The CIC does several things depending on the condition of readiness/on-going air-ops - but, as is kinda shown off here - it is where they coordinate the logistics of getting the aircraft up and down the elevators so we are getting the recovered aircraft below and the flight-ready aircraft to the deck in the right order and the right time. Any one that has gotten stuck in traffic on the taxiways at an airport (where you are just sitting in a traffic jam of airplanes trying to get to the runway or the gates) understands how much of a pain that shit is and IT CANNOT HAPPEN on an aircraft carrier. Once you box in one plane you have to go through a whole process to get everything out of the way so you can get that one plane to where it needs to be and it means you can't land or launch or arm anybody while you get it sorted. And all those birds coming back to the boat are low on gas and have no where to divert to... so, to this day, if they screw stuff up in the CIC - the purples on the deck - might get ordered to dump a $300M aircraft overboard so we don't lose 25 minutes trying to clear the deck.
At 14:04, you are looking at a gyrocompass - a (when functioning properly) very accurate way of determining the magnetic heading of the ship. This is very important for the CIC guys to be aware of because, unlike a normal airport where the runways never move - on an aircraft carrier you might land to the North on Monday, to the West on Tuesday, to the east on Thursday and to the South on Saturday. Under normal circumstances - the boat will turn DIRECTLY into the wind and make about 24 knots (the speed is actually determined mostly by whatever speed minimizes the pitching and rolling of the deck. Even on dry land with a runway a mile long - planes always take off and land into the wind. On an aircraft carrier - it is critical that you point the boat DIRECTLY into the wind because, the fact that the ship is moving, means that any crosswind component is amplified DRAMATICALLY and makes a landing either impossible or extremely dangerous. So, when the Officer of the Deck (the person actually driving the boat) is doing a bunch of other stuff - like moving the ship around to avoid enemy attacks, enemy detection, possible submarines, hostile waters, rendenvous with friendly forces, underway replenishment (where you bring a supply ship along side and start transferring food, weapons, ammo, equipment, fuel, etc. and all that stuff - the CIC guys need to know exactly what the boat is doing to know when and where they can start launching/recovering their planes. Plus, let's say during the mission brief you are going on a 4 hour op, taking off from the Midway and returning to the Midway, and, while you are in the air, the boat is supposed to be heading due West at 24 knots - but, after you launch, something happens and now the boat has to make flank speed NE. If you fly the normal plan - you'll end up 250 miles away from anyone wearing a Navy uniform. So that's why the CO get's a giant compass next to his throne.
At 9:30 - you are in the ready room. Once you are suited, and wired, and ready to get in your plane - you wait in the ready room until it's time to go flying. Normally - the monitor in the ready room shows various cameras so you can see what's going on on the flight-deck.
I'm assuming the gov keeps these boats ready to go incase of a new war? I'm sure this is"decommissioned" but it makes sense if war breaks out to have as much armour as possible.
The bunks you are seeing at 21:00 are not for general berthing (where a sailor is assigned to actually sleep) - that's for the anchor-watch crew when the ship is at anchor or in port or in shallow water. The anchors only work if you are in water shallow enough to drop them and have the anchor bite and then lay a bunch of heavy anchor chain on the seabed to hold the boat more or less in place. In deep water - the anchor crews have other assignments (normally cleaning, maintenance, and backing up damage control and gunnery departments (I believe). But any time the ship is at anchor or might need to drop an anchor - there must be a whole 15-man crew stationed on the anchor-deck ready to get the call to action. 24/7. Even if you are at anchor for 60 days for some reason. And, whatever crew is on-duty, they have a few bunks so they can take turns getting a little sleep. In combat-conditions, the anchor-deck also served as a main-evacuation spot for many sailors that GQ'd up toward the bow and you could use those bunks for triaging the wounded if you were in battle. But, yeah, nobody slept down their full-time. Plus- if the ship was making steam - the whole anchor-deck is loud AF and super echoey - so I couldn't imagine trying to sleep there. And people are always cutting through on their way somewhere or using the open spaces to throw a ball around or play hacky-sack or shit.
