What're They Doing? F/A-18 Pilot Breaks Down Carrier Landings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2025
- A deeper look at two popular TH-cam videos featuring day landings on aircraft carriers. If the terms mentioned in this video seem foreign you may want to check out The Fighter Pilot Podcast episodes 13-15 (not 15 and 16 as incorrectly stated in the video) available here on TH-cam and on our website: fighterpilotpodcast.com.
Best air show I ever saw was way back in my navy days. Our Canadian destroyer was sailing guard ship on a US aircraft carrier. All day and night it was constant launch and recovery and it was absolutely amazing to see.
What destroyer were you on?
I've seen both of these great videos before but listening to the commentary you've added is so cool. Such a great additional perspective on these videos!
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These are great videos. The thorough explanation truly gives you a sense of what the pilot is going through.
That's the idea!
@Belching Beaver especially considering that the video is not in my language and the translated subtitles are incomprehensible
@@wingstrongwingstrong what is your language? I'll translate. TH-cams autocaptions are shit.
@@OvelNick Thank you, this is no longer relevant
Dang ...great commentary ...I subscribed. I'm an older VFR private pilot & you fighter pilots are my hero's. I never fail to be "wowed" by these video's.
Watched this again after a while. This is a perfect example of great narrative and no music. Love it.
Thanks all for the ride along. Enjoyed your observations.
In the second video the thumb movement at 9:03 was for uncaging the HUD and not ATC i think, watch the HUD repeater on the left DDI going from caged to uncaged.
Ah yes, good catch. My mistake.
Superb explanation of action in the cockpit! Worked 23 1/2 years in Air Force Air Traffic Control facilities and many times early in my career had more than 15 to 20 fighters in the pattern at the same time conducting low approaches, touch and goes, and flop and stops!
One of the best carrier landing videos I have ever watched. Please do more of these informative vids. Well done!
Thanks, James. There are a few more on our channel but, yes, I need to do some new ones.
I love watching videos like this, it’s nice seeing the DDIs, HSIs, HUDs and other gear I fixed while in the Navy in use.
Now that i have the opportunity to ask some who knows about the tech on hornets :D i gotta ask, i just started playing DCS wolrd like 3 days ago. Im only now getting familiar with MK83 2000lbs bombs. And earlier i was playing, i couldnt drop the bombs in CCIP mode because the line and cross indicator on the HUD was fixated on a point on the ground. It wouldnt even drop the bombs when i pressed weapons release button. Now, i suspect it was an INS problem and i have a few questions if you dont mind.
1. When starting up the aircraft why does it take 8 mins to ket the INS do its thing in ground mode, and why cant you put it into NAV mode immideatly?
2. I did a carrier launch on that particular flight earlier and i could not get rid of WING UNLK message on the left DDI, even in flight long after unfolding the wings.
That WING UNLK message blocked the part of the HSI where the countdown is to see if Ground Ok 0.5 to put INS into NAV mode, so i just guessed it was ready and put it into NAV. If i did that too early, could that have messed with my bombings in CCIP mode?
Sry if these questions are really dumb, as said, im only on day 3 of learning to fly the Aircraft in DCS😂😂
Id love to hear from someone who knows his way around the tech in real life about what i did wrong, cheers
@@carloS-jy1fl 1. System needs to align. Takes a while.
2. Push the button back in after unfolding.
@@crimsonpts thanks mate!
@@carloS-jy1fl Hope you enjoy your journey with the hornet.
Seen these videos several times, but had no idea what I was missing. Love the commentary, very insightful, keep it up.
Hey that's my buddy! NoPRO is a great dude and even better hornet pilot.
That says a lot. 🤩
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Hawk eye props always terrified me. That huuuuuummmmmmm coming from somewhere behind you while you handled maintenance on your aircraft, followed by “props on the move”. You tend to get a lot skinnier, a lot shorter, and a lot closer to your aircraft until you turn and located the sound’s location.
You know how a dog shakes its body when it comes out of water? I still got that shake with the first hummer after we set sail; even after 26 years. Sometimes more than once during CQ.
