For those below who don't know the term "Dead stick". ---A dead stick landing, is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, --The F16 is a fly by wire aircraft (No wires or rod linkages, only electrical wires.)
And the stick is? The propeller, originally propellers on aircraft were wooden and so sometimes they were known as "sticks". If it stopped spinning, you had a dead stick.
Nice to have that level of resource management. No one in the cockpit to deviate tasks to, so the wingman steps up and makes the radio calls. That’s a Battle Buddy right there!
Mother of all F-bombs... he did good! Look at the man go, focussed and fast acting. I could never do that. Salute to all them Fastmoving Dudes and Dudettes.
Ejection under a controlled landing like this is nearly 100% survival rate. You might get some minor injuries but it's nearly a 0% chance of death. Landing the aircraft almost seems like an unnecessary risk to the pilot, but if he ever felt like he was in mortal danger, he would have ejected because in the end the pilot is always the one in command in the aircraft and it is his job to ensure he and his crew (i know the f-16 is 1 man but you know) make it home safe.
There is always a risk in ejecting. Even allowing for surviving the ejection, the stresses it places on the pilots body possess a significant chance of permanent injuries that will sideline him from further flying. In short, if possible, it's always better to land the plane.
They said that to Capt. Haynes on Flight 232 (the one they crash landed with differential thrust only, 1/3 passenger fatalities.) I'll always remember how Haynes said "ahahaha, you wanna be particular and make it a *runway*, huh?"
@@vetusmagnus3885 Understood. Being into rockets and such, I do have a question: why isn't there a procedure to vent this? (Or alternatively use it for propulsion? Why is it even carrying this and if you're carrying it why not let them use it as dV on the plane?). I'm no pilot but I'd have to think even a little bit of thrust would be useful when the main engine cuts.
@@BumbleBeeJBG I doubt the thrust from the hydrazine would be helpful since its not even burned to run the EPU. Its also compact and stores for a long time
One reason Navy aircraft tend to have multiple engines and/or an auxiliary engine power unit. Also makes for less maintenance or equipment requirements for self-starting. Pumped up plenty of the hydraulic reservoirs on the Hornets to get 'em around.
The 16 was made to be lighter and cheaper. That comes at a cost. Now they're doing the same thing with the 35, not to mention trying to make it a jack-of-all trades like the F4. Lesson not learned I guess.
@@theflanman420420 I just might. Just messing around, I tried it in the Hornet, inadvertently killed the power and couldn't lower the gear (maybe I didn't know how), but I had enough altitude to fire up the APU and the right engine and land. It was fun.
Would personally like to see someone re create the one where the pilot dodged 3 or 6 (I don't remember exactly) SAMs with no chaff.... they had jammed and he didn't know.. had to out maneuver them with skill. Crazy stuff.
Only time you hear his breathing change is during final and touchdown. Don't blame him, no power to control your descent or climb out if needed, and hope the gear locked in place.
@@operationscomputer1478 except gliders aren't loaded with explosive material and jet fuel, weigh a few tons, or fly at four hundred plus knots. Gliders don't explode into a firey ball of metal if you make a mistake. Not the same thing by a mile.
@@j.c.keplinger7046 He jettisoned his tanks, but obviously there's still fuel in the fuselage so your point still stands. Not to mention bombs and literal millions of dollars of high tech equipment. Gliders are also designed to glide, fighter jets are designed to fly at super sonic speeds.
@@ATSaale Yeah, 16's don't really glide all that well on their own, they tend to plummet. Didn't even think about the tanks, so thanks for that and the fuel in the system does count. He was sitting on a gigantic bomb if he got it wrong even alittle; I'd give it a 7out of 10 on the pucker scale. Damn fine aviator.
Superb flying, helped by excellent resource management from the other birds in his flight. All in all, the absolute best possible outcome. No doubt got an Attaboy added to his file.
They are, but that has nothing to do with whether they can glide or not. The software that makes the minute corrections to keep the plane under control doesn't suddenly stop working just because the engine is out. If they lost all electrical power but the engine(s) were still running, then you would have no choice but to eject.
That's f'ing amazing. I didn't know you could glide those things that far. Did that airstrip just happen to be there? He came in a little fast too....looked like it was just under 200
@Paul Flusk you can actually have a positive rate of climb despite being pitched down 10 degrees my friend. Look at some gliders in strong thermals. And if you don't have an engine, of course you have to pitch down to remain at your optimal gliding speed. You exchange height for speed, but it's still flying. falling would mean gaining speed uncontrollably and without any forward movement.
