@@niksarassTop-left of the HUD shows the current G and bottom-left (under the speed tape) records the highest G in the flight so far. The numbers under SIM are his mach number … he hits 1.15.
I was a part of the test team at Nellis AFB that executed the testing before it was fielded. I am proud that the hard work of many is making a positive impact on pilots everywhere
I was wondering...what happens if the CAS pulls more than what the plane is supposed to take and creates structural damage? Do you have an angle limiter, you know like multiple ups and downs or is it a one time thing?
@@einarabelc5 "The G limit on this aircraft is 9G's! If the aircraft is about to crash or be shot down, there is no G limit!" An old joke, but semi-relevant. Structural damage, or smoking hole? I'm going with the structural damage. In this case they may just rely on the F16's normal limiter (dependant on stores Category, but I think it limits inputs to around 9G automatically, I can't remember, or lower in the heavier stores category). I will quote the B737 manual, which I am familiar with: "Maximum thrust can be obtained by advancing the thrust levers full forward if the EECs are in the normal mode. If terrain contact is imminent, advance thrust levers full forward." Even in the older, non-FADEC 737's, we were taught to go for the jokingly named 'radar power' (the old 737-200s weather radar was in front of the thrust levers), ie. jam the thrust levers as far forward as they would go, possibly cooking the engines. When you're about to hit a mountain....who cares about a longer service life on your hot section.
@@einarabelc5 I’m not familiar with the specific limitations of the F-16, but one thing to keep in mind is limitations that are taught are mostly human limitations to not kill the pilot. That’s one of the big bonuses of a unmanned fighter, along with a lot of downsides with losing an actual humans feel for flight, they aren’t limited by the mortal meat sack sitting in the cockpit so they can use the jet to its full G capabilities. That was one of the big advantages the AI had when they put an AI piloted F-16 vs a manned F-16. Granted it was in a sim, but the human pilot was trained to fly the real thing so instinctively he was sticking to his G limit, the AI on the other hand didn’t care and was flinging it all around the shop because it doesn’t have a brain that blood needs to flow to so why limit it’s potential. Just realised I went on a bit of a tangent, I’m not sure exactly but I’d assume the Jet can handle anything the recovery system throws at it but again it would need to consider the person insides limits because there’s not point recovering the aircraft if your going to kill the pilot in the recovery, so I’d assume it’s programmed to maximum human limitations as a limit for the G’s it can pull which should leave the aircraft in a relatively un damaged state
Wow, he was literally 4 seconds from death. He was at 15k altitude and dropped all the way down to 4K altitude. He was dropping around 1k per second. At that rate he literally only had 4 seconds to live. Amazing technology
That's how the system was designed. It's designed to only activate when there are no other choices left. That way it doesn't interfere with the pilot's mission. If the pilot doesn't trust it or if it gets in the way, he'd turn it off like a lot of other systems that are just annoying.
thats why he had such a steep pull out. if you didnt notice. he GLOC'd at 8.2G's the jet autocorrected into a 9.1G pullout. he was probably still out of it until he confirmed 2 knock it off
I bet the engineers that designed the Auto-GCAS sad at one point, "If this saves one pilot's life, we've succeeded." It's not every day you get proof like this.
For those not well versed in military talk: Knock it off: Safety term to end whatever exercise or activity immediately. Anyone involved can say this. Get above the floor: 12,000 ft was the minimum altitude for this and is in place for exactly this reason. The "G counter" is in the top left of the hud right above the speed. Speed is on the left side of the hud in knots. Altitude is on the right. Fun F-16 fact! The cockpit seats are tilted back to allow the pilot to sustain more G's!
666 (no seriously) is mach 1 in knots which is what is used to measure airspeed. So yes he did go past mach 1 at the bottom of the dive before he recovered!
GCAS is supposedly limited to 5.6G on the recovery. The pilot more than likely woke up during the recovery, panicked, and yanked the stick causing the 9.1Gs. (Second-hand info from F-16 pilots on the net).
@AParkedDragon96 Actually, he can. What happened was hardware failure, not software. Not fault of the MCAS software itself. However it's still Boeings fault they relied on non redundant sensors
@@weasle2904 Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) consists of both hardware and software... It's an entire system. It takes in sensor data, processes it, and outputs automatic flight trims. The point of failure for this system was the sensor. Your software, your control box, your sensors all make up this MCAS.
I lost my brother in law Lt Stephen Taylor of the Vermont ANG 29 November 1993 in. F-16 he was in the 114th FS #0770 due to pilot error low level flight into canyons and no visibality. I wish this tech was around then. Sad times. I am glad this pilot made it. My respect and thanks to their service.
I'm really sorry for your loss but I don't think this system is for avoiding low altitude objects, it so you dont lower your altitude in a too fast pace if you speed up too much you would need to pull up in a swift manner and doing that might shear the wings off with your only alternative being slammed to the ground
Guys, Google and research before posting what you “think”. AGCAS does not initiate recovery based on time. And in fact it is designed to avoid terrain. A recovery event is triggered by relative velocity, angles, and altitude against the jets stored/loaded DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Database) pronounced “dee-ted”. It absolutely could’ve helped the pilot mentioned above.
@@johndoe5816 maybe, although i doubt it because flying low in a canyon run at those speeds requires the pilot to constantly fly near terrain and often be heading towards terrain before maneuvering. AGCAS would likely either be too sensitive to use and constantly take control from the pilot, or if you put in the delays to ensure the pilot isn't in control the system won't have the time to save the plane. Even if it's predictive and only acts when it predicts the plane will hit the ground by the time the plane is on course to say hit a canyon wall, it's because the pilot didn't do the right control inputs like a second or half second earlier and no matter what inertia is taking that plane into the wall regardless. I believe AGCAS was specifically made to prevent what we see here which is newer pilots g-locking and not regaining consciousness quick enough to stop the plane from impacting the ground. At that speed 2 to 3 seconds later even at 9.1gs there wouldn't be enough altitude to recover.
He’d have been fine, the f-16 regularly pulls 9Gs in BFM sorties, there are race pilots that sustain upwards of 12Gs and have little consequences after the race
+LKNANML This system has been with it for along time not very new. But I still feel we are a ways out from all no pilot fighters. We are still creating more and more piloted fighters. Which is good for me. I'm trying to become a fighter pilot and I'd rather be in it having a blast that sitting on the ground flying through a computer screen.
I'm in the military on the UH-60 side of aviation. Best of luck to you getting into the pilots seat. Your future job is safe and sound. The next 10 years will be full of new drone systems. There are quite a few programs that are about to be fielded finishing up 10+ years of development and will be pretty solid at the 20 year mark. I'm betting this generations grand children will see a 50/50 autonomous/pilot ratio with a lot of pilots flying ACFT like we fly our predators now.
