Yellow Shirts are NO JOKE. I didn't spend much time on the flight deck compared to others, and anyone who's ever worked the flight deck during flight operations has balls of steel...green, white, red, brown, purple, et all. But, those Yellow Shirts are some bad m'fers and I have mad respect.
@@julieeverett7442Not necessarily. Most of yellow shirts I’ve worked with came straight out of school and got placed into a Division Officer position. They barely could tell you Port side from Star Board side.
My Dad was a yellow shirt on the Forrestal,the Kennedy,the Ticonderoga and the America.I loved "Dependents cruises" because us kids got to go "down into the bubble " ...soo cool!.He loved his job although I bet he hated trying to send off in nasty wet weather. God bless all the flight deck crews and a special salute to all yellow shirts.Much love and respect to each of you!
When My eldest son was on his first deployment, he had mentioned how loud it was as he slept below the flight deck, if I recall. Back then, the flight deck contained the Chinook and the Harrier. Top rack he had luckily After hearing how much room there was. He stated how After a while, he got used to it. I never quite understood the sound until now. Hearing it with headphones and not Bluetooth is incredible. Rough, dangerous work zone, and an extremely loud place to be is quite the place to be. Not sure how many hours a day you work, but every one is so needed. My youngest son ( both of my sons are the only kids I have) was being deployed so many times. Months at a time. He has this way of beating around the bush to figure out if it was a deployment or just being silly! He loves his job that he performs every day, but really loves being deployed. Thank you for loving our country so much to every man and women, that risk your life every day for us. We are thankful for you, and owe our country filled with men and women like you, that want to keep this the Land Of The Free , and The Home Of The Brave. Every single one of you are so greatly needed and so greatly appreciated. Semper fi
A few notes (for the eighties if I remember well), Military or MIL (power setting) was full power without burners, Maximum (MAX) power was full power with afterburner - We always took-off with burners unless authorization from the CO. The burner signal was a "five digit spread" from the cat officer or some used their foot in a kicking motion (or "pedal to the floor" like). The pilot salutes not for "permission to leave the ship" but to signal the shooter that all his instruments (engine) read correctly at MAX power, that his controls feel free (wiping the controls), and that he (and his RIO, BN, NFO ...) is/are ready. The Catapult Officer (CAT or Shooter) checks every catapult personnel/final checkers ("green shirts") for a "thumbs up" by pointing at them, and looks at the pilot again, when satisfied, he crouches, taps the deck them point his fingers towards the bow with a "pistol firing" gesture. This choreography is standardized so that there is no confusion, no forgotten item, no mistake before firing the catapult. If the pilot suddenly notices something wrong, he has to shake his head in a "no fashion" i.e. once he saluted, he has to assumed that he can be shot at any moment. The CAT O will suspend the firing (if he can in time) and the pilot is not supposed to back the power until the CAT O is standing in front of his aircraft (i.e. if the Shooter will go in front of the aircraft, that means that the catapult has been suspended. It is "intense" but that is nothing compared to the intensity of making it back to the carrier (i.e. arrested landing), that is where you earn all your flight pay in one pass! Ciao, L Captain USN (Ret)
Hello sir, i was a builder nmcb 133 outta gulfport.naval aviators rock!!! And if you knew how many marines i had a go with about this you would be as proud of me as i am of you! GO NAVY!
Again, us you tubers rely on experts like yourself to tell us EXACTLY what is really going on in intense situations like this as opposed to trying to guess what this signal means and what action/position/colour that means, putting us fully in the picture 🖼 of whats actually happening... many thanks for your full and detailed explanations of this very serious and exciting action. 👌👌👌
They are as amazing as the pilots as they could literally be blown off this jet way, something commercial pilots never contend with at an airport. These peeps who do this risk their lives everyday.
I was on USS Nimitz..77-81..flight deck director..Fly-1 PO..best job...loved getting all the respect from all pilots..especially when packing the bow with first Tomcat that came up the 4 row
If you haven’t ever worked Flight Deck Ops, the “Yellow” shirts are directing the Aircraft towards the forward part of the ship (the Bow) and stacking on the Starboard side of the ship.
I"M ex-navy air....brings back memories...started as a plane captain, avoided getting hit by props, then part of a sub hunting squadron. Dangerous business......Thanks.....especially for the annotations.....