@Paul Flusk I'm sorry, I didn't think and wasn't even remembering that here it's all about the velocity vector which indeed represents the vertical speed. I take everything back and agree with you. Btw, holy shit, 5000hours? Do you mean in real life or in DCS?
More proof that engines don't make airplanes fly; they just help maintain the desired speed. Without the emergency power unit the story would have been very different.
I understand tower is worried but they really should do their best to sound as "normal" as possible, its one less thing the pilot needs to worry about and makes the situation feel more like training than a real emergency. You're much more clear headed in a sim than you are in real life, and that calmness can vastly improve your chances of survival should you need to make a split second decision.
@Jetman123 I agree with everything you say...my post was a response to 16vr6...perhaps it was better directed at patton303...but anyway it was a good job and practically any fast jet pilot would have achieved same or similar outcome
I remembered correctly.. EC is the capital of Pasquotank County (somewhere in between Chowan and Currituck.. or is it Camden.. can't remember for sure).
its FBW so no engine, APU no power or a decent charge on the bat means no controls. Assume EPU is a Hydrogen based emergency generator of some sort. Heard mention hydrazine surprised its used I know they can overspeed to destructive rpms.
EPU (Emergency Power Unit) is a small turbine running on hydrazine, that runs a generator and a hydraulic pump, so the F-16 can maintain Flight for some time (depending on usage and bleed air coming from the milling or running engine.
@CorrectiveAction The proper response in the air in an emergency is "aerogate, navigate, radiate". Fly the plane first. Navigate second. Talk to people _last_. If you can delegate, do so. A wingman talking to the tower for you and helping you with the checklist is _smart_.
Tough choice... try to land dead stick and possibly not make it or eject with ejection injuries, survive and have the aircraft crash on people or its engine restart and it crash on people elsewhere.
@16vr6 ...seriously?? I honestly doubt that. He didnt even drop his tanks until told to. Yeah great job, but he had a wingman "hold his hand" all the way down. Anyone who flies a fast jet in any (well almost any) defence force is extremely competent.
Dropping external stores is something extra risky. There was a Fakcon in same issue 20 k north of SAT. He had training practice ord on hard points, THOUGHT he jettisoned them over an Army training base (Bullis) but one skewered the empty garage of a house.
@@kcism3239 That and the 40mm M203 are why some of the ranges are still EOD nightmares. Hand grenades are easy, 40 yards, 60 if you got an MLB arm. So if that Falcon driver had dropped his training ord into one of those ranges..no biggie. AF would have written it off.
You're right in that it's confusing. What they're referring to as the 'stick', is the propeller blades. I know this is not a propeller engine, but that's where the term comes from, from the early days of aviation: dead engine = dead stick (propeller is not moving, or dead in other words). Control stick, flight stick, side stick (cause it's on the side in an F16, and not in the middle), hands on throttle and stick (HOTAS) are terms that would be accepted as correct to varying degrees, depending on the aircraft and the setting among other things. So you're not wrong there either.
When you see your nose pointing -10 degree you know you will glide.... And i talk, being a gamer 😅😁 I dont want to know the feelings in a real situation 😱
The dead stick expression is just misleading. The stick doesn't regulate power, it operates control surfaces that are in good working order. Call it "Dead throttle".
Wikipedia - Deadstick landing: "The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, which in most aircraft are either fully or partially functional without engine power, but to the traditional wooden propeller, which without power would just be a "dead stick"."
Imagine his skills in 1080p or 4K. I mean, honestly, he did it in 240p with barely any sight at all. Good pilot! 👍
He landed it one handed too! Had to hold up the potato to record all this, for insurance purposes.
For those below who don't know the term "Dead stick".
---A dead stick landing, is a type of forced landing when an aircraft loses all of its propulsive power and is forced to land. The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls,
--The F16 is a fly by wire aircraft (No wires or rod linkages, only electrical wires.)
And the stick is?
The propeller, originally propellers on aircraft were wooden and so sometimes they were known as "sticks". If it stopped spinning, you had a dead stick.
Pilot seemed pretty cool, calm and collected. Amazing video
Nice to have that level of resource management. No one in the cockpit to deviate tasks to, so the wingman steps up and makes the radio calls. That’s a Battle Buddy right there!
Mother of all F-bombs... he did good!
Look at the man go, focussed and fast acting.
I could never do that. Salute to all them Fastmoving Dudes and Dudettes.
Cool landing. At least his EPU (Emergency Power Unit) worked so he could glide it in and still keep his gauges working.
Yea but that hydrazine is a killer.
@Tristan With a glide ratio of only 12:1 and going 300 miles an hour, he'd probably hit the ground before the EPU runs out.
