TOMCATS! Flying the F-14 in DCS for the FIRST Time (Part 1 of 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- (Part 1) I tried out the F-14 TOMCAT in DCS for the first time with VTB_Ray as my RIO. Special thanks to Heatblur for letting me try out their awesome module. Part 2: • Part 2! Flying the DC...
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Sorry for the jittery/shaky cam. I didn't realize it until after the fact (and no one mentioned it in the stream) but I guess OBS was hanging up slightly and having issues rendering. A thousand apologies. Will do better next time (although sadly not in part TWO because it's the same session). Had a blast flying the TOMCAT.
Don't worry mate i mean it's better than nothing am i right?
For sure. And I decided to use it and not delete it because it was my very first reaction and I didn't want it to be fake/forced. I really did enjoy flying it and checking it out for the first time. Plus, Ray is hilarious!
@@CWLemoine yeah i don't really like TH-camrs that just 'Fake' There vids
You were just excited to see Penny😉
Ray sounds WAY to relaxed to be your RIO! You need someone who sounds like Chris Farley, trying to light his hair on fire😁😁👍
33 minutes of Top Gun references and Tomcat tomfoolery.
I love it.
TOMCATS!
"Sir, I'm already task saturated . . ." Pretty much me every time I boot up DCS.
Ain't that the truth! I love it though. I can spend 10-15 minutes trying to remember all of the startup checklist items and that will sometimes be as satisfying as actually flying. When I get it right of course. Lol
"steep learning curve" really doesnt do it justice !! I think im now learning, purely through ptsd 😂
Shift R sir. Keep at it, you'll end up getting 4 Mig29s in the F16 and FA18 after this video motivated me to learn it.
Rio: "This aircraft requires smooth inputs and finesse."
Mover: *Over-Gs at 600 kts* "TOMCATS!"
SWATKATS
Oh yeah. Easy to rip the wings off a Tomcat.
In 1988 I was 13 years old and living just outside San Diego, for a short while, and my neighbor was an instructor at Miramar. I think the instructions name was Mike. Well Mike pulled his Ford Bronco out his garage one day and asked his son if he wanted to go to the base with him. I was so jealous and stunned when his son said no! Then Mike turned to me and asked if I wanted to go with him 😲 I had to ask my parents permission but that didn't take long! I had one of the most memorable days of my life!
I remember us driving down a road inside the base and there was a manhole in the road with wisps of steam or something rising out of it! Then we parked and walk towards the jets with the hanger on my left. There was some training jet to my left that was white and red and looked like a pregnant guppy. There were some "training" missiles on some trolleys there too, must have been sidewinders and I was convinced that they weren't training missiles, they were real!!!
We went inside the empty hanger and went upstairs. We went into a room that had pictures of some Russian jets on the walls and a picture of Gorbachev I think. Maybe a Russian flag?
Then we went back downstairs and outside where I walked up some stairs next to an F14 and did my best to look inside! Oh my hat I was in heaven! But the best was yet to come!
Next we walked out onto the runway and stood out in the open. Mike had a radio that he was using to talk to someone, that someone was one of the guys flying one of the several F14's that I could see making a right turn to line up with the runway! I remember the soot out the jets as the pilots adjusted speed but the best was when they did their touch and go only a few meters away from me and hit the afterburners!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The flames out the back of the jets engines were blue with a bit of orange in it and the noise was so loud I thought the atoms in my body were going to fly apart!!!!!!
What an amazing experience!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My family came back to South Africa after 3 months in the USA but I will NEVER forget that trip to the base to watch the F14 Tomcats!
Next bucket list thing is to watch a rocket launch... I'm sad I'm going to miss SpaceX's launch next week but i'm sure it's just the first of many launches.
🇿🇦 SA!
Lucky
Ey a fellow South African
@@user-is2nn8mc9q oh boy, you bet!!
Dammit I'm jelly.
I'm not a pilot. I'm not in the military. Why do I love this channel so much? I can't get to work in the morning until I watch a couple of these videos. Love the random words just before takeoff. LOL
To me it is a genuine first-hand, experience-based knowledge delivered in engaging and easy to understand way.