He passed out from g force draining blood from his brain.autopilot (Ground Collision Recovery System) took control and recovered a safe flight path until the pilot regained consciousness.
Anyone know where the toggle for this feature is located in the cockpit in DCS? I have a very intimate relationship with high velocity ground impacts in that game.
According to the article: "With the pilot now unconscious, the aircraft’s nose dropped and, from an altitude of just over 17,000 ft., entered a steepening dive in full afterburner. "
You can play flight sims for 100 years, but you can't replicate that fuckin' CRUSHING g-force. It kinda beats the living shit out of you at the best of times.
Politicians just need to fucking fund it and convince these taxpayers to fund these life saving things. Fuck, just with thorium technology we'd have the cheapest energy in the world, but some asshole politicians cut funding. Now that asshole politician is Secretary of State.
+Four Legged Duck I just typed in "thorium wikipedia"...and it says over there thorium reactors have already been made and are set to replace uranium reactors.
Wow I wish we had a video of this from outside the plane. Must be pretty cool to watch it go from an uncontrolled decent into snapping back into control
@@redactedrider7606 I don't think you know what panic means. It means allowing fear to cause a person to make an irrational decision or to fail to act. Did he do either of those things? No.
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AGCAS will command a 5.0-5.6G flyup maneuver just prior to crossing the point of no return. It will NEVER command a pitch up maneuver more extreme than that because it doesn't check what stores the aircraft has at that time. If you've got 2000kg bombs on each wing and you pull 5Gs, those bombs now weigh 10,000kg. 6G would be 12,000kg, 7G would be 14,000kg and his 9.1G maneuver would make each 2000kg bomb weigh 18,200kg. If you have two per wing, pulling 5G imparts 16,000N of extra force per wing. Pulling 9G would impart 32,000N per wing. The spars connecting the wings to the fuselage can only take so much force before a catastrophic failure. For him to pull a 9.1G flyup, he'd have to be applying back pressure to the stick.
This pilot that went unconscious is a significantly better pilot after this event... He has a greater respect for the aircraft, he understands his limits better.. Just amazing
That right there was the last flight he will ever do in an F-16. A G-LOC that would have otherwise resulted in the loss of him and his aircraft is a career ending event. He’s alive though.
@@sadbravesfanunless this is numerous times it's happened they usually have one or two more chances if I remember correctly, more than likely just one more chance unless the situation was really bad, like they almost crashed into a busy city maybe
@@IcyTorment Because of Captain Chesley Sullenberger who succesfully ditched his A320 in the Hudson after dual engine failure shortly after take-off, saving 155 lifes. He is often nicknamed 'Sully'.
As someone aspiring to fly as a military aviator, things like this make me want to thank the engineers who design and build these systems in advance. You all saved a life here, and you might save mine one day. Cheers! :)
I can’t imagine coming to and having to process where you are now at in the sky with seconds to do it! Our pilots, ground personnel and engineers are amazing
In response to the other pilot calling recover, Plane just needs an automated voice response that says “he’s asleep right now and Im kinda busy” now that would be bad ass.
That FLYUP signal from the GCAS is incredibly loud in your head set. Louder than your comms. I miss being in the USAF and playing around in the simulators. No, I'm not a pilot, but I did manage 80+ simulated flight hours in an F-16. Everything about this video other than the G-forces is simulated.
The sheer speed of altitude loss there was astonishing. Yikes. Reminds me of a CF-18 pilot that talked to our class in grade 9 as a kid. He told a story where he claimed he'd made a mistake and was fairly certain the bottom of his loop was going to intersect dirt so he yanked the stick for as many g's as he could and when he came too, he was in the opposite predicament. Scary stuff. :/
There is another video on YT where a test pilot is doing straight ahead aileron rolls in an F-16. During the 3rd roll at 5000 ft he imputs full sidestick and the jet rolls into a situation where it departs from normal flight (the wing stalled). The pilot recovers at about 400 ft above the ground (buildings) manually without the help of an automatic ground avoidance recovery system. He pulls 8.3 gs as well but does not pass out. That guy was lucky because he was too low and fast to eject. He missed death by a few seconds. They changed the software (and his underwear) after the test.
Nearly supersonic straight down 😬 +15,000 ft to 5,000 ft in 5 seconds... No wonder his buddy was panicking. it took 9.1 g’s to pull out - hope he was asleep for that one.
@@knax6240 the Number under the letters "SIM" is his Mach number, he was doing 1.15x the speed of sound when the system kicked in and pulled up so yes he was supersonic and flying at up to 55 degrees nose down during the uncontrolled dive.
The plane did go super sonic, under SIM is the Mach indicator and if you look at his radar altitude he actually got as low as 3000 ft above the ground. For reference as to where the radar altitude is, it's in a box on the right side of the hud and it has R next to it.
Wow, the fourth person in the comments whom have been involved in building the system. Please share some insights; what activates the system? What was your role in the development?
@@SKeeetcher I was never involved with the engineering’s these kind of systems I only maintain them on the aircraft. I never get to see these systems (including TCAS GCAS ETCAS etc.) in action but I do fix them on the aircraft and for the most part they are really reliable and work great and as expected when ops checking them. I actually just got back from troubleshooting TCAS and it’s not working as advertised but we are working on finding a solution.
@@dovaiS Doesn't compare to inside info, however @Jeffrey_Taylor didn't share anything interesting. Although a TCAS for a carrier jet seems impossible to properly implement.
Very interesting to see how the capability of the aircraft greatly exceeds the capability of "bag of yogurt with sticks in it" sitting in the seat. The computer completed a 9.1G recovery with not even a creak from the air frame, meanwhile the pilot will probably be sore for a few days. Imagine the capability potential when you remove the pilot and construct a smaller air frame out of stronger material. Drones could literally outmaneuver any manned aircraft with ease.
I don't know man - I'm pretty sure that airframe was stressed and I'm sure multiple things on board got over-G'd including the targeting pods etc.. I know the plane CAN do it - but I'm sure it was tough on it
The first plane to have a auto pullup feature was the JU-87 Stuka, German WW2 Divebomber. It also had the first radio altimeter or radar altimeter now. Pilot could set the radio altimeter to a preset altitude and a light/buzzer would come on letting him know he crossed that altitude to drop the bomb. He would then drop the bombs and it would then automatically pull out of the dive at 6-7g's. Most pilots would blackout pulling out of the dive. Remember 6-7g's is a lot without a G suit.