He does the Final Scan: Bow Safety Observer - Thumbs up Suspend Light - Not illuminated Deckedge Operator - Hands up indicating Final Ready Centerdeck Operator - Thumbs up Wind Gauge - Still within limits Squadron Safety Checker - Thumbs up Pilot - Head steady and ready to go fly He points at each of these while checking them so that everyone else around the cat can easily tell where they are in the launch process.
Brings back fond memories as a plane captain and Ordnance Handler during the Vietnam war. I concur it is a most dangerous place in the world to work almost got killed many many times working on the flight deck.
I'm a Navy Seabee and have a good friend that was a YELLOW shirt on the Ranger for 3 years and he had to have nerves of steel. My hat is off to him because like I tell him he had to be NUTS to run around on that flight deck. He always tells me Don't pay attention for 3 seconds and your ass is toast. Then to listen to him talk about night ops on a pitching deck, oh my Lord.
On CVN-65 USS Enterprise there seems to be an added protocol. After release brakes the shooter then points to several deck personnel to verify that he has checked they are standing in the Final Ready position with both arms overhead and hands open. The first he checks is the Deck Edge Operator, the person who operates the catapult. He would probably also check the safety observer personnel crouched behind each wing.
We will embed a Liaison Officer (LNO) with any unit we're working with, pretty much like the ALO you described. Inside an Air Ops Center, we will stand up a Naval Aviation Liaison Element (NALE) that is a whole team of guys doing coordination, planning, comms, etc.
@skipplet Maybe just a throttle lever hit by the pilot due to high acceleration rate, something like "AB/Mil power" without allowing it to go in AB (just my tought)
Yes! If something is wrong with the cat or the jet they will suspend the launch. The signal is to cross your arms over your head and crouch down to one knee. Once one of the three the suspend buttons are pressed, the jet's launch bar is disengaged from the shuttle, and the jet comes back down to idle, you can troubleshoot what's wrong and go from there. There is a suspended cat shot right at the beginning of this video: th-cam.com/video/j3lDWhhvSKg/w-d-xo.html
My girlfriend Annalisa Mannix was on this ship, purple, doing engine duty. Then she said to me, I love you, but I am quitting the Navy. I am moving back to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
@raptop103 Thank you. When I see video made 10 years or more ago, I always wonder "What are you doing now, what happened next?" Your the first response. I'm happy for Shooter Stu.
The guy in front is "under instruction" and the guy behind him is the fully qualified Shooter. In total, you shoot the cat close to 1,000 times before your qual is complete.
This a little out of my area of expertise, but in my experience, you can never have too much coordination. I've never personally seen an Army guy on a CVN, but I'm sure it's happened at some time. More likely, I would expect the Army guy to have an LNO at the appropriate AOC who would get to hang out with the NALE and get his inputs fed to the ATO. I won't even take a guess at your second question because it would be just that, a guess.
The planes launch at full military power which is full throttle without afterburners. The shooter is telling the pilot to throttle up when he is waving his fingers. They do this in the event of an unexpected accident so the aircraft will have enough power to take flight. They land at full power too just in case they miss the wire or one breaks they can touch and go.
Yes. There are two catapults on the bow and two on the waist (amidships). So two Shooters are working at a time, and have coordinate the timing of their shots to ensure safe separation after launch. (if you watch my video of shooting from the bubble, you can hear this coordination woven into the launch procedures)
Thanks for the captioning. As much as I watch these launch videos the only shooter's signal I was certain about is the very last -- obvious -- for the take-off.
Glad I joined the air force. After a hard days work, I head downtown or liquor store and get a six pack, then relax on my lazy boy recliner and watch my shows on TV. You can't do that on a ship.....hahahah! Got to wait till you hit port and get drunk as a skunk, but you got to get back on the ship and back in your cramped bunk.
I was in a Navy patrol squadron, same deal as you, get off work and have a cold one. When state side we always lived off base. I even spent 5 months in the Azores. Air Force bases have better amenities than the navy bases. When in Rota, Spain we knew the back street bars where the locals would hang out and cheer for their soccer teams with them when the drunk shipboard sailors were port. My son ended up on a carrier as a green shirt on the bow catapults for his enlistment.
