A night aircraft carrier landing in a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet
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- A short recording of the head's up display (HUD) of a U.S. Navy F/A-18E landing aboard an aircraft carrier at night in 15-20 foot seas and grabbing the the target three wire. The correction calls on the radio are from the landing signals officer (LSO) on the boat to help guide me aboard. And yes, it really is this dark. The circle in the middle of the video is the velocity vector which is my primary navigation instrument. The ball call consists of the aircraft side number, type of aircraft "Rhino", the amount of fuel on board in thousands of pounds, and finally "auto" which means I am using auto-throttles which respond to my control inputs with power on or power off.
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The lack of depth perception is terrifying. Mad respect for people who can do this.
Instruments, nerves, and talent
as long as you don't put your velocity vector below the ship and aim higher than you think all you due is flow the E indicator all the way in.
The aircraft carrier is constantly sending data (course & speed) to the FA-18 via radio to the flight computers so they can calculate proper glide sope.
@@samuellema9222 you see that cross in the middle? That is the ILS that is recieved from the ship. This is the glide slope and the BRC.
gay
Yeah, really. One moment nothing. Next moment you're landing!
I remember watching night flight operations on the Midway back in 1960 when I was in the Navy. It was the most spectacular thing I ever saw in my life and I doubt that it was as automated as today. It was peace time but we still lost some pilots. People back home didn’t know that.
i’d be like fuck that i’m going to an airport
I don't care what anyone says... this takes balls... landing on a carrier is though enough when you can see it... Air Force pilots may have the coolest equipment.... but at the end of their mission, they still land on a 5000 foot runway that is lit up like daytime... Navy Pilots have to park their 150MPH (stall speed) rocket with wings on a postage stamp or they get to practice swimming.
Howard Hiers ummm. That's a Navy carrier.🤔
It's super easy. You just have to use the force.
@@habsfan7944 LoL !!!!
Doesn't the Navy and US Air Force share the same equipment?
@@iconsign-lashes-3847 yes.. its Navy.. that was my point.. Air Force pilots relax and land on long runways.. Navy pilots have to put their plane down in a dimly lit area that's barely 10 meters squared..
Haha, the technology they incorporate with the HUD display and data radioed from the aircraft carrier for calculating the angle of attack is amazing. You don't even have to look at speed or altitude just gotta keep the velocity vector within the E bracket.
Kudos to the specialists mechanics & technicians who maintain the accuracy of the ILS guidance systems, without which most of this would not even be possible
Respect those aviators. That's some pucker factor right there.
I can't even imagine how skilled the pilot should be to perform such landing.
I mean, I'd imagine pretty much all carrier based pilots have that skill.
guys that is ACLS automatic carrier landing system the pilots enter the datalink frequency and line up for carrier and then engage atc (automatic throttle control) and ap (autopilot) cpl and the carrier datalink guides the ap to land on the deck so the hook catches the three wire
I think when the LSO called for "a little attitude" In-close it was due to entering the Burble. This would give the auto throttles time to add power and avoid a settle for an early wire. LSOs are awesome!
this is just mindblowingly crazy. this is the visual input the pilot gets from environment. nothing pilot gets from the environment is more than we see from the screen, only the instruments..
Somebody commented earlier that back in the 60s they had a lot less instruments to help them, just blows my mind how people do it now, and even more back then.
Be as cool as fighter pilots who always sound cool on the radio even on a life or death matter
I Was An ABH3 Aboard The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), In Air Dept/V-1 Div From 1980 -1984. And I've Witnessed Both Good & Bad Night Time 🛬 Landings.
You, Sir, have Balls of Steel! I couldn't even see the ship until just seconds before touch down.
Thanks for sharing that.
Incredible control and all the things that have been said before.
Go navy.
Go Army. But your points are valid lol. ❤️🇺🇸
Go Navy. One of the hardest skills known to man. Sick respect.
setting up ACLS auto landing? yea quite many buttons to push
Jason, What an amazing pilot to accomplish that landing. Good luck and God keep you safe. Hugs, Comer family
FB friends, you will have to exercise patience to watch this video. It is a night carrier landing. It will look just totally black, but this is what it looks like...that is why pilots don't like it. You have never seen it dark until at sea on an overcast night. The symbols you see are on the Heads Up (HUD) display. The HUD has a camera so the flight can be viewed after landing. Every landing is televised and the pilot is graded and debriefed after every landing. The pilot, after landing, goes to the Ready Room and cannot leave until the Landing Signal Officer (LSO) comes and debriefs him (or her).