Which always struck me as strange - because YOU NEVER drop both anchors at one time (at least I can't imagine a scenario in which you would) because of all the things that can go wrong. You can get your chains crossed or have one bite and one drag and end up getting twisted around by the wind and current to a point that you can't raise anchor and are forced to just blow off or reel out the anchor you can't recover.
@@amberjohnson7406 I've never been aboard a Midway-class CV. I've parked some planes on a couple of the Enterprises and the Kitty Hawk and I'm a bit of an expert on the Essex-class - what I know about Midway is just from carry-over.
@@Joseph55220 thank you for clarifying. I'm glad that you are explaining it in detail for others to read as well. I am a visualist and you make it easy to view the shipit in motion as you describe.
I'm finally at the end your video - the starboard steam accumulator is the steam-accumulator on the starboard side of the ship. Lol - just trolling - the steam accumulators are part of the steam-driven catapult system for launching aircraft. It's incredible complex so I'm not going to explain too much - but they tried as hard as they could to keep the steam in a closed-loop systems because it takes a lot of steam to launch an airplane and it's easier to keep as much as you can than to have to boil off new steam every time to launch a jet.
@@Joseph55220 it's obvious that you are a military man. And I sincerely thank you for your service and your description of the ship. Have a wonderful day
And, your comment about all the stairs - there's no getting around climbing a lot of stairs - but, once you get good at the ladders - you can get from the flight-deck to the bilges without your boots ever touching a stair or ladder-rung
Sailors that routinely had to down-ladder often or in a real hurry would normally carry/wear a special pair of gloves specifically for being able to descend the ladders with nothing but your hands and the railings
And, similar to how many restaurants will have a dedicated door for walking back to the kitchen and one for walking out to the dining room from the kitchen - so the servers don't crash into each other when they are bussing their shit and running their food - there are ladders for going up and ladders for going down and you need to learn which ladders go where and which ladders you use going up and which going down.
The CIC does several things depending on the condition of readiness/on-going air-ops - but, as is kinda shown off here - it is where they coordinate the logistics of getting the aircraft up and down the elevators so we are getting the recovered aircraft below and the flight-ready aircraft to the deck in the right order and the right time. Any one that has gotten stuck in traffic on the taxiways at an airport (where you are just sitting in a traffic jam of airplanes trying to get to the runway or the gates) understands how much of a pain that shit is and IT CANNOT HAPPEN on an aircraft carrier. Once you box in one plane you have to go through a whole process to get everything out of the way so you can get that one plane to where it needs to be and it means you can't land or launch or arm anybody while you get it sorted. And all those birds coming back to the boat are low on gas and have no where to divert to... so, to this day, if they screw stuff up in the CIC - the purples on the deck - might get ordered to dump a $300M aircraft overboard so we don't lose 25 minutes trying to clear the deck.
At 14:04, you are looking at a gyrocompass - a (when functioning properly) very accurate way of determining the magnetic heading of the ship. This is very important for the CIC guys to be aware of because, unlike a normal airport where the runways never move - on an aircraft carrier you might land to the North on Monday, to the West on Tuesday, to the east on Thursday and to the South on Saturday. Under normal circumstances - the boat will turn DIRECTLY into the wind and make about 24 knots (the speed is actually determined mostly by whatever speed minimizes the pitching and rolling of the deck. Even on dry land with a runway a mile long - planes always take off and land into the wind. On an aircraft carrier - it is critical that you point the boat DIRECTLY into the wind because, the fact that the ship is moving, means that any crosswind component is amplified DRAMATICALLY and makes a landing either impossible or extremely dangerous. So, when the Officer of the Deck (the person actually driving the boat) is doing a bunch of other stuff - like moving the ship around to avoid enemy attacks, enemy detection, possible submarines, hostile waters, rendenvous with friendly forces, underway replenishment (where you bring a supply ship along side and start transferring food, weapons, ammo, equipment, fuel, etc. and all that stuff - the CIC guys need to know exactly what the boat is doing to know when and where they can start launching/recovering their planes. Plus, let's say during the mission brief you are going on a 4 hour op, taking off from the Midway and returning to the Midway, and, while you are in the air, the boat is supposed to be heading due West at 24 knots - but, after you launch, something happens and now the boat has to make flank speed NE. If you fly the normal plan - you'll end up 250 miles away from anyone wearing a Navy uniform. So that's why the CO get's a giant compass next to his throne.