He is 1 of 2 people responsible to make sure the cat is set to the correct power (based on aircraft type, weight, and the amount of headwind). The book is the tables of data for all the various types/configurations of aircraft. He and the shooter confirm setting and it is relayed to the main console operator below decks who is looking it up independently. If the two operators are in agreement, then the launch may proceed.
There's about 15 people operating the catapult, both above and below deck. The pilot very much has a say whether they go flying or not... if they have a problem with their aircraft, they can decline the launch, the sequence will be suspended, and they will taxi the aircraft back to parking to fix whatever the problem is. When you see the pilot salute, that is their indication that they are ready to launch, and are requesting permission to leave the ship. The Shooter returns the salute to say "permission granted," and completes the final steps of the launch sequence.
@@raptop103 Thanks so its kinda like riding a bull. Pilot says he is ready and someone pushes the button and he is out of there. I have 2 grandsons on air craft carriers 1 east coast 1 west some time I might have to make a trip let them show or explain it. Put that on my bucket list.
Once the aircraft is positioned on the Catapult, the pilot is pretty much at the mercy of the crew, granted his plane is good to go. The Pilot has no idea what’s going on below decks or topside. That’s why he relies on the Shooter or Safety Observer. Below decks, the CCP Operator controls and observes the Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Steam portion of the launch.
Google NAVAIR 00-80T-113 AIRCRAFT SIGNALS NATOPS MANUAL for a fuller explanation of flight deck ops see NAVAIR 00-80T-120 CVN FLIGHT/HANGAR DECK NATOPS MANUAL The basic signals are: Pilot salutes: Ready when you are. Shooter makes rapid circles above head: Final turnup engines to full military power. Shooter holds hands above head then points in direction of launch: Pilot release brakes Shooter crouches, touches ground, points in direction of launch: Operator fire catapult.
Fine, just to let you know they do this at night too sometimes all night and into the next day. They do it in bad weather and even when they are exhausted, day after day after day, They are exposed to extreme danger every second they are on the flight deck. Make a mistake and you die. Except for the Officers most of them are HS grads in their late teens, early twenties working for essentially a "chump change" salary. No TOP GUN music, no Tom Cruise or the hot babe he gets at the end of the movie for you. Still sound like fun? SEE YOUR NAVY RECRUITER.
He's pointing to the cockpit while verifying that the pilot has his head steady and back against the headrest. It's the last scan item because, if the pilot finds something wrong with the plane, he's got that last chance to suspend the launch.
That's when there is a trainee... the one in front is training, and the instructor is in back. The cat crew know to follow the instructor in case something goes awry.
They are the instructors overseeing the student that isn't fully qualified yet. You get between 500-1000 cat shots "under instruction" before you go solo.
The guy in front is in training, the other guy is the "real" shooter. A qualifying shooter will get about 600 cat shots under instruction before going solo...
I tried posting this before, but it didn't take. My hornet buds suggested it could be a puff of stray steam out of the cat track that caused a little burp through the system. I personally have no idea, but it sounds plausible.
jimbolyo I was an AT w/VA-165 The Boomers, flying Grumman A-6E Intruders. Not the prettiest birds on the boat, but they brought many an aviator back to the ship, despite suffering structural damage which would have put most other aircraft in the drink.
Yellow Shirts are NO JOKE. I didn't spend much time on the flight deck compared to others, and anyone who's ever worked the flight deck during flight operations has balls of steel...green, white, red, brown, purple, et all. But, those Yellow Shirts are some bad m'fers and I have mad respect.
I like this comment.
My dad worked the catapult on the USS Yorktown in Korea. He called himself the rubber band man!!! God bless all service members of the US Military 🇺🇸
you do know the yellow shirts are frequently pilots themselves? scary huh!
@@julieeverett7442Not necessarily. Most of yellow shirts I’ve worked with came straight out of school and got placed into a Division Officer position. They barely could tell you Port side from Star Board side.
My Dad was a yellow shirt on the Forrestal,the Kennedy,the Ticonderoga and the America.I loved "Dependents cruises" because us kids got to go "down into the bubble " ...soo cool!.He loved his job although I bet he hated trying to send off in nasty wet weather. God bless all the flight deck crews and a special salute to all yellow shirts.Much love and respect to each of you!
Flight Deck, a Chaotic Harmony!!! Salute to all crew!!!
Great video. No annoying music. Thanks Bill.