I served in the Navy as a Boatswain's Mate. I would love to serve on the flight deck at night.
Amazing, they always look like they're coming in too high, but I guess that is preferable than too low lol
They really put that landing gear to work.
@@FiveTwoSevenTHR If the AF put their gear to work, their pilots wouldn’t have wings.
@@kmmediafactory I don't get it.
@@FiveTwoSevenTHR I was just saying that if the AF pilots get less leniency, as they have a lot or regulations, compared to naval aviators. But all Navy landings are graded, so if you screw up badly, you could still get in trouble.
@KAMA KAZI yea man, being a military aviator in itself requires a huge amount of mental and physical strength. I met a USSF fighter pilot for the first time at an air show recently, and oh man, they just give off an aura of professionalism and intelligence. I mean, I could barely make any sort of conversation. Huge respect to all military aviators.
It’s a well known fact that landing a plane on a carrier at night is significantly more stressful than flying one in combat.
A lesser known fact is that watching a plane land on a carrier at night is more exhilarating than watching porn. 😁
This is an actual carrier landing shown through the heads up camera. I have more night carrier landings than i do day landings. I think night carrier landings are the most exacting thing that human beings do. There is no chance to hesitate to 'get my mind right'.
"I have more night carrier landings than i do day landings." No, you don't. No one does. Been there, done that from 1973 - 1998.
“3/4 mile call the ball”… Yeah the HUGE balls in this pilots suit…
Very informative, thank you!
Absolutely amazing mind blown God bless the U S.Navy and all our service men and women.
I remember watching an interview where a number of naval pilots called the carrier a "postage stamp" when landing at night. After seeing how small it looks at night with the landing lights, they're 100% correct. It looks like landing your aircraft on a dinky little postage stamp.
Very nice landing!!
Thank you a lot for sharing this
And you thought landing on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun on your NES was tough :)
It is
I think the wife that takes the pilot at home has the tougher carrier deck.
No-one compensated for... A Wing-man... Well observed Sir... 💎
Good lord that looks about as difficult a task as life can throw at you.
This is why Navy pilots are the most badass of all.
It’s the most exacting and impressive flying there is. I had a pin old friend who flew Grumman Tracker off a tiny aircraft carrier called Melbourne, I should have shown him more respect!
it's automatic landing
Yes sir!!! I have the upmost respect for Naval Aviators!! I served on a Fast Attack Submarine for a year, but my Dream was to be a Fighter Pilot... No disrespect to my fellow Bubble heads at all... Lol... But to land on a moving landing strip, under all conditions, I have to give those individuals their proper respect!
It's really the LSOs that are the heroes. Seems like it's a pitching deck approach listening to the LSO. Looks like they're using MOVLAS too. Pilots fly the Ball via manual control by the LSO. The calls are advisory to the pilot. The objective is for the pilot to fly the Ball according to where the LSO needs him to be as he (the LSO) predicts where the deck will be during touch down. Lots of trust in the LSO, especially in Case III, rough sea state recoveries
Sim Flier Some of the calls are what we refer to as “sugar calls.’” Some aren’t advisory; they’re mandatory response required. “POWER!” Being one.
Being more of an Army man, there is way too much for my simple “there’s the enemy, no shootie blue, move out & take that building” brain to unpack in your response lol. Still, I believe it’s been a team of folks that secured that aircraft; don’t necessarily need to understand the how to appreciate the what. 😎👍 And I’ll just go back to my own house of split-second decisions (defining “blue” before t-pull, for one example) lol. 😅😂🤣
Total respect to Naval aviators from an Air Force guy
Very nice.
Good Lord! Is there enough room in the cockpit for your quevos??
Makes one appreciate the risk Admiral Spruance (I think) took when he ordered all the lights turned on for the pilots returning from the Marianas Turkey shoot in 1944. Submarines are a carrier's deadliest threat.
Yeah he was approaching with the plane pointed off center, strong crosswinds. yikes
takes balls of steel to do this shiz.
That fighter pilot got a good touch! Didn’t have to do a pitch and go!
That's fahkin sick!
