Fighter Pilot Lingo Explained
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Explaining some commonly used terms, phrases, and platitudes used by fighter pilots on today's episode of Mondays with Mover.
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Just wanted to say a big thank you to this channel! I report to OCS November 3rd this year with the Navy. Once that is done I go to Pensacola for flight school. Anybody who is trying to become a military pilot should definitely watch this channel. I used your advice and tips numerous times. The best advice I received was to MAKE THEM TELL YOU NO! (multiple times)
Hell yea man! Much respect.
wish you luck man hope your goal becomes reality!! Im heading to basic soon as a 19k Army. Have future plans to be a pilot in the Army.
meaty thank you and good luck as well. Just a heads up I believe the army has a WOFT program that can take you from high school to flight school with them. Just another option if you wanted to try it out. I know it is super competitive though
@@kylebrazas5895 Yea I was originally going to do that but ended up not meeting the GT score requirement... Fortunately, I have the opportunity to take a fast track class to bring that up in the future. I'm going to submit a packet once my first enlistment is over.
Good luck Kyle... I wish you all the best for your future endeavours...keep it real and may you always remember, "An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding."
"They misuse the Queen's English a lot"
You're Goddamn right. *Sips tea furiously*
Your name made this comment 100% better hahahaa
GetColonised Gekoloniseerd 😄
“GetColonised”😂😂
@@kapilbusawah7169 de leden van de Staten-Generaal keuren deze opmerking goed
Thank you now I know what my wingman is saying to me in DCS. Awesome videos as always man!
i took out a notebook and pen, hoping to impress someone in DCS :) i'll probably make a fool out of myself mixing up terms while playing anyway
You really dont have to know all of them. If you know the main ones, you are all set. From my experience, if you just tell the other you only know the main ones they will simplify it for you, at least on the servers i play on which have a chill community@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mom: clean the dishes!
Me: unable
Mom: you like having gas in your car??
Me: Copy that. WILCO.
If you are unable, seems it would be impossible to wilco.
@@razorbackblood06 Unless you suddenly find yourself able!
It’s really funny hearing the Air Force and Navy lingo and comparing it to our own lingo in Army Aviation.
We also recently had big change in our brevity terms and now I know where some of them came from
Army aviation, I thought that was turned into the "air force" like 60 yrs. ago?
@@raynic1173 Army has tons of helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, and drones.
@@mr_beezlebub3985 oh yeah, the cavalry gave up their horses for heli-s. Fixed wing? What are they flying?
@@raynic1173 they operate a lot of different kinds for transport of cargo or VIPs. Examples include the C-12 Huron, Cessna UC-35, and C-26 Metroliner, among others. It's a little known fact that the Army has more than just helicopters.
"hey are you with that other F-16 out there?"
"Yea we're holding hands..."
daawwwww
Flying off in to the sunset :)
Must be a navy thing... 😘
@@dampsok Navy don't have F-16s
@@surmatise correct, an air force thing, daawwwww.............lol. Navy might be "we're sharing a stall" go figure that out, lol.
You should cover some of the more basic ones for fighters. Fox 1, Fox 2, Fox 3, Rifle, Magnum, RTB, MadDog/Pitbull, Bug/SuperBug, etc. Love your videos, Mover. Keep it up.
Also crank/extend/notch etc.
I just finished watching the vid and nearly craft
Dead bug
Also jinx
Cypher jink*
The best call I ever heard was a flight lead in a flight of 4 coming to the merge against another 4-ship: "No Visual, No Tally, No Clue. Blow Through!"
I went non-current 26 years ago after 23 years of daily use. Nice to see little has changed. These terms become so part of you that you some times inadvertently use them in current situations (totally mystifying those listening).
I spent a career as a C1 30 flight engineer one of the terms we used a lot was” ‘wing-off light’Which meant exceeding aircraft performance envelope
I too was a FE in the Lockheed trimotor (10 years) but I never that term. With I would have cause I wound have incorporated that in to my vocab. 😊 thanks !