Always been fascinated by the flight deck ops! Now I have videos to watch them in action. I'm super happy and proud!
The hand signals are just about the coolest thing ive ever seen!
When My eldest son was on his first deployment, he had mentioned how loud it was as he slept below the flight deck, if I recall. Back then, the flight deck contained the Chinook and the Harrier. Top rack he had luckily After hearing how much room there was. He stated how After a while, he got used to it. I never quite understood the sound until now. Hearing it with headphones and not Bluetooth is incredible. Rough, dangerous work zone, and an extremely loud place to be is quite the place to be. Not sure how many hours a day you work, but every one is so needed.
My youngest son ( both of my sons are the only kids I have) was being deployed so many times. Months at a time. He has this way of beating around the bush to figure out if it was a deployment or just being silly! He loves his job that he performs every day, but really loves being deployed.
Thank you for loving our country so much to every man and women, that risk your life every day for us. We are thankful for you, and owe our country filled with men and women like you, that want to keep this the Land Of The Free , and The Home Of The Brave. Every single one of you are so greatly needed and so greatly appreciated.
Semper fi
Best wishes Mom and to your Marines as well. Thank you and to your sons for their service. Mom to former Marine, first Gulf War.
They amaze me love to whatch them
Wow! I love these Navy guys...thank you for protecting me. I was a Navy wife years ago.
Love watching these videos, it’s all so well orchestrated!
A few notes (for the eighties if I remember well), Military or MIL (power setting) was full power without burners, Maximum (MAX) power was full power with afterburner - We always took-off with burners unless authorization from the CO. The burner signal was a "five digit spread" from the cat officer or some used their foot in a kicking motion (or "pedal to the floor" like).
The pilot salutes not for "permission to leave the ship" but to signal the shooter that all his instruments (engine) read correctly at MAX power, that his controls feel free (wiping the controls), and that he (and his RIO, BN, NFO ...) is/are ready.
The Catapult Officer (CAT or Shooter) checks every catapult personnel/final checkers ("green shirts") for a "thumbs up" by pointing at them, and looks at the pilot again, when satisfied, he crouches, taps the deck them point his fingers towards the bow with a "pistol firing" gesture. This choreography is standardized so that there is no confusion, no forgotten item, no mistake before firing the catapult.
If the pilot suddenly notices something wrong, he has to shake his head in a "no fashion" i.e. once he saluted, he has to assumed that he can be shot at any moment. The CAT O will suspend the firing (if he can in time) and the pilot is not supposed to back the power until the CAT O is standing in front of his aircraft (i.e. if the Shooter will go in front of the aircraft, that means that the catapult has been suspended.
It is "intense" but that is nothing compared to the intensity of making it back to the carrier (i.e. arrested landing), that is where you earn all your flight pay in one pass! Ciao, L Captain USN (Ret)
Hello sir, i was a builder nmcb 133 outta gulfport.naval aviators rock!!! And if you knew how many marines i had a go with about this you would be as proud of me as i am of you! GO NAVY!
lancelot1953 are you italian?
Again, us you tubers rely on experts like yourself to tell us EXACTLY what is really going on in intense situations like this as opposed to trying to guess what this signal means and what action/position/colour that means, putting us fully in the picture 🖼 of whats actually happening... many thanks for your full and detailed explanations of this very serious and exciting action. 👌👌👌
Absolutely incredible 👏
It will never happen but it's on my bucket list anyway- to be able to watch these guys on a flight deck!
They are as amazing as the pilots as they could literally be blown off this jet way, something commercial pilots never contend with at an airport. These peeps who do this risk their lives everyday.
They're synchronized.....they know what they're doing!!!! Props!!!!
I was on USS Nimitz..77-81..flight deck director..Fly-1 PO..best job...loved getting all the respect from all pilots..especially when packing the bow with first Tomcat that came up the 4 row
Now say that in English
If you haven’t ever worked Flight Deck Ops, the “Yellow” shirts are directing the Aircraft towards the forward part of the ship (the Bow) and stacking on the Starboard side of the ship.
I"M ex-navy air....brings back memories...started as a plane captain, avoided getting hit by props, then part of a sub hunting squadron. Dangerous business......Thanks.....especially for the annotations.....
Great video without a bunch of distracting music. Just raw sights and sounds.
