30 years of Naval Aviation, and that's probably one of the best stories I've heard. When you're in the soup and it's recovery time aboard the ship, everyone gathers around the PLAT.
I served in VF-154 the Black Knights as an AQ technician, I worked on the radar in the F4 Phantom, during the Vietnam war, in the late 1960’s. Two Westpac cruises. I have seen the F4 being recovered after a mission, during night ops with heavy rain. The flight deck was pitching and yawing. Navy pilots are the best in the world. Until you have seen these drivers catch the 3rd wire in that kind of weather, you then know how good these guys are.
A Blessing On Our Country to have men who CAN and WILL do the Job Of Protecting Us. I pray we shall ever have them and that I may never take it for less than the miracle it surely is.
Love that because I've had experiences in my own life too where I should have been far more nervous than I was, but thanks to being new to it I didn't realize how unusual it was to be worried.
Wow I love this interview reminds me of the E-2 Hawkeye that seemed to lose power on the cat shot, the aircraft took off and dipped below the deck out of sight. Everyone thought the aircraft had crashed into the water and was lost at sea with no survivors.😭 Suddenly the aircraft rose up out of the fog climbed to altitude finished its mission and returned to the ship safe and sound...That plane was piloted by a black aviator as well! Manual landings are some of the most difficult flying, a military or civilian pilot will ever do in his entire career!
I think Ninja was EPIC! 😎 That definitely is what you do 😁 I also imagine that the LSO's probably couldn't do a better job considering the visibility problems 😊
When I get a car that is a hard to diag issue and come up with a fix, you will get people who say " wow that is terrific how did you ever figure that out?" My standard reply is "what do think this is, my hobby?" "This is what I do to feed my family."
Wow, you can see why HE was selected to fly the Tomcat! I would like to know how many times the LSO is cut out of the comms loop like this? I've never heard this before. If it hadn't gone so well, would the RIO be 'in trouble' for his hot mike & controlling the entire pass? I don't know why carrier Captains launch in such extremely poor conditions? Yes, they HAVE to go if it were war, but in this case where they were recalled almost immediately, you have to wonder why? But I am just a layman watching from the sidelines so to speak. I wonder if he got an "OK Pass" on this?!! Cheers!🇨🇦🍺
June gloom really means SD op area. I hated every day out there. I'm a Norfolk sailor. 50 miles out to sea, you're in the VACAPES op area and the Gulf Stream. 35 degrees in Norfolk becomes 55 and sunny. In the SDOA, 72 degrees in SD becomes 40 degrees and rain. Thank you Bearing Sea currents. 😢
It's not about the flight controls system design, FBW, CAS, SAS, whatever. You can do the same mistakes or fly the same best with each one of them as long as you've gotten used to that controls system mode over time. Only when changing it kind of makes you feel like you need to relearn to fly=). I don't want to sound like this was actually easy, but as long as the winds weren't rough hard enough to make your velocity vector bounce around and so your ICLS bars start wobbling around even though you don't give any control inputs, it means that although the visibility was bad due to heavy rain, there was no significant turbulence in the air to not let you stabilize the path and glideslope (ICLS) good enough. But being a new one, was indeed more difficult due to psychological reasons like fear and stuff, but less due to how hard it was to actually keep the plane on the right path constantly. Cheers!
It would have been a better interview if he hadn't boasted about himself 3 - 4 times. He did a great job the aircraft- we understand that. Let the situation speak for itself.
I bet it was an OK pass. If you're not familiar with carrier aviation, there are three possible grades: OK, fair and no grade. Everyone from the CAG to the nugget aviator has every trap graded.
@@crazedvole The B-17 was the first flyby wire plane. When on a bombing run the Norden Bomb Site was the computer and used electric motors to fly the plane. The F-8 Crusader had the first electronic flight control computer, was the same as the Apollo LEM. The F-14 had a more advanced flight control computer. The F-14 is unstable with the flaps down and the computer can make the corrections fast enough to land with the flaps down around 135kts If the computer fails they have to land at 180kts. The F-14 also had the same autopilot as the 747 and it could land the plane on a carrier better than any human pilot. This system was called the ACLS, Automatic Carrier landing System. Before you start arguing I built the F-14 training program in Oceana with Dale Snodgrass him self and know the plane well enough to teach it. The F-16 was the firs totally fly by wire plane with no manual reversion at all so if the computer failed there is no flight controls at all.