One of the maintainers sayings that I liked - Pilot writes up something in the forms, specialists spend hours troubleshooting and finds nothing. Maintenance Chief asks, “How did you sign it off?” “Could not duplicate, Short between the headsets”. Another great video Mover. (Bill from Slidell).
Or the classic IFF in the OFF position
It's the code ID-10-T
We had a version of this when I was in motorsports too, one variation or another of "problem exists between steering wheel and seat"
@@max_archer it is called a "gasket problem" over here. Like, the gasket needs replacing. One between the wheel and the seat.
We called it a joystick actuator failure
"sensitive new age pilots" lol
Callsign, "Snowflake".
Wanking: 100 sailors set sail and 50 couples come out!😂
"It ain't ghey when you're underway."
Why does the Navy have Marines aboard ships? Because sheep would be too obvious.
Nothing wrong with being gay
That's how the Village People were created. Hence the song- "In the Navy" and the "WMCA".
Q Anon thanks for giving me what i need to report you :)
Great video that brought back memories when flying in fighters with the USAF a hundred years ago. Surprised that lingo still is used. One of my all time favorites and still use it quite often 'WAG, for wild ass guess. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it.
SWAG- scientific wild ass guess.
Lmao! @ “That’s ok though, they misuse the Queen’s English a lot.”
Edit: We need a video two on this with whatever else was left out.
10:02 another one
Boola Boola
I am really impressed how pilots/controllers can understand each other with so fast-speaking one-word exchanges over the radio... I would probably have to ask you to repeat half a dozen time. I understand the need to be terse though, nothing worse than having people blabbing over and over.
I always thought that. You learn what to listen for as you get more experience and disregard all the other stuff. Sometimes it difficult though.
It’s called using Standard Phraseology. They aren’t just speaking free-form. When you use the same words and same phrases, it’s easier to understand with marginal radio frequencies.
Theres a reason there is a brevity list. These are mostly official joint terms.
Imagine a bunch of fighter pilots picking up girls in a bar being like "tally target visual friendlies"
Mover, completely professional presentations, highly informative, loose but lucid, and more than a bit entertaining, bloody good job!. One question though. In my 21 years in the R.A.A.F. I found the answer why so few non-fighter service personnel were not able to score a ride (a 'jolly) in a two seat fast mover, and it all boils down to the the 'Four P's'. If a person was not Pilot, Press, Politician or Pussy, your chances were close to zero...just sayin'.
*Wife:* _stop binge watching Mover vids and pay attention to me_
*Me:* _unable_
I last flew in late 81 in the F-4 and it is good to know that I can still understand the lingo. BTW, I know a guy whose call sign was Nordo.
We also had a NORDO. haha
@@CWLemoine However, the guy I knew as a young Lt worked out pretty good as he was Commander of PACAF and retired as a four star.
The F-4, dang, just saw a documentary on that beast. I also made a model of it as a kid, always have loved it. If you were to remember one or a couple several things that stick out like a sore thumb about that aircraft (good or bad) , what are they? Interested to know from someone who actually flew it
F-4...proof that a brick can fly if it has enough thrust...Digger
@@eagle6212 That is a standard derogatory remark, but the old Rhino could actually turn and was a joy to fly. One just ha to understand how to fly it. It was actually far more nimble than a Thud.
example of low SA and No SA
I said to Hollywood : Where did the go?
And Hollywood said "Where did whooooo gooooooooo?"
What up bro? It's Mouth from the Air Guard!! Long time brother!! Great video. I knew it was someone from New Orleans when you said 'the Saints won'... I'm still there bro. Give me a shout when you can!!!
One of the best calls I've ever heard was from the lead of a 4-ship approaching the merge with another 4-ship. The call was "No visual, no tally, no clue, blow through!"
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach:
Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!