He does the Final Scan:
Bow Safety Observer - Thumbs up
Suspend Light - Not illuminated
Deckedge Operator - Hands up indicating Final Ready
Centerdeck Operator - Thumbs up
Wind Gauge - Still within limits
Squadron Safety Checker - Thumbs up
Pilot - Head steady and ready to go fly
He points at each of these while checking them so that everyone else around the cat can easily tell where they are in the launch process.
Thanks for this
Yes I see that too.
Late to the party but thank you for this
Thank you for explaining. I wondered why the Shooter was pointing in different directions before indicating take off.
This is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen. FLY NAVY!!
Brings back fond memories as a plane captain and Ordnance Handler during the Vietnam war. I concur it is a most dangerous place in the world to work almost got killed many many times working on the flight deck.
I'm a Navy Seabee and have a good friend that was a YELLOW shirt on the Ranger for 3 years and he had to have nerves of steel. My hat is off to him because like I tell him he had to be NUTS to run around on that flight deck. He always tells me Don't pay attention for 3 seconds and your ass is toast. Then to listen to him talk about night ops on a pitching deck, oh my Lord.
This is great insight into a snippet of what goes on. Great video and captions :)
I am so interested in aircraft carriers. In another life I would have been a shooter. Alas, not much action for a 63 year old grandma
Theses guys are awesome.❤️❤️❤️
Loved the annotations - Very informative!!
Now I wanna have a go! :-D
Choreographed like a ballet performance. The is the bomb.
On CVN-65 USS Enterprise there seems to be an added protocol. After release brakes the shooter then points to several deck personnel to verify that he has checked they are standing in the Final Ready position with both arms overhead and hands open. The first he checks is the Deck Edge Operator, the person who operates the catapult. He would probably also check the safety observer personnel crouched behind each wing.
Love the hand signals they are so cool🔝i have fun sometimes doing them at my dad's car exiting the garage🤣LOL
I love to watch these guys with their hand signals.
Pretty cool when the shooter & the pilot salute each other seconds before the launch. .
Gotta love all the topside deck crew.
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So fantastic I like a good sense of hummer great stuff lads so funny ❤❤❤❤
Takes me back to my flight days during the Vietnam War
Could be an AB blowout as well, we have those happen from time to time in the T-38. I'm not sure what that would look like from the back though.
Imádom ezt a "belettet"! Fantasztikusak!
Do the " hand jive " .. absolute beauty .. delivering the pilots to blue horizon.. I am jealous.. anyway thanks to you all😁😁🤘🤘
In my next life ! Im gonna be a shooter. Amazing job.
I'm diggin' shooter Stu. He's an ass-kicking machine is what he is.
I want that job. But at 79 years old it's not likely they'd let me do it. Maybe they'll let me fly the jet. I COULD do that!
The shooters are all officers, O-4s with at least 10 years in the Navy. The rest of the cat crew are enlisted guys, most of them E-3 or E-4.
I've seen plenty of 03 shooters, in fact probably the majority. But you're right, they have been around and are in zone for 04.
凄いカッコイイです
自分もやってみたい、、、
Shooter Stu does a good job ...
We will embed a Liaison Officer (LNO) with any unit we're working with, pretty much like the ALO you described. Inside an Air Ops Center, we will stand up a Naval Aviation Liaison Element (NALE) that is a whole team of guys doing coordination, planning, comms, etc.
Wow. Tight. Marvelous.
compressor stall at 2:47?
@skipplet
Maybe just a throttle lever hit by the pilot due to high acceleration rate, something like "AB/Mil power" without allowing it to go in AB (just my tought)
do we ever see a jet that's NOT prepared to take off? like a leak or something detected on the runway?
Yes! If something is wrong with the cat or the jet they will suspend the launch. The signal is to cross your arms over your head and crouch down to one knee. Once one of the three the suspend buttons are pressed, the jet's launch bar is disengaged from the shuttle, and the jet comes back down to idle, you can troubleshoot what's wrong and go from there. There is a suspended cat shot right at the beginning of this video: th-cam.com/video/j3lDWhhvSKg/w-d-xo.html
My girlfriend Annalisa Mannix was on this ship, purple, doing engine duty. Then she said to me, I love you, but I am quitting the Navy. I am moving back to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
What's your point
2:48 was unburnt jet fuel being burned by the afterburners. That's what it looks like a short flame right behind the exhaust for a second.