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Thanks for using the internet properly.Good job, that enhanced my understanding and thus, my enjoyment.I watched a show or two about G forces....to my memory, I think that 9 is enough to knock him unconscious again even if he had come to during that fall.
itsadeadmansparty Your comment made wanna go look it up, so I found this awesome guy in a centrifugal trainer ...."9g for 30 seconds"....this crazy Hungarian air force badass withstands crazy g testing for fifteen minutes and never passes out! It's good you should see it...ima go check out what an f16 can do now in g's....I saw one at an air show do some crazy shit one time....
+itsadeadmansparty Hey there is a sweet video on here called "f16 fighting falcon pulling 9g turn"....and wikipedia says that it was specifically built to pull 9g....do you ever ask yourself if you know the facts before you make an assertion? You are very mistaken, I don't mean to be rude, but anyway you should check out those two videos, fellow youtuber, have a nice day:)
It's more the turning while going fast than just going fast. Velocity amplifies inertia since the faster you go, the more energy needed to change your vector. That generates more 'g-force' as the aircraft slams into the pilot from below and pools their blood in the legs. The heart pumps harder and they do muscle contractions along with the flightsuit's leg squeezing mechanism to fight against that tendency. It'd kick the shit out of anyone.
A few reasons; he GLOC’d (medical issue right there want to make sure there’s no other medical issues), If he was carrying any ordnance he no doubt over G”d the jet Having to be saved by the computer while out cold dropping many thousands of feet in seconds and probably busting the floor altitude for the flight Bottom line is this was a traumatic event that he walked away from. The board’s purpose is to determine the root causes of the incident (pilot and aircraft) to determine whether the pilot is fit to continue flying as well as figure all of the relevant lessons learned so the F-16 community can learn from his experience. G’Loc can be caused by a combination of factors; pilot health, G tolerance, how quickly the Gs ramped up (slower is better), how low the pilot was exposed to G forces both in the incident and during that flight.
@@timothygauthier7589 Thank you for explaining it so clearly. My initial thought by your statement was that he did something wrong (and he could have) intentionally. By your explanation makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Insane. Hits 9Gs pulling out of the dive on its own at only 4k ft left to spare! Wow another second or two and that would have been it. Amazing tech. Great job.
Worse then that, 4k is above sea level. The radio altimeter (distance from solid ground below you) hit 2,900. He was literally 2 seconds from no longer existing. Wouldn't have even been enough of him left to bury.
He went out at 8.4 and the gcas recovered at 9.1 that's insane this guy would totally be bbq rite know had it not been for this system it should be incorporated into all modern fighters as well as demonstration teams there would be more pilots breathing rite now and I'm sure it's a large budget to outfit older planes but moving forward no question it belongs! 9.1g that is pushing the airframe past its max literally plus his rate of decent was so fast it's hard to believe the system could take over so quickly and pull out of such a high g maneuver. ...
Imagine that pilot waking up and realizing if he would’ve been training just a few years earlier, or didn’t have this system in his jet, he’d be in a fiery wreck in the ground
@@icheckedavailability He was going supersonic and if he would have ejected at that speed the forces acting on his body would have killed him, at such high speeds even air can act like a concrete wall and you hitting that wall super sonic
Lockheed Martin - "You may black out and need something to auto recover here is GCAS" Boeing - "You are in flight but someone farted in-flight, here lets auto open the doors for you"
17,290 at 0:07 when he starts to lose consciousness. 4,360 at 0:40 when he starts regaining altitude again. That's a loss in altitude of nearly 13,000 in about 33 seconds. It's so crazy that I would've never actually believed that I'd see it on cockpit video until right now.
My father in law was killed in this very same model before this technology was deployed. It would have saved his life. Glad this pilot had a different story.
Neither am I xD I got my channel name because when I was a baby, I would sit on my dad's lap when he played Burnout 3 on his original xbox and every time he crashed his car I'd point and say "Bug splat" because the car looked like a bug to me Lol
I tried to get hired by General Dynamics back in 73 when they were creating the F-16, but I was in Thailand then and couldn't make a physical interview. But they did send me a letter of an offer 6 years later. 👍👍🇺🇸
dang 13 people did not recover!! You don't hear all that much... as you have ear protection in use. The main noise you hear in that jet is the airflow changes as you turn and as you fly through the air. The buffeting sounds... the whistles of air... if you got a rock or two in your boot while stepping and it may come lose and hits the canopy or rattles around the cockpit as you go inverted dive and turn... You are sitting on top of the intake in the 16, jet is behind you. You will hear engine whine as your change fuel flow settings /throttle. In your headset you will hear a whine that is similar to you tuning your old car radio to an AM band. You will hear the hiss of your engine through your radio...
you just saw something that at any other point in history would have been the end of that pilots life you just saw a plane take control of a passed out pilot and pull him out of a dive and back into stable flight until the pilot was able to regain control of the craft.
a human Pilot can fly one plane better and smarter that any computer can (today). But the Pilot must be trained to realistic combat situation and not just simulators or exercises..
+Luke Weller all the automatic system did was level off the plane so it wasn't pointing strait down, thats a long shot from any kind of proper flying. Also on earth there's no point really having AI pilots, when you could just have a remote controlled plane flown by a pilot on the ground
G-lock isn't like the movies. You are out for a long time once you lose consciousness. There is also a period of time where you are "dreaming" very vivid dreams and also somewhat aware of what your surroundings are but aren't able to respond to anything
The pilot lost consciousness pulling 8.4 G’s and the recovery system pulled 9.1 G’s to save him truly incredible
"aaand he gloc again..."
imagine an infinite loop, or atleast until out of fuel haha
Where do you see the g?
@@niksarassTop-left of the HUD shows the current G and bottom-left (under the speed tape) records the highest G in the flight so far. The numbers under SIM are his mach number … he hits 1.15.
@@lebojay thanks
I'm sure the engineers who made this feel really good right now
hey krause
+Geo Biery o hai mark
When I was at Tyndall we lost a classmate to Gloc
Krause is it possible to pass out in falcon 4 bms?
The unsung heroes, even those who worked in ALL space agencies.
Imagine what its like 'waking up' going 800mph
PHIL-yes-PLZ imagine waking up going 17500 mph... Astronauts on the ISS do that every day :D
@@HashtagBirdyy relativity, going 17500mph in space isn't the same as 800mph over some mountains
@@fakename287 no shit
PHIL-yes-PLZ terrifying
@Shorty Shitstain thats exactly what I had to when I lapsed out at 4g (pussy) .... takes a second or two to shift into reality
I was a part of the test team at Nellis AFB that executed the testing before it was fielded. I am proud that the hard work of many is making a positive impact on pilots everywhere
Good job!
