"Group of 6 F-35 passing below" | PILOT JOKING ABOUT FIGHTER JETS!
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Somewhere is now a CRJ-900 with 6 little F-35 silhouettes painted under the cockpit window.
now that you said that, they HAVE to do it... even if it went against company policy, AA would realize it would be great PR (everyone would want to fly that same plane! ha)
That’d be so hilarious, imagine boarding, that plane and seeing that, not knowing the context..
L O L
Adversary see's the victory tags and goes "Nope! Not even gonna risk it with this one!"
Pilot is now also an Ace
Lucky the controller got the joke. When I pull that type of $hit, I always get a "Say again?" "What did he say?" "Something about guns and missiles," "Call NORAD, we have bomb threat on BlueStreak 55!"
"luckily we have 6 F-35s nearby!" LOL
@@Dan007UT yeah! Exactly! That would add a second layer of confusion that would totally happen to me.
"Yeah okay that's great, but I've got a number for you to copy when you've got a second."
It's Norfolk. The controller probably hears Top Gun jokes from all the Navy pilots all day long.
The old Carlin bit about if you can't tell a joke about a bomb, then what about a limerick?
If 5509 had requested a fly-by he would've been the best pilot ever
beat me to it
No, no Mav. This is not a good idea. 😂
@@Panhead49EL Negative Ghostrider the pattern is full :)
I'll hit the breaks, and they'll fly right by...😅
Where would the world be without Top Gun quotes?
I was waiting for it!
He totally had to be a former military pilot. I laughed way to much at this.
Yea definitely
I laughed so hard I scared my cat to death! Nice to hear some intelligent humor!
...or a fan of the movie that was being referenced
@@sarahalbers5555 is your cat ok
prolly not, he just sonds like a country boy who is a natural pilot.....BTW you would not be a military pilot if quote top gun, its a 100 dollar fine at TOP GUN school to quote the movie
Heard the passengers weren't happy at being in a 4g inverted dive with 6 f-35's tho, they spilled their peanuts
Yeah, I hear the CRJ gets pretty bumpy around the time the wing spars snap and the empennage breaks off.
I was a passenger, I did indeed lose my peanuts and little shot glass of soda, but the fasten self sign came on right on que
Peanuts? What's this 1990? They don't serve peanuts anymore. It's pretzels or cookies nowadays.
@@bipolar-tiger it was a long time ago..
i don't wanna hear what the guy in the airplane bathroom had to say about this
Not only was the joke a solid one. But the rest of the interaction was spot on, especially the "I guess you clear the visual". A good pilot who didn't just assume but asked back, and a controller who wasn't too proud to apologise.
Should have asked the ground crew a refill on .50 Cal and a case of beer.
Yes, very professional pilot keeping attention on his job and the right details, despite cracking a joke.
You can't drop a line like that and expect everyone to not be knocked off their game for a second.
@@DirtyBanditable yup the tower was flustered at that one.
More proof the pilot was likely ex-military.
Back at base:
Instructor: How could you see them if you were above them?
Maverick: I was inverted.
Passenger: WE WERE HAVING LUNCH
That's why they tell you to put your tray in the upright position on approach@@alexdoan273! You never know when you might have to barrel roll in order to acquire the enemy squadron.
@@alexdoan273 ROFLMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bob Hoover demonstrated many times that a proper 1G roll is entirely possible. 😉
And I was in the bathroom and did not appreciate being inverted.
It would’ve been epic if Tabor flight replied, “we have a radar lock”.
they probably heard but I'm guessing they were transmitting on UHF and the airliner wouldn't have been able to pick that up
@@lukelouisackermanthey can transmit on civilian frequencies. Likely too busy, not appropriate or didn’t hear it.
@@MeppyManOr decided not to play.
Might even have not gotten the reference.
@@MeppyManThe correct answer is “didn’t hear it.” The military flight was definitely on a UHF frequency. Controllers can transmit and receive simultaneously on both frequency bands.