Lt. Commander Block:
Uh, Sphincter Mucus Layer Ringworm, roger!
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach:
I need clearance to land on runway thirty... thirty... something!
Air Controller:
Thirtysomething's been cancelled.
Benson:
"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down every one of them. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."
Admiral Benson:
My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians.
LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
LA Control Tower: L.A. departure frequency: 1-2-3 point 9'er.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
Basta: Request vector, over.
Oveur: What?
LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, clear for vector 2-3-4.
Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
Thanks for your service, Mover! I'm an ex-wingnut (B-52 AMMO) and my previous next-door neighbor is an Eagle wizzo who flew with the Navy Growlers. It was interesting (to say the least) to hear him describe the differences between how the AF and Navy operate. Be good, brotha!
Another pilot euphemism I like is, "Temporarily uncertain of position" = Lost.
We used “geographically misplaced” in the Army instead of lost. :-)
What I first thought of reading the titel: Nigel, we've got some of Jerry's cabbage crates up at three roger, tally ho.
Just for fun, I think I'll try to start talking like this regularly with my student pilot friends.
But seriously, this was a great video. It would be awesome if you did a part two and beyond on this topic. I know many of us, your audience, would love to watch that.
Even with your detailed explanations I'm still cluedo.
“In the Navy it’s the other way around so... they’re backwards” hahaha @ how you said that
Oh god as soon as i heard "code 1" starting having memories of the spam of code 3s on fridays
Especially when its actually been broken since Tuesday but nobody told you so they can keep flying.
In the helicopter community of the Army, of which I was part, instead of "Pull Chocks" we'd say, "Pull Pitch".
Rotorheads are pros at pitch and yaw. Too bad they're easy meat for ADA.
stack - line - spacing .... hey mover, you need to "tighten up" the DCS bros and teach them what "formation" means
what they call formation is really just (dangerously?) close loose trail
(plus it looks ridiculous)
True story.
My favorite was always -- "Make a play for the deck"
Super interesting, thanks! So if you heard me over the radio saying, “Tally, 1500, low aspect, I’m Jester, turning hot” that’d make sense? Asking for the time I’ll never actually say that in real life 😅
The DCS event was a lot of fun to watch and I really enjoyed the running commentary. Well done!
Gracias!
This is unique, hard to find and generally not easily searchable on the net. Am glad you choose to cover it.
I foresee bewildered faces during my conversations in the coming weeks.
Do you plan on a follow up or Part 2 video on this topic?
Disclosure - A similar endeavor of mine to include Scuba Diving Lingo in everyday conversations ended up as a DUD.
Thanks! I'm now less clueless.... I do believe this was the first topic I messaged you....
Moaning in the Royal Navy is referred to as ‘dripping’ as in the annoyance of listening to a dripping tap.
Let me tighten you up a bit regarding Up/Down. 1st off, I am old, .(The mighty F4J/S) so this may not apply anymore...also, I was in the Marine Corps, so the crayons may have NON-RFI'd my memory. We used two ups or two downs or a combination of both: Aircraft is up and up (GTG) Aircraft is up/down (Good airframe/engine, bad avionics/electrical) Aircraft is down/up (Bad airframe/engine, good avionics/electrical) Aircraft is hard down(inclusive) Keep up the good work and please stay safe. Regards.
My dad is a retired F-15E pilot (but he's flown Phantoms and Talons in his career). I feel bad because he would have these talks with me when I was 7, and I now have the context after watching this. Hope he will forgive me. :)
In an old book from the 1980s there was a list of expressions that naval aviators used, and one of the few I can remember was "Sierra Hotel" for Shit Hot... Does anyone still say that?
Yup. It can also mean Shit Happens. Situationally dependent.