Thank you for your service, I'm just down the street from that base
I was wondering...what happens if the CAS pulls more than what the plane is supposed to take and creates structural damage? Do you have an angle limiter, you know like multiple ups and downs or is it a one time thing?
@@einarabelc5 "The G limit on this aircraft is 9G's! If the aircraft is about to crash or be shot down, there is no G limit!"
An old joke, but semi-relevant. Structural damage, or smoking hole? I'm going with the structural damage. In this case they may just rely on the F16's normal limiter (dependant on stores Category, but I think it limits inputs to around 9G automatically, I can't remember, or lower in the heavier stores category). I will quote the B737 manual, which I am familiar with:
"Maximum thrust can be obtained by advancing the thrust levers full forward if the EECs are in the normal mode. If terrain contact is imminent, advance thrust levers full forward."
Even in the older, non-FADEC 737's, we were taught to go for the jokingly named 'radar power' (the old 737-200s weather radar was in front of the thrust levers), ie. jam the thrust levers as far forward as they would go, possibly cooking the engines. When you're about to hit a mountain....who cares about a longer service life on your hot section.
@@einarabelc5 I’m not familiar with the specific limitations of the F-16, but one thing to keep in mind is limitations that are taught are mostly human limitations to not kill the pilot. That’s one of the big bonuses of a unmanned fighter, along with a lot of downsides with losing an actual humans feel for flight, they aren’t limited by the mortal meat sack sitting in the cockpit so they can use the jet to its full G capabilities. That was one of the big advantages the AI had when they put an AI piloted F-16 vs a manned F-16. Granted it was in a sim, but the human pilot was trained to fly the real thing so instinctively he was sticking to his G limit, the AI on the other hand didn’t care and was flinging it all around the shop because it doesn’t have a brain that blood needs to flow to so why limit it’s potential.
Just realised I went on a bit of a tangent, I’m not sure exactly but I’d assume the Jet can handle anything the recovery system throws at it but again it would need to consider the person insides limits because there’s not point recovering the aircraft if your going to kill the pilot in the recovery, so I’d assume it’s programmed to maximum human limitations as a limit for the G’s it can pull which should leave the aircraft in a relatively un damaged state
Wow, he was literally 4 seconds from death. He was at 15k altitude and dropped all the way down to 4K altitude. He was dropping around 1k per second. At that rate he literally only had 4 seconds to live. Amazing technology
That's how the system was designed. It's designed to only activate when there are no other choices left. That way it doesn't interfere with the pilot's mission. If the pilot doesn't trust it or if it gets in the way, he'd turn it off like a lot of other systems that are just annoying.
From 17k to 4k but system activated at 8.5k, incredible how far technology has come
thats why he had such a steep pull out. if you didnt notice. he GLOC'd at 8.2G's the jet autocorrected into a 9.1G pullout. he was probably still out of it until he confirmed 2 knock it off
3000Ft* 4000 on the baro, 3000 on the radar
Nick: Radar altimeter is typically less reliable when the plane is not close to a level position.
I bet the engineers that designed the Auto-GCAS sad at one point, "If this saves one pilot's life, we've succeeded." It's not every day you get proof like this.
Lol lives are saved every day by advanced safety measures.
For those not well versed in military talk:
Knock it off: Safety term to end whatever exercise or activity immediately. Anyone involved can say this.
Get above the floor: 12,000 ft was the minimum altitude for this and is in place for exactly this reason.
The "G counter" is in the top left of the hud right above the speed.
Speed is on the left side of the hud in knots.
Altitude is on the right.
Fun F-16 fact! The cockpit seats are tilted back to allow the pilot to sustain more G's!
im not sure of air speeds was he super sonic or not?
666 (no seriously) is mach 1 in knots which is what is used to measure airspeed. So yes he did go past mach 1 at the bottom of the dive before he recovered!
589 at 30K
On the left side of the screen see where it says SIM, the mach number is right below it. Looks like it got up to 1.15 times the speed of sound.
So he pulled 8 G's at one point? Wow
9.1 G's to recover holy balls. That's insane.
On the other hand...
Good job saving a life engineers
GCAS is supposedly limited to 5.6G on the recovery. The pilot more than likely woke up during the recovery, panicked, and yanked the stick causing the 9.1Gs. (Second-hand info from F-16 pilots on the net).
Yeah that's fucking boss.
Sure beats the 200 or so Gs on impact with Big Brown.
You are unconcious anyway...you can´t get more unconcious.
till your enemy hacks into your aircraft's computer and now controls it, instead of you.
3 years later, Boeing implemented the MCAS, the exact opposit system : the pilot is perfectly conscious, but the plane is crashing anyway.
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@@daniellee100 sensor is part of the system, you can't just take it out the sensor and say mcas has nothing to do with it.
@AParkedDragon96 Actually, he can. What happened was hardware failure, not software. Not fault of the MCAS software itself. However it's still Boeings fault they relied on non redundant sensors
@@weasle2904 Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) consists of both hardware and software... It's an entire system. It takes in sensor data, processes it, and outputs automatic flight trims. The point of failure for this system was the sensor. Your software, your control box, your sensors all make up this MCAS.
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Ground Collision Avoidance System living up to the name.
Thanks Ruri. This is why you're best girl.
Thanks
@@Domi39 what anime is it
i really read grandma collision avoidance
@@brooxeyyy That's helpful as well
I lost my brother in law Lt Stephen Taylor of the Vermont ANG 29 November 1993 in. F-16 he was in the 114th FS #0770 due to pilot error low level flight into canyons and no visibality. I wish this tech was around then. Sad times. I am glad this pilot made it. My respect and thanks to their service.
Davld Bigman • Sorry for your loss.😢Technology surely has come a long way.
I'm really sorry for your loss but I don't think this system is for avoiding low altitude objects, it so you dont lower your altitude in a too fast pace if you speed up too much you would need to pull up in a swift manner and doing that might shear the wings off with your only alternative being slammed to the ground
I'm sorry but how would CAS help? I think the trigger for this is simply nose down for too long.
Guys, Google and research before posting what you “think”. AGCAS does not initiate recovery based on time. And in fact it is designed to avoid terrain. A recovery event is triggered by relative velocity, angles, and altitude against the jets stored/loaded DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Database) pronounced “dee-ted”. It absolutely could’ve helped the pilot mentioned above.