I just love the fact that the EPU runs on rocket fuel
Yeah, that's crazy, had no idea they ran on hydrazine.
I imagine weighting the risks of ejection vs landing a modern fighter without an engine must be hard.
Ejection under a controlled landing like this is nearly 100% survival rate. You might get some minor injuries but it's nearly a 0% chance of death. Landing the aircraft almost seems like an unnecessary risk to the pilot, but if he ever felt like he was in mortal danger, he would have ejected because in the end the pilot is always the one in command in the aircraft and it is his job to ensure he and his crew (i know the f-16 is 1 man but you know) make it home safe.
@@LouSaydus F-16 is not "1 Man", have you ever heard of D variant?
@Schmidtka Productions use the fucking Google
@@ephealtun You’re worthless.
There is always a risk in ejecting. Even allowing for surviving the ejection, the stresses it places on the pilots body possess a significant chance of permanent injuries that will sideline him from further flying.
In short, if possible, it's always better to land the plane.
A phrase you never want to hear from the tower is "You are clear to land on any runway."
in this scenario, that is exactly what you want to hear.
They said that to Capt. Haynes on Flight 232 (the one they crash landed with differential thrust only, 1/3 passenger fatalities.) I'll always remember how Haynes said "ahahaha, you wanna be particular and make it a *runway*, huh?"
The reply atc never wants to hear…
“You want to be particular and make it a runway eh?” -the legend Al Haynes 😊
Always a pucker factor! And hydrazine on board! Good landing, Sir!
all f16s have hydrazine onboard nothing special
@@vetusmagnus3885 Understood. Being into rockets and such, I do have a question: why isn't there a procedure to vent this? (Or alternatively use it for propulsion? Why is it even carrying this and if you're carrying it why not let them use it as dV on the plane?). I'm no pilot but I'd have to think even a little bit of thrust would be useful when the main engine cuts.
@@BumbleBeeJBG I doubt the thrust from the hydrazine would be helpful since its not even burned to run the EPU. Its also compact and stores for a long time
The F-16 glides like a brick, nice work
I swear I could feel what the pilot was feeling, excellent!
WOW!!!! Dead sticking an F-16 and nailing the landing? I guess that's why they train so hard.
Very impressed with that approach & landing. Well done, Sir.
Fantastic job!
Better the hydrazine than the ACES II!
I never liked the yard darts. But their pilots were always impressive!
Thank you for your service. Super job.
One reason Navy aircraft tend to have multiple engines and/or an auxiliary engine power unit. Also makes for less maintenance or equipment requirements for self-starting. Pumped up plenty of the hydraulic reservoirs on the Hornets to get 'em around.
The 16 was made to be lighter and cheaper. That comes at a cost. Now they're doing the same thing with the 35, not to mention trying to make it a jack-of-all trades like the F4. Lesson not learned I guess.
Ooh, time to try this in DCS.
Please put it on UA-cam… dcs recreation of these miraculous aviation events are so cool.
@@theflanman420420 I just might. Just messing around, I tried it in the Hornet, inadvertently killed the power and couldn't lower the gear (maybe I didn't know how), but I had enough altitude to fire up the APU and the right engine and land. It was fun.
@@theflanman420420 Here's another scene you might like :ua-cam.com/video/_m1bIahwuYY/v-deo.html
Would personally like to see someone re create the one where the pilot dodged 3 or 6 (I don't remember exactly) SAMs with no chaff.... they had jammed and he didn't know.. had to out maneuver them with skill. Crazy stuff.
Found it lol, 6 SAMs ua-cam.com/video/2uh4yMAx2UA/v-deo.html
it remembers a mission in falcon 4.0
Excellent airmanship 👍
Only time you hear his breathing change is during final and touchdown. Don't blame him, no power to control your descent or climb out if needed, and hope the gear locked in place.
every single landing ever in a glider :/
@@operationscomputer1478 except gliders aren't loaded with explosive material and jet fuel, weigh a few tons, or fly at four hundred plus knots. Gliders don't explode into a firey ball of metal if you make a mistake. Not the same thing by a mile.
@@j.c.keplinger7046 He jettisoned his tanks, but obviously there's still fuel in the fuselage so your point still stands. Not to mention bombs and literal millions of dollars of high tech equipment. Gliders are also designed to glide, fighter jets are designed to fly at super sonic speeds.
@@ATSaale Yeah, 16's don't really glide all that well on their own, they tend to plummet. Didn't even think about the tanks, so thanks for that and the fuel in the system does count. He was sitting on a gigantic bomb if he got it wrong even alittle; I'd give it a 7out of 10 on the pucker scale. Damn fine aviator.