They may have figured possibly correctly that one funny comment from their side misinterpreted by another in the group might not have funny results?
So fun to see a sense of humor in the job and no one being butt hurt over it!
It’s still early here in the comment section. Some “expert” will have their shorts in a twist on here. 😉
The real miracle is you making this comment and nobody chiming in about how “woke” pilots or ATC would be to blame if anyone got butthurt over it.
@@9volt65 Let me be if not the first, at least not too late. " Damn USA pilots and ATC don't use proper standard ICAO phrases." At least in this case they kept the comms short and to the point.
I really appreciated the courtesy and good humour while still politely insisting on technical correctness where it matters. Thumbs up all around.
Exactly 💯
As a student pilot, my IP was a former Apache chopper pilot. Flying with flight following out of Oberlin, we hear "Cessna 1406m climb to angels 5, United #### heavy , 15 miles at 120 inbound." We instantly began to climb to deconflict, and as we are rising up we can see this huge airliner approaching and heading directly below us. Just about the time our paths crossed, the jet rocked into a banked turn to head for the outer marker for CLE. My IP calmly watched it approach and bank, leaned way over in front of me in the pilots seat, and very wistfully said : "If we had guns on this thing, we could have had him.... ".
Epic response indeed!
The appropriate response would have been, "Don't think. Just do!"
Then now it's a dogfight😂
Being from Britain, first thing I thought of was Blue Streak- Britain's first intermediate range ballistic missile. So switching to guns made me smile!
…i thought that nickname was familiar!
Absolutely criminal that it was cancelled, Twice! (technically)
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.
Not gonna lie if any country were inclined to put guns on it's missiles it would be America.
@@conduit64 america puts SWORDS on it's missiles
I guess it’s not impossible that the 5509 pilot is a former naval aviator. He could even have flown Tomcats at the end of their run in 2006 and still be flying civilian.
Or he’s just like most of us, a regular fan of Top Gun…
@@JohnSmith-zi9orSeniority is still key
@@JohnSmith-zi9orflying a cargo plane full of rubber dogshit into Norfolk
Or just like many a DCS fan
@@JohnSmith-zi9or Higher pay isn't always the career goal.
both sound like ex-military if the ATC is civilian
I used that same line a few weeks back when we were notified on takeoff roll that there was a flock of geese crossing the departure end of the runway.
were you given a number to call?
We want that on VASAviation!!!
KRVS, 08/09/23 around 7:50PM Central. N886FT.@@VASAviation
Nope. ATC is pretty laid back in the evenings.@@jamesleicher
Pilot: Talk to me, Goose.
The flock: Honk-honk-honk-honk....
"i am completely mentally stable" Oh look, a Civilian airliner!"
if you don't know... ua-cam.com/video/ERGfao1Acqc/v-deo.html
I say this all the time to my captains, much to their annoyance. And on the off chance they stow the HUD on landing, "Luke! You've switched off your targeting computer! What's wrong?"
Nothing's wrong. This not much harder than targeting womp rats in my T16...
I watch lots of your videos and read lots of comments rarely leaving one because I'm not a pilot. This was hilarious! I needed the chuckle. Thanks Victor.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We have clearance, Clarence.
Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
I've been watching all Victor's Vectors in recent years ( < thanks btw ^ > ), and I don't fly those airborne things either but I've read about events over many decades and had some lessons a century ago, and I'm quite prepared to give a partly uneducated opinion or comment on my own without offending, attacking or trolling anyone. I'm still learning things like the tower Light Gun yesterday. I comment less now.
Trick I found is to not be afraid to let others realise how stupid I am.
This raises another point for another time about a small few line pilots get annoyed that people not in the industry make comments* at all, and that many just repeat "Oh how awful" and "R.I.P." comments; but that's for anothr day.
On the plus side I'm always amazed what amazingly experienced people take the time to comment here and the two sim recreation channels I watch; many with direct experience or knowledge of that or similar incident.