@@johndoe5816 maybe, although i doubt it because flying low in a canyon run at those speeds requires the pilot to constantly fly near terrain and often be heading towards terrain before maneuvering. AGCAS would likely either be too sensitive to use and constantly take control from the pilot, or if you put in the delays to ensure the pilot isn't in control the system won't have the time to save the plane. Even if it's predictive and only acts when it predicts the plane will hit the ground by the time the plane is on course to say hit a canyon wall, it's because the pilot didn't do the right control inputs like a second or half second earlier and no matter what inertia is taking that plane into the wall regardless.
I believe AGCAS was specifically made to prevent what we see here which is newer pilots g-locking and not regaining consciousness quick enough to stop the plane from impacting the ground. At that speed 2 to 3 seconds later even at 9.1gs there wouldn't be enough altitude to recover.
Thanks computer.
"Pull up! - Stupid human. Fine, I'll do it for you."
"Pull Up!"
"Pull Up!"
"Pull Up, Dumbass!"
+Alaska P I can't, he's in the way!
Gah, what are you guys referencing? It sounds so familiar, I swear it's on the tip of my tongue!
+Madrigos it's the sfm turbulence
Oh, yeah! Cheers!
It feels dramatic and oddly satisfying when arrows converge right when wingman desperately screams to recover, and GCAS kicks in.
Technically I'm pretty sure it was the flight lead but yeah GCAS is amazing
So bad ass it’s like the jets taking over and is coming in to save him. Insane
@@tyberious3023To be fair it literally is, no other way to describe it. Amazing display of automated systems
What do the arrows mean? Is it like a visual 'countdown' to GCAS kicking in?
690 Knots.
9.1G's.
Dude was probably 2 inches shorter when he got out the plane.
He may have been 2 inches shorter but he was sitting higher in the seat.
@@RustyorBroken I was just watching .... Pants are not safe.
@@Planehazza Engleesh ...is naught wut it used to bee.
Harry Marshall Ok sure but if you make a grammar nazi comment its going to make things worse...
He’d have been fine, the f-16 regularly pulls 9Gs in BFM sorties, there are race pilots that sustain upwards of 12Gs and have little consequences after the race
Is that not freaking incredible?!?! Hats off to the engineers!
Awesome and somewhat foretelling. The no pilot fighter is slowing working it's way into full time service.
+LKNANML This system has been with it for along time not very new. But I still feel we are a ways out from all no pilot fighters. We are still creating more and more piloted fighters. Which is good for me. I'm trying to become a fighter pilot and I'd rather be in it having a blast that sitting on the ground flying through a computer screen.
I'm in the military on the UH-60 side of aviation. Best of luck to you getting into the pilots seat. Your future job is safe and sound. The next 10 years will be full of new drone systems. There are quite a few programs that are about to be fielded finishing up 10+ years of development and will be pretty solid at the 20 year mark. I'm betting this generations grand children will see a 50/50 autonomous/pilot ratio with a lot of pilots flying ACFT like we fly our predators now.
Someone please explain what went on. As a civ I think I missed a major point.
He passed out from g force draining blood from his brain.autopilot (Ground Collision Recovery System) took control and recovered a safe flight path until the pilot regained consciousness.
technology working when it's supposed to can really really save lives! he owes his life to ever created that crash avoidance system
nope, just engineering
Come on, man. That shit is not necessary.
don't let the racism bring you down.
yes bring religion into it. dumbas
was that racist comment directed towards me?
That's really nothing short of amazing. I hope the engineers and programmers are proud, because of them parents won't have to bury a child.
Without GCAS, would there even have been enough left of this pilot _to_ bury?
his parents were already dead
Hats to lead. He kept his eye on "Two", noticed the sudden dive and break in formation, and before 12,000ft was telling him to recover. Good job!
Anyone know where the toggle for this feature is located in the cockpit in DCS? I have a very intimate relationship with high velocity ground impacts in that game.
none of the planes in dcs have this. even if they did they would still in in an alpha state for years Lol fuck DCS
Lol
you mean BMS?
I too have met the ground in DCS far too many times... She is really unforgiving...
This is a new feature being tested...and it works
amazing rate of descent....and recovery
I'll bet full afterburner while going downhill is what did it.
I don't think he had the afterburner on.
According to the article: "With the pilot now unconscious, the aircraft’s nose dropped and, from an altitude of just over 17,000 ft., entered a steepening dive in full afterburner. "
Absolutely incredible.
disturbs me :( like some scp footage im crying /_\ help...
You can play flight sims for 100 years, but you can't replicate that fuckin' CRUSHING g-force. It kinda beats the living shit out of you at the best of times.
engineers solve problems not politicians.
Engineers save lives. Politicians take lives.
Politicians just need to fucking fund it and convince these taxpayers to fund these life saving things. Fuck, just with thorium technology we'd have the cheapest energy in the world, but some asshole politicians cut funding. Now that asshole politician is Secretary of State.
+Logician you can't use thorium as a fuel source.
Check your facts
+Four Legged Duck I just typed in "thorium wikipedia"...and it says over there thorium reactors have already been made and are set to replace uranium reactors.
Voyager 1 and 2 both use Thorium as fuel.
Wow I wish we had a video of this from outside the plane. Must be pretty cool to watch it go from an uncontrolled decent into snapping back into control
"Pretty cool"?! Pretty horrifying as his wingman. Relief to see it pull up.
@@robertherndon4351 That's what he meant.
2 recover.....2 RECOVER...... *2 RECOVER*
my dude was panicking hard there
I dont fucking blame him too
Yeah especially if you personally know “2”
You would be too if you saw your best bud drop out of the sky like a rock
That wasn't panic. He was trying to wake his partner up. What was he supposed to do whisper?
@@redactedrider7606 I don't think you know what panic means. It means allowing fear to cause a person to make an irrational decision or to fail to act. Did he do either of those things? No.
when you are flying a jet in battlefield 4 and your controller dies
hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I can relate
I wish bf4 had ground avoidance
Playing an FPS on a console
OMEGALUL
MrMentalSoul not even close to some sim or BS noob game. This was real - all the physical forces and potential disastrous outcome. No re-spawn. SMH
@@PacificAirPhoto1 r/woooosh
I wonder if the computer put him back to sleep for a bit. What with the 9.1G pull-out.
Matthew McKay he was already asleep...
@@thejupitergod5687 he was probably starting to wake up in the dive, the pullout for sure put him back out.
In the article linked in the description it says the student pilot was in control again and was the cause of the jet hitting the 9G.
