NAS whiskey had a great air show in the past. Got to watch the Blue Angels with the flight crew and also got an up close and personal pictures next to #1 jet.
I’m a retired corporate pilot who just recently discovered your channel. First, thank you for serving our country. When I was young I dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but unfortunately my eyes were not good enough. So I went the civilian route, and had a wonderful 43 year career flying corporate jets and helicopters. My best friend in collage became a Navy pilot, flying the A-4, F-4, and F-14. I got to visit him during his training at Kingsville, as well as at Miramar and Norfolk. Having talked with him and other Navy pilots, I have the upmost respect for carrier operations, and videos such as yours add to that respect. BTW, he just retired from a second career at Delta. Second, your videos are awesome, and like everyone commenting here, love your voice overs. Really puts us in the cockpit with you! Thank you for doing them, and please keep them coming.
Your the coolest pilot I’ve ever. Thanks for your service and great videos. Can’t remember the source of these words, but in essence they say that I and my family can sleep in peace at night because of men like you who stand ready to rain down great harm on my enemies. God bless you for as long as you draw breath.
Pail, my hometown, Mount Vernon, WA. Thanks for the air tour of Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island. A-4 Skyhawk driver in the '70s. My father flew PBYs out of NAS Widbey and in the Aleutian Campaign in WWII. Needs of the Navy, I was stuck in Lemoore...
Yeah, Lemoore nice to visit, okay for a tour. Hanford and Lemoore were decent. Spent every weekend not on duty camping/climbing at Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequia, or diving in Monterey. VA-122 Framp, VFA-125 Framp, and VFA-161 Avionics. Lived in Mount Vernon While Stationed at Whidbey. Now in Marysville.
@@williamcody5271 Did pretty much the same when not on cruise. Lived in town before while in the VA-127 RAG and in base housing in between two cruises with VA-212 on the USS Hancock. Lot of scuba diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel and some camping ln Sequia. Now on the East Coast but miss the Skagit Valley!
You can never forget how beautiful Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island is. I would love to go back and see the base. Could have done whole tour there and been happy.
There used to be a Navy Flying Club at Whidbey with two (possibly three) T-34Bs. I'd drive all the way from Ft Lewis (just south of Tacoma) to fly them. It was a long drive there and back, but totally worth it. Cruising up the Straight of Juan de Fuca past Olympic National Park, bopping about in the San Juan Islands, or exploring the greater Puget Sound never failed to amaze me. I knew it well enough to know every nook and cranny. The airplane was great to fly...best flying piston engine light airplane ever made. Too bad all of the clubs are gone now, so far as I know. The Monterey Navy Flying Club was the crown jewel, but Whidbey was a close second.
I grew up in Oak Harbor and Coupeville and often watched the planes practice over the fields SUPER close to the ground. I remember an exchange student freaked out because he thought we were under attack.
Ditto for my kiddo. She was at Whidbey many times and we visited her often. Now she's working for a defense contractor at Patuxent NAS near DC doing testing for another Navy plane. Hope your son is doing well with his retirement.
I came for the aviation content and stayed for the geography and the love of a special part of the world. I can tell that you’re the kind of person who always gets a window seat on a commercial flight and looks at the world below the entire time.
Agree with another comment that the voiceover brings this to another level. Personally I’m loving the Fly Navy details, and learn something every time…this week it was fascinating to see how your break and approach mirrors that of trapping on the boat, just with velocity set to 0. Awesome stuff and thank you.
I'm a native Whidbey Islander (five generations born and/or died here). We used to get great sonic booms over our house (Partridge Point) once a week until all the weenies wrote too many letters. My Gpa flew PBYs into the Seaplane Base and lived at Strawberry Point. This was wonderful to listen to and watch. Thank you.
@@MJ88206 I live with an old California woman that still regularly bitches about the SR71 pilot that knocked all the fragile knick-knacks off the windowsill when I was a baby.. they don't seem to let things go well.
Cool memories! I used to take my older son out to watch the planes when he was little - loved watching planes come in for the break! My husband flew A-6 Intruders at Whidbey - which, as you know, you left off your list..... Now I listen to you guys fly overhead and occasionally get to see the break! Fun to see the break from inside the plane!
Thanks for the great narration during ops as I was headed for Navy Flight School after several years of civilian aviation study but got derailled and closest I got to military aircraft was not flying but serving as an enlisted Marine at MAG39 and MAG49. Flying privately is still on my bucket list but I know I'll never see the likes of an EA6B or other great Navy aircraft so I'll just keep watching your great flights. Thanks for keeping our skies safe!
Hey! I really appreciate your videos! My dad was stationed at Whidbey back in the seventies and early eighties when I was a child, flying in the Prowler as an NFO for VAQ-130 and 133. Your videos truly give me a perspective of what my dad would have experienced in those days flying over Ault Field and while at sea. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for your service. Oh! I was even able to catch a brief glimpse of the elementary school that I attended from your footage Clover Valley during your break to the south. Very cool!
