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Whats more stressfull? Being the CQ student. Being the IP in back with CQ student in front. Being squadron commander if CQ'ing students Being Commander Air Group (CAG) on this rotation charged with CQ'ing nuggets. Being a maintainer of these T-45's that are being beat up? I am curious do students train with T-45's with stores, like simulated 'blue' stores. Tanks, bombs, rocket pods, AIM-9. All inert , of course. Or are T-45's at sea always clean? At what in student's academic syllabus does weapons employment, tactics, and cyclic operations take place? After T-45 the student has to Fleet Replacement Squadron to qualify on particular type. Correct?

Hit the boat Oct 66…long time ago….still remember how much fun it was…glorious…..still think I could do it….dreaming of course….👨‍✈️

no females qualified

I'm sorry, but the carrier's deck should be illuminated enough at night for pilots to see it. As in, less on moon lit evenings, more on super dark / bad weather. There's just no longer justification to make it SO dangerous when RADAR and IR make it visible to weapons ... and the only people it harms are those who're required to land on carriers.

Nice rudder shaker on the CAT shot, good thing you were solo or that would have been game over for qualing

thanks george

26 years ago I did my first trap for carrier qual. My career went so so fast. It only seems like yesterday.

What was the "W" in the Hud? Looks spooky. I cringe when I have to land at 5000 ft at night. Carrier pilots have huge...... Go NAVY and Thank You !!

Hello. Who says "roger ball"?

Basically landing on a carrier with a fast jet…looks like a controlled crash.

Why is there a rescue beacon audible in the background?

FLY NAVY

Them "touch & go" hours paid off...

Call the ball lol

Watching you guys drive the plane right up to the edge of the deck and over the water gives me the willies. Big time respect, guys!

why do they turn so tightly on the last leg? it seems like they limit the amount of time to get stabilized on the glide slope. I don't see why they don't line up miles out and intersect the glide slope higher up

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What a champ

That E-bracket is all over the place :) Thanks for sharing, this is super interesting.

Don't know you but I am proud of you!

What’re you flying? A Hornet?

Looked to me like you did a phenom job that day. Only minor gripes over the radio.

I know that this comment will get eventually he forgotten about over time, but sometimes I like to go outside in the garden and completely bury myself in dirt and pretend I'm a carrot. 🥕

did not die sweeeet

Audio is mono, needs to be mixed to both channels, LOL.

Did they say which wires you caught? I didn't hear it. I did hear them tell you about your landing, etc "stay on centerline" etc.

His third go around was interesting he almost stalled it. So interesting to watch. The guy handles it very artfully and it makes me laugh how calm these guys are on the radio. I'd be white knuckled the entire way. Also make note the HUD doesn't show the aoa indexer which is a good quick way to know how to use your trim quickly. Of course the E bracket is primarily what they use.

Great HUD content. I take it you pass with flying colours, look forward to watching the rest of ur vids.

I took some flying lessons and managed to survive 3 solos before I pulled the plug on it. Landing on regular runway was hard for me. I took my 20 hours in a Cessna 150 and lived to talk about it. I can't imagine me trying to land anything bigger than an ultralight on a ship. I spent a lot of my time in vultures row when I was off duty. I was an AO TAD to AIMD.

What is this video about?

Slightly tense see Carrier landing bam, landed. Pilot obviously looking out of Port side of cockpit in a curved approach. This gives pilot a better view with the wing dropped than a long straight in run with the nose in the way. Learned in WWII with big engines in the way, it saves lives.

I was a F-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet maintainer. Loved every minute of Naval Aviation.

In my day ( 1965-77) my 1st qual we had Platt only, and a dangerously underpowered T2A. First night Qual was on a carrier that had hydraulic cats, and it kinda hurt. Great flying guy. Thanks.

I hit the boat in a T-2 Buckeye… I feel like a Dinosaur

I wish there was a pause and an explanation of the numbers on the screen. I understand some of it but not all.

I had no idea that the Goshawk could tool around that slow (Alpha was around 14.5). Dirty I guess. And oh that taxi was scary. I mean, you overrun the apron at a municipal airport and you may lay some tracks in the grass. Before you spun around all I saw was water. I understand that the nose wheel is back from the nose and the POV was higher up but it's still disconcerting. Very exciting to watch. Thank you.

All Navy pilots learn the circular, carrier landing approach of this T-45 pilot that is dramatically harder and different from the usual box-type approaches to expedite landing of multiple aircraft vulnerable to enemy fire in the slower and more trainable, linear box approaches. Here in the video, unknowingly at first, we don't see the carrier on camera until the last 3-5 seconds before rolling wings level and setting for landing - unlike ANY other approach. Yet the carrier or circular approach is the first and only approach new Navy pilots learn, ALL still destined for carrier pilot duty in basic flight training. What allows that to happen is the maneuver, when done many times over with standard, always sea level, downwind or close to it conditions and same aircraft allows a simultaneous 1) throttle setting, 2) set bank and 3) set pitch setting that when done at a predictably standard, preestablished point, airspeed and altitude allow a 3-5 second window of short final to stop the turn on centerline or "ball"?, set wings level, flare, and set to chop or advance power instantly. Fly Navy!

You can hear the freq bleed over of the ELT.....🤣

sounds like someone pulled the locator beacon somewhere. good stuff

One improvement in this footage over all the other beautiful GoPro captures out there is the field of view, which in this video is closer to the human eye. Having a few hundred traps under my belt, the view of the carrier when the jet "rolls into the groove" in YT videos is usually distorted - the boat appears way too far away. I realize that the use of a wide angle lens increases the field of view and certainly gives the viewer a bigger picture of what is going on, but distances are exaggerated - tight formation doesn't appear so tight, cramped cockpits seem roomier, and flat horizons show some curvature. But in this video, when the ship comes into view (4:57, 10:46, etc.) the perspective seems about right.

Understand now video quality. My attention span is low - it looks like some editing would improve the flow of the story- well done for the accomplishment!

Thank you for your service.

If you land in an airfield instead of a carrier, do you flare the T-45?

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Primo me nene luv u man

Golf 12 Paddles.... Undergraduate CQ and Paddles already breaking his balls over centerline drift on just his second trap. Which he kind of has to, but man, the error for margin is very small right of the bat.

Video quality: something you guys need to understand is the boat runs a lot of radar, which plays havoc with magnetic video recording. When we shot video from Vulture Row, we had to wrap our cameras in aluminum foil or it would look like, well, this. You'll notice the video is better when he's out away from the boat and deteriorates as he gets closer and is at its worst on deck. The T-45 doesn't come with digital 4K. :)

excellent ! Do we hear other planes landing during your maneuvers on the bridge ? or is there one frequency for you alone ?

Hey man, can you preach me through from graduation of high school to where you are now like how you got there. This is my dream job and I know everything about aviation but school is pretty expensive.

The Marines have to wear a diaper when they do this. Don't know why. Kind of strange.