Absolutely,I was a director on the flight deck and that hum was always terrifying, especially when the pitch of the hum changed.
Read your comment and was interested to know what the Hawkeye sounded like so googled it. Sounds like 1000 pissed off bees! How the hell could you hear anything on deck?
@@Axl_Pose you didn’t. everything was hand signals and some people had headsets in their cranials.
When it was at night, and the pilots were at idle, the pitch of the props was neutral. So there was no prop wash to tell you which hummer was spinning. You never went through the prop arc, EVEN in broad daylight when it wasn't spinning. That habit helps you NOT WALK THRU IT ANYTIME, EVER!
Great commentary on the landings. I'm a former red shirt from the USS Kitty Hawk, your explanation of what all the different colors on the flight deck personnel was probably very informative to everyone who was not ever on a carrier. I have seen hundreds of carrier landings in person but it was great seeing it from the pilots perspective. Something you may not know is that we flight deck guys used to also grade the landings, unofficially of course, but just for our own amusement. BTW, when the redshirt gave the pilot the hands up signal, another red shirt was putting the safety pins back in the armament to electrically and mechanically prevent any ordinance from accidentally being fired on the deck.
Also note, he's parked aimed square off the ship so any weapons malfunction will not hit the ship or anything on deck. (we learned that lesson the hard way.)
@@jfbeam I assume you are referring to the Forrestal disaster? And yes, that did change a lot of the way we did things on deck.
Awesome video! I remembered more than I thought lol. I used to spend hours on the Flag Bridge of the Saratoga (CV-60) watching flight ops (I worked in N2 for CCDG-8). Got busted by the Admiral himself sitting in the Admiral's chair on the bridge (Staffs didn't use the flag bridge in the late 80's). He got a kick out of how high I jumped out of the seat lol. That Admiral's name was Mike Boorda. Yeah... that Admiral Boorda. Thanks for the breakdown - enjoyed it! 🤠
This is a great video. So I was in the Navy as an Interior Communications Electrician In V-2. I controlled and operated the ILARTS and IFLOS(Meatball). I enjoyed hearing this from the pilots perspective. thank you
Outstanding! Two comments, if you don't mind. The de-arm area pointing over the starboard side is absolute. Yellow shirts sometimes have to fight with the SAR bird in starboard delta to remain clear. Forward firing ordnance, especially in the case of AIM-9s, doesn't care if that bird is a friendly. The deck crew and flight deck control call the 6 pack, the area of the flight deck close to the foul line and between el1 and el2 where aircraft are parked with tails facing port. We don't have a 6 pack during recovery. The area up by the Belknap pole (nav pole, crunch pole) is the point. The deck edge between el1 and el2 is the corral. Aircraft parked to the right of cat1 (more forward of the point) are on the 1 row. Thanks for your excellent video breakdown.
Keep’em coming, really enjoy these narration videos.
What an awesome summary with a voice so calm and easy to follow. Very well done. Instructive and entertaining.
I spent 2 years on the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman and I hadn't seen a lot of 1 wires. A TON of 2s and 3s and a few 4s but I still find it amazing that the men and women who fly these huge and complex machines even land on pitching decks. Never got old to me. I am sure the pilots felt differently though lol
Fantastic video. Really glad l found the Fighter Pilots Podcast. You're a natural at content delivery Vincent. Love what you guys do.
Si, Christchurch, New Zealand
Love the narration. Thanks for adding the narration to the videos. The little items you point out and what might be running through the pilots mind and deck personnel is just great. Keep them coming thanks
there's literally nothing more badass than being a fighter pilot. just imagine being able to fly through the sky like that. incredible.
Absolutely 💯
Wow! Break BEFORE the stern. I'm impressed. I've seen a break AT the LSO platform and it was a scramble for him to get to a good start at the 90.
You carrier pilots are all a bit crazy to do your jobs. It’s a super risky maneuver and takes a tremendous amount of focus and balls to do it. I salute you! Thank you for your service.
