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Tomcat Cockpit POV
United States
Приєднався 12 сер 2006
This channel is (mostly) dedicated to providing raw footage from inside the cockpit of an F-14 Tomcat. No music, no effects, just cockpit noise and views from the RIO's or pilot's perspective. The footage is my own unless otherwise noted.
Have you seen my Instagram, @tomcat_cockpit_pov? Check it out for stories from the glory days several times a week!
Have you seen my Instagram, @tomcat_cockpit_pov? Check it out for stories from the glory days several times a week!
Stennis Flight Deck 1999
This is raw footage taken from CVW-9 workups abord the USS John C. Stennis in summer 1999. This footage was taken when I lent my camera to my buddy, so I am actually the RIO being filmed here. Note the suspended launch of my Tomcat followed by a successful launch and subsequent recovery. Nice filming Shooter!!
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VF 211 Homecoming 2002
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This is the emotional homecoming fly-in from 2002, when my squadron, VF-211, returned from a 7-month deployment at the beginning of Operating Enduring Freedom. We cruised aboard the USS John C. Stennis shortly after 9/11, flying combat missions mostly in support of the first wave of US troops to enter Afghanistan. Also pictured at the beginning is rare footage of Mavis, the squadron vehicle, co...
Tomcat Sunrise Zen
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A calming view of a sunrise over the tail of a VF-211 F-14A aboard the USS John C. Stennis in 2002.
Flight With a Tomcat Pilot at Prevailance Aerospace
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My good friend and fellow VF-211 RIO, Squeaky, owns and operates Prevailance Aerospace in Chesapeake, Virginia. She hooked my up with the ride of my life: a flight in one of their Extra 330s! And as if that weren't enough, my pilot for the flight was Crunchy, one of my former F-14 instructor pilots in the RAG we had flown together a few times before. This footage proves his courage, as he gives...
F-14 RAG Ground Operations in El Centro
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This is footage from a RAG det to El Centro (for air-to-ground training) during my time as a student in the F-14 RAG. This footage was filmed in early 1999. It's noteworthy for the variety of aircraft of the flight line: every kind of F-14, some F-18s, and even a two-seat Harrier.
A walk through the John C. Stennis to Ready Room 8
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This is a short video showing the walk from my stateroom aboard the John C. Stennis to the VF-211 ready room. Our ready room was Ready Room 8, the furthest aft of all ready rooms. We were directly beneath the flight deck under the wires, and so the sound of tailhooks slapping the flight deck was quite loud in the ready room. This video gives a sense of the size of the ship and also of the daily...
F-14 Flight from NAS Oceana to NAS Pax River, 2001
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This is footage of a flight from Oceana to Pax River (home of the Naval Test Pilot School) in 2001. We took two F-14As from our squadron, VF-211, to Pax River to allow the Test Pilot students to fly them, while we were given fun free-for-all hops in T-2s. The T-2 flight was probably the most fun I ever had in a jet.
Navy Flight Training Centrifuge
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Before I was a clueless RIO nugget in VF-211, I was an even more clueless RAG student in VF-101 (the RAG is the training squadron for budding F-14 crew). One right of passage is to be spun in a giant centrifuge in order to learn how to tolerate G forces. The real goal is to not be put to sleep by the Gs as all your buddies watch you on closed circuit tv. I didn’t go to sleep, but I did drool on...
Flying T2s in Navy Flight School
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Before naval aviators earn their wings, they must complete a two-year flight school, flying a series of training aircraft. For Naval Flight Officers (NFOs such as RIOs, WSOs, and ECMOs), the last aircraft they fly was the T-2 Buckeye. Here is one of my final flights in the Buckeye before graduating in 1998 a four-ship strike practice. We took off from NAS Pensacola, took some practice bombing r...
Mutha
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the F-14 Tomcat. So here's a video that I made in 2001 honoring "Mutha", the trophy given annually to the fighter squadron that best exemplified the fighting spirit. The audio is removed for copyright reasons.
F 14 TARPS Combat Mission 2002
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This video shows a real-world TARPS mission over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in early 2002. The mission is a reconnaissance flight over Taliban positions. Two F-14s from VF-211 aboard the John C. Stennis are tasked with taking pictures of enemy positions using TARPS pods, which are large pods containing various cameras mounted under the F-14's belly. After launch, the F-14...
F-14s at '01 Syracuse Air Show
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In this video, VF-211 took four F-14s to the Syracuse air show in Spring 2001. Overall not my best videography; however, the shot at 1:00 is among my favorites. We overflew the field in a four-ship diamond, then landed and set up the jets as static displays. We chatted with the airshow guests (that's me at 3:04) and sold a bit of merch. We checked out Syracuse with a few of the Blue Angels that...