Superb flying, helped by excellent resource management from the other birds in his flight. All in all, the absolute best possible outcome. No doubt got an Attaboy added to his file.
That was awesome.
The wingman helping him sounded more stressed then the pilot.
First time seeing this... Excellent landing..
Nice job bud.
Thanks for the help.
Balls of steel
Nice!!! Good job.
Some of the best landings are dead stick.
Great job.
Pilot handled it beautifully.
Pretty amazing. Even more so that its a fly by wire Aircraft.
Beautiful
I didn't realize that fighter jets can glide. I understood that they were inherently unstable so that it's more manurable.
They are, but that has nothing to do with whether they can glide or not. The software that makes the minute corrections to keep the plane under control doesn't suddenly stop working just because the engine is out. If they lost all electrical power but the engine(s) were still running, then you would have no choice but to eject.
@@thekinginyellow1744 understood! Thank you!
Good work 👍
That's f'ing amazing. I didn't know you could glide those things that far. Did that airstrip just happen to be there? He came in a little fast too....looked like it was just under 200
It is using an emergency power supply to help it
you're ALWAYS trying to land as fast as possible if you're gliding bro. Because you can always stop, but you can never add power, if you'Re short.
@@jemand8462 he landed around 170 which isn't too fast and was using a back up emergency power that helps the jet for these types of situations
@Paul Flusk you can actually have a positive rate of climb despite being pitched down 10 degrees my friend. Look at some gliders in strong thermals. And if you don't have an engine, of course you have to pitch down to remain at your optimal gliding speed. You exchange height for speed, but it's still flying. falling would mean gaining speed uncontrollably and without any forward movement.
@Paul Flusk I'm sorry, I didn't think and wasn't even remembering that here it's all about the velocity vector which indeed represents the vertical speed.
I take everything back and agree with you. Btw, holy shit, 5000hours? Do you mean in real life or in DCS?
He’s probably preparing to eject the whole time…
Seems like we're all watching this now, currently at 47k
Dead sticking it in all the way and sets her down like a feather. Textbook 👍
More proof that engines don't make airplanes fly; they just help maintain the desired speed. Without the emergency power unit the story would have been very different.
Breathing ASMR
Pretty sure I got a phone call from that pilot the other night.
Awesome
I understand tower is worried but they really should do their best to sound as "normal" as possible, its one less thing the pilot needs to worry about and makes the situation feel more like training than a real emergency. You're much more clear headed in a sim than you are in real life, and that calmness can vastly improve your chances of survival should you need to make a split second decision.
Out fucking standing.
@CorrectiveAction Okay, I agree there. Sorry. Just making sure you understood.
@Jetman123 I agree with everything you say...my post was a response to 16vr6...perhaps it was better directed at patton303...but anyway it was a good job and practically any fast jet pilot would have achieved same or similar outcome
Last time I fly with my F16 without engine …..thug life 😎
WTF brave man !
Which Elizabeth City? NC?
I assume Elizabeth City South Carolina was a Coastguard Heli rework/rewire facility there.
EC is in NC
I remembered correctly.. EC is the capital of Pasquotank County (somewhere in between Chowan and Currituck.. or is it Camden.. can't remember for sure).
Me in flight sim when I change my fuel to "zero"
Nice, comparing having to use the ejection seat, to resetting the game
@@pjotrtje0NL yes
WOW!! PTL he landed OK!
Thx for the 13 year old video recommendations UA-cam
The F-16 is probably not the best glider...? Nice flying either way
[slow applause]
[applause builds as audience lifts their jaws off the floor]
My imagination just saw 2 jets fly under the broken jet and slowly rise, catching the 1st jet on their wings, and all slowly land in a pyramid pattern
its FBW so no engine, APU no power or a decent charge on the bat means no controls. Assume EPU is a Hydrogen based emergency generator of some sort. Heard mention hydrazine surprised its used I know they can overspeed to destructive rpms.
EPU is fuelled by hydrazine. It's an awesome fuel but very toxic, so needs precautions on the ground.
EPU (Emergency Power Unit) is a small turbine running on hydrazine, that runs a generator and a hydraulic pump, so the F-16 can maintain Flight for some time (depending on usage and bleed air coming from the milling or running engine.
There's also an indicator on a skin panel to show if the EPU has been run. It's one of the first checks I did on see-in.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Dang
More or less the same as a space shuttle landing, no engine, just one go.
