What It Takes To Be A Top Gun In The RSAF | On The Red Dot | CNA Insider
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2018
- When a split-second lapse could spell disaster, what does it take to be a top gun piloting F-15s and F-16s? The Republic of Singapore Air Force gives On The Red Dot unprecedented access to its 8-man team training for its 50th anniversary air spectacle.
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This year, as the Republic of Singapore Air Force celebrates its 50th anniversary, On the Red Dot brings you unprecedented access into Southeast Asia’s top air force. We follow a group pilots as they train intensively over three months to prepare for the Golden Jubilee aerobatic display - the biggest aerial show of the year. We also meet the air men and women dedicated to keeping Singapore safe from potential threats. And we find out what it takes to become the nation’s top guns. Top Guns 1 - F-15 pilot Shooter is new to aerobatic flying and is a late addition to the aerial display team. He only has half the practice time of his team-mates to perfect his manoeuvres for the Golden Jubilee performance - and has to earn the trust of his cockpit partner, Splice. Meanwhile on a patrol flight F-15 pilot Flash faces off an unknown intruder in the skies. Is he friend or foe?
Proud to have one of the best Air forces in ASEAN. Keep it up RSAF, enjoyed every moment when i was in PLAB.
THE best
Im always one of those spectators that feel that "WOW They are so cool doing all sorts of formations in the sky" But Ive never really put a serious thought on how much training the pilots have to go through to be able to showcase that kind of complicated formation to the crowd. Great job:)
Don’t forget that It takes good ground logistics crews as well to keep these birds soaring high into the sky. Well done to those from ST Aerospace.
Lies again? Movie Star
Love from our Neighbours Malaysia. Living in NZ.
Salute to these guys keeping Singapore safe
This has to be one of the craziests jobs ever. You're basically strapped to a supersonic rocket and then stay in control somehow ... Just crazy
Aerial shows and performance is as good as it gets. Oh, and doing flyby like 100 times on top of HDB and residential area everyday. 😂
Yes…😅 its like almost every minute there will be a jet or a plane or a helicopter flying above my school like its so frequent we kind of don’t hear it during lesson anymore after getting used to it
Training made perfect, be safe, bro.!
U did really well dis time cna
Uhhhhhhh *rabies* ..?
*ahem*
Halp me
Shaft
It’s misleading to call this squadron “Top Gun”. The US Navy Fighter Weapons School (THE REAL TOPGUN) trains their fighters for air combat and defensive combat maneuvers, also known as Dogfighting. Not air shows. I’m sorry if it disappoints you but that’s the truth.
sorry to break your bubble rsaf trains in multiple bases in USA
@@yip2454 And sorry to break yours but this has nothing to do with what my initial comment is trying to say.
i envy and respect all fighters pilot! handing a few plane solo! WOW!! F-35, Raptor, Stealh! awesome!!
i thought it's F-22 raptor and F-35 lightning?
3:40 Jesus Christ, this is certainly very hard to endure. It's very impressive that he is able to give his utmost pass the simulation.
These are the best we have. Hopefully we can transit to have the entire armed forces fully professional. I also believe in a national militia for volunteer training for times of crisis.
We should consider all ideas that we can propose to better optimise
*Courage Day in Singapore* 🇸🇬
Dream job❤️
Good luck and work towards your dream 👍
You gotta have the need... the need, for speed.. OWWW
0:12 Is the pilot wearing prescription glasses?
Yup the RSAF's eyesight degree like limit is 400 I believe right now
Yeah, its hard to find enough people that don't wear glasses in singapore
Wow this is not easy!
* Danger Zone starts playing *
At 1.51 the pilot is wearing specs?
Watching this 3 years later makes me proud to be part of NCC(air)
SALUTE TO OUR RSAF .
Imagine going through all that intense pilot training just for your callsign to be "rabies" or "shaft"
😂😂😂
SAF training always train until become 2nd nature
one guy really got named Rabies by his squad m8s
If u are selected to join airforce
Its better then ocs
Says who? You want join airforce to do all the sibei shiong and maintenance work? Or go OCS be officer relax in office enjoy aircon?
Very hard to join airforce
You got to be an Officer first ya! At LEAST a Captain!
just how many pilots are there in total to fly the planes?
my name is Amir quite a sizeable. Singapore has almost 200 aircraft and no air force keeps just 1:1 pilots. We also have former pilots who are liable for call-up in emergencies.
There's a bout 3 pilots in a plane they hide in the trunk
@@LWCLAPBAM one who got away and walked in front of me and I saw him singing on TH-cam after that. 😀
Commanders
Then there's a flight risk friend😅
Dude he’s wearing glasses while flying!!!!??? I thought in order to be a pilot you must have exceptional vision, what the heck...