From South Africa who are they and what do they do???
Americans. And launching freedom.
This carrier crew will make certain their flying brothers and sisters have a safe deck, which is their sea home.
❤. Happy Christmas 😊
KC-10 crew chief here
Yes hand signals are crucial. This is not a top gun choreograph , these are real signals for flight.
After 16 years, what are you up to these days Shooter Stu?
Stu is retired from the Navy, living in the rural countryside, and teaching college classes.
@raptop103 Thank you. When I see video made 10 years or more ago, I always wonder "What are you doing now, what happened next?" Your the first response. I'm happy for Shooter Stu.
just another day aboard ship , whats the special in the speed line ?
0:43. Why are there 2 guys doing all the signals?
The guy in front is "under instruction" and the guy behind him is the fully qualified Shooter. In total, you shoot the cat close to 1,000 times before your qual is complete.
This a little out of my area of expertise, but in my experience, you can never have too much coordination. I've never personally seen an Army guy on a CVN, but I'm sure it's happened at some time. More likely, I would expect the Army guy to have an LNO at the appropriate AOC who would get to hang out with the NALE and get his inputs fed to the ATO.
I won't even take a guess at your second question because it would be just that, a guess.
Theodore Roosevelt deployed in 93 with a Marine SPMAGTAF and elements of the 10th Mountain Div.
There were a bunch of Army guys deployed on the Hornet in April 1942
what does ''signals for military power mean''? the thin where he is waving his fingers in the air
telling the pilot to go full throttle
The planes launch at full military power which is full throttle without afterburners. The shooter is telling the pilot to throttle up when he is waving his fingers. They do this in the event of an unexpected accident so the aircraft will have enough power to take flight. They land at full power too just in case they miss the wire or one breaks they can touch and go.
Coolest job on the deck.....
If both catapults are being used does one "Shooter" run both lanes?
Yes. There are two catapults on the bow and two on the waist (amidships). So two Shooters are working at a time, and have coordinate the timing of their shots to ensure safe separation after launch. (if you watch my video of shooting from the bubble, you can hear this coordination woven into the launch procedures)
I love it, greetings from Germany 🤙
thanks, great video! These guys are more badass than the pilots =)
Thanks Bill!
military power = full throttle
combat power = full throttle + afterburner
Thanks for the captioning. As much as I watch these launch videos the only shooter's signal I was certain about is the very last -- obvious -- for the take-off.
thats awesome thats what my dad did in the navy
Glad I joined the air force. After a hard days work, I head downtown or liquor store and get a six pack, then relax on my lazy boy recliner and watch my shows on TV. You can't do that on a ship.....hahahah! Got to wait till you hit port and get drunk as a skunk, but you got to get back on the ship and back in your cramped bunk.
I was in a Navy patrol squadron, same deal as you, get off work and have a cold one. When state side we always lived off base. I even spent 5 months in the Azores. Air Force bases have better amenities than the navy bases. When in Rota, Spain we knew the back street bars where the locals would hang out and cheer for their soccer teams with them when the drunk shipboard sailors were port.
My son ended up on a carrier as a green shirt on the bow catapults for his enlistment.
at 2;34 the guy in a green shirt. He is in a hatch and later he has paper blowing around that he is working on. What does he do?
He is 1 of 2 people responsible to make sure the cat is set to the correct power (based on aircraft type, weight, and the amount of headwind). The book is the tables of data for all the various types/configurations of aircraft. He and the shooter confirm setting and it is relayed to the main console operator below decks who is looking it up independently. If the two operators are in agreement, then the launch may proceed.
3:39 can someone tell me the name of this plane? thanks!
EA-6B Prowler
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_EA-6B_Prowler
EA6B Prowler
💘 those moments and ✋ signal
Some of those A6’s have been flying for an awful long time!
Estupendo video
Who controls the catapult ? Does the pilot have a say in it or just hang on?
There's about 15 people operating the catapult, both above and below deck. The pilot very much has a say whether they go flying or not... if they have a problem with their aircraft, they can decline the launch, the sequence will be suspended, and they will taxi the aircraft back to parking to fix whatever the problem is. When you see the pilot salute, that is their indication that they are ready to launch, and are requesting permission to leave the ship. The Shooter returns the salute to say "permission granted," and completes the final steps of the launch sequence.