@@laynecox3992 That, plus the "perfect storm" of a compressor stall on landing, plus not remembering the NATOPS, got her killed. I'm assuming the recovery procedure was in the book, though not yet in Bold Face, at the time of her mishap. The procedure is anti-intuitive: "center stick, rudder only to correct roll, sufficient power to maintain AOA only" (hope I got that right) Whereas pilot intuition would be stick hard over and full MIL power, I think. All in all,someone else's DEI agenda got her killed. Tragic. I understand she was a good person, and a good A-6 pilot, but the Tomcat is very unforgiving and is hard to land on the boat.
Fighter pilots really are all just the same dude with a different skin suit on. They speak the same, same demeanour, same hair cut, same ego/modesty, just the same dude lol
I wonder if this guy ever looted stuff or wore his pants down around his knees. I wonder if he ever used the word axe when he meant ask. I dont think so. Blacks pay attention.
Just so happens most black people don’t do any of those things. However, you might want to focus on who creating wars all over the globe, past present and why. Your cognitive dissonance is strong with you. Stop being a hypocrite.
Why even note his race!? There is plenty of “white trash” in this world as well! I’m a white guy. Pilot is an Aviator and that is all you should consider here
So that is what your takeaway was for this story? Not that the story was of a professional warrior trying to get his jet, his RIO and himself safely on deck in challenging conditions. Pretty sure you truly not a military aviation enthusiast.
My next lifetime I'll pin my Navy Gold Wings n Fly Tom14s!!!!(I said next lifetime so they'll be back!!!) I did get to touche sky as an Army Helo : Huey n Blackhawk Guy....But my Lust for Navy Gold was my Dream!!! 'Heavy......me ' Stich wouldve loved to be your Fly Mate!!! U n ur RIO ROCK🇺🇸
Never get tired of seeing this specific interview. The "isn't this what we do" is so brilliant.
Same.
It's probably easier to stay calm and focus if you don't realize how much trouble you're in.
You were not flying the plane you became one with the plane you are a true aviator !
just goes to show how important confidence is. he made his approach without any preconceived notion that it couldn't be done and proved himself right
Well done sir.
30 years of Naval Aviation, and that's probably one of the best stories I've heard. When you're in the soup and it's recovery time aboard the ship, everyone gathers around the PLAT.
Yeah, those were the good ole days!
He doesn’t even blink now, probably didn’t blink once making that difficult trap!
A humble hero.
Good job "Heavy".
Im livin the dream because of guys like this.. God bless em all!
I served in VF-154 the Black Knights as an AQ technician, I worked on the radar in the F4 Phantom, during the Vietnam war, in the late 1960’s. Two Westpac cruises. I have seen the F4 being recovered after a mission, during night ops with heavy rain. The flight deck was pitching and yawing. Navy pilots are the best in the world. Until you have seen these drivers catch the 3rd wire in that kind of weather, you then know how good these guys are.
Two Westpac cruises!
No money no honey cruise is what we called them
God bless you sir and thank you for your service
The cream always rises to the top Godspeed.
A Blessing On Our Country to have men who CAN and WILL do the Job Of Protecting Us.
I pray we shall ever have them and that I may never take it for less than the miracle it surely is.
AWSM LANDING BROTHER! Watched many a Tomcat Land aboard USS America 1981 IO Cruise! God bless you n Thank you for your SERVICE to AMERICA!
What a stud. All of them
Epic - more please!
RIO's got an Ejection handle mark in his hands after that trap. Great story, Sir!
Nice job👍. You earned that pass💪
Way to represent!
Love that because I've had experiences in my own life too where I should have been far more nervous than I was, but thanks to being new to it I didn't realize how unusual it was to be worried.
truly a man of steel
Wow I love this interview reminds me of the E-2 Hawkeye that seemed to lose power on the cat shot, the aircraft took off and dipped below the deck out of sight. Everyone thought the aircraft had crashed into the water and was lost at sea with no survivors.😭
Suddenly the aircraft rose up out of the fog climbed to altitude finished its mission and returned to the ship safe and sound...That plane was piloted by a black aviator as well!