AGCAS will command a 5.0-5.6G flyup maneuver just prior to crossing the point of no return. It will NEVER command a pitch up maneuver more extreme than that because it doesn't check what stores the aircraft has at that time. If you've got 2000kg bombs on each wing and you pull 5Gs, those bombs now weigh 10,000kg. 6G would be 12,000kg, 7G would be 14,000kg and his 9.1G maneuver would make each 2000kg bomb weigh 18,200kg. If you have two per wing, pulling 5G imparts 16,000N of extra force per wing. Pulling 9G would impart 32,000N per wing.
The spars connecting the wings to the fuselage can only take so much force before a catastrophic failure.
For him to pull a 9.1G flyup, he'd have to be applying back pressure to the stick.
So was the system delayed? Because he was seconds from death and pulling 9gs.
This pilot that went unconscious is a significantly better pilot after this event... He has a greater respect for the aircraft, he understands his limits better.. Just amazing
Not really. He got sent to desk duty after this.
is that true?
That right there was the last flight he will ever do in an F-16. A G-LOC that would have otherwise resulted in the loss of him and his aircraft is a career ending event. He’s alive though.
lol no@@snakesinthecityaustralia9599
@@sadbravesfanunless this is numerous times it's happened they usually have one or two more chances if I remember correctly, more than likely just one more chance unless the situation was really bad, like they almost crashed into a busy city maybe
in soviet russia such autopilot is not needed. if fighter crashes, russian woman shall give birth to a new pilot.
LMFAO
:b
You idiots know that Russia has half the population of USA?
You do get that Russian planes have this exact same thing in their programming?
Miloš Stefanović you do get that he's joking? :P
Listening to his breathing while pulling G you can tell when he goes unconscious hearing his breathing quickly relax. Scary stuff.
You can hear it in the voices of the wingmen.. "Two, RECOVER!" they thought he was a goner.. Glad it saved his life.
Yeah his voice was just pure fear for his wingman, true loyalty right there
"Sully" is the appropriate call-sign considering such an amazing life saving system.
Sully is the callsign for the flight. Sully 1, 2, 3, etc.
***** I know, its just an ironic callsign considering what occurred.
@@IcyTorment Because of Captain Chesley Sullenberger who succesfully ditched his A320 in the Hudson after dual engine failure shortly after take-off, saving 155 lifes. He is often nicknamed 'Sully'.
As someone aspiring to fly as a military aviator, things like this make me want to thank the engineers who design and build these systems in advance. You all saved a life here, and you might save mine one day. Cheers! :)
Have you pursued your career?
Curious for a follow up
Also curious
Are you a pilot yet?
How's it going man?
That Aircraft said "Fuck this, I'm not going out like that"
@@Bondyespeaks D:
@@InvictusByz hello fellow EU4 player
@@gnittegdellort Hello! :D
why don’t you check Danny2462’s old 6 year asteroid video, i think i saw your comment on top
@@InvictusByz ^
that went from "oh he's at 17,000 ft he's got plenty of time to recover" to "OMFG!!!!" real quick.
I can’t imagine coming to and having to process where you are now at in the sky with seconds to do it! Our pilots, ground personnel and engineers are amazing
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In response to the other pilot calling recover, Plane just needs an automated voice response that says “he’s asleep right now and Im kinda busy” now that would be bad ass.
Hitting the ground at 800mph would not have been fun.
Why?
sounds fun to me
it's what the lord would've wanted anyway
Where do you see the speed?
+Doug L that's about right. he was going 55 degrees down full afterburner for 8000+ ft
I love how when it kicks in it says "FLYUP"
LOL
I guess Ace Combat wasn't too far from the truth lol
Bobby D Omg man i just finished playing Ace Combat 4 on my PC like 3 days ago XD
Ace Combat 5 was the best imo, I started with 4. xD
Instead of FLYUP it should have said WAKETHEFUCKUP lol.
That FLYUP signal from the GCAS is incredibly loud in your head set. Louder than your comms. I miss being in the USAF and playing around in the simulators. No, I'm not a pilot, but I did manage 80+ simulated flight hours in an F-16. Everything about this video other than the G-forces is simulated.
Thank you machine spirit.
All hail the Omnissiah
Dropped 8,000 feet in just seconds
I'm here before this gets on the front page of youtube.
Good try
What a plane. What a plane. Lots of respect for the guys who have engineered the plane and programmed the systems here.
Is the radar altimeter the "R" box? I think I saw as low as 2,900 AGL if it is.
Truly amazing technology, kudos to the engineers and test crew.
Yes.
Less than 3 seconds before impact
The sheer speed of altitude loss there was astonishing. Yikes. Reminds me of a CF-18 pilot that talked to our class in grade 9 as a kid. He told a story where he claimed he'd made a mistake and was fairly certain the bottom of his loop was going to intersect dirt so he yanked the stick for as many g's as he could and when he came too, he was in the opposite predicament. Scary stuff. :/
Yea those altitude number drop so fast when you're heading straight for the ground at 800+mph
Snake respond.
Snake?
SNAAAKKEE!!!!
CRAB battle
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Continue: *gun shot sound*
There is another video on YT where a test pilot is doing straight ahead aileron rolls in an F-16. During the 3rd roll at 5000 ft he imputs full sidestick and the jet rolls into a situation where it departs from normal flight (the wing stalled). The pilot recovers at about 400 ft above the ground (buildings) manually without the help of an automatic ground avoidance recovery system. He pulls 8.3 gs as well but does not pass out. That guy was lucky because he was too low and fast to eject. He missed death by a few seconds. They changed the software (and his underwear) after the test.
daffidavit any link?
Nearly supersonic straight down 😬
+15,000 ft to 5,000 ft in 5 seconds...
No wonder his buddy was panicking.
it took 9.1 g’s to pull out - hope he was asleep for that one.
Rob Law read the article, it was the pilot who made the plane go from 5 G’d up to 9.1....
He was above supersonic, the indicated airspeed is in knots not mph
@@knax6240 the Number under the letters "SIM" is his Mach number, he was doing 1.15x the speed of sound when the system kicked in and pulled up so yes he was supersonic and flying at up to 55 degrees nose down during the uncontrolled dive.
The plane did go super sonic, under SIM is the Mach indicator and if you look at his radar altitude he actually got as low as 3000 ft above the ground. For reference as to where the radar altitude is, it's in a box on the right side of the hud and it has R next to it.
MUM I CANT RIGHT NOW, YOU CANT FRICKIN PAUSE!!
*AFK
underrated
im pretty sure knockitoff means cease exercises.
Yupp in means cease whatever you're doing it's used in airshows too where it can mean land immediately in case of crash or rule violation
Thought he meant have a wank, thanks for the clarification 👍🏿
I personally work on this system but we of course never hear about incidents like this. It’s amazing to see it in action.