@@raptop103 Thanks so its kinda like riding a bull. Pilot says he is ready and someone pushes the button and he is out of there. I have 2 grandsons on air craft carriers 1 east coast 1 west some time I might have to make a trip let them show or explain it. Put that on my bucket list.
Once the aircraft is positioned on the Catapult, the pilot is pretty much at the mercy of the crew, granted his plane is good to go. The Pilot has no idea what’s going on below decks or topside. That’s why he relies on the Shooter or Safety Observer. Below decks, the CCP Operator controls and observes the Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Steam portion of the launch.
My Ray did the shooters job toward the end of his Navy pitch
Hitch
Google NAVAIR 00-80T-113 AIRCRAFT SIGNALS NATOPS MANUAL
for a fuller explanation of flight deck ops see
NAVAIR 00-80T-120 CVN FLIGHT/HANGAR DECK NATOPS MANUAL
The basic signals are:
Pilot salutes: Ready when you are.
Shooter makes rapid circles above head: Final turnup engines to full military power.
Shooter holds hands above head then points in direction of launch: Pilot release brakes
Shooter crouches, touches ground, points in direction of launch: Operator fire catapult.
Sooooo Coooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanna do this. Looks like fun.
Fine, just to let you know they do this at night too sometimes all night and into the next day. They do it in bad weather and even when they are exhausted, day after day after day, They are exposed to extreme danger every second they are on the flight deck. Make a mistake and you die. Except for the Officers most of them are HS grads in their late teens, early twenties working for essentially a "chump change" salary. No TOP GUN music, no Tom Cruise or the hot babe he gets at the end of the movie for you. Still sound like fun? SEE YOUR NAVY RECRUITER.
+Gary L It's not a job.
It's an ADVENTURE!
The Shooter is an officer position I believe. The LSOs are pilots, non-helo I believe.
Amazing ..
I'd like to know what/who the shooter is pointing at, right before he kneels down and the plane takes off.
He's pointing to the cockpit while verifying that the pilot has his head steady and back against the headrest. It's the last scan item because, if the pilot finds something wrong with the plane, he's got that last chance to suspend the launch.
All the check points for 'GO'....
You cannot separate a fool from his foolishness.
Why are there two shooters doing the identical signals?
The one in front is in training and the one behind him is the instructor.
Bill Ellis makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
My oldest son was a brown shirt on the Roosevelt and then the Enterprise
My uncle served on the Enterprise during WWII!
Under normal circumstances, no. In the old days, they had a security detail of leathernecks, but the ship's crew covers those duties these days.
Marines were mostly there for the nuke weapons. We don't have those any more.
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Why are there two?
That's when there is a trainee... the one in front is training, and the instructor is in back. The cat crew know to follow the instructor in case something goes awry.
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@skipplet i'll ask some hornet buds this week and see what they think
Who are their shadows? Are they supervisors or in training?
They are the instructors overseeing the student that isn't fully qualified yet. You get between 500-1000 cat shots "under instruction" before you go solo.
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That time my little bro still watching cartoons
Oh no, what happened to the annotations? They're gone...
Jup that was what i was looking for! Great Vid. THX!!
How is it decided whether to operate with the ICCS or the Deck Edge controls? Is it a conditions thing, or just keeping the deck edge skills fresh?
We shoot both ways to maintain proficiency... topside is more fun, but the bubble is nice when the weather's bad....
@@raptop103 I was going to say. You have to get stuck with AGO to see shooters topside during bad weather. 😂
Why are 2 shooters standing side by side?
The guy in front is in training, the other guy is the "real" shooter. A qualifying shooter will get about 600 cat shots under instruction before going solo...
Can play about when you're serious as fuck.
I tried posting this before, but it didn't take. My hornet buds suggested it could be a puff of stray steam out of the cat track that caused a little burp through the system. I personally have no idea, but it sounds plausible.
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Anyone remember the old school birds? A-4 F-4, A-7, F-8 ETC...
jimbolyo I was an AT w/VA-165 The Boomers, flying Grumman A-6E Intruders. Not the prettiest birds on the boat, but they brought many an aviator back to the ship, despite suffering structural damage which would have put most other aircraft in the drink.
vf33 in the sixties last of the gun fighters F8's then the F4's
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