Manual landings are some of the most difficult flying, a military or civilian pilot will ever do in his entire career!
Excellent Airmanship brother. I have walked a road similar to you.
Nothing but respect sir.
Retired AC1. A 99 recovery was always stressful on everybody.
Great job. Tomcat for life.
What a great dude
Your and all the airmen are what makes America Great..
Nice story tell , thanks for sharing
Great story.........great trap too!
Got the plane on board!
Great Story, Go Navy.
I think Ninja was EPIC! 😎 That definitely is what you do 😁 I also imagine that the LSO's probably couldn't do a better job considering the visibility problems 😊
Awesome story 👍
Nice flying bro
When I get a car that is a hard to diag issue and come up with a fix, you will get people who say " wow that is terrific how did you ever figure that out?" My standard reply is "what do think this is, my hobby?" "This is what I do to feed my family."
Well done!!!
That's right man its a Mans Mans Machine....Good story good work!!
Awesome pilot!
Loved this.
Nice work, you got skills!
Great episode!
This is cool
Well done
02:01 ... because he was flying with the new guy... 😆👍
Wow, you can see why HE was selected to fly the Tomcat!
I would like to know how many times the LSO is cut out of the comms loop like this? I've never heard this before.
If it hadn't gone so well, would the RIO be 'in trouble' for his hot mike & controlling the entire pass?
I don't know why carrier Captains launch in such extremely poor conditions? Yes, they HAVE to go if it were war, but in this case where they were recalled almost immediately, you have to wonder why?
But I am just a layman watching from the sidelines so to speak.
I wonder if he got an "OK Pass" on this?!!
Cheers!🇨🇦🍺
Might even have been an OK underline, given the hot mic. That, or they really hammered him for not responding.
@@GarethFairclough Thank you very much for taking the time to respond.
June gloom really means SD op area. I hated every day out there. I'm a Norfolk sailor. 50 miles out to sea, you're in the VACAPES op area and the Gulf Stream. 35 degrees in Norfolk becomes 55 and sunny. In the SDOA, 72 degrees in SD becomes 40 degrees and rain. Thank you Bearing Sea currents. 😢
Incredible story. Incredible footage. Thanks for sharing. Great series.
Cool 😄
When ignorance is bliss 👏🏾
Awesome. Hats off to you!
Nice!
Thank you. Great story!
Outstanding
Bravo Zulu!
Great story!
Outstanding!!!!
It's not about the flight controls system design, FBW, CAS, SAS, whatever. You can do the same mistakes or fly the same best with each one of them as long as you've gotten used to that controls system mode over time. Only when changing it kind of makes you feel like you need to relearn to fly=). I don't want to sound like this was actually easy, but as long as the winds weren't rough hard enough to make your velocity vector bounce around and so your ICLS bars start wobbling around even though you don't give any control inputs, it means that although the visibility was bad due to heavy rain, there was no significant turbulence in the air to not let you stabilize the path and glideslope (ICLS) good enough. But being a new one, was indeed more difficult due to psychological reasons like fear and stuff, but less due to how hard it was to actually keep the plane on the right path constantly. Cheers!
God bless
He’s a great pilot if they only had 2-3 seconds of visual and no LSO support! 🤗
Semper fortis! Siera-Hotel!
It’s support like yours that keeps this Channel going and the memory of the Tomcat alive…thank you very much!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
LOL. Every pilot, every NFO, every CIC watchstander, every bridge watchstander - we have ALL done that one time or another.
June Gloom… Yep
Are RIO's pilot qualified? I'm sure they understand flight characteristics, but mostly they handle the tech sided of the house on the Tomcat, right?
Sierra Hotel, my man!
I guess silence can be golden.
I'm confused, the Tomcat's intercom system in HOT MIC blocks the V/UHF transmissions from the LSO?
If he’s holding down the transmit button, everybody can hear including the pilot. If you just want to talk to your shipmate, you just talk.