Wow, the fourth person in the comments whom have been involved in building the system. Please share some insights; what activates the system? What was your role in the development?
@@SKeeetcher I was never involved with the engineering’s these kind of systems I only maintain them on the aircraft. I never get to see these systems (including TCAS GCAS ETCAS etc.) in action but I do fix them on the aircraft and for the most part they are really reliable and work great and as expected when ops checking them. I actually just got back from troubleshooting TCAS and it’s not working as advertised but we are working on finding a solution.
@@SKeeetcher if u still want info lockheed martin has an article about it on their website. They developed it with nasa and a couple others.
@@dovaiS Doesn't compare to inside info, however @Jeffrey_Taylor didn't share anything interesting.
Although a TCAS for a carrier jet seems impossible to properly implement.
Very interesting to see how the capability of the aircraft greatly exceeds the capability of "bag of yogurt with sticks in it" sitting in the seat. The computer completed a 9.1G recovery with not even a creak from the air frame, meanwhile the pilot will probably be sore for a few days. Imagine the capability potential when you remove the pilot and construct a smaller air frame out of stronger material. Drones could literally outmaneuver any manned aircraft with ease.
welcome to Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere (1999)
@@Sn4k3f1st I was really hoping to find an AC reference here. I was not disappointed.
I wouldn't be so confident about the airframe) Plane definitely will be examined after this
I don't know man - I'm pretty sure that airframe was stressed and I'm sure multiple things on board got over-G'd including the targeting pods etc.. I know the plane CAN do it - but I'm sure it was tough on it
@@Sn4k3f1st And ace combat 7
"Mission failed, we'll get em' next time."
get that sunnavabitch outta my sight.
+Mr. Bleach دد
Good news. The check cleared. Time to go to work.
Are we rushin' in? Or are we going sneaky beaky like?
hahaha
You know when that pilot finally came to he was probably like "WTF just happened??"
The first plane to have a auto pullup feature was the JU-87 Stuka, German WW2 Divebomber. It also had the first radio altimeter or radar altimeter now. Pilot could set the radio altimeter to a preset altitude and a light/buzzer would come on letting him know he crossed that altitude to drop the bomb. He would then drop the bombs and it would then automatically pull out of the dive at 6-7g's. Most pilots would blackout pulling out of the dive. Remember 6-7g's is a lot without a G suit.
Must’ve been a lot of fun for the radio operator that’s sitting backwards in the plane…
This is why stuka pilots were doped up
@@spinningsquare1325 Think most of the military was, lol.
Amazing! TECHNOLOGY
I knew I'd find this comment...
Whoever designed and implemented the system deserves a medal.
Hello,
I'm working on a video transcripted of this. Could I please use this video and mention credit your channel?
Much appreciated. Thanks for sharing! :)
yes why not
Yes, I paid for all aspects of its production, so I hereby grant you permission to use this video.
It government video (from USAF most likely) so it should be in public domain then.
*Loud gasp* *Loud gasp* *Loud gasp* *Loud gasp* *Loud gasp* *Loud gasp*...
I can't find this video on your channel... whats it called?
Guy clearly blacked out and almost went supersonic. Glad he was able to recover in time.
He was supersonic. The Mach number is displayed below the "SIM" marking on the left side of the hud.
Can you please explain like I'm 5?
+bulmer the man got sleepy and he was going really really fast but he woke up
900 mph fast...
It was an autopilot to avoid hit the grpund, that saved his life.
9 Gs on the recovery, wow!
How do you know it was 9 gs?
The number on the top left just above the airspeed tape.
Thanks for using the internet properly.Good job, that enhanced my understanding and thus, my enjoyment.I watched a show or two about G forces....to my memory, I think that 9 is enough to knock him unconscious again even if he had come to during that fall.
itsadeadmansparty Your comment made wanna go look it up, so I found this awesome guy in a centrifugal trainer ...."9g for 30 seconds"....this crazy Hungarian air force badass withstands crazy g testing for fifteen minutes and never passes out! It's good you should see it...ima go check out what an f16 can do now in g's....I saw one at an air show do some crazy shit one time....
+itsadeadmansparty Hey there is a sweet video on here called "f16 fighting falcon pulling 9g turn"....and wikipedia says that it was specifically built to pull 9g....do you ever ask yourself if you know the facts before you make an assertion? You are very mistaken, I don't mean to be rude, but anyway you should check out those two videos, fellow youtuber, have a nice day:)
Has he never seen chocolate rain don't breath into the mic.
10/10
Nice
+Telic ayoo now I find u everywhere
they have to...they are going realy fast
It's more the turning while going fast than just going fast. Velocity amplifies inertia since the faster you go, the more energy needed to change your vector. That generates more 'g-force' as the aircraft slams into the pilot from below and pools their blood in the legs. The heart pumps harder and they do muscle contractions along with the flightsuit's leg squeezing mechanism to fight against that tendency. It'd kick the shit out of anyone.
this is the highest quality video of an F16 HUD ive seen
when you pause the game and then remember you are playing online.
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Lol this pilots debriefing must have been fun 😂😂
I'd say those briefs were no longer serviceable and somewhat heavy.
It’s going to be a flight board, not just a debrief.
@@timothygauthier7589 Why would it be a flight board, just curious?
A few reasons;
he GLOC’d (medical issue right there want to make sure there’s no other medical issues),
If he was carrying any ordnance he no doubt over G”d the jet
Having to be saved by the computer while out cold dropping many thousands of feet in seconds and probably busting the floor altitude for the flight
Bottom line is this was a traumatic event that he walked away from. The board’s purpose is to determine the root causes of the incident (pilot and aircraft) to determine whether the pilot is fit to continue flying as well as figure all of the relevant lessons learned so the F-16 community can learn from his experience.
G’Loc can be caused by a combination of factors; pilot health, G tolerance, how quickly the Gs ramped up (slower is better), how low the pilot was exposed to G forces both in the incident and during that flight.
@@timothygauthier7589 Thank you for explaining it so clearly. My initial thought by your statement was that he did something wrong (and he could have) intentionally. By your explanation makes a lot of sense, thanks.
Thank you Skynet
Lmao
Insane. Hits 9Gs pulling out of the dive on its own at only 4k ft left to spare! Wow another second or two and that would have been it. Amazing tech. Great job.
Worse then that, 4k is above sea level. The radio altimeter (distance from solid ground below you) hit 2,900. He was literally 2 seconds from no longer existing. Wouldn't have even been enough of him left to bury.
I wonder what the G limit on that thing is?
@@vikkimcdonough61539G’s. Exactly what he pulled, but when it comes to saving a pilot’s life? However many G’s it takes
2900ft to spare.