This is awesome! I used to work with the folks that designed MAGIC CARPET before we handed it off to boeing for implementation. At one point we had the CNO show up for a simulator demo, and we found it both amusing and deeply gratifying that even he, a submariner, could handle a case 3 approach first time with some instruction. It's really cool to see it in everyday use a decade later
I can only watch air shows, fly simulators, collect and build Tamiya's plane models hahah but nothing can beat this channel ride alongs. Thank you for bringing us along.
Pretty awesome! Saw you flies over lake Cavanaugh, Conway, and then JUST south of my family’s farm in LaConner. Further farm directly south of the Rainbow Bridge. Love that sound of freedom! Fly Navy!
I fly my little 172 from Paine Field and see you guys zooming around all the time. Its so cool to see you fly around my home airspace! Thanks for the quality vids.
Love the voice overs. I’m all civilian aviation with 33000+ (yes that’s correct, Thirty Three Thousand hours plus. Retired airline pilot) I’ve flown with pilots from all branches of the military and never had the details of military flying explained in detail like you do. I did get to fly the F-18 simulator at naval air station Norfolk with my First officers help in getting in the door. He was an instructor there. I flew with him for 2 months. Great guy and a great pilot. Very well done. Keep up the good work.
I live in La Conner and the Whidbey aircraft are a daily presence. I have watched the Growlers making this approach to Whidbey many times and it is a pleasure to see it from the pilot's perspective.
I remember you told us in another video that you're an instructor now. I have to say your students are very fortunate to have you teaching them. You make it look so easy and explain everything so well.
Love your videos…never been in military but am fascinated by these cockpit views…makes me feel like a fighter pilot…way cooool!!! Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
From Seattle myself, you rattling off what's great about WA brought a tear to my eye 😁. As close as I get to aviation is flying original hornets in DCS, favorite line of modern military jets!
I grew up in Oak Harbor. My dad was Chief with VA 126 which no longer exists( A-6’s). I just want to say thank you for your noise! He lives right next to the OLF and we love watching the touch and goes. Thanks for keeping us Safe
Thank you for your service. Our son flies a P-8 out of Whidbey Island. He's deployed elsewhere in the world quite often, but when he's home we absolutely treasure our visits to the area. God's country is an accurate description.
Thanks! Great video! I was Zapper Doc ‘78-’81 VAQ-130 (EA-6B), did a MED on the INDEPENDENCE, and lived in Coupeville… Truly God’s Country & I loved the “Sound of Our Freedom”…
@@g3pdhbelonis447 I missed Forrestal but caught Indy. Almost got two but my replacement met the Squadron in Norfolk and I got some time at NAVHOSP WHIDBEY, great time!!
Got to visit Whdby Island for the first time last year, you are so right about it. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for doing this so professionally it makes me proud to be an American.
In the early 1970s, I lived on the north side of Dugualla Bay. The A-6 community kept me awake many a night as they did touch and go landings. Thanks for the aerial tour.
I was born in Seattle but never lived up there much. However, I did live about 4-5 miles across I-15 from Miramar Naval Air Station, bettor known to some as "Fighter Town." Top Gun School was there when my family & I lived just across the freeway. Your memories of jets in the night are very familiar. We'd get "serenaded" by the jet engine repair facility where they worked on the F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats. I was in the Navy at the time and thought it was pretty cool... some of my friends & neighbors had differing opinions. 🤣 As you might imagine, the "Top Gun" movie was very popular with our crowd in San Diego!
What a difference from the video I just watched of you landing on the carrier. The sheer amount of force you receive from launching, landing and stopping on an aircraft carrier to the smoothness of a regular runway is like night and day. Thanks so much for letting us see what goes on in the cockpit.
Thanks! The details in your voice-overs are incredible, I know it takes you alot of time to put them together. I see you're channel growing exponentially. I know you wear an Orange dial Swiss Tungsten Sapphire, are you allowed to say make & model. Not trying to be a copy cat but love your watch. I have a few Orange Dials in my collection...😊
God’s county…yes it is! Love the video and your voiceover instruction. Love your explanations of what is going on in the cockpit and the deck. I’m enjoying learning about naval aviation. I flew as a flight engineer on C-141Bs at KTCM. Thank Pail and fly safe!
God’s Country Indeed. Born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula and spent many summers working Ft Casey State Park while doing college. Love your voice overs. Missed a pair of your wingmen scooting through Snoqualmie Pass today. Friends said it was a sight to behold. You all stay safe out there and up there!
I've flown GA out to the San Juans a few times and Whidbey has been kind enough to clear me overhead, and we've seen Growlers landing under us more than once. Great to see this from your perspective.
This is so interesting and fun to watch. You’ve worked really hard to be able to do this. Your so lucky. I’m really enjoying your videos. It gives us the opportunity to experience what you do. Fabulous. Thank you.