Go do some research
The air force in my country doesn't allow you to be a pilot if you don't have perfect vision.
He's probably a backseater of radar operator.
Degree must not exceed 500, and your vision must still be corrected to 20/20. Many airforces or airliner have the same rule.
Short or long sight is OK, colour blindness is a disqualifer though. Experience is the most important thing.
I am a PR and i am 15 years old.May I know how do i get into the airforce through NS(I am planning to join as a regular in the airforce)
Spoofy Tofuwu If you want to be a Fighter Pilot in the airforce you have to sign up as a regular and sign a 10 YEAR BOND with the RSAF, during your time as an NSF, representatives from the RSAF will come to visit you for a recruitment talk and explain how it all works, they will hand out forms you so you can indicate your interests to sign up. If you indicate your interest to join, a few days/weeks later you will have to take the COMPASS test ( I can't tell you what it is ) to see if you are eligible to join. Then later when you are close to ORD they will call you up and ask if you want to join the airforce ( If you passed the COMPASS test ), you either reply yes or no to them, I don't know what happens next.
Thats not atop of the game, needs more vigorous training
faisal hayat the real training isn’t seen. It’s classified do you think that it will be shown on the net? It’s one of the most lethal airforce in asean and rank amongst the TOP in quality against world big players. Singapore joins in the international war games yearly and have exchanges with UK, USA, Australia etc and have always came out as the winner against them who developed the jets. The war games are much more tougher than what would truly happen in war and dogfights those are scenarios termed to never exist.
i like jets :3
and my country is Singapore and i love singapore TWT
Singapore uses F-15's ? 😀
SHAFT gachiBASS
Gachigasm
So they retire at 45?
Yes and at that point they have earned $5-6 million assuming they start from 19/20 and serve till 45
Most fighter pilot would have stop flying in their late or mid 30s ! They will convert to fly civilian aeroplane as 2nd career....like elite sports man....you can only take so much lasted so long ! In a fighter ...pulling 9 Gs...means supporting 9 times your body weight !
Fighter pilots are born super fit, not many can take G-Force like "duck to water". Just try going for down Mount Faber, without brake 😅
NOPE!! They have to be healthy, the G tolerance CAN be trained..
Typical average people can deal with 2Gs without much of an issue and usually able to deal with short burst of 4-5Gs with little training [or none].
Wonder how he got the call sign rabies....oh my
@@LightBeforeDark1 nobody asked
Top gunner?
Airforce training is so tough if only we can all claim $4million from a taxi driver
😀
is there no female pilots?
Do they only allow Chinese to fly aircraft?
sadly yes.....
@@bombpodu8884 i believe there’s this malay guy who did really well in the syfc is going to fly for the rsaf soon
Second?
We indians are every where
@..
Top gun is American tom cruise. It was never Singapore movie production. boys n girls 🤣🤣😆😆
left no body on tail why against the rules
who comes up with some of these callsigns... Rabies and Shaft.....rather daft I say :D
they either come up with the call-sign themselves or they'll be given a call-sign. but of course, making your own call-sign, you have to pay a certain amount of money. that's what i heard from my uncle and friends who were in the RSAF
Think of SHAFT as an acronym, not a word. -someone who knows
1. Don't be Malay
Completely besides the point
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Boi don’t even play the race card, you guys simply aren’t hardworking or disciplined enough for the job
*Racist dude* 🇸🇬
Hentai Dude I don’t think that lazy hypocritical people should have a place in society
RSAF new style of social media marketing ? Check your 6s guys ,,,, don't get too exposed .
fourth?
Third?
7th
Fifth ?
First？
As Adolf
X
Why rabies doe
philippine airforce not even a airforce
Jerky
Top gun singapore no thank you......
cb these call signs hahaha
Lol gay
Unfortunately...the useful life span of fighter pilots are very short ! Just like an elite sportsman....you only can last so many year !
A CHINESE OF COURSE
there are malay pilots now , for fighters there are only malay f16 pilots but for cargo aircraft and helicopters , that one tak sure ah bro. SG got alot of screening for high risk vocations and alot of requirements that one has to achieve to be able to qualify for high risk vocation like commandos , that's why Commandos not alot of malay
@Genghis Khan warrior the 1st RSAF malay pilot was more than 16 yrs ago. he flew the f16. nice chap.
Y so triggered? Pilots are selected based on pedigree
Chinese percentage is more than Malay so what do you expect. Even so there are Malays as RSAF fighter pilot but definitely no as many as Chinese. Only the best out of the best is selected.
all the pilot need to do today is wait the computer to lock the target and push buttons!....i think i qualify to become the top gun too!