Your visual acuity in real life is much greater than what a camera can pick up. Still, challenging case III (assuming the reason the video is so dark is because the HUD brightness was turned down rather than someone darkening the video.)
Amazing
Hats off to you
US Navy ...The best trained pilots..... in the world.....
Aussie pilots do it too. Fuck u
@@xbeast666 Australia does not have any aircraft carriers since 1985.
Marine pilots as well.
Navy ok...US mmmm 🤔
USMC MOS 0203 SEMPER FI NAVY PILOTS RESPECT. Ladies and Gentlemen, you have no idea how difficult this task is and how SKILLED of a pilot you must be. You are talking about landing a fighter jet, on a moving target, an Aircraft Carrier. It is hard enough to do this when it is daylight but when it is night time, it becomes exponentially harder. Perhaps outside of Navy Seals, there is no other tougher job to do, when it comes to skills and nerves, RESPECT OOH RAH, bravo zulu NAVY polots. Navy pilots are the best in the world for a reason.
wow takes so much skill, only thing they see is that little string of lights plus trusting their computers and training.
Yea that a whole lot of dark and some tiny rapidly moving lights.
Navy pilots in my eyes are dare devils and very skilled pilots. Go Navy!
Wow!
Great job Eddie, not like flying in the back of the bus is it? I remember how terrifyingly pitch black it was on my few night traps with VS-30 & VQ-6. Much respect for the Fast Movers out there!
Must be hard getting in and out of their flight suits with their giant balls of Steele
It's not just the LSO that helped this pilot, there is a whole team in the Carrier Air Traffic Control Center. Most of the transmissions are them.
It’s an ACLS autoland. Everyone was helping the pilot except the pilot. He just had to sit there with his hands off the controls and let them and the jet land him on the carrier.
Don’t get me wrong, it still takes nerves of steel and trust to let an automated system land you on the carrier. Maybe more so then landing yourself
@@speed150mph we wasn’t doing a Mode 1 approach (fully automatic landing or coupled). The auto he says when we calls the ball is auto throttles. I’m a controller in the Navy, a lot of people don’t know what CATCC is or does, so I like to point us out when I can.
TheRockhoun18 says"Thats right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.
So freaking scary, holy shit. I'd never be able to do that.
Mental focus level: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
Impressive. But why is there so little light on the carrier ?
I get a nervous feeling just watching the video.
Rodger. Maverick has the ball.
Holy shit thats scary
I read in Flight International a British Aiviation magazine once, that these ships do not have stabilisers because that would increase pitching . Is that correct?
that was in good weather....a tough is landing is ..bad weather with a tossing and rolling ship, low fuel in the aircraft, and without a tanker available....
so like land it or bail? thats so crazy!
God damn that looks tough. Props. I want to land my cessna on one. Haha
Damn, just damn.
It's easy to land on the carrier because of the relative speed and headwind.
BALLLS. OF. STEEL!!!!
is rockhound your callsign?
I would have totally crashed that plane
I can't find the source, but I remember reading that the measured heart rate of fighter pilots was higher during night carrier landings than during combat while being shot at.
Reality check for my upcoming tough work day - of clearing my inbox....
F.....k! I'm a private pilot and this sh..t looks crazy to me. Airline pilots (former naval aviators) told me many times that it's not that hard. I don't know about that...
balls of steel
Why does it seem the drck is so short?
1:23 "call the ball"
"Currently both of mine have retracted into my abdomen in sheer terror. Over."
Four One Three on glide path at ¾ of a mile, call the ball
Four One Three Rhino Ball 7.8 Auto
Roger ball
That mean he using auto-throttle, or a full auto approach?
@@grazydine2 there is no full auto approach in any jet to a carrier, it's a mix of radio calls, lights on the carrier, ICLS, and TACAN, but on land there are some jets that have full auto approach similarly to an airliner with RNAV (GPS) or ILS approach. Also I don't believe he is saying he is engaging the auto throttle when he says "auto", I'm not totally sure what he means by it, but I know that you do not use auto throttle of any kind while landing on a carrier because it is constant throttle corrections, full forward, full back, all in the matter of a second, auto throttle is usually never used especially after they turn for final.