Oh please, I do this in War Thunder all the time
降下角10°でエンジン推力ゼロとか、アプローチにしても怖すぎるよ😱しかも旋回角にまったく余裕がない。グライドスロープに合わせるため急旋回でファイナルしてる。
これを神業と言わずして何と言うべぎか！
@CorrectiveAction The proper response in the air in an emergency is "aerogate, navigate, radiate". Fly the plane first. Navigate second. Talk to people _last_. If you can delegate, do so. A wingman talking to the tower for you and helping you with the checklist is _smart_.
Do you mean “Aviate, navigate, communicate”?
Aerogate is my favourite drink.
You can hear the guy breathing heavy, I’d probably pass out, but he kept his cool and followed his procedures… America produces the best pilots
Are least he has an ejection seat.
03:03
What is the hydrazine used for please?
Powers an Emergency Power Unit to keep instrument, radios and flight controls operative.
Tough choice... try to land dead stick and possibly not make it or eject with ejection injuries, survive and have the aircraft crash on people or its engine restart and it crash on people elsewhere.
@16vr6 ...seriously?? I honestly doubt that. He didnt even drop his tanks until told to. Yeah great job, but he had a wingman "hold his hand" all the way down. Anyone who flies a fast jet in any (well almost any) defence force is extremely competent.
He was ANG lol
Dropping external stores is something extra risky. There was a Fakcon in same issue 20 k north of SAT. He had training practice ord on hard points, THOUGHT he jettisoned them over an Army training base (Bullis) but one skewered the empty garage of a house.
@@keithjurena9319 I trained on the LAW rocket in Bullis..
@@kcism3239 That and the 40mm M203 are why some of the ranges are still EOD nightmares. Hand grenades are easy, 40 yards, 60 if you got an MLB arm. So if that Falcon driver had dropped his training ord into one of those ranges..no biggie. AF would have written it off.
@@keithjurena9319 MLB arm? Nice
Having his wingman screaming is not helping…
yeah, that dude was a jackwagon
So... a $16 million aircraft that he chooses to save at the risk of his own life. Can we give this pilot at least a $1 million bonus?
I would’ve ejected at 0:01. I pay my taxes…
Dead stick ? meaning ? I would have thaught that it meant the control stick (IDK the name) was unresponsive ?
You're right in that it's confusing.
What they're referring to as the 'stick', is the propeller blades. I know this is not a propeller engine, but that's where the term comes from, from the early days of aviation: dead engine = dead stick (propeller is not moving, or dead in other words).
Control stick, flight stick, side stick (cause it's on the side in an F16, and not in the middle), hands on throttle and stick (HOTAS) are terms that would be accepted as correct to varying degrees, depending on the aircraft and the setting among other things. So you're not wrong there either.
@@Deniz1923 Now I understand, thank you very much for your time and explaining so clearly. Much apprecaited !
Cats!!!
Dude.
stud.
Saved us all a lot of $$$ by landing that jet nicely!
What’s another 40 million on a near trillion dollar budget?
@@theflanman420420 Sadly that is the case anymore
Look up what Dead stick means
Guys, ever heard of SARCASM?!
Ah, I love how UA-cam broke old comments and their replies.
@@recklesflam1ngo968 lol even I was confused
@16vr6 ...Check this out 7ak3gBImhLI
RAAF F-111 catching a cable and doing a belly landing..rookie pilot flying.
@patton303 Yes, NO other air force could possibly do what these guys did.
THE F16 IS BULL........!
yeah, this wasn't dead stick... he had control surfaces
Maybe you're not sure what deadstick means. Here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadstick_landing
Why is this pilot carrying hydrazine?
it's the fuel for the EPU, which powers the flight control system. Without it, the pilot would have to eject
Pilot shoud launch m61a cannon gun to shot any dangerous birds
No big deal. I coulda done that easy peezy. I’m PlayStation qualified. Fighter Ace 2 certified.
Ok, now let's court martial whomever installed that lousy camera....
Pretty damn good quality an onboard camera for 1996...
It's 1996 you dumbass. This was also uploaded in 2008 at 240p, and youtube has slowly degraded lower quality video's bitrate over the years as well.
should have ejected
When you see your nose pointing -10 degree you know you will glide....
And i talk, being a gamer 😅😁
I dont want to know the feelings in a real situation 😱
The dead stick expression is just misleading. The stick doesn't regulate power, it operates control surfaces that are in good working order. Call it "Dead throttle".
It's dead-stick, for good reason. Everyone in aviation understands the term.
WRONG
Wikipedia - Deadstick landing: "The "stick" does not refer to the flight controls, which in most aircraft are either fully or partially functional without engine power, but to the traditional wooden propeller, which without power would just be a "dead stick"."
the title is f'ed up, stick was very much alive and responsive