Tbh I do not really watch Mover flying...usually im doing something else but i listen to his one liners and witty banter.
So wait...the squiggly lines don't matter on the take off procedure?
they were freestyling but most were real calls
I am a sim pilot... do I count as one???
“Your g meter is down on your bottom right”
“Oh yeah you mean the one that says 9 I’m just gonna go ahead and punch that off”
"We're not gonna tell maintenance" I nearly cried
So THATS why the tomcat required so much maintenance per flight hour 🤣
"Are you looking straight up", Rio: "What? No" . i dont know why but it got me lol
“A good Rio keeps his mouth shut”
The VR pilot's movement just matches beautifully with the dialogue. I just burst out laughing everytime
This had me dieing as well 😂😂
“No, no. Nothing to see up there. Nobody in an F-5 painted black flipping us off. But don’t look anyway.”
Yeah I heard that and almost choked to death on my drink.
Great video, a buddy of mine I have known since our early twenties and I who are both retired pilots and in our late 60's fly like this on DCS. Sounds about the same with our conversations, laughing and screwups. Pilots bodies grow old but their mind's are still in their twenties. Fun to watch.
Best part, ejection with no notice...I could only imagine.. (parachuting down) RIO: “that was a fine display of flying sir” lol
I nursed out laughing when he reset the g-meter and said he wouldn’t tell maintenance. This is aviation life!
Rio: I've got a daughter here, I've never met her. And um, I'm going to orphan her today" *in a calm voice* 🤣🤣🤣
Why will she be orphaned, what the hell did you do to her momma?
@@bjlewis5431 not me. That was what the guy said in the video during the tailspin. And it was a reference to the movie Top Gun. Goose died in a crash from a tailspin and he had a daughter.
@@ruinaar2495
It's OK mate, I knew all that, I was jesting.. being facetious..in an attempt at humour.
Oh, and Goose had a son..
It was Cougar that had the baby daughter, that he was so scared of 'orphaning' before he'd ever even seen her..
Which always made me wonder what happened to his wife, in the photo, and hence why I asked that question..
A child is only truly orphaned when both parents are lost, not just one.
So cougar's line in Top Gun, where he gets asked what's on his mind, he says:
"My wife & Daughter, sir..I almost orphaned her today, and I've never even seen her.."
This conclusion is both fallacious, and poor english, if the girl's mother, Cougar's wife, is still alive and caring for her, she's not truly 'orphaned' even if Cougar had been killed that day.
I think it was just a device used by the script writers for the movie to very simply & easily explain Cougar's concerns, and his earlier mental state & fear, without needing lots of extra weighty dialogue & scenes..
And in that regard it worked well,
I can forgive it.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Cheers! 🍻
"Your G-meter is bottom right" - "Oh, that one that says 9?" haha!
I was totally expecting you to yell out Tomcats as you ejected from the aircraft lmao.
Must say I am extremely impressed with the detail of that cockpit. I was a Tomcat mechanic for many years until they were unfortunately decommissioned. Spent many hours in the cockpit performing maintenance turns and that detail is spot on. Great job Major, always a pleasure to watch your videos. TOMCATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That actually sounds pretty awesome. if you can elaborate a little bit, I'd love to hear more. Did you guys had to do OBCs in the cockpit? Or you had some kind of other gear to test the systems with?
Permission to buzz the tower?
Harry Eames || negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
@@LabiuhCrusader No, no Mav, this is not a good idea!
@@pineli6752 Sorry Goose but its time to buzz the Tower!
@@chickentakeover2076 *Tomcat buzzes tower*
"God Damn! Son of a bitch!"
You and Goose get your butts outta that flight gear and up to Viper's office now.
I loved this video. Just the sheer amount of TOP GUN references shows that these guys spent large part of their childhood watching TOP GUN over and over again, just like I did. LOVED it!!
Thanks for a great channel, Lemoine. Nice to see you have a good mix of informative videos (I have learned a lot) and entertaining ones. Keep up the good work!