Let’s go with “and guts to do it” as many pilots are increasingly female. 😉
@@FighterPilotPodcast I am not making a gender distinction. I have respect for all carrier pilots, regardless of their gender. With that said, if you feel like acknowledging your female colleagues by modifying language queues, go right ahead. But I stand by my original statement of having balls to do what you guys and gals do. It’s a compliment either way.
P.S. - I refuse to bow down to the woke mob or social Left wing social police.
@@gfresh353 got it
I served alongside VF-2 on the USS Constellation in 1999 and 2001 when they were still flying Tomcats. Great video!
Thanks, Daniel!
I was 17 years old in 1974. My first ship.was the USS ORISKANY CV-34. Best time of my life. I worked I. Fly1 on flight deck
Cold warrior. Respect.
awesome description… thanks for the insight👌
This is GREAT... so nice of you to let us understand such details... Really appreciate it.. !!!!
Surely. 👍
Learn something new every day! I always thought the burble was created by the island blocking the wind.
That was very to cool to hear all the details of a landing. What a rodeo!
First viewing of FPP - great job (Subscribed) looking forward to watching many more. Thanks
Glad to have you! In 2023 our episodes will pivot to including video so you're joining us at a good time.
Fly 2 director CVA42 also a pilot. Never had so much fun. Flight quarters to dark, could not get enough ! After dark long gone. Want no part of that hell . Well done, Thanks for the show
Awesome commentary!
great upload, seen these clips before and wondered what they were doing
I'd love a video breaking down the gestures they use to talk to eachother in the air, like tapping the helmet then canopy before a break
Really enjoying the behind the scenes uploads.
Great as always 👍
Awesome video... Commissioned the Abe CVN 72 back in 89. V1 division / Fly 2 PO / Roof Rat!! ☺
Great video Vincent, it's always good to have a pilot break it down to 🇺🇸
When we used to catch the 1 wire after barely missing the ROUND DOWN, the landing was often referred as a TAXI 1 WIRE, b/c you had to "TAXI" up to it in order to "CATCH" it.
That's pretty sure to be a 'no grade.'
@@FighterPilotPodcast All depends on how much you scared the LSO. If you answered the power calls promptly and still had the come-down-in-close a No Grade would be appropriate. If you delayed adding power this could be a Cut pass. Having been an LSO I can assure you the controlling LSO's pulse rate spiked too.
Very interesting commentary. Thanks.
Incredibly interesting watching your videos
Thanks!
Wow! ...I trained as a commercial pilot and I've been watching clips like that being totally befuddled by what's going on in them. Feel that I will get a lot more out of these vids in the future. Thank You!
Loved to ear your comments. Thanks.
Very nice. Thank you, sir. From another country, thank you for your services.
Excellent video and commentry. Thank you.
This is an awesome video to help explain carrier landings, thanks for this!
Awesome job! VF-11 AO, FID '91. Loved every minute of it!
a former marine here...never went "on float"....should have at least once. very interesting and informative videos!
Sweet. Seen these videos many times. A lot you don’t notice if you haven’t done it. Thanks
Absolutely love these breakdown videos! Keep ‘em coming! 🤙
Awesome! I was stationed on the USS Ranger CV-61 from 1989-Dec. 1992. I was in V-1 Div. Fly 3. I am a yellow shirt. Very fun job...it would be awesome to talk to you about all the different jobs on the flight deck and the interactions I had with pilots before take off, on the CAT, and after recovery. Also, what it is like to put an F-14 on the CAT and put it in tension, and the constant ducking, rolling, and keeping your balance during rough weather and a pitching deck. It looks like to me that the yellow shirt no longer puts the "bird" in tension anymore, then passes it off to the shooter? One guy does it all? Is that correct? Not sure if I am seeing that correctly when it comes to the new carriers and flight ops videos I have been watching. By the way the Airwings were VF-1, VF-2, VA-145? and not sure of the other airwing. Anyway, cool video and I am having major flashbacks now...THANKS!