During the WW2 my father was a radar and radio tech working on PBYs on Whidbey island. He became an engineer working for Boeing and came up with the patent to use spun fiberglass thread to make radomes on Bomarc missiles.
Your video voice overs are the best, unique insight we don't get to see normally, I'm these days of USA military movement around the world it's good to know we have pilots like you who'll be ready to defend our great country. Thank you.🇺🇸🙏
I was stationed at Whidbey NAS in the late 70's and early 80's and it's still as beautiful as ever. I worked on the A-6 Intruders there but the Growlers are certainly better looking/more capable than the old Skypigs. Love the vids and the VO rocks it!
Another great voiceover that shows another talent of Pail: not only is he a great aviator, but could also work as a tourist guide😁. Thanks for taking us with you and explaining all the details for a smooth approach and landing while showing us the great scenery👍. Must be quite the contrast to where you live + fly now😉.
C’mon Pail! Give us Coupeville NOLF landings!!! I’ve been that civilian traffic overhead being given ‘ maintain, at or above’ by Whidbey controllers as you guys break. A lot. Always a welcome and enjoyable sight to see.
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦 I have photographed Growlers doing Touch and Go's ("bouncing") at the Coupeville OLF. Awesome to see you guys DIRECTLY OVERHEAD with power on as you rise up to go around again! I remember thinking it's good I love jet noise, because it was damn loud! Cheers, Dean
My dad was almost stationed at Whidbey back around the late 1950's but settled on NAS Alameda. We lived right across the street from the base. We saw EVERY plane the name flew back then from 1960 to 1967 land at that base including sea planes. My brothers and I got so good a recognizing the planes that we could tell what it was just by hearing the engine sound. Fun times, and we always knew when a carrier came in as all the planes would fly off it just outside the Golden Gate and land at the base. Our house was the last one the plane flew over, so our view of the planes was excellent (imagine 20 A-1 skyraiders in the sky at once). I truly miss those days
Love your voiceovers! Living vicariously through you sir. Working on these birds in St Louis for 4 decades & wished i could get a ride b4 retirement. I would have more luck winning the powerball than getting a ride though! Lol
My wife and I were on Whidbey Island about 5 years ago now, and just happened to witness F-18's doing touch and goes on that same runway. We were just driving around aimlessly on the island when I heard the unmistakable sound of fighter aircraft to my left, and saw an F-18 landing through the trees. I followed the road we were on to the end of the runway, and we sat and watched you guys for about 20 minutes. It was an awesome, and unexpected part of our trip!
@jeffbeck8993 "Plenty freedom." Says the guy in the youtube comments. The time tested and proven metric that is never wrong 😂. You fall right in line. Right where they tell you, huh? Like a good media lap dog. I bet he's all you talk about at family functions. I bet he makes you so angry, and you get all upset and stomp around your little apartment, but quietly, because you don't want to upset your neighbors, because you're only a tough guy on the internet and truth be told, you're a little scared all the time. It's ok little buddy, I'm not going to hurt you.
I live Anacortes and hear the growlers, P8’s & a few P3’s flying everyday. Especially when it is rainy and cloudy. I worked at aerospace company in Lynnwood, WA and we made parts for all three. So when you’re flying I helped build part of your aircraft. I enjoy watching your videos and keep them coming. Take Care
Respect you guys! I worked for 9 months on NAS whibey island. The pilots for the most part were awesome I loved getting a wave from you all. It made the work bearable. God speed and may jesus protect you all!
Never ceases to amaze how you go from ground to flight and flight to ground. One nano second you're a bird, the next you're a heavy chunk of metal rolling on the ground. Transitioning from each medium is never boring to watch. Watching that184 mph catapult carrier launch really puts it into perspective for me. In two seconds you go from that heavy piece of rolling metal to a being a bird. All be it a very fast one. F18's are awesome airplanes. It looks like fun every time up. Like...every time.
Just saw the air show in seattle at seafair a couple weeks ago with you guys and the blue angels and stuff and the announcer was talking about local whidbey island growlers that were performing. So cool! I live in port townsend by the way so you are just a stones throw away. Thank you for your service!!
My dad moved to Whidbey Island after he retired from the Navy. After he passed some of his things are displayed at the base. He served two tours to Vietnam aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
Totally enjoy riding along on your excursions. I have a private pilot license, but haven’t flown in decades, mainly because of the expense. The perspective provided by your cockpit camera brings back some that great feeling that you can only get as PIC. Thanks for the ride and for your service.
It’s used in the Navy and Air Force as a way to get the aircraft over the field quickly and with as few radio calls as possible. A long slow straight in approach in a war time situation in the AOR is risky as it allows more time for the enemy to knock planes out of the sky. Keep the formation tight, low and fast, then break into the landing pattern over the safety of the airfield. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, please.