@@pomerau I follow several aviation channels. I spend more time reading and replying to comments than watching the actual videos. I like to learn. I kinda know what light guns are in the aviation sense, but not all the signals. For road traffic where I live, red light means stop. Yellow, be careful and green means go ahead. I think for aircraft it must be much more complicated. Kinda like Morse code but in color. If I were a pilot flying at controlled airports I would study this in depth.
Where would we be without that classic movie? @@j.thomas7128
"And in aviation news today, 6 f 35s were shot down by an unarmed 747 cargo plane. Reports of a statewide sonic boom shortly after the incident raised many questions for onlookers. According to the Air Force, it was just the sound of several thousand facepalms happening simultaneously."
pft-
Unarmed??? Nah. They have projectile door panels equipped
@@OwningMicrobe Oh, those are available on the 737-Multirole Augmented Xpress line... Or you could go with the Douglas variant, they throw half of the fuselage out along with the "Plug-Door-Projectile"
Found the "reformer"
@@demilung ???
Aviation is such a 'must-focus business' that no Mulligans are allowed. So since it is so serious all the time, it is cool to see a little fun/humor entered into the equation at the appropriate time, for all the parties; since stress can be unsurmountable. Neat deal!
And when the threat tracking radar lit up oh, I'm willing to bet the pilot needed a change of underwear afterwards
@@user-qd6nn6sj5v Does he have a RWR?
@@micaheiber1419and Israel.
@@micaheiber1419 Why is that
@tappajaav it's a hot zone. Could be ground to air.
At a small airport, One day I did....
"Helicopter xxx maintain 150 kts on final, a B52 at your six shooting touch and goes".
He says without missing a beat......
Roger, slowing to 150 kts. ( his vne 120)
One of my favorite quotes from Joel Robinson from MST3K fame is, "Not EVERYONE will get ALL our jokes, but the RIGHT people will"
Tower got the joke.
In an alternative universe, Bluestreak 5509 is now entitled to add kill counts to the side of the cockpit
@@JohnSmith-zi9or the element of surprise is a hell of a thing
6 kills means instant ace(simulated)😊
@@JohnSmith-zi9or you must be fun to be around.....
@@JohnSmith-zi9or because you clearly don't take a joke in the fact it's obviously a commercial airliner versus an air to ground jet.
@@JohnSmith-zi9or congrats, now you understand the root cause of my original reply. Lighten the f up.
This reminds me of that video from the Navy battleship when the automatic turrent zeroed in on a commercial jetliner and the deck crew were like, "no no no no" LOL
That was a Phalanx CIWS and it wasn’t a commercial airliner, it was a P8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. It was intentional.
Got a link to that?
"I am completely mentally stable... Oh hey look a civilian airliner!"
And that reminds me of TWA800 out of New York.
@@kmonyt Why? Please tell me you are not one of these crackpots that STILL think the USN shot it down? They rebuilt the fuselage which physically proved the explosion was inside out not the outside in...
Unfortunately the F-35s wouldn’t have heard this comment. They’ll be using UHF radio, ATC simulcasts on UHF & VHF, and we are only hearing VHF. That’s why when they pass instructions to TABOR31 we don’t hear them respond
I'm sure this video will get to them
I'm pretty sure military aircrafts can receive and transmit on civilian frequencies, otherwise how are they going to warn you before they shoot you down for violating restricted airspace? Also, almost all aircraft nowadays have multiple radios, so that you can transmit/receive on one frequency while monitor another. The civilian aircrafts, on the other hand, cannot hear anything transmitted on the military frequencies, because their radios are designed to operate outside the military frequency range.
