both (he could override my unarmed seat). In the case he got incapacitated I could arm my seat, fly us out over the sea and eject us both. I was told not to attempt a landing on my own, due to the pretty bad forward visibility.
Just an easy flight. But..... I would love to do that to.
Now I am flying the F16 in "sim modus" with a group of enthusiastic guys. But..... the real flight. 😍😍😍
DCS?
@@vosje7691 At this time Falcon BSM 4.35. But we also play on DCS.
@@dickiedick100 are you in a virtual fighter wing? Let me know if you want to check us out. 440th VFW
@@MrWpns24 I am in the 185th. Still a cadet and halfway the IQT's ( 8 in total). Love to fly, but the weapon platform is the challenge. It's so big and so diverse....and only in English, not in Dutch.🤣 That is sometime frustrating. I have to improve my English.
@@dickiedick100 congrats and stay with it. We have retired fighter pilot's and pilots from all over in our wing. Our offer to check us out will always be there and feel free to ask me weapons questions, after all its what I did for 20 years on F16's
I too have my glider license👀 where do I sign
I'll make a list!
i would do anything to do this...
Lidt misundelig har man vel lov at være....?? :-)
Wait... are those live AMRAAM's LOL.
How about the air conditioning?
AC works well! There is also a fresh air valve between your legs. Some nice cold air in the face makes all the difference when you are on the verge of passing out :-)
I like tourist seen all about in youtube.
when an airforce has no enemies and no object...
Don't know about that, the "Ruskies" are getting quite "assertive" again in the region since a few years. And I'm sure the Danes don't want to leave all the chasing to the Swedes, and the latter ones not to the Norwegians... The Cold War isn't over, someone in the Kremlin put that dish again in the microwave oven... Grim Grom Gromyko has been replaced by Lavrov, Andropov by his former colleague Putin, SMERSH by Wagner... History keeps repeating itself over and over, I guess that's because testosteron levels of politicians didn't decreased over the years
@@Retroscoop They're not leaving it to the Swedes as they can't do much either. None of them can.
Ear cancer music. My favorite
What happens when you need to pee?
Normally the flight time is less than 90 min, so you tend to wait. But the longer missions where the jets are refuelled by air tankers can take much, much longer. I believe the record for a danish F-16 is somewhat north of 10 hours in the cockpit. In that case you need a bag to pee in (inside is some powder that turns to gelly when it comes in contact with liquid.) For women pilots it is a little bit more complicated, but not impossible to relieve yourself during flight.
@@jenstrabolt That is really interesting! Thank you for the update. 😊
@@jenstrabolt 9:30 without peeing in a Discus CS ! it`s possible, but not healthy! Drinking only 0;3 L energiedrink. Got headache at the last hour of flight. But i made it home.
it was a challenge-flight, and only 4 pilots make it home. Was the first competition in Discus for me. By the way, nice video, well done ! I am so jealous !
Music ruined our moment
It is certain that I was born in the wrong country.
No F-16's in your country?
@@jenstrabolt There are more than 200 F-16s in my country. But I, as a civilian, will never be given a chance to fly with none of them for sure.
Is there a digital DRUMKIT in Danish F-16's?! There is an annoying noise all the F time. You make a nice video, then you spray it with very wrong noise. No thank you.
Yes, it was part of the Mid Life Update :-) I could make a non-music version if you are interested?
That’s not really flying. Your in the backseat as a wizo. You are the last resort flare.
The Pilot in the front is a Glider pilot, as well as the accompanying Pilot in the other F-16