Lol you don't even know how to press microsoft excel still talk so much
Since you’re so confident that’s all it takes, go try lor. Think you’ll only qualify as a keyboard warrior .
maybe you can't even pass the g-force test and pass out halfway lol
No wtf. Try handling the G forces
You cant call top gun unless you have air combat kill
Air combat kill [5 or more] = Ace
Top Gun is an air force school in the US for pilots.
And there is no malays flying the aircraft
No indians too!
@@theboomguy441 there probably are indians cuz we already know that there is a malay f16 pilot a while back. i think not alot of indians and malay mainly cuz we don't pass the background screening or requirements to qualify for high risk vocations in SAF
the 1st RSAF malay pilot was more than 16 yrs ago. he flew the f16. nice chap.
there r also lots of indian pilots. i know of a few LTC n COL indian pilots yrs ago during my time.
@@suasponte5562 the 1st RSAF malay pilot was more than 16 yrs ago. he flew the f16. nice chap.
there r also lots of indian pilots. i know of a few LTC n COL indian pilots yrs ago during my time.
@@theboomguy441 the 1st RSAF malay pilot was more than 16 yrs ago. he flew the f16. nice chap.
there r also lots of indian pilots. i know of a few LTC n COL indian pilots yrs ago during my time.
Notice something amiss not a single malay in there haha so much for equality though
Lt Yusri bin Abu Bakar from the 140 Sqn sits in the cockpit of a F16 figher jet during the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Open House
air force pilot was Lt Mohamad Zakir Hamid in 1992, and he used to fly transport planes.
According to a Ministry of Defence spokesman, he is now a major and a flying instructor at the air force’s Flying Training School in Pearce, Western Australia.
@@user-ul3rm6sv1z OMG thats like more then 20 years ago, Way before 911 kicks in and then everyone got paranoid. Not just in the RSAF though even in some other sensitive vocation you hardly see any malay around.
@@feiikgundogan5209 Yusri was after 911 la.
Scripted scripted scripted.
No shit capt.
Not being an ethnic Malay helps tremendously ...
Why do Malays always pull the race card? No offense but if we Chinese have mendaki, we would not have to bust our asses working part time while going to poly at the same time.
why do chinese always pull the mendaki card? no offense but if we malay have true equality in singapore, there wouldnt be lack of diversity in RSAF, SAF ( armour, combat e, army intel basically every vocation except guards and infantry) finish up your poly, serve NS and look. dont stay ignorant
secondly, what does busting your ass and mendaki have to do with each other. your part time job is obviously due to a cut in your allowance. mendaki provide subsidies for school fees not allowance. unless of course u work part time to pay for your school fees and support yourself indefinitely then i suggest seeking help or getting a scholarship.
There is Malay engineers and pilots. CPT Muhammad Iskandar is one good example. He got a degree at University of Cambridge, now getting masters at University of Oxford. He even studied middle eastern secruity studies, religious study at university of Jerusalem. Goes to show there is ignorant people who can't look beyond race
ada malay pilots lahh , it was revealed a while back that there was a malay f16 pilot
Russian Pilots are better and wild
Most racist force in the world = RSAF...... why ? No malay or muslim ever flown RSAF......
Is it not because of skill?
@@Ethan-bp6wp its very well known that Singapore dunt accept malays in the airforce... but well in the history there are only 2 malays whom i known ever that ever make it into RSAF maybe pure luck not sure...1 M. Zakir in 1992 became a transport pilot another 1 Lt. Yusri in 2001 if not wrong... in the whole history of Singapore only 2 Malays lol
@@muhammadsaiful8451 Not really true. To say that Cln. Zakir and Lt. Yusri got in theough "pure luck" is just plain wrong. Those guys were very determined and smart. Im a malay and i think that one of the reasons mamy of us dont enter the RSAF is because of our underperformance in terms of academics, especiallt mathematics which is extremely important in the skillset of a fighter pilot (It is improving though). Being a fighter pilot isnt easy, one should be academically inclined, fit, have passion and have the proper aptitude of a fighter pilot.
to say that RSAF is racist is abit harsh lah bro , there are malay pilots in RSAF , a while back , a malay f16 fighter pilot was revealed and there even malay pilots in RSAF that are now trainers. Its not exactly racist of SAF , its just that we don't meet their requirements and pass background screening. Especially for High risk vocations like fighter pilots in RSAF or Commandos in Army. there are malays , indians too. these vocations cost govt. alot of money so they sre very cautious and strict with choosing who can join. if u meet their requirements and pass screening ; then congrats u qualify for the high risk vocations.
Lol try google Chinese fighter pilot in Malaysia and click on images!!! its unicorn...if the other side don't allow Chinese to fly their fighter jets same applies here!!!
his surname pee bro