@@wildgoose419 mostly correct, the F-35s have multiple radios and have the capability to receive on VHF, but typically the VHF radio is used for inter-flight communication between the 6 of them. And while a lot of civilian aircraft don’t have UHF radio, you can buy one if you wanted to! But they wouldn’t have been monitoring ATC frequency on both radios, just UHF, with the VHF radio in between flight members
And for anyone confused, VHF is Very-high frequency and UHF is Ultra-high frequency. Just different frequency ranges the radio transmits/receives on. Typically UHF radios are only used by military aircraft, most civilians use VHF. The controlling agency “simulcasts” on both frequencies when they make radio calls, hence why we can hear them give instruction to the civilians and to TABOR flight, even though we are just hearing the VHF comm. TABOR would not be monitoring the same channel on both VHF and UHF because it’s very distracting hearing a transmission twice, and because they use their VHF radio for Inter-flight communications between the 6 of them. I’m sure if they did hear, they would have thrown out a little pun as a response.
My very first flight as a private pilot, i took my wife to Lake Havasu for lunch. Coming in we had a pair of f-18s doing approaches, and were on CTAF. Was pretty fun to be in the pattern, on my base leg and have the two of them come right across my nose. And then after I landed and on my roll out, they did a low runway approach right above me. We were all cracking jokes on frequency and they were awesome about calling out where they were and what they were doing. One was call sign potato and the other one was call signed potato. (PoTAYto & PoTAto)
My wife was like "that was awesome!" And I told her I called ahead and planned that just for her 😂
I taught English in Russia for 5 years (before the current mess) and was on a domestic flight from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar when two MiGs passed just below us. The wake they left was memorable.
Thats badass how was your time in Russia, I’ve always wanted to visit.
90-95% sure those exact pilots are now burried somewhere in Ukraine, under the mengled mess that once was their jet
@@chrissi.enbyYT worshiping the military industrial complex this much is crazy. You probably thought killing one 300k Iraqis was great too. War is bad and no one wins so stop picking a side like a dork.
@@dciracer99 lol what
@@chrissi.enbyYT The covid NPCs have been reprogrammed as UKR NPCs
My ex Navy grandpa was flying his plane during the 9/11 attack and made jokes at the air force pilots ordering us to land immediately. We were flying from Sarasota up to Pennsylvania and he assumed Air force one had taken off early and was behind us. Only took them seriously when they threatened shooting us down.
I bet that went from funny haha to yes sir please let me live in about 1.2 seconds
"You are being intercepted by an armed military aircraft" is just about the only instruction you can hear that's worse than "I have a phone number for you to copy."
@@EinherjarLucian I, some time ago, heard a fragmentary interview with some pilots involved in the intercept and they said there was not enough time to arm the planes so command asked them to go above and beyond their duty, by flying like those who flew defending their homes back in the late pacific war Theater.
Under the protection of the "DIVINE WINDS" or as it is known in Japanese "KAMIKAZE"
@@farlesbarkley1022 There was a quick scramble to find an airport with a long enough runway! My dad and grandpa where throwing charts everywhere, ended up landing in North Carolina.
@@EinherjarLucian Thankfully never got any of those!
Cool, casual, yet professional.
"I guess you cleared the visual?"
- Negative, Ghostrider. The pattern is full.
Tower missed an opportunity there. Should have say :
"Bluestreak 5509, confirmed for visual, engage runway 5 at will" 😁
Would have been funny if the Leader of the F-35 would have been on the frequency and responded like it was a threat just to leave a mark in the pilots pants 🤣. I would shit my pants if that would happen XD
"Bluestreak 5509 is changing callsign to Brownstreak 5509"
"We're going vertical"
@@jboutiet"They might have missiles, but they don't know about my dirty bomb"
LOL !!!!!!. Boy, this will escalade quickly ......
Tabor callsign was the flight of F-35s, their comms/replies are not heard.
Dude was like most commercial pilots, obviously former military. The controller's reply was awesome.
30+ years of flying and I’ve never had the chance to say something so cool on the radio. I’d be jealous if I wasn’t so impressed.