Love the term "Helmet Fire"
"Helmet fire.... So to speak"
I was an F-15 weapons troop back in the mid 80s and 90s and I wanted to add some lingo for you from a maintenance side. Sorry that I came late to the discussion. Most pilots are awesome, but we had ways of talking about things, no disrespect
"Short between the headset" The jet might not be the problem
"No sir, the radar will not function well in OFF mode" noob
R² is shorthand for remove and replace in the aircraft maintenance record so:
"R² Stick actuator"
"R² flight suit insert"
"redball" the pilot has an immediate problem that must be resolved if it is to fly
A few times the pilot would show up and say "it will never fly Orville" to which we would answer "have faith Wilbur"
also code 4 is chemical or nuclear contamination
code 5 is battle damage
"weekend screw" when you are guard or reserve and it is that weekend where it is particularly trying, like an exercise.
"sergeant skillcraft" A lazy person who was caught falsifying records rather than doing the inspection.
"pencilwhip" same as sergeant skillcraft
For some reason in the USAF half of the places you need to go to end in farm, barn or rack.
"back when Christ was a corporal" I am older and wiser than you
Loads of “TLAs 😂 “Three Letter Anachronism”
Fox Four.
Out of ammo - Ram 'em.
JT CROWNS Ramming Speed!
"Howdy, boys! I'm Baaaaaaaack!"
@10:00 the Navy are arse about face with alot of things. That's why seamen love beards
C. W. Lemoine has Bravo Delta Energy, gents.
Mover, using this as a concise explanation for my friends who always call me out on the mil pilot vernacular.
all the stuff on your wall is exactly what my dads house looks like haha he flew f-16s all while i was growing up until i entered high school. i love your vids man, keep it up!
Priceless. I probably would've been a solid fighter pilot if I'd been groomed to be one but I ended up being a professional limo driver.. which is badass in and of itself, at least to me, but I can relate to the focus, self discipline and calm demeanor of fighter pilots. Anyways.. I'm definitely adopting this lingo and will watch this video until I memorize most or all of it. I appreciate the insight into the FP lifestyle.
One of my most favorite calls in a SES, "Miller time Miller time"
When you did the maverick breakdown, you said the following and I’d love to know what it means.
To Joker bingo, lead your own fire, I’ll take the fat one.
Things a wingman should say.
Excellent ! That was about a 3 way split for me. 1/3 new, 1/3 confirmed/clarified and 1/3 Yup understood that already. I'm a former NORAD Weapons Controller and it's interesting to compare with the terms used in the old SAGE environment. We had a sometimes useful automated ystem of guiding our primary interceptors (F-106) to targets using datalink and my 2 favorite terms were
"Follow Dolly" (Telling the pilot we are sending them a target to attack via datalink - follow that guidance.
"Judy" The pilot would call that when he didn't need any more voice guidance for the target (Shut up and let me get this kill) That also meant we were no longer responsible for getting them in behind the target (Almost every intercept was stern conversion where we drove them to the point where they had about a 30 to 45 degree angle off the nose of the target and we were to guide them to turn and roll out behind the target at about a 1/2 to 1 mile range. Of course that was in the benign intercept with no evasion permitted. Naturally that became more difficult to achieve when the target turned into your pilot.
The one unique situation we often had was that we were often controlling planes over the great lakes region and in fall and early spring they hated going "feet wet" then. After the lakes totally iced over not as serious and of course in the short summer not a big issue. Many times we were directed to set them up on cap stations over the lakes and they were always unhappy with that. You'd get repeated calls of "Goliath LimaHotel 02 Feet Wet" Their meaning was - GET ME THE "H" over land NOW, stop having me orbit over water. Most times there was nothing we could do because our assigned MOA was mostly over water.
Navy is using the same aspect system for ships. When you want to calculate how far away another ship is passing you or you want to intercept without using radar you use basic triangle math. If you regard yourself as stationary and the other guy shows you a ten degree bow right in a distance of 6000yds you can use sinus 10 x 6000yds and get 3200yds distance of track. Ther it makes more sense to say that a guy going right towards you is showing zero Angle of bow due to the math. At least on subs it’s used a lot when working with a periscope. I don’t really sea a necessity for a navy Air Force difference there though.