@@heythere135if you have enemy fighters penetrating that far into your territory, especially uncontested to the point they can undertake offensive action, you have way bigger problems than landing procedures. Problems like an ineffective air defence system. “The safety of the airfield” should be a several hundred mile bubble of layered ground and air based air defence around it.
I grew up in the okanogan valley watching the ea 18 growlers come screaming through at low levels but most often we would here them pealing around over head. Such a treat to watch and listen to. Cool to hear you mention my home area
Love your content man! In a previous life I was the flight doc for VP-1 and VAQ-136 out of Whidbey; I miss the flying adventures, the PNW lifestyle and beauty, but most of all the people. Fly Navy!!
My son is on the CARL in the Pacific and station there at Whydbey VAQ 136. Your videos bring me closer to him and the pride I feel for him and the choices he's made. Thank you, A Proud Dad FLY NAVY !
Your videos have risen to a new level with VOICEOVER. Thank you so much!
completely agree. Awesome content before - now it's just plain awesomer
Agreed😊
@@miked5562 it feels like I'm a F/A-18 driver
Great stuff, thanks for the ride along. Sharpen up that bank angle; off a bit there..
Jus kidn. Peace!
NAS whiskey had a great air show in the past. Got to watch the Blue Angels with the flight crew and also got an up close and personal pictures next to #1 jet.
Thank you again Pail for having us as your’copilot’… it’s an honor to be with you. Bless our Vets, you guys ‘n girls really rock! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Cheers!
Thanks Growler Jam! Really appreciate it.
Home sweet home. My dad was skipper of NAS Whidbey from '73 to '75. I lived in Oak Harbor for 12 years, and will always consider it home.
Nice approach and landing. Really appreaciate your videos. It's because of guys like yourself that I sleep well at night. Thanks.
I’m a retired corporate pilot who just recently discovered your channel. First, thank you for serving our country. When I was young I dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot, but unfortunately my eyes were not good enough. So I went the civilian route, and had a wonderful 43 year career flying corporate jets and helicopters. My best friend in collage became a Navy pilot, flying the A-4, F-4, and F-14. I got to visit him during his training at Kingsville, as well as at Miramar and Norfolk. Having talked with him and other Navy pilots, I have the upmost respect for carrier operations, and videos such as yours add to that respect. BTW, he just retired from a second career at Delta.
Second, your videos are awesome, and like everyone commenting here, love your voice overs. Really puts us in the cockpit with you! Thank you for doing them, and please keep them coming.
Welcome aboard and thanks for watching. Cheers!
Your the coolest pilot I’ve ever. Thanks for your service and great videos. Can’t remember the source of these words, but in essence they say that I and my family can sleep in peace at night because of men like you who stand ready to rain down great harm on my enemies. God bless you for as long as you draw breath.
Hey that's cool I just talked to my uncle and he worked on f14s at Miramar back in the day. What a small world!
Pail, my hometown, Mount Vernon, WA. Thanks for the air tour of Skagit Valley and Whidbey Island. A-4 Skyhawk driver in the '70s. My father flew PBYs out of NAS Widbey and in the Aleutian Campaign in WWII. Needs of the Navy, I was stuck in Lemoore...
Thanks for watching, Pete. Cheers!
Yeah, Lemoore nice to visit, okay for a tour. Hanford and Lemoore were decent. Spent every weekend not on duty camping/climbing at Yosemite, Kings Canyon, Sequia, or diving in Monterey. VA-122 Framp, VFA-125 Framp, and VFA-161 Avionics. Lived in Mount Vernon While Stationed at Whidbey. Now in Marysville.
@@williamcody5271 Did pretty much the same when not on cruise. Lived in town before while in the VA-127 RAG and in base housing in between two cruises with VA-212 on the USS Hancock. Lot of scuba diving at Monastery Beach in Carmel and some camping ln Sequia. Now on the East Coast but miss the Skagit Valley!
You can never forget how beautiful Oak Harbor and Whidbey Island is. I would love to go back and see the base. Could have done whole tour there and been happy.
Live in Snohomish County and frequently camp at Deception Pass - partly because of the free airshows! Thanks for sharing your world with us!
Deception pass was a favorite of ours go to when we got time off!
These voiceover videos are great. Love to hear the insight on what's going on during the flight and brief description of the surroundings
Yes. And yes. For us frustrated military pilots, yes!
There used to be a Navy Flying Club at Whidbey with two (possibly three) T-34Bs. I'd drive all the way from Ft Lewis (just south of Tacoma) to fly them. It was a long drive there and back, but totally worth it. Cruising up the Straight of Juan de Fuca past Olympic National Park, bopping about in the San Juan Islands, or exploring the greater Puget Sound never failed to amaze me. I knew it well enough to know every nook and cranny. The airplane was great to fly...best flying piston engine light airplane ever made. Too bad all of the clubs are gone now, so far as I know. The Monterey Navy Flying Club was the crown jewel, but Whidbey was a close second.