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At 9:30 - you are in the ready room. Once you are suited, and wired, and ready to get in your plane - you wait in the ready room until it's time to go flying. Normally - the monitor in the ready room shows various cameras so you can see what's going on on the flight-deck.
I'm assuming the gov keeps these boats ready to go incase of a new war? I'm sure this is"decommissioned" but it makes sense if war breaks out to have as much armour as possible.
The bunks you are seeing at 21:00 are not for general berthing (where a sailor is assigned to actually sleep) - that's for the anchor-watch crew when the ship is at anchor or in port or in shallow water. The anchors only work if you are in water shallow enough to drop them and have the anchor bite and then lay a bunch of heavy anchor chain on the seabed to hold the boat more or less in place. In deep water - the anchor crews have other assignments (normally cleaning, maintenance, and backing up damage control and gunnery departments (I believe). But any time the ship is at anchor or might need to drop an anchor - there must be a whole 15-man crew stationed on the anchor-deck ready to get the call to action. 24/7. Even if you are at anchor for 60 days for some reason. And, whatever crew is on-duty, they have a few bunks so they can take turns getting a little sleep. In combat-conditions, the anchor-deck also served as a main-evacuation spot for many sailors that GQ'd up toward the bow and you could use those bunks for triaging the wounded if you were in battle. But, yeah, nobody slept down their full-time. Plus- if the ship was making steam - the whole anchor-deck is loud AF and super echoey - so I couldn't imagine trying to sleep there. And people are always cutting through on their way somewhere or using the open spaces to throw a ball around or play hacky-sack or shit.
Oh, and when I say a 15-man crew is stationed there 24/7, it's actually 30 total. 15 for the port anchor and 15 for the SB - if my memory serves
Which always struck me as strange - because YOU NEVER drop both anchors at one time (at least I can't imagine a scenario in which you would) because of all the things that can go wrong. You can get your chains crossed or have one bite and one drag and end up getting twisted around by the wind and current to a point that you can't raise anchor and are forced to just blow off or reel out the anchor you can't recover.
@@Joseph55220 it is a pleasure to learn about the ship. I've only been to San Diego a few times and I've never been on the Midway ship. It was amazing
@@amberjohnson7406 I've never been aboard a Midway-class CV. I've parked some planes on a couple of the Enterprises and the Kitty Hawk and I'm a bit of an expert on the Essex-class - what I know about Midway is just from carry-over.
@@Joseph55220 thank you for clarifying. I'm glad that you are explaining it in detail for others to read as well. I am a visualist and you make it easy to view the shipit in motion as you describe.
I'm finally at the end your video - the starboard steam accumulator is the steam-accumulator on the starboard side of the ship. Lol - just trolling - the steam accumulators are part of the steam-driven catapult system for launching aircraft. It's incredible complex so I'm not going to explain too much - but they tried as hard as they could to keep the steam in a closed-loop systems because it takes a lot of steam to launch an airplane and it's easier to keep as much as you can than to have to boil off new steam every time to launch a jet.
Oh - some dude off camera knew the answer to that one.
@@Joseph55220 it's obvious that you are a military man. And I sincerely thank you for your service and your description of the ship. Have a wonderful day
@2:50 That is the air squadrons Commanding Officer's stateroom not the Commanding Officer's of the USS Midway's stateroom as he commented.
And, your comment about all the stairs - there's no getting around climbing a lot of stairs - but, once you get good at the ladders - you can get from the flight-deck to the bilges without your boots ever touching a stair or ladder-rung
Sailors that routinely had to down-ladder often or in a real hurry would normally carry/wear a special pair of gloves specifically for being able to descend the ladders with nothing but your hands and the railings
And, similar to how many restaurants will have a dedicated door for walking back to the kitchen and one for walking out to the dining room from the kitchen - so the servers don't crash into each other when they are bussing their shit and running their food - there are ladders for going up and ladders for going down and you need to learn which ladders go where and which ladders you use going up and which going down.
Thank you for your descriptions. Much appreciated. I enjoyed the tour.
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