Thanks for the videos by the way!
I work on the T-38C. Interesting bird.
Ah, so there is a technical definition to the phrase "hot on my six," which then would mean that the enemy is "hot" having you their forward quarter, and directly behind you.
You got it. "Hot" because all weapons use fire to propel them, so the Hot end is the direction weapons come from.
Would recommend not trying to talk like a fighter pilot until you are one. Otherwise you risk becoming a rule one violator.
Lead, Trail, Saddle[d], Drag .... all cowboy / driver lingo from the eat-dirt-days. Never heard y'all use "Swing" (the side rider), do you?
what does the term "99" mean in brevity?
I read:
"99, buckshot Armstrong"
in Raven One, one of Kevin Miller's Novels
"Everyone" or "all players"
Exclusively a Navy term.
@@CWLemoine Ah great, tx
Have you ever done an in country SEAD mission? I was JFO qual'd and went to JTAC school for army soldiers. I only had to do one and that was during the invasion of Iraq.
Not a pilot myself but have heard “4 Sierra” as an alternate call for “tango uniform.”
is Delta foxtrot still used?
"No impact/No idea" was our old Jarhead grunt equivalent of Cluedo. "Lost in the sauce" works too.
That last one “See You Next Time” is a very important one!! 😲
Another Maintenance term: dummy g pulled meaning over stressed aircraft, AE’s hate hearing it
Richard King : I was an A6-E plane captain in VA-42 from 1973-1975 & had to drop the BIRD CAGE to read the G meter after there flights ! I think the pilots weren’t to pull more than 6 G’s. A6’s weren’t very fast (650 mph) or so.
I imagine complaining to the Brass in the Navy is a little like that other thing that's not appropriate for this channel, in that it serves no functional purpose other than making the participant feel better.
"No joy" was referenced in Top Gun.
Bazzyg I think it’d be great for mover to go over top gun in this way, all the lingo
"Misused the Queen's english a lot" LOL
*_PLEASE CLICK MORE!!!!!!!_*
I'm _fat, dumb & happy_ , _stepping_ and I am _pull chocks_ for a mission.
Our _going in game plan_ is to make a Part II.
Plane is _code-1_ and _suitcased_
Turning to _hot aspect_ for part II.
_Closest aligator to the boat_ is making a part II.
Should we _flex_ to a part *III*?
Hoping it isn't _floor mort_ at this video and also hoping a part II is a _foot stomp_. That _clear as mud_?
Use Your _MK-1 eyeball_ to scout for opportunities to make a Part II.
Got infinite _playtime_ for a part II
Hey, _Joker fuel_ for a part II!
Mate, bloody 'ell, ain't them 'Murican AF blue falcons...wankers? An' Mate, don' them Rooski pilotos say, 10-4, 10-4 when chattin' up Svetlana, the muy caliente Novosibirsk devotchka...instead of, Roger?
Thanks! BTW Sully was asked if he wanted to go to Teterboro (KTEB), not Newark. Just threw that out since TEB is where I got my PPL over two decades ago.😆 Wise choice on his part, NO doubt! Any attempt to stretch a glide from where they lost both engines, to TEB would have likely ended REALLY badly! Nothing but several radio towers with guy wires all over that area, in close proximity to the airfield! Wires that you cannot see well, or at all sometimes.
I love the fighting falcon! Big laugh over here from that joke. Thanks for doing this video Mover!
Great video!! I would love to see a Part 2 with things like Commit vs Engage.
I'm surprised how much of this terminology has made it over to the af and vice versa
Tango Uniform... man...that really cracked me up.... :D
Hey Mover, great channel, brings back a lot of good memories!