"you gotta let him go sir" saddest moment in the entire movie
Bro that shit still makes me cry to this day.
I refused to watch that part for a few times but now I've seen alot of video from the wars and some some odd reason I still want to fly a fighter. Even if it's not a tomcat. A Mustang would be surreal.
“How do I flip you off ?” 10/10 for realism 👍🏻👍🏻🤣
"My helmet has more traps than you!"
Yep, that made me giggle like a loon. While at the office, so now my boss is looking at me with the "wtf are you doing?"-look :P
Worth it!
LOL i lost it when after all of their tongue in cheek top gun references they get in a literal flat spin out to sea. This is great.
"Oh, i think we're good...I'm gonna go ahead and run the ditching checklist..."
Oh my gosh that was so funny! You two ought do this team piloting all the time, I've not laughed so hard in weeks! Your GTA video is just priceless!
“Is that an boat over there”
“We can make it”
“I’m going to start the ditching checklist...”
I joined the Navy shortly after TG came out. After doing two Wes Pacs aboard the Carl Vinson and Ranger I got "bored" with seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling Tomcats. The Navy was in a real transitional phase so at any given time we'd have F-14's, the "new" F/A -18, A6, EA6B, A7, S3, Hawkeye, COD, CH46, HH-70's, "Desert Ducks"(CH-53E's) and probably a couple more I missed. Even had an old hangar queen F4 Phantom for the crash/deck crew to practice with(shell only). Even had a C9 do a shit hot one day while out near "Santa Clause"(San Nicolas) island one day. On a carrier, the fwd mess is almost directly under Cat II. So everytime someone was shot you'd hear the shuttle. Out in the fleet, the Tomcat was nicknamed the "Turkey" because when you see them in the groove, you can really see those big control surfaces flapping around...as well as the long straight wing. Last time I saw one was at Oshkosh about 15 years or so ago. Capt Dale "Snort" Snodgrass was doing the airshow demo and a form flight with a P-51 and an F4U Corsair IIRC.
3 minutes in and, ''Can we bomb the motorcycle?'' pops up. Knew this would be fun :)
I lost my officer scholarship as it turns out I was colourblind. Never got to fly, despite it being my dream from childhood. This channel is great and gives me a glimpse of what I would have experienced. Thanks. :)
lmao "should we jettison the air craft?" That was the funnier DCS video by now! TOMCAT!
For flat spin recovery I'm usually using asymmetrical thrust, and rudder :) BTW Tomcat is not an easy lover, she is very powerful, but headstrong. At low speed if you are not handle her with care, she is going to the opposite direction haha
I admire your hard work that allowed to fly without any hands. That’s some dedication and it’s inspiring!
"This Hud is in Spanish!". LoLs "Wait wait, you just fired 2!". "Ya, well, he'll die".
Definitely one of the best modules in the game. Heard some great stories about the Tomcat during a 50th Anniversary Facebook live event, one RIO describing a 65K foot climb using the Rutowski method by the pilot, where they hit mach 2.2.
"What did you learn about the F-14 today?"
*TOMCATS!*
C. W. LeTOMCATS is a great teacher.
That was awesome guys. Great recovery from that flat spin. Love the channel "Mover".
That was some dope content.....Ray is definitely the best guy out there for playin' DCS with...
Great video as always!
A few tips (yeah, I'm that guy, but you know this already).
The F14 is not a high AoA machine. It turns best at 15-17 AoA on the dial next to the ACM panel. This is visually and auditory clued in by the buffeting visual and sound. Light buffet is perfect, heavy is bleeding energy fast. Stick to that AoA limit and you'll run circles around everything you encounter.
I also recommend curves for the F14 pitch and roll axis. Pitch especially... it'll save the over G sometimes.
The F14 made me a better Hornet dog fighter by teaching me stick control and corner speed maintenance. Only downside is I never fly the bug anymore!!!!!!! 🤣
Anytime Baby!