Thanks for your service sir. As a Frenchman, I rely too , On you for my safety and my freedom.
Cheers from France america.
I grew up in Oak Harbor and Coupeville and often watched the planes practice over the fields SUPER close to the ground. I remember an exchange student freaked out because he thought we were under attack.
My son just retired from USN. His last assignment was as a CPO in Whidbey. His rate was aviation mech. He was on the P3 squadron.
Ditto for my kiddo. She was at Whidbey many times and we visited her often. Now she's working for a defense contractor at Patuxent NAS near DC doing testing for another Navy plane. Hope your son is doing well with his retirement.
I came for the aviation content and stayed for the geography and the love of a special part of the world. I can tell that you’re the kind of person who always gets a window seat on a commercial flight and looks at the world below the entire time.
Sure am!
Agree with another comment that the voiceover brings this to another level. Personally I’m loving the Fly Navy details, and learn something every time…this week it was fascinating to see how your break and approach mirrors that of trapping on the boat, just with velocity set to 0.
Awesome stuff and thank you.
I'm a native Whidbey Islander (five generations born and/or died here). We used to get great sonic booms over our house (Partridge Point) once a week until all the weenies wrote too many letters. My Gpa flew PBYs into the Seaplane Base and lived at Strawberry Point. This was wonderful to listen to and watch. Thank you.
Cheers!
I have seen an old Californian women complaining about the jet’s noise.
I live in Sequim and love hearing and watching this magic
@@MJ88206 I live with an old California woman that still regularly bitches about the SR71 pilot that knocked all the fragile knick-knacks off the windowsill when I was a baby.. they don't seem to let things go well.
Tell the old lady to turn her hearing aid down. I'm 78 and love the rumbling@@MJ88206
Another great video Pail. As we say in Bawston…”smooth as buttah.”
Cool memories! I used to take my older son out to watch the planes when he was little - loved watching planes come in for the break! My husband flew A-6 Intruders at Whidbey - which, as you know, you left off your list..... Now I listen to you guys fly overhead and occasionally get to see the break! Fun to see the break from inside the plane!
these voiceover vids are insanely underrated, you deserve a bigger audience
He’s getting it!
Thanks for the great narration during ops as I was headed for Navy Flight School after several years of civilian aviation study but got derailled and closest I got to military aircraft was not flying but serving as an enlisted Marine at MAG39 and MAG49. Flying privately is still on my bucket list but I know I'll never see the likes of an EA6B or other great Navy aircraft so I'll just keep watching your great flights. Thanks for keeping our skies safe!
I worked near NAS Whidbey for a while. Always got a chuckle when I walked up to my car and my key fob wouldn’t work. Gotta love that Whidbey jam.
Ya, but think of all the free extra electrons now pulsing through your body courtesy of the USN!
@@Borzoi86its its not ionizing radation and the avarage person gets more ionization radation on a long flight then most people would expect.
@@1038994 RF heating may occur if one was to walk very close to one; if it’s energized. Safety rules prevent that from happening.
Is the plane jamming the signals or is it the base? I’m ignorant 😂
@@Skeletors_Closet it's the equipment the plane use. I was never sure if they were ground checking or in the air.
Hey! I really appreciate your videos! My dad was stationed at Whidbey back in the seventies and early eighties when I was a child, flying in the Prowler as an NFO for VAQ-130 and 133. Your videos truly give me a perspective of what my dad would have experienced in those days flying over Ault Field and while at sea. Thank you for sharing, and thank you for your service. Oh! I was even able to catch a brief glimpse of the elementary school that I attended from your footage Clover Valley during your break to the south. Very cool!
My dad was the 145th sailor stationed at Whidbey NAS during WWII. He was an Aerographers Mate 2/C. 😊
55 year Seattle/Washington native confirms everything he said was 100% accurate! Thanks for your service!
I watch you multiple times, Growler Jams. Thanks for posting jet pilot naval stuff.
This is awesome! I used to work with the folks that designed MAGIC CARPET before we handed it off to boeing for implementation. At one point we had the CNO show up for a simulator demo, and we found it both amusing and deeply gratifying that even he, a submariner, could handle a case 3 approach first time with some instruction. It's really cool to see it in everyday use a decade later
That’s really cool!
I can only watch air shows, fly simulators, collect and build Tamiya's plane models hahah but nothing can beat this channel ride alongs. Thank you for bringing us along.
Pretty awesome! Saw you flies over lake Cavanaugh, Conway, and then JUST south of my family’s farm in LaConner. Further farm directly south of the Rainbow Bridge. Love that sound of freedom! Fly Navy!
Fly Navy!
I fly my little 172 from Paine Field and see you guys zooming around all the time. Its so cool to see you fly around my home airspace! Thanks for the quality vids.