Funny video and the comments did not disappoint either. Thanks all for the smile and laugh. I really needed it today 🙂
If the joke is well placed, everyone gets a good laugh. We still try to have fun up there on comms. Just don't meow on guard 😜
That guy is on it. Joking at one moment and notices he misses a clearance just after.
🤣 That made me laugh out loud! I'm jealous of people who can come up with something that quick that I might think of in 3 days...😁
Practice helps.
I live in the flight path of Luke AFB.
F-35's come right over my house low and slow almost daily.
Even at, what I'm guessing are minimal power settings, they are still loud as hell.
whats creepy is when finally see them fly by and you can't hear it.. never understood that one.
It's notorious that this aircraft makes much more noise than its predecessors. Probably due to it's single huge engine!
Yeah, the F-35 is on another level when it comes to how loud it is.
The sound of freedom!
Unlikely at minimum power when landing. If go around is needed it takes a lot of time (relatively) from idle.
I come back to this video for a guaranteed smile from time to time.
Indeed.
After 'chasing away' the F35's the Bluestreak pilot considered himself being 'on a roll' and attempted to land on an aircraft carrier.
the f35 guys: "u funny, we wont kill u today" 😂☺ * pops flares and dissapears *
Bluestreak pilot sounds old enough to be a former fighter jock.
thought so too, that came out so natural for it to be just quick wit
Yes and a lot of them still fly in the reserves or ANG.
-- I pulled some shenanigans like that once with a B-2 Spirit at about 12 thousand. Was flying a Mustang with my daughter, and to keep it in limens terms, descended through a cloud bank, and here's this massive, unmistakable bomber, except this one is brown, not black, flying low and slow. We're bleeding off some speed coming in about an 1/8th of a mile behind off his right wing and gaining.
I confess myself a little pissed off that ATC or the Pilots didn't make it's/presence known. Both knew I was there. So I called it out to ATC as a bogey, identifed it as a Vulcan spacecraft and announce my intentions to 'go to guns'.
I know the guys up in ATC, so they laugh and redirected me. I'm wondering why it's so low, slow; if there's a problem with the aircraft, and thinking 'shouldn't this thing have an escort' when two fighters blaze across my nose from left to right. Shook the whole damn Mustang, and were so fast I couldn't identify them. That'll pucker your ass, so traffic was a little less formal.
Can't remember what I said, but it was in the blind. I called out my heading and sputtered something like, 'hey, you guys knew I was here, could have let me know.'
Never said a word to me. My daughter however 4 at the time is yelling at them, parroting what I'd said to her that, that was close, we could have had a collision.
Last thing I 'think' I hear is one of the pilots in one of the aircrafts chuckling.
They were obviously envious, the mustang is one of the most beautiful airframes to ever grace the skies and with one of the most glorious engine sounds of history (a tie with the spitfire and Lancaster (which eeks it out on account of having 4 of the Merlins). Modern fighter jets are too utilitarian and except the f16 and f14 I find them kinda bland. I'm envious of your daughter, you might very well be the coolest dad around
-- I'd go that far, a tie, though my personal preference does go to the Mustang. There's more room in the cockpit for the pilot, a noticeable amount, and I don't like swapping hands stick and gear, depending on the Spitfire variant, those two and flaps right at takeoff. The Lancaster is something else with those Merlin's. The brits knocked it out of the park with that monster. Then they pass design specks back and forth between Packard and Rolls Royce, and together, the Brits and Americans added a ridiculous amount of power. At least at the time, it was the best engine ever made. @@propellhatt
Mil planes are on different frequencies, they can hear the tower but not you.
-- This flight must have seen me coming for at least 50 miles. No one can 'turn a dial' to alert me to clear the space? I mean no one? Not even ATC?
I've chatted on freq with military craft before. And from the laughing, yeah, they heard me.
Well I didn't get a call, and I wasn't asked to make one. So I left it alone with a good story to tell.
@@AdamantLightLP
"Too close for missiles, switching to guns."