Keeping the bandits in your sights looked like Vader trying to keep the X-Wings on the crosshairs haha
*Pilot pulls 9g* RIO - Sir, I’m after spilling my coffee back here! 😅
Comedy value of it is huge !!! I would suggest to keep this like it is :) Too much fun ...
TOMCATS! LOL
Dude, I think the Tomcat is still the coolest looking jet. I really enjoyed this
Yeah, it's an entirely different kitty than an F-18 or F-16: there are no computers that point the jet where you point the stick at for you. That, together with her mass, huge sweeping wings and those top spoilers, make it an art to keep her in the envelope. But, if you can master her, and learn to take advantage of the bucket loads of thrust you have at your disposal, she's hard to beat in a dog fight. ;-)
There are a lot of f15 pilots that will refuse to admit you are correct ;)
Completely unnecessary flame war begins.......
Now!!
The f14 and f15 wargamed against eachother often during the cold war with one of the 2 pretending to be migs with a whole host of requirements and restrictions. So a straight comparison between the 2 almost certainly can not be used from the results of these war games blah blah blah. Both are absolutely amazing aircraft :).
@@martinsharrett1872 Well, as with most match-ups, the determining factor is, who's at the stick. ;-) The Eagle is definitely also a great platform and absolutely deadly in the right hands. Though, with those huge wings out and great thrust, the F-14 has an awesome ability to stay in the kill zone at lower speeds and also has the power and swept wing config to extend... It's a close match so, like I said, it's down to who's at the stick. :-)
Rio: I just want to get home to my kids
Mover: TOMCATS - FLAT SPIN
Rio: ooooo-Kay
“Wait you fired two!”
Mover: “Well, they’ll die.”😀👍🏼
“Mav do some of that pilot shit”
Nearly puts the tomcat into a flat spin
Mover, you Raymond, Mace, and Gonky need to redo this in the F4E Sir, it's a mighty fun aircraft.
Best 'front seat/other guy' chatter!! Had me grinning from ear to ear😁
8:03 "Are you looking straight up?"
"Huh?...No! no no no" 😂 😂 😂
right?! that was top. Rio was sleeping.
Looked like he was sleeping
That was my favorite part as well.
And then when busted hung the head in shame. Lmao
Code 3 Over G Inspection due. Circle the Down arrow. Great video Mover!
When I first started flying the Tomcat in DCS I was too poor to afford decent controls and had to fly with an Xbone controller. Ripped the wings off and over-G’d so many times.
It’s definitely not a Hornet with the FBW that keeps you from going balls out.
This one is full of LOLs. Loved the tomfoolery in the tomcat. The top gun references are hilarious. 😂
This is great! I could listen to your chatter all day long!
😂I couldn’t stop laughing from the time you released the brakes
Maverick, it's not your flying, it's your attitude. The enemy's dangerous, but right now you're worse. Dangerous and foolish. Thanks for this video - classic.
“Like behind enemy lines when we say a bunch of stuff that doesn’t actually matter”
hahaha! fantastic dialog, that is perfect material for your next book! looking forward for part2
TOMCATS!
Highly entertaining. Thank you!
Haven't have a laugh like that since a long time. Thanks for uploading.
Ha. This was the best one yet! Tomcats! reminds me of family guy when Peter says Roadhouse!
I live on Long Island where the Tomcat was made. Right down the road from me. Calverton. Right in from of the air field they have A Tomcat and a A-6 on display.
ROFL! Tomcats! Most entertaining video yet! The flatspin was just the icing on the cake! =)
VTB_Ray is Comical with the Top Gun script commentary. "That Mig really screwed him up!" Killed me!
RIO better have the flat spin punch-out procedure committed to memory!
"How do I flip you off?"
That was my concern as well
I really love the Tomcat, it's so much fun to fly! First time I flew it I found out the hard way about the wings coming off if you over g it lol
Awesome video. Been waiting for this for a while! Mover! Put out those combat flaps when you’re BFM! 230-360 knots. That buffet smooths out and she turns like a Spitfire. 👍🏻
"..taking runway..errr...a long one.." cracked me up
"a Good RIO keeps his mouth shut..." hahah
I love how you can hear the buffeting. Sounds like an old pickup.