SALUTE! ~S!
I also wear the Wings of Gold, so I can appreciate the recounting!
It would have been a better interview if he hadn't boasted about himself 3 - 4 times. He did a great job the aircraft- we understand that. Let the situation speak for itself.
I see You don’t understand and probably never will.
Nice! So, what grade did you get for that pass? Hahaha
Hell of a story. I'd love to see that tape!
I bet it was an OK pass. If you're not familiar with carrier aviation, there are three possible grades: OK, fair and no grade. Everyone from the CAG to the nugget aviator has every trap graded.
Not fly by wire? Yes it is and it has ACLS.
F-16 was the first U.S. fly by wire fighter. a.k.a "the electric jet."
@@crazedvole The B-17 was the first flyby wire plane. When on a bombing run the Norden Bomb Site was the computer and used electric motors to fly the plane. The F-8 Crusader had the first electronic flight control computer, was the same as the Apollo LEM. The F-14 had a more advanced flight control computer. The F-14 is unstable with the flaps down and the computer can make the corrections fast enough to land with the flaps down around 135kts If the computer fails they have to land at 180kts. The F-14 also had the same autopilot as the 747 and it could land the plane on a carrier better than any human pilot. This system was called the ACLS, Automatic Carrier landing System. Before you start arguing I built the F-14 training program in Oceana with Dale Snodgrass him self and know the plane well enough to teach it. The F-16 was the firs totally fly by wire plane with no manual reversion at all so if the computer failed there is no flight controls at all.
@@anthonyb5279 I did not know that. Tnx! 👌
Sadly, " Revlon " didn't have a RIO as skilled as Ninja.
I don't think it would have mattered. She had a compressor stall, and responded with stick instead of rudder. Her RIO wouldn't have know that.
Revlon needed to be better. Not the g sponge in the back
Ninja wasn't that good, hot mic all the way down the chute ???
Revlon was basically DEI, fast paced before ready.
@@laynecox3992 That, plus the "perfect storm" of a compressor stall on landing, plus not remembering the NATOPS, got her killed. I'm assuming the recovery procedure was in the book, though not yet in Bold Face, at the time of her mishap. The procedure is anti-intuitive: "center stick, rudder only to correct roll, sufficient power to maintain AOA only" (hope I got that right) Whereas pilot intuition would be stick hard over and full MIL power, I think.
All in all,someone else's DEI agenda got her killed. Tragic. I understand she was a good person, and a good A-6 pilot, but the Tomcat is very unforgiving and is hard to land on the boat.
Fighter pilots really are all just the same dude with a different skin suit on. They speak the same, same demeanour, same hair cut, same ego/modesty, just the same dude lol
I wonder if this guy ever looted stuff or wore his pants down around his knees. I wonder if he ever used the word axe when he meant ask. I dont think so. Blacks pay attention.
Just so happens most black people don’t do any of those things.
However, you might want to focus on who creating wars all over the globe, past present and why. Your cognitive dissonance is strong with you. Stop being a hypocrite.
Why even note his race!? There is plenty of “white trash” in this world as well! I’m a white guy. Pilot is an Aviator and that is all you should consider here
Whatever. Saw a lot of billets get pitched for DEI back in the 90's.
Was DEI a thing back in the 90s?
@@letsridehard Same thing, different name. Females and minorities beating heroes for CAP advancement, having have the ribbons and time in service.
So that is what your takeaway was for this story? Not that the story was of a professional warrior trying to get his jet, his RIO and himself safely on deck in challenging conditions. Pretty sure you truly not a military aviation enthusiast.
@@LouMartucci Want to talk about Kara H?
@@LouMartucci Happy to talk about give-away's in SpecWar.
The jet is cool as you say and i got a model of it
My next lifetime I'll pin my Navy Gold Wings n Fly Tom14s!!!!(I said next lifetime so they'll be back!!!) I did get to touche sky as an Army Helo : Huey n Blackhawk Guy....But my Lust for Navy Gold was my Dream!!!
'Heavy......me ' Stich wouldve loved to be your Fly Mate!!! U n ur RIO ROCK🇺🇸
Bravo Zulu!