F14s Flying from NAS Key West to NAS Oceana
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A short clip showing a flight of two VF-211 F-14As flying from NAS Key West, Florida, to NAS Oceana, Virginia, in April 2001. Later that year, this squadron would be among the first to participate in Operation Enduring Freedom following the September 11th attacks. In the beginning of the video, the jets perform a "clean and dry" maneuver, where each closely above and below the other, inspecting...
F 14 Cloud Surfing
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A little Tomcat cloud surfing for your meditational needs. This video is actually a few hours later after the refueling from the last video. The sun rose over Afghanistan, and we passed the time with some lazy cloud surfing on our way back to the boat.
F 14 Combat Refueling (Enhanced Video)
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[UPDATE 3-21-2019: New video, F-14 Cloud Surfing, uploaded here: ua-cam.com/video/O651zuISr-U/v-deo.html] Here's another one from the archives. I will keep uploading periodically until I run out (which won't take long). This was a night mission over Afghanistan in January or February 2002. Back then, virtually the whole country was enemy territory. The nearest divert was in Pakistan. This made ...
F 14 Combat Refueling (Original (unenhanced) Video)
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F 14 Combat Refueling (Original (unenhanced) Video)
F-14 with old engines, the biggest Navy pilot killer ever... unfortunately...
@@FLAC2023 Those Pratt & Whitney’s definitely had to be managed
Multiple organs explode. Both hips dislocated. Sees twelve and a half of everything. Can't remember who he is or why he's here. How are you feeling? Fine. How's that fatigue? Pretty good? Yep. Got any headache? Dizziness? Nope. Any stomach discomfort? Nope. But seriously - fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting. Thanks for keeping this video. Thanks for enduring and persevering.
VF-211 Checkmates, looks like while onboard the Stennis.
Looks like a pregnant guppy.
Wow...woooow
I hope you weren't running the KA-99 during that roll at 4:52 ;) Vf-41 Tarps 94-98
I was in VT-10 Pensacola, had T-2C’s and T-39D’s. 1977-79.
OMG you posted again!
@@A2Moonclaw I’m still mostly alive
@@TomcatCockpitPOV That's good to here!
This One.Yo!😊
Emperor f14 tomcat
Babe wake up, Virus posted!
@@mudhenmediavideos2795 😂😂😂
OMG new Video Dropped Wuhuu!!!
HA! It happens sometimes...
Wait it was dropped or uploaded lol?
Beautiful Machine
Fantastico , il nostro Gattone ✌🐈✌
I cant believe they let this guy keep the footage. They took mine and i got a reprimand
Really? Why? Nothing even remotely classified in this footage.
@@TomcatCockpitPOV long ago when secrets were protected. ..
@@TomcatCockpitPOV shot of the radar panel. They arent even allow to do certain maneuvers where can see them.
@@TomcatCockpitPOV go away idiot
@@Alan-yd7jh Maybe under certain circumstances, but I can assure you everything in this video is UNCLASS including the displays
End if the era, we all lost
My dad worked on f14s wish they still had them around
they do in iraq oddly enough
@@Haroldclifford-i1u Iran actually but I don’t think they’re gonna keep them for much longer
@@Imadog989 probably not
mad easy. i could do it with my eyes closed and my hands tied behind my back
Serious business
I was a Plain captain on the single engine T-2A 1963-1965 VT-4.
You called this not your best in the comments, I call it amazing. For a guy who grew up only wanting to the Tomcat but it was retired before I reached age, these videos are all myself and others like me have. So God bless you for even taking them and posting them here 🙏
Thank you so much for the kind comment. My hope in posting these is to share the experience and the memories as much as possible so everyone can experience what I had the privilege to experience!
Landing just to launch right away? Seems like unecessary wear and tear on the airframe.
The take off off of a aircraft carrier, feels un- natural..
0:17 is it no cover of fuel adapter? And this vid shows "Touch and go" trainning? returning soon from Take off and landing again.Then Take off again. I don't know what is operation for.
T2 Flying Coffins!