@@thesuperiorinferior7844 Auto does mean auto throttle control is on, you can even see that the system is engaged “ATC” by looking at the right side of the HUD, just above the nm indicator. ATC on during a carrier landing is fairly common on the Super Hornet, it is quick enough to maintain the AoA accurately which reduces the pilot workload, it wasn’t so common on the legacy Hornet.
why is it so dark? why cant they just put the lights on
That takes a set of stones.
Top gun maverick
bloody hell!
Almost no visual cues, and several illusions are present about every second of the approach. I hope the pilot had a pair of NVGs handy
How much right of the centerline do you have to aim in order to compensate for the carrier's forward speed?
None. The ship's heading takes into account the wind such that the relative wind is directly (when everything is right!) down the angle deck where you are landing.
theres TWO o's in "Goose," boys=D
Damn!.. what else is there to say Go Marine.. or uh Navy..
He was all over the place
That was amazing, you must have spent some hours practising that in the simulator before doing it for real?
Was this a mode 2, auto, case 1 or case 2 recovery?
Case 3. Always at night. This was a mode 2 approach. You can tell this because the aircraft had ACLS (little circle inside his Velocity vector) but he wasn't "coupled" so it wasn't a Mode 1 or Mode 1A. He called the ball "auto" becuase he had auto throttle control engaged. Essentially the aircraft automatically seeks "on-speed" AOA and the pilot adds power by pulling aft on the stick.
Mark, I sure did!! I remember you, I took you flying once or twice!!!!
No, don't upload it on TH-cam!!
jeff henley It's a small world, isn't it? :)
Not bad.
Holy fuk!
Looked like a lucky 4 wire to me. Been there done that...
Which wire did he catch?
At that moment It doesn't matter, as long as the pilot caught one.👍
Your were a little high based on the meatball, but still a nice trap, which wire you got?
Imagine the 1940s when they landed on deck in pitch black.. those pilots must have been something.. with the lack of today's technology.
Call the ball. Roger ball.
Thats scary.
Why no lights on flight deck? Thats fck dangerous.
Lights on the flight deck would just be a distraction. LSOs will recognize pilots who "deck-spot" and grade them accordingly (lower).
sca?
shuttle aircraft carrier?
I have nothing but respect for the pilot, but I don't know why, it feels like the video is edited and brightness is reduced for some reason.
I've been living on coasts for years, and never in my life I've seen so much darkness. Even on eclipse.
Also the dimness of led around carrier landing strip also looks questionable.
#brassballs
People sleep directly below those centerline lights, typically Airdales'. All the ship's heat and aroma accumulate below. Main spaces, galley, machine shops, heads and weapons handling areas, etc....etc...etc....all that ship's smell and heat coalesce and work their way via passageways and ladder wells to chow-dale berthing.
Anyone berthed above the hanger deck, 03 level, under the flight deck, bakes like spud. In the IO it's humid and stinks to high heaven up there. People actually live under 4" of steel with a tail-hook dragging and bouncing inches above your face. If you're an Engineer you're berthed below the main deck, typically it's 30F cooler and dryer and all you hear are arresting gear and occasionally a cat-shot. You betta know our A/C works better than anyone's. The Galley and mess deck, up the ladder-well and, well, there's the chow line. The chow, underway is not necessarily of any incentive. Anyone that says Navy chow is "the best" never served at the end of a 13,000 mile long logistics supply chain. You're an idiot if you think that flour or rice stowed in the hold in California and 3,4,5,6 months later has not become rancid or infested with weevils is full of shit. JP5 gets into the desalinization plant, giving your joe some extra punch. Ten year old freezers stop freezing. So the meat, stored frozen, has had a chance to thaw then when repaired, refrozen. God bless the cooks, really they try, professional all. They tried to perform miracles, Miracles indeed but they are not magicians. I lost at least 20lbs. know anything about A/C? The water out there, used to condense refrigerant is the same temperature as the air, efficiency is lost. Not bitching, I'd do it again in a heart beat, but know what you're getting into in the Navy. Ladies, I have no idea what the fuck you're thinking when you join up. Why the fuck would you want to be around all those men, and to some measure become one? Again, not complaining. If you join the nav, you'll make sacrifices. Big time.
Well, whatever your reasons for choosing to serve I salute you and thank you for your sacrifice.
Wow, I cannot see one actual fucking thing…
ICSS - I Can't See Shit.
Lets see Russia do this on that wreck they are refitting. That ways amazing.
Not biting on this one, Mr. Troll. Why don't look it up yourself?