LOL
Looks like someone's either an Air Force vet, or a massive Air Combat fan
Either way, that pilot rocks xD
It's a line from the original Top Gun movie, Maverick quips this in a dog fight.
It was a funny transmission ,and nobody got triggered,offended or insulted.
"Gonna hit the brakes -- they'll fly right by"
"To close for missiles"
*My guy hasn't played Ace Combat*
Hey Victor. Thank you for such an excellent channel - I love it. Juan from Blancolirio put me onto you… I really enjoy the work that you both do… so often I listen to ATC during an emergency on your channel and think that they really are unsung heroes of aviation… esp when things don’t go according to plan.
Yes, definitely should have requested a tower flyby.
Years ago
I dispatched medivac aircraft. Our competitor was in the hangar next to us.
One night they launched about fifteen minutes in front of us and we had them of one of the commercial tracking web programs.
So we launch out airplane and when he calls in his out/off times the dispatcher tells him we show the competitors airplane just east of a place called Sparrevohn heading west at 33000 feel.
Our planes response, “Copy…….Rig for silent running”
I had just taken a swallow of soft drink when I read your comment. Almost choked.
@@MG-hr5iz When the company I worked for went under security ended up with our hangar for that debacle
one ping only.
I read that in Sean Connery's voice.@@robertd7073
Ah yes. The CRJ-900 Interceptor.
Ah, that airline guy is an ex fighter pilot....🤣
Too funny. Made my Day. I had a bunch of pilot friends back in the day. They had a twisted sense of humour and I loved it. BTW I still never got to meet Otto, this awesome pilot they flew with. lol
A testament to the F-35's tech if ATC saw one F-35, then there are six suddenly. I also feel a bit sorry for the F-35 pilots if they heard that. If you're military and pull something like that on radio, you can, and will, be fined. And it is specifically for "Top Gun" lines.
I believe when a group of fighters are flying formation together going to or from the range, they're essentially flying as a single flight. The lead plane talks, has their transponder reporting etc. ATC refers to the flight of 6, essentially as a single plane to other traffic. He knows it's a group of 6, but for ATC purposes, referenced as a single plane but for pointing it out to nearby traffic like this, for better description will say how many.
It's because they are so stealthy on radar :>)
Makes sense thought, that you can't crack jokes like that, if you actually have missiles and guns ;)
I haven't heard anything that funny since Major Brian Shul telling the SR-71 ground speed check story. Brilliant.
Bluestreak 5509, requesting to change callsign for "Maverick"
This makes me LAUGH EVERY TIME and I can't even count how many times I've run across it!
It's the littlest things that are often the funniest. 😆
Squadron Leader: The hell he said that?
Wingman: Chill Boss, Top Gun Maverick premiered in theaters. 😅😅😅
My local ATC has no sense of humor, I'd have an agent waiting for me
You know the F-35 flight group got a chuckle with that.
most likey they are on UHF, not VHF....they prolly only heard the the ATC laugh, not the airliner.....
Top shelf response right there! ROCK ON AMERICA!
Pilot sounds like a straight warrior
LOL, my home area, ORF, PHF, Langley AFB (Home of the 1st fighter wing), NAS Norfolk (adjacent to the largest Navy Base in the world), and Smithfield Hams!
PS - the civilian towers here i was told have a military controller assigned to them also to deconflict the heavy military air traffic. Air Force One (okay SAM 28000) regularly practices touch and gos at Patrick Henry Field.
Some of the controllers at ORF are prior military absolutely, but they're not required to have any military experience or any military controllers assigned to oversee them in order to work mixed operations in that airspace.
That was too funny! He must have watched a lot of reruns of Top Gun Maverick with that reference to "switching to guns", lol.
That was from the original top gun movie 😏
That Bluestreak pilot likely graduated from one of the military services before joining PSA.
@@223frankthetank My bad, lol. I only watched Maverick and haven't watched the original.
@@BayAreaTraveler heresy!! Go watch the original, you’ll appreciate maverick even more.