Love the voice overs. I’m all civilian aviation with 33000+ (yes that’s correct, Thirty Three Thousand hours plus. Retired airline pilot) I’ve flown with pilots from all branches of the military and never had the details of military flying explained in detail like you do. I did get to fly the F-18 simulator at naval air station Norfolk with my First officers help in getting in the door. He was an instructor there. I flew with him for 2 months. Great guy and a great pilot. Very well done. Keep up the good work.
I live in La Conner and the Whidbey aircraft are a daily presence. I have watched the Growlers making this approach to Whidbey many times and it is a pleasure to see it from the pilot's perspective.
I remember you told us in another video that you're an instructor now. I have to say your students are very fortunate to have you teaching them. You make it look so easy and explain everything so well.
Thanks!
"Humanely raised coffee"? Lololol!!!!!! Absolutely brilliant narration !!! Lol!!
Yeah...Another term used by the virtue signaling left
Absolutely accurate depiction of Seattle. L.L
Free range coffee.
This is it man, I actually teared up! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This is the best VO so far, beautiful day, great explanations fun to see my old stomping grounds! Thank you again Pail!
You got it!
Love your videos…never been in military but am fascinated by these cockpit views…makes me feel like a fighter pilot…way cooool!!!
Thanks for sharing and thanks for your service!
From Seattle myself, you rattling off what's great about WA brought a tear to my eye 😁. As close as I get to aviation is flying original hornets in DCS, favorite line of modern military jets!
Glad you enjoyed it.
I grew up in Oak Harbor. My dad was Chief with VA 126 which no longer exists( A-6’s). I just want to say thank you for your noise! He lives right next to the OLF and we love watching the touch and goes. Thanks for keeping us Safe
Cheers!
@@GrowlerJams VA-128 was the A6 RAG.
Thank you for your service. Our son flies a P-8 out of Whidbey Island. He's deployed elsewhere in the world quite often, but when he's home we absolutely treasure our visits to the area. God's country is an accurate description.
Thanks! Great video! I was Zapper Doc ‘78-’81 VAQ-130 (EA-6B), did a MED on the INDEPENDENCE, and lived in Coupeville… Truly God’s Country & I loved the “Sound of Our Freedom”…
I was a zapper tweet during the same time. I made the two Forrestal cruises, 78 and 81, and the Indy cruise.
@@g3pdhbelonis447 I missed Forrestal but caught Indy. Almost got two but my replacement met the Squadron in Norfolk and I got some time at NAVHOSP WHIDBEY, great time!!
Best videos with the voiceovers! Totally makes the channel unique, inspiring, informative and exciting! Keep it going! 👍
Got to visit Whdby Island for the first time last year, you are so right about it. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for doing this so professionally it makes me proud to be an American.
Glad you like them!
In the early 1970s, I lived on the north side of Dugualla Bay. The A-6 community kept me awake many a night as they did touch and go landings. Thanks for the aerial tour.
I lived in North Deception Circle in 1994. Lots of touch-n-gos.
I was born in Seattle but never lived up there much. However, I did live about 4-5 miles across I-15 from Miramar Naval Air Station, bettor known to some as "Fighter Town." Top Gun School was there when my family & I lived just across the freeway. Your memories of jets in the night are very familiar. We'd get "serenaded" by the jet engine repair facility where they worked on the F-4 Phantoms and F-14 Tomcats. I was in the Navy at the time and thought it was pretty cool... some of my friends & neighbors had differing opinions. 🤣 As you might imagine, the "Top Gun" movie was very popular with our crowd in San Diego!
What a difference from the video I just watched of you landing on the carrier. The sheer amount of force you receive from launching, landing and stopping on an aircraft carrier to the smoothness of a regular runway is like night and day. Thanks so much for letting us see what goes on in the cockpit.
As an ex-VP40 pilot, that approach brought back some memories. I loved flying in the Pacific Northwest. You're right...God's Country!
VP-40 shout out. This is Doc Miller - I was the flight surgeon when you arrived. Fantastic area, fantastic squadron! Best wishes!
Also a Marlin, and notice the 4 fans of freedom on the rollout when he starts the break!
I thought that was Yorkshire
You could say the same thing about flying out of NAS Brunswick in Maine.
Laging Handa!
What a voice, I could watch and listen to this all day.
Not sure if its just me, but your voiceovers are very relaxing.
Thanks! The details in your voice-overs are incredible, I know it takes you alot of time to put them together. I see you're channel growing exponentially.
I know you wear an Orange dial Swiss Tungsten Sapphire, are you allowed to say make & model. Not trying to be a copy cat but love your watch. I have a few Orange Dials in my collection...😊
I’m not sure. I’m not really a watch guy and I’ve had the watch for over a decade.
"Vitamin D supplements." Spoken like a true local.😂
These are so good!--calm, expert, engaging. Keep up the good work and thanks for your service!!