The cockpit of f-14 is as beautiful as it is from outside.
"We're down to 1.1 on the fuel here." "That's not a lot..."
Nice recovery outta that flatspin
*Seconds in to the video* "FLAT SPIN FLAT SPIN" Good to see we all do the same things when we first fly the tomcat
You two are racking up quite the tab at the Fallon O-Club.
(Anyone busted quoting the movie has to buy a round)
COMBAT FLAPS!
All that buffeting and no place to go!
That module is a challenge to get the hang of.
But once you do, she’s incredibly capable in BFM.
Try combat flaps, 260-360kias,
“Quiet, it’s time for pilot stuff”.......😂👍🏼
tomcats probably my favorite airframe in dcs, been waiting on you to get around to it
Mover: “Get’er done!!! Vertical!!”😎
-Proceeds to go full burner and space shuttle status at 600 Kuh-Nots.
Rio: “Sir. You can over G the aircraft”.
Mover: “Tomcats!!” 😎
Rio:”Sir. You might snap the wings.”
Mover: “The night is young. 😎”
Rio: “Sir. Your G meter is down in the bottom right. You see it? It’s the one wi.....”
Mover: “Oh yeah. The one that says 9?”😎
"If we die it's your fault!.... Tomcats!!!" Hilarious....
THATS A MIG-28! NOBODYS BEEN THIS CLOSE BEFORE!
I've flown my TOMCAT a few times and its the best
"Im going to eat my sandwich back here" lol, smart ass RIO...
LUV this :) I've never laughed so much watching a DCS session. I'll be back after I wipe my eyes
One day BABY!!
To the RIO: Great sounds effects. "Uhh..I spilled my coffee.."
I go back and watch this video. Just to imagine tomcat pilots/Rios quoting topgun constantly would be hilarious and I'm sure it happened alot. Lol
Hahahaha the banter is sooo good !! 😂
Great video. You guys need a TV series NOW. I'm thinking Knight Rider in a Tomcat.
That was too funny. I really enjoyed it. Only problem I had was I was laughing so hard at the running commentary I almost choked on the candy bar I was eating.
RIO finds the OCGS (onboard coffee generation system) while looking for the radar controls
God, what a beast to fly in simmmm! CW was grunting thru imaginary g's. Real life must have been a real tomcat to fly
Honest question what caused the flat spin?
In the movie they said it was something about jet wash but is it really possible to wind up in a flat spin and then you recovered, is that real as well or is this just possible in VR?
Picking dogs squadron son the very very nice. They were one of the tomcat squadrons on the Eisonhower on my med Cruz in awe 91 or 92 I believe. Cool to see the symbol in the game.
I don't know if you realized but the gunsight that you were using was the rtgs where the diamond and pipper represent 1k ft and 2k ft. The one you wanted to use needed you to be locked on to him in stt. It supposedly tracks them out to 4k ft.
I'm gonna change my name to Frisbee. Every damn time I play in the tomcat I end up in a flat spin. I need to get my FNG form filled out and submitted. Beautiful aircraft now if only I could fly it lol
Love this module, takes a lot of finesse
Finesse?? BS!
I don't do "finesse"
I do stuff so Jester punches out so I can get the improved Thrust to Weight Ratio! I can get PLM locks all by myself, or launch em in bulldog mode!
"you won't tell maintenance right? a good RIO keeps his mouth shut" haha
I love how they change thier voice to make it like they are taking on g force and all lol
Mover catching RIO Ray staring up out of the canopy @ 8:05 and Ray's reaction to getting busted is absolute gold! Couldn't have planned it better if you tried 🤣👍
C.W.Lemoine do you think you can do a quick explanation in your future videos about what it means getting into another planes jet wash? Yeah I know I can google it but I prefer hearing it from you. Specifically I'm referring to Top gun 1 where Maverick got his plane "stalled" as he was flying behind Iceman and Iceman just did a right turn etc etc. Just a curious audience not a pilot or anything. Cheers and thank you for your service.