Wish he woulda said he had the f35’s on radar. Lol
That response and comment was amazing! Good to see a solid sense of humor.
That was quick! I hope the lighting pilots heard that! 😂
Hahaha! 😂 Pity the passengers couldn't hear that 🤭
F-35 Pilot: I'll just hit the brakes and he'll fly right by.....
Would have been hilarious if one of the F-35s replied, “Get your butts above the hard deck and return to base.”
"Hey that might be the funniest thing ive ever heard in my entire life man 😐"
Considering a large portion of commercial airline pilots were once military pilots. It's also safe to say those f35 pilots are having more fun
Not as many as in the past!
Blue streak was obviously a former fighter pilot. My dad is also flying commercial now after retiring as a Lt. Col. f-16 instructor.
Buddy said
"😐😐😐that might be the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life 😐😐😐"
Yea we can tell by the laughter
Somebody’s been watching top gun lately lol. I love positive jovial attitude in the workplace very motivational. Laughter is the best medicine and the best energy drink.
would have been epic if Tabor responded with "Tabor flight, defensive!"
This dude understood the assignment.
*JIA5509* : Too close for the missiles, switching to guns.
*ATC* : Ha ha You silly
*Doom music start playing*
*ATC* : Hold up
Bluestreak 5509, *weapons free, engage*
*Kings by Jose Pavli starts playing*
ONE OF YOUR 737s DID A FLYBY ON MY TOWER AT OVER 400 KNOTS….!!!!
BEAST MODE!
Sounds like Bluestreak pilot is probably a military reservist pilot.
I was on a jet that was sharing the runway with a few F16's. The pilot called out over the radio that we were about to all see these fighters take off. It was a pretty cool sight. Then he called out saying, "You think that's fancy? Watch this." And then immediately tore us off the runway at max speed. Once in the air, the F16's flew around us a couple of times, waved and then went off in a different direction.
Everyone gangsta until the Boeing opens the weapons hatch unveiling a pair GAU-8s
I can imagine the CRJ pilot paying 100 bucks for the top gun reference. Totally worth it.
Tower: That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard
F35s: We’re not joking
_gun concealment doors pop open_
Its all fun and games until the airliner calls out "Darkstar judy judy! I'm going in for guns!"
Sounded a bit weird as the number jumped from 1 to 6 planes, but we had the missing F-35. And, we learned that F-35s tend to not turn on their transponders when they fly in a group.
_In other words, when aircraft are flying in formation, only the lead aircraft is supposed to have its transponder broadcasting. This is because transponders respond to a ping sent from a ground station, and if all aircraft in formation have their transponders online in close proximity to one another, they’ll all be pinged at the same time and they’ll all broadcast their information back at the same time._
_This would result in all of the signals reaching the ground receiver at once and potentially garbling the transmissions. So, in order to prevent that, only the lead aircraft in the formation is to leave its transponder “squawking.”_
That was so much funnier than I was expecting, was all in the delivery
A real man wouldn't switch to guns.
A real man would accelerate to ramming speed.
Guaranteed those F-35’s didn’t need ATC to tell them who was in their vicinity.
Wasn´t it the ATC that told the civilian planes where the F-35 are ?
Correct, but even military planes follow civilian procedures when not flying non combat missions in civilian airspace. It's better for safety.
Just some casual jets… why not?
That flight of F-35s was Ted Stryker and his squadron heading for Macho Grande.
amazing dude just witnessed half a billion $ flying beneath him
F35 pilot...This is SABOR 35, Approaching Bluestreak to see his intentions.
Wingman...im already on his 6
F35 pilot....Bluestreak say again, confirm last transmission
ATC: Bluestreak be advised only 5 F35's showing now
Bluestreak: I was just playin, this is a civili.........bbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppp
Wingman...Oops
Tremendous wit!
"Hey look, a civilian aircraft!"
Nice. Mutual respect!
Made my day.
With audio like this I understand the "oh look a civil airliner" XD