Hello from Victoria BC Canada .Thank you for the work you all do in keeping North America safe .Enjoyed this episode .
God’s county…yes it is! Love the video and your voiceover instruction. Love your explanations of what is going on in the cockpit and the deck. I’m enjoying learning about naval aviation. I flew as a flight engineer on C-141Bs at KTCM. Thank Pail and fly safe!
Cheers!
Spent 17 years on Whidbey. Love watching your videos.
Always Intruders and Prowlers.
Keep them coming. AE1 (AW) Starreveld Ret.
TYFYS
God’s Country Indeed. Born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula and spent many summers working Ft Casey State Park while doing college. Love your voice overs. Missed a pair of your wingmen scooting through Snoqualmie Pass today. Friends said it was a sight to behold. You all stay safe out there and up there!
Thank you for taking us into your cockpit.
You guy have a job, the rest of us can only dream about.
And thank you for your service to the country.
I've flown GA out to the San Juans a few times and Whidbey has been kind enough to clear me overhead, and we've seen Growlers landing under us more than once. Great to see this from your perspective.
This is so interesting and fun to watch. You’ve worked really hard to be able to do this. Your so lucky. I’m really enjoying your videos. It gives us the opportunity to experience what you do. Fabulous. Thank you.
Sir, from a former Marine to you, a Naval Aviator, This makes me so happy, love your commentary and cadence . You speak so well
Fly Navy.
I love so incredibly much when you whisper at the end "Welcome home." I'm so week in the knees.😍
Hello Growler Jams . I am pretty much glued to your videos . Thank you very much for making them.
My pleasure!
During the WW2 my father was a radar and radio tech working on PBYs on Whidbey island.
He became an engineer working for Boeing and came up with the patent to use spun fiberglass thread to make radomes on Bomarc missiles.
NASWI myself. You nailed the description of the area and it's everything that kept me here.
Your video voice overs are the best, unique insight we don't get to see normally, I'm these days of USA military movement around the world it's good to know we have pilots like you who'll be ready to defend our great country. Thank you.🇺🇸🙏
Love watching videos from home. Thank you for your service!
All the videos are killer, love the voice over. Keep up the good work 👍
Just another former military PNW-er thanking you for these fantastic videos and voice overs. :) Always a treat to see our home state from the air.
I was stationed at Whidbey NAS in the late 70's and early 80's and it's still as beautiful as ever. I worked on the A-6 Intruders there but the Growlers are certainly better looking/more capable than the old Skypigs. Love the vids and the VO rocks it!
Love this, watching a professional at his work, and what glamorous work this is
Another great voiceover that shows another talent of Pail: not only is he a great aviator, but could also work as a tourist guide😁. Thanks for taking us with you and explaining all the details for a smooth approach and landing while showing us the great scenery👍. Must be quite the contrast to where you live + fly now😉.
Sure is.
C’mon Pail! Give us Coupeville NOLF landings!!!
I’ve been that civilian traffic overhead being given ‘ maintain, at or above’ by Whidbey controllers as you guys break. A lot. Always a welcome and enjoyable sight to see.
I wish I had that footage.
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦
I have photographed Growlers doing Touch and Go's ("bouncing") at the Coupeville OLF.
Awesome to see you guys DIRECTLY OVERHEAD with power on as you rise up to go around again! I remember thinking it's good I love jet noise, because it was damn loud!
Cheers, Dean
My dad was almost stationed at Whidbey back around the late 1950's but settled on NAS Alameda. We lived right across the street from the base. We saw EVERY plane the name flew back then from 1960 to 1967 land at that base including sea planes. My brothers and I got so good a recognizing the planes that we could tell what it was just by hearing the engine sound. Fun times, and we always knew when a carrier came in as all the planes would fly off it just outside the Golden Gate and land at the base. Our house was the last one the plane flew over, so our view of the planes was excellent (imagine 20 A-1 skyraiders in the sky at once). I truly miss those days
Love your voiceovers! Living vicariously through you sir. Working on these birds in St Louis for 4 decades & wished i could get a ride b4 retirement. I would have more luck winning the powerball than getting a ride though! Lol
I just happen to be in the Seattle area. Thank you once again for a fantastic video, and sharing your world with us all! It’s amazing…just WOW!
We spend time at Deception Pass every year and love viewing the Aircraft. Much respect to the people serving.
Love these videos - Thank you Growler Jams!
My pleasure!
My wife and I were on Whidbey Island about 5 years ago now, and just happened to witness F-18's doing touch and goes on that same runway. We were just driving around aimlessly on the island when I heard the unmistakable sound of fighter aircraft to my left, and saw an F-18 landing through the trees. I followed the road we were on to the end of the runway, and we sat and watched you guys for about 20 minutes. It was an awesome, and unexpected part of our trip!
A fascinating watch and really appreciate the detailed narrative.