Easy to follow, well explained.. Cheers mate, gripped and ripped.
i dig the squadrons nicknames...was wondering if you could do a slide show of them..most likely it would be lengthy..but i bet folks will enjoy it too..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_aircraft_squadrons
2 is known as the Bounty Hunters, but 'Bullet' is their tactical callsign. some of the names are pretty cool, many have a very long history.
Cheers Jello.
Watched these a bunch of times but you gave it more with the explanations.
Ps love your podcast 👏
Just here from ward Carroll’s tail hook conference video, looking forward to more!
Welcome!
Great video sir as always
Very informative. Thanks for the explanations about the deck crew colours, I have often wondered.
Glad to help, Barry.
Just saw you on Carrier on PBS America
Great explanation! Very enjoyable content. You have earned a new subscriber from a long time Air Force family.
Great vid! Really appreciate the insight and explanation!
Great video. Love the insight. Spent some time on the flight deck of my 1st ship, CV-62 out of Yokosuka. I was a mouse house, flight deck radio tech. and used to watch flight ops from Vulture’s Row for hours. Good times.
That's fascinating to hear about. Glad I somehow found this vid/channel. Cool stuff.
great job at walking us through what you carrier pilots go through...thanks
Sorry Jell-o my original post was a mistake, I watched this podcast and apparently a ad video came up afterwards trying to sell me on a Navy SEAL rat move that's indefensible and all the guy kept saying was trust me trust me which generated my response unfortunately it showed up on this video my mistake.
Oh by the way when you say trust me I believe you cuz you've been there you've done that...!
Keep up the good work I love your podcasts...!
Brings back memories........ AT1 Woods, VF 124 Gunfighters, NAS Miramar, F14 Tomcat " Anytime Baby".
Then you'll be happy to know a new show we're working on, the 'F-14 Tomcast' debuts later this month. 😎
Todd, AT2 Laughlin. VF-124 FRAMP instructor ‘83-‘86. Topgun filming, the halcyon days of NAVAIR.
I spent 3 years on the USS Eisenhower attached to VA-12 and there is no other place on this planet like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I miss it everyday!
unfortunately I have seen a few aircraft that were forced to take the barrier. Fortunately one of those aircraft was an A-7 that was in tanker configuration and the drop tanks saved the aircraft from a lot of damage because the landing gear would not come down!
Nice job explaining the technical aspects. Amazing stuff.
Thanks, Bill. Professional young women & men are doing this very thing somewhere around the world at this moment.
Phenomenal video!! So interesting. It all happens so fast.
If I was 18 again ...I'd soo be on an Aircraft Deck. Love what these Guys Do !
Love days. Nights kinda suck. Wish I could do it 9-5 M-F.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing the info!
Well explanation of the operation. Thanks for the service. I know you are one of those
Indeed.
Great review Jello! These videos reviews are awesome.
Thanks!
Really interesting commentary, thanks for putting this together!
Awesome!! Learned a lot about Carrier Landings!! Thank you
I was in the US Navy for 8 years, just as long as our highly trained pilots land successful, we are good.
Great video. I posted the original video on my news feed. It was nice to see it again with a play by play explanation. Hope you don't mind I am going to put this on my news feed as well.
I noticed the airconditioned helmet now in use. We never had that feature when I was a Navy Pilot. When did we get those? Long in the groove, high all the way. Extra credit for tight Burner Break. (OK) Three wire. To the viewers, an OK 3 is the best one can do, except for a very rare OK Underlined pass, usually reserved for exceptional passes with aircraft or crew issues. Nice video BTW.
Must've been after my time too because I never saw (or heard of) AC helmets...
@@FighterPilotPodcast That is actually a video cable for the JHMCS. You'll see the visor is much bigger. There is displays inside the visor, so when you turn your head, you still have info.
That’s the JHMCS helmet
An instructor at the Naval Academy told my son when he was a Midshipman that the two hardest jobs he had in the Navy was making a night landing on an aircraft carrier and trying to find a parking spot in Annapolis.
My goodness, Naval Aviators are super stars in my book. 1, 2 , 4 or 3 wire just glad it went well.