In the Army dash one is the dash 10. All TMs end in dash 10. IE HMMWV to is 9-2320-280-10. Why that shit is still in my head 14 years after I did my last pmcs, I dunno.
As per Navy, it doesn't make sense, they're wrong. (Fell out of my chair on that!)
Something not appropriate for this channel 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hollywood example. "In the weeds holding hands
Heart broke put the thing on the thing 10 mikes playtime".
'Clear as Mud' Interesting! I am from the north of England and 'Clear as Mud' is used in everyday parlance. I have never heard this term used in the south of England by anybody.
Darkstar Judy Judy means I’m going in for guns... probably can’t say guns on youtube though
Had to look up some of the Dos Gringos lyrics
Clear as mud CW. I get all them phrases buddy 🇱🇷
I think an interesting video would be how hollywood uses lingo improperly and or throse radom terminology in the mix to try and sound high speed or ligit.
Also a breakdown on what would happen if the HW phraseology were followed real world literal 🤔
Don't use that transition again. As an editor, just dip to black/white if you are going to use basic transition from Adobe...
my fave is "nervous" which means terrified.
I'm not a "new age pilot", but it sounds like all of that emotional input could end up compromising the entire op. Am I right?
I presume he's talking about in debrief ( or at worse a mid-air brief in a safe environment ), not when you have to be decisive.
POV: You finished Titanfall 2 and Viper was your favourite boss
for A/C status in the Navy it's also referred as Up/Partial/Down status and after Opcheck ground turn we say shutdown Alpha (up) or shutdown Victor (down)
I’m 13 and I want to become a fighter pilot when I’m older. Any suggestions on what I should do right now?
Stay away from Drink\Drugs. Don't go getting a criminal record. Make sure you are not afraid of heights.
Make sure you have plan B in something you'd still enjoy doing (not that you won't make it, just make sure you have something else to enjoy"
Make sure you know how to and are capable of working hard and getting good grades in school. Not doing work is an extremely hard habbit to break so dont let it happen, especially at your age. Good luck!
Graduate
@c.w. lemoine What about Speed Angels Left/Right?
Ah, so fast movers use Fragmentary Order as well. In the Army we say "frago" For, well, fragmentary order. A small update/change to the OPORD - Operations Order. Thanks for the clarification Mover. Now get back to writing the next book of the Spectre series! :)
In the UK (I don't know about other parts of the world), the military have a term for a low-hours pilot - (I believe that it's "Tyro").
When flying solo as a student, we are supposed to prefix our callsign on initial contact with "student". If flying into a MATZ, a low hours pilot can use the prefix "Tyro" when qualified. I like that convention. I wish that civilian FIS would adopt it.
I hope one day you can make a video talking about Russian jets in general. What you like/dislike about them. The SU-57, Su-30, SU-27, Mig-29 and what-not. Would be really cool to get a perspective from a US pilot in detail like you usually do. :)
Funny how you try to explain lingo by using other unexplained lingo 😂 the pilot in you is very active.
O'Toole's Corollary to Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.
I wondered about the Hot vs Cold for a while because for me Hot would imply that A: Engines are at high output and B: Engines are facing that potential heat seeker that is seconds away from crawling right up your shite pipe. That's what I would have thought... wrongly as evidenced but still, the logic seemed ok, always nice to learn new things!
i like my planes like i like my women, both with a tight cockpit for my joystick.
Maintenance special for dummy gripes: R&RP Remove and Replace Pilot
Richard King We used to use “removed and replaced stick actuator” (USAF)
Great video as always. On the topic of SNAPs, British comedians Armstrong & Miller do a great series of sketches on what WW2 RAF fighter pilots would have sounded like had they been today's snowflake SNAPs. For example: ruclips.net/video/3JWl1knJvPY/видео.html
(Incidentally, my dad was a definitely non-SNAP fighter pilot from that era, 137 combat missions Nov 43-Nov 44 on Spitfire IXs with 308 (Polish) squadron.)