I never would have guessed that a jet could descend from 17,000 to 4,000 that quickly
He went out at 8.4 and the gcas recovered at 9.1 that's insane this guy would totally be bbq rite know had it not been for this system it should be incorporated into all modern fighters as well as demonstration teams there would be more pilots breathing rite now and I'm sure it's a large budget to outfit older planes but moving forward no question it belongs! 9.1g that is pushing the airframe past its max literally plus his rate of decent was so fast it's hard to believe the system could take over so quickly and pull out of such a high g maneuver. ...
"ALTITUDE" "ALTITUDE" "PULL UP"
All fighters need this, just imagine how many lives this would have saved
Imagine that pilot waking up and realizing if he would’ve been training just a few years earlier, or didn’t have this system in his jet, he’d be in a fiery wreck in the ground
If you pause at the right time you can actually see DLZ for AIM-9 before it gets covered!
They were flying in a MOA NE of Tucson, no live bombing range in that area if that's what you mean't by DLZ?
@@s.mendez7160 I mean DLZ for AIM-9 and not for bombs. DLZ means dynamic launch zone and it is indication if target is in range.
While in pause, you can use the comma and period keys to go frame-by-frame to get to the exact place.
How nice, it comes with an alarm to wake up the pilot if he has a nap
almost inverted and 55 degrees below the horizontal, above 652 knots, below 9kft.
is ejection even an option anymore?
yes, except it’ll be a little messy.
He was supersonic for a moment, so yeah he would've died if he ejected
Very slim chance of survival with ejection. If he survived an ejection he should go buy a lottery ticket right after.
@@PhantomMods4 that's not how statistic and probability works
@@icheckedavailability He was going supersonic and if he would have ejected at that speed the forces acting on his body would have killed him, at such high speeds even air can act like a concrete wall and you hitting that wall super sonic
Hearing that guy shouting 'PHIL RECOVER!' in panic before autopilot came on gave me goosebumps
"Two," recover.
How did you get Phil out of this
Lockheed Martin - "You may black out and need something to auto recover here is GCAS"
Boeing - "You are in flight but someone farted in-flight, here lets auto open the doors for you"
Beautiful engineering right there. If i ever wanted to become an engineer this is the kind of solutions i would want to provide.
Jesus, 9.1 G’s while he’s lights out. That’s intense
Basically the opposite of Boeing's software which flies a conscious pilot into the ground....
can confirm, autopilot in flight sim 2020 is buggy as shit
@@DrFillyBlunt He wasn't talking about a simulator...
@@mikethespike056 you don't say?
17,290 at 0:07 when he starts to lose consciousness.
4,360 at 0:40 when he starts regaining altitude again.
That's a loss in altitude of nearly 13,000 in about 33 seconds.
It's so crazy that I would've never actually believed that I'd see it on cockpit video until right now.
İt's 2900 feet actually
Look at the radar alt.
My father in law was killed in this very same model before this technology was deployed. It would have saved his life. Glad this pilot had a different story.
Alexa, if I fall asleep fly the plane for me ok.
"2 Recover, 2 RECOVER, 2 RECOVER" 1 def was pissing himself after witnessing his friend almost fall to the ground
looks like a game i used to play on ps1 or ps2 back in th day
+Zero Cool oh yeah! And the new one is coming out
+Zero Cool YES !!Mobius one
I used to watch my dad play that when I was a little kid! :D
Neither am I xD I got my channel name because when I was a baby, I would sit on my dad's lap when he played Burnout 3 on his original xbox and every time he crashed his car I'd point and say "Bug splat" because the car looked like a bug to me Lol
what about razgriz,galm,and garuda?
I tried to get hired by General Dynamics back in 73 when they were creating the F-16, but I was in Thailand then and couldn't make a physical interview. But they did send me a letter of an offer 6 years later. 👍👍🇺🇸
55 degrees nose down and mach 1.14 before to recover pulling 9,1 g’s. Four seconds more and hit the ground.
3 years after this happened youtube recommended this to me. Man i wonder if that Pilot will be allowed to continue flying.
Of course, this could happen to the best of them.
When your aircraft is too pretty to die and knows it.
Hearing him tell recover spooked me, literally dropping like 5k altitude a minute
After landing......goes to store and buys case of beers for gcas engineers.
The URL in the description no longer works.
Plane: fine I guess I’ll do it myself.
Damn buddy. That was closed! Phew. Stay safe. Thank you for your services.
Hey, it's just like Google Earth Pilot Simulator!
I guess I'm certified to be pilot now!
The Fighter Pilot Podcast did an episode on this and it was amazing. Something like 13 pilots saved and 11 aircraft.
Bro said “Fine, I’ll do it myself.”
0:33 BF4 flashbacks
That was a little too silent for an F16 inside. Damn. The sound insulations must be insane.
You are more or less hearing just the conversation over the head set. The rest of the noise is canceled out.
dang 13 people did not recover!!
You don't hear all that much... as you have ear protection in use. The main noise you hear in that jet is the airflow changes as you turn and as you fly through the air. The buffeting sounds... the whistles of air... if you got a rock or two in your boot while stepping and it may come lose and hits the canopy or rattles around the cockpit as you go inverted dive and turn...
You are sitting on top of the intake in the 16, jet is behind you.
You will hear engine whine as your change fuel flow settings /throttle.
In your headset you will hear a whine that is similar to you tuning your old car radio to an AM band. You will hear the hiss of your engine through your radio...
It's a radio transmission, not entirely what the pilot hears.
The microphone is inside his helmet.
The Mic is in the mask
I have no idea what I just saw.
you just saw something that at any other point in history would have been the end of that pilots life you just saw a plane take control of a passed out pilot and pull him out of a dive and back into stable flight until the pilot was able to regain control of the craft.
+hardwire thanks for explaining. with technology that advanced why even have pilots?
Luke Weller we are working towards it. there is the question of can a drone ever be as good as a real pilot.
a human Pilot can fly one plane better and smarter that any computer can (today). But the Pilot must be trained to realistic combat situation and not just simulators or exercises..
+Luke Weller all the automatic system did was level off the plane so it wasn't pointing strait down, thats a long shot from any kind of proper flying.
Also on earth there's no point really having AI pilots, when you could just have a remote controlled plane flown by a pilot on the ground
G-lock isn't like the movies. You are out for a long time once you lose consciousness. There is also a period of time where you are "dreaming" very vivid dreams and also somewhat aware of what your surroundings are but aren't able to respond to anything
waking up 13,000 feet below from where you were must be terrifying and very relieving