First time I've seen this sight. Awesome !
Great video! Great job by pilots!!
Excellent. Interesting facts and knowledge. Our carrier pilots must be the best in the world. How can anybody do that. No room for error. Amazing. Thank you US Navy. Brave and smart guys 'n gals.
Fabulous video and explanation! Thank you.
It is all about how long it takes you to clear the Deck, others are waiting to land, 3rd Wire OK Pass and instant Right turn to parking Lot! short or long you have to slowly Taxi
Great to hear your comments on the pilots actions as they happen. Subscribed and thumbs up. Want to see more :)
Thanks very much!
really great explanation of all those tiny specials, very apreciated, thanks.
a like from me - this morning I flew my remote control F-A/18C Blue Angel.
It is my most advanced rc plane so far and I'm working hard to master it.
I have a 400 foot paved runway to land on and sometimes need all of it to get her down. It reminds me of landing on a carrier deck - except I don't have a tail hook or brakes.
Nice! My brothers and I flew RC quite often as kids and my oldest still dabbles in it. Sounds like the days of innocence are over now with all the FAA "drone" involvement.
Friend of mine got the contract to repair the F18Hornet drop tanks made buy Boeing, which he welded by hand at first then spent over 250K in a automated welding machine to be up to spec in the end welds, while doing by hand he welded the ends so well it was over spec, meaning that he welded the ends so good that the welding was over done ,so he then proved he could fix 3 and test each drop tank repair in 1 month compared to Boeings 2 tanks a month, in the end he got the contract worth over 12 million dollars a month, well done to john. :)
Very informative commentary! Txs ,Vincent.Loving the podcast! Keep the knowledge coming...i'm soaking it up like a sponge... :-)
Keep’em coming, really enjoy these narration videos :-)
Thanks, Soren. Haven't done one in awhile--need to get back to it...
Great video- love your channel & videos. Amazing content & you do a wonderful job explaining everything. In the second clip, I think “poop” of the pukin dogs is probably gonna park (given his state of 5.9). I’m pretty sure looking at the IFEI, it’s probably not CQ’s, though you’d certainly know better. I wondered why the flight deck was so barren, aside from the one F/A-18E on the bow parked & the ‘obligatory’ F/A-18 parked by the LSO‘s. I’ve asked around as it’s a a older video. Was told maybe had something to do with deteriorating weather & a possible storm ahead.
Thank You to All Who are watching this video or are showcased in this video... Who have been in or still in United States Armed Forces.
I'd like to take just a moment to say, Our family of five thank You all, and appreciate your sacrifice for this great country of ours. I've recently
I have retired after working in our Families own Restaurant, that I started working in at age 9.
I've have been married to my gorgeous Wife for 25+ years We have three Son's together.
We believe it is a great honor to be able to get up every day and worry about things like getting your kids to school on time, making sure things going well at the restaurant. Making sure our bills are paid, You know life. But You Men and Women possibly reading this, each one of you chose a different path. You chose to be a part of something much much bigger than you are.
I don't know of anything that has a larger impact on our world than the sacrifice of being a soldier.
...I seen this the other day and it sums up my meager words a little better than my attempt.
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
WE DON'T KNOW THEM ALL
BUT WE OWE THEM ALL!
Well done Sir, banging video🙂👍
I loved this video. Great job!!
I did enjoy the video. Thank you. Superb comtent🤗
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Understood. Thanks,@@thankfullyredeemedmaderigh7436 !
I love these videos. Keep them coming! :)
Shows you just how detail oriented these guys are. The average person would think as long as you made it aboard without tearing something up it was a great landing. These guys are disappointed if they dint catch the correct wire out of 4. Mind you thats 4, roughly 50 feet apart, and about a thousand exterior variables to account for including weather, movement of ship and your 60 foot long, 45 foot wide, >70k lbs aircraft. Outstanding physical and mental awareness and competency.
Interesting chat - many thanks
cool and very informative video!! thanks for the effort
Sometimes, I wish I could like twice. Awesome!
Hah. The proverbial "two thumbs up!" 🤩