You can tell bro didn't want to admit that it was hard on him but wanted to pass
I admit, it was hard on me.
i was stationed down in yuma,...harrier guy,...not once did i ever go to el centro..wish i did, very close...and blue angels in the winter time..would have been grear!
my favorite plane still till this day!! i never get tired of looking at it!! awesome video!! i was 16 then, i lived 5 min from that airport. im gonna have a talk with my parents for not taking me to that airshow! being in that area in the country we never saw f-14s...ever. thats all i ever wanted...cant believe they went and i didnt know... lol owell.. now i just get to see museum pieces.. just once i want to sit in one.
this is very special man!!!, now i just wanna jump to my F14 in DCS and go. now i understand how much important rudder is in the refuel of the tom cat, i keep using stick, and i can do it, but is way easier with the proper use of rudder, tx man this is literally priceless, tx for the upload, i dont know if you are the real Rio, anyways tx for your service? i keep thinking, and i already spoke with Mr Ward Carroll about it, was a "crime" stopping THE f14D PROGRAM, BY now we would have all the electronic, avionic upgrades, the displays the fly by wire, probably even model E, The F14 would be the best plane on the fleet, we have the FA-18 witch i dont like that much despite being a great aircraft for all operations but still is a mini-me in comparison to the F14, big strong cat, amazing fuel efficiency and by now would be twice as better in all categories. The Senior officers together with the Pentagon who made that decision should be ashamed of such decision, they´re still confused with the F22 and F35 programs while china is full gas with their programs, even carriers, if we dont move they will catch up, US flexing isnt working the way used to
i really wish DCS had these sounds
I was a T-2C Plane Captain when stationed at NAS Chasefield Beeville Texas back in the early to mid 80's. VT-26.
СТАРЫЕ МАШИНЫ НАДЁЖНО РАБОТАЮТ КАК АК)) НЕ ВИЖУ НА РАДАРЕ СЕКРЕТНЫЙ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТ СЭР ОНИ ВЕРНУЛИСЬ ХОРОШО НЕТ ПО ПОЯС В ПАЛУБЕ СЭР
ХА ХА ИДЁТ РЕЖИМ ПРО ВЕРКИ АЛИСУ ОТКЛЮЧИЛ ЧИЛИ
В КАМЕРУ ПОПАЛИ РУЧКИ ЗА ЭТО ЛАЙК
ВЫСТАВИТЬ БАРОМЕТР)) НА СКОРОСТЬ ВЕТРА? СЭР
)) r'HBTH ДЕРЖАТИЛЬ АКЦИЙ НО Я СМОТРЕЛ АПОЛЛОН13 ОТКАЗ ВСЕГО И НА ПАЛУБУ КТО ВЫВЕЛ МЕНЯ )) ТОГ ДА?
Na minha opinião, o avião caça mais bonito já fabricado,inclusive o mesmo usado no filme top gum ases indomáveis com o ator Tom Cruise!!!👍👍👍👏👏👏
T-2s are super cool. We had one in the hanger bay in the corner. Thanks for posting a great flight.
NAS Oceana, 1972, VF-14 Tophatters. Dumping lots of fuel there.
ua-cam.com/video/Yr8p8HyMIzc/v-deo.htmlsi=bOGN5IY6XpZURxoY Lots of fun and getting to fly it having just getting my private pilot license at Beeville Airport. Got some stick time as an AMH3. Great memories.
Former mechanic AMH3 at VT-26 Chase Beeville, TX. Back seat qualified with 20hrs time going x-country to fix aircraft.
NAS Meridian AIMD, VT-9, VT-19 and VT-7
I was there from 74 till 77. VT-19, plane captain then Power Plants squadron level maintenance.
Retired after 20 at NAS Meridian 1984. AIMD Airframes and later QA 1982-84.
1:20 Man! You need to have a talk with your Line Shack. Those indicators are filthy. 😛
Yeah - probably the Line Div-O's fault. Oh wait, that was me.
@@TomcatCockpitPOV Like our Line Chief would always shout/say, "HEY! I want all that f*kin' glass shinier than a diamond in a goat's ass!!"
Good old sturdy 🐎, Buckeye 👍
Oh, T-2C Buckeye, how I miss U 😊
Thnx for the memories 👍
Did you ever test the F-14 in DCS World? What would you say about it? I have hard time to do even Case I landing... i think, i am just a bad pilot...
I do fly in DCS--the F-14 is incredibly true to life! Don't feel bad--it's very tough to land on the boat even in the best of circumstances.
@@TomcatCockpitPOV Thank you Sir for answering me! And thank you for your feedback about DCS Tomcat. The hardest step for me is to trim the Tomcat for 15 Units AOA. Its also hard to hold 600 feet but i love the DLC for small corrections. The F-14 feels very unique in the DCS Sim and it feels right, it is the best Module ever. I cant imagine, how hard Case II and III will be, i am sweating right now 🤣. Thank you Sir and have a great day, i love your Videos and hope to see some DCS video too.
Fantastic video j kike how the pilot abd rio in the other f14 are looking waving at you. Lots of love from Bonny Scotland 🏴 🏴 🏴 🏴 .
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Looks like they flew over destin florida area