Fat Albert Full Flight Demonstration 2022! | C-130J Super Hercules

Howdy all! I had the chance to fly on Fat Albert "Bert" this past summer, and managed to take a video of the whole thing from the flight deck. Enjoy!

[@killercan10]

The combat landing is probably my favorite bit. Sad the JATO takeoff went the way of the dodo but the climbout is still impressive.

[@ShortFinal]

I believe the J model is so much more powerful that it doesn't need JATO anymore. This was my only flight on a J, as I was an H loadmaster before our airframes retired

[@sleeplessingc]

Now thaaaat is skill!!!! owe mie gaahd. that was awesome!!!

[@Vladimirnanodick]

Is this the retired RAF "J"?

[@mikeholmes7828]

This plane is so unusal. Lucky was able to see it and sit in the cockpit while it was in Austin years ago.

[@ShortFinal]

it is indeed! the J model unlike the T model is stock, having had only the unnecessary equipment removed from the back. anchor cables and reels, winch, ladder, seat bags and bomb rack etc.

[@jackryan152]

love how he keeps looking around his fancy HUD. And what does the FE do on J anyway?

[@ShortFinal]

The FE monitors systems, does preflight, serves as the loadmaster, and assists the pilots in emergencies. In the AF J world, there's no FE position. Only in the USMC

[@jackryan152]

@@ShortFinal big difference from the P-3 FE world.

[@ShortFinal]

@@jackryan152 the P-3 FE would be more reminiscent of the C130s I flew on, the H2s. They actually had an AFSC and a long tech school at Little Rock. Few of my friends were going through FE school at the time I went through load school

[@ianwest8987]

The FE fixes S'mores for the crew and talks about the old days when he had a job.

[@matthewmajcher7180]

J's don't have FE's, just Pilot, Co-Pilot and a loadmaster or two

[@cowboystormchaser]

How does one get to do this???

[@ShortFinal]

Have to be in the military and get on as an incentive ride.

[@cowboystormchaser]

@@ShortFinal Well darn, thanks though.

[@gregmarchegiani6656]

Wait what? Still using a Flight Engineer?

[@ShortFinal]

Loadmasters sit up front and in the back on the J model. On the H we only sat in the back with the FEs up front