Not much freedom left here, but love knowing you're up there! Thanks
Spare us your tears, you don’t know what “no freedom” really is.
WTF are you talking about?
Plenty freedom, just you have no idea what the alternative is. Go back to binging Fox News with the whiners and exaggerators in MAGA hats.
@@stevencramsie9172 enchroma glasses are a proven scam you dolt. There's no tears here, old man. I have a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about.
@jeffbeck8993 "Plenty freedom." Says the guy in the youtube comments. The time tested and proven metric that is never wrong 😂. You fall right in line. Right where they tell you, huh? Like a good media lap dog. I bet he's all you talk about at family functions. I bet he makes you so angry, and you get all upset and stomp around your little apartment, but quietly, because you don't want to upset your neighbors, because you're only a tough guy on the internet and truth be told, you're a little scared all the time.
It's ok little buddy, I'm not going to hurt you.
I live Anacortes and hear the growlers, P8’s & a few P3’s flying everyday. Especially when it is rainy and cloudy. I worked at aerospace company in Lynnwood, WA and we made parts for all three. So when you’re flying I helped build part of your aircraft.
I enjoy watching your videos and keep them coming.
Take Care
Respect you guys! I worked for 9 months on NAS whibey island. The pilots for the most part were awesome I loved getting a wave from you all. It made the work bearable. God speed and may jesus protect you all!
Never ceases to amaze how you go from ground to flight and flight to ground. One nano second you're a bird, the next you're a heavy chunk of metal rolling on the ground. Transitioning from each medium is never boring to watch. Watching that184 mph catapult carrier launch really puts it into perspective for me. In two seconds you go from that heavy piece of rolling metal to a being a bird. All be it a very fast one. F18's are awesome airplanes. It looks like fun every time up. Like...every time.
'Cause it IS!
You flew over my house at 5:47. Anyone wanting to experience the sound of freedom can come on by.
Just saw the air show in seattle at seafair a couple weeks ago with you guys and the blue angels and stuff and the announcer was talking about local whidbey island growlers that were performing. So cool! I live in port townsend by the way so you are just a stones throw away. Thank you for your service!!
Enjoy learning from your videos! My son is a pilot stationed at Whidbey Island😊
You are amazing! What a treat to experience these trips with your explanations. Cheers, Sir.
Cheers!!
My dad moved to Whidbey Island after he retired from the Navy. After he passed some of his things are displayed at the base. He served two tours to Vietnam aboard the USS Kitty Hawk.
Dear Pail:
You make it look so easy! Amazing flying. Be safe!🎉
Hi From Whidbey Island Sound of freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The best aviation video series on YT! Thanks. Pail. FLY SAFE. FLY NAVY.
00:20. I think the fine folks in the state of Alaska would argue against that sir 😅😅😅😅
😂
@@GrowlerJams I still love your content 110 percent. I'm a former AH1F Cobra crewchief us army 87 to 95.
Totally enjoy riding along on your excursions. I have a private pilot license, but haven’t flown in decades, mainly because of the expense. The perspective provided by your cockpit camera brings back some that great feeling that you can only get as PIC. Thanks for the ride and for your service.
You never explained "Why Fighter Pilots DON’T LIKE Straight-In Landings"
2:50
No that only explains why you like the fan break
It’s used in the Navy and Air Force as a way to get the aircraft over the field quickly and with as few radio calls as possible. A long slow straight in approach in a war time situation in the AOR is risky as it allows more time for the enemy to knock planes out of the sky. Keep the formation tight, low and fast, then break into the landing pattern over the safety of the airfield. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, please.
Thank you, finally an answer lol
@@heythere135if you have enemy fighters penetrating that far into your territory, especially uncontested to the point they can undertake offensive action, you have way bigger problems than landing procedures. Problems like an ineffective air defence system. “The safety of the airfield” should be a several hundred mile bubble of layered ground and air based air defence around it.
Just Love the calm feeling and Peace to be onboard with you up there ! Just Amazing, you are one Lucky Growler I must say !
I grew up in the okanogan valley watching the ea 18 growlers come screaming through at low levels but most often we would here them pealing around over head. Such a treat to watch and listen to. Cool to hear you mention my home area
Love your content man! In a previous life I was the flight doc for VP-1 and VAQ-136 out of Whidbey; I miss the flying adventures, the PNW lifestyle and beauty, but most of all the people. Fly Navy!!
TYFYS!
That was an awesome video man thanks for taking me on a ride 🙏
I'm from the area and watch you guys all the time. It's nice to see it from your point of view.
Thanks!
My son is on the CARL in the Pacific and station there at Whydbey VAQ 136. Your videos bring me closer to him and the pride I feel for him and the choices he's made.
Thank you,
A Proud Dad
FLY NAVY !
Cheers!
You guys have the Right Stuff. Thank you for your service. Safe travels. Cheers.