Just wanted to say a big thank you to this channel! I report to OCS November 3rd this year with the Navy. Once that is done I go to Pensacola for flight school. Anybody who is trying to become a military pilot should definitely watch this channel. I used your advice and tips numerous times. The best advice I received was to MAKE THEM TELL YOU NO! (multiple times)
meaty thank you and good luck as well. Just a heads up I believe the army has a WOFT program that can take you from high school to flight school with them. Just another option if you wanted to try it out. I know it is super competitive though
@@kylebrazas5895 Yea I was originally going to do that but ended up not meeting the GT score requirement... Fortunately, I have the opportunity to take a fast track class to bring that up in the future. I'm going to submit a packet once my first enlistment is over.
Good luck Kyle... I wish you all the best for your future endeavours...keep it real and may you always remember, "An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding."
You really dont have to know all of them. If you know the main ones, you are all set. From my experience, if you just tell the other you only know the main ones they will simplify it for you, at least on the servers i play on which have a chill community@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I too was a FE in the Lockheed trimotor (10 years) but I never that term. With I would have cause I wound have incorporated that in to my vocab. 😊 thanks !
I went non-current 26 years ago after 23 years of daily use. Nice to see little has changed. These terms become so part of you that you some times inadvertently use them in current situations (totally mystifying those listening).
One of the maintainers sayings that I liked - Pilot writes up something in the forms, specialists spend hours troubleshooting and finds nothing. Maintenance Chief asks, “How did you sign it off?” “Could not duplicate, Short between the headsets”. Another great video Mover. (Bill from Slidell).
@@raynic1173 they operate a lot of different kinds for transport of cargo or VIPs. Examples include the C-12 Huron, Cessna UC-35, and C-26 Metroliner, among others. It's a little known fact that the Army has more than just helicopters.
You should cover some of the more basic ones for fighters. Fox 1, Fox 2, Fox 3, Rifle, Magnum, RTB, MadDog/Pitbull, Bug/SuperBug, etc. Love your videos, Mover. Keep it up.
The best call I ever heard was a flight lead in a flight of 4 coming to the merge against another 4-ship: "No Visual, No Tally, No Clue. Blow Through!"
Thanks for your service, Mover! I'm an ex-wingnut (B-52 AMMO) and my previous next-door neighbor is an Eagle wizzo who flew with the Navy Growlers. It was interesting (to say the least) to hear him describe the differences between how the AF and Navy operate. Be good, brotha!
Great video that brought back memories when flying in fighters with the USAF a hundred years ago. Surprised that lingo still is used. One of my all time favorites and still use it quite often 'WAG, for wild ass guess. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it.
One of the best calls I've ever heard was from the lead of a 4-ship approaching the merge with another 4-ship. The call was "No visual, no tally, no clue, blow through!"
The F-4, dang, just saw a documentary on that beast. I also made a model of it as a kid, always have loved it. If you were to remember one or a couple several things that stick out like a sore thumb about that aircraft (good or bad) , what are they? Interested to know from someone who actually flew it
@@eagle6212 That is a standard derogatory remark, but the old Rhino could actually turn and was a joy to fly. One just ha to understand how to fly it. It was actually far more nimble than a Thud.
I am really impressed how pilots/controllers can understand each other with so fast-speaking one-word exchanges over the radio... I would probably have to ask you to repeat half a dozen time. I understand the need to be terse though, nothing worse than having people blabbing over and over.
It’s called using Standard Phraseology. They aren’t just speaking free-form. When you use the same words and same phrases, it’s easier to understand with marginal radio frequencies.
Just for fun, I think I'll try to start talking like this regularly with my student pilot friends. But seriously, this was a great video. It would be awesome if you did a part two and beyond on this topic. I know many of us, your audience, would love to watch that.
What up bro? It's Mouth from the Air Guard!! Long time brother!! Great video. I knew it was someone from New Orleans when you said 'the Saints won'... I'm still there bro. Give me a shout when you can!!!
Excellent ! That was about a 3 way split for me. 1/3 new, 1/3 confirmed/clarified and 1/3 Yup understood that already. I'm a former NORAD Weapons Controller and it's interesting to compare with the terms used in the old SAGE environment. We had a sometimes useful automated ystem of guiding our primary interceptors (F-106) to targets using datalink and my 2 favorite terms were "Follow Dolly" (Telling the pilot we are sending them a target to attack via datalink - follow that guidance. "Judy" The pilot would call that when he didn't need any more voice guidance for the target (Shut up and let me get this kill) That also meant we were no longer responsible for getting them in behind the target (Almost every intercept was stern conversion where we drove them to the point where they had about a 30 to 45 degree angle off the nose of the target and we were to guide them to turn and roll out behind the target at about a 1/2 to 1 mile range. Of course that was in the benign intercept with no evasion permitted. Naturally that became more difficult to achieve when the target turned into your pilot. The one unique situation we often had was that we were often controlling planes over the great lakes region and in fall and early spring they hated going "feet wet" then. After the lakes totally iced over not as serious and of course in the short summer not a big issue. Many times we were directed to set them up on cap stations over the lakes and they were always unhappy with that. You'd get repeated calls of "Goliath LimaHotel 02 Feet Wet" Their meaning was - GET ME THE "H" over land NOW, stop having me orbit over water. Most times there was nothing we could do because our assigned MOA was mostly over water.
Let me tighten you up a bit regarding Up/Down. 1st off, I am old, .(The mighty F4J/S) so this may not apply anymore...also, I was in the Marine Corps, so the crayons may have NON-RFI'd my memory. We used two ups or two downs or a combination of both: Aircraft is up and up (GTG) Aircraft is up/down (Good airframe/engine, bad avionics/electrical) Aircraft is down/up (Bad airframe/engine, good avionics/electrical) Aircraft is hard down(inclusive) Keep up the good work and please stay safe. Regards.
Mover, completely professional presentations, highly informative, loose but lucid, and more than a bit entertaining, bloody good job!. One question though. In my 21 years in the R.A.A.F. I found the answer why so few non-fighter service personnel were not able to score a ride (a 'jolly) in a two seat fast mover, and it all boils down to the the 'Four P's'. If a person was not Pilot, Press, Politician or Pussy, your chances were close to zero...just sayin'.
Gracias! This is unique, hard to find and generally not easily searchable on the net. Am glad you choose to cover it. I foresee bewildered faces during my conversations in the coming weeks. Do you plan on a follow up or Part 2 video on this topic? Disclosure - A similar endeavor of mine to include Scuba Diving Lingo in everyday conversations ended up as a DUD.
I was an F-15 weapons troop back in the mid 80s and 90s and I wanted to add some lingo for you from a maintenance side. Sorry that I came late to the discussion. Most pilots are awesome, but we had ways of talking about things, no disrespect "Short between the headset" The jet might not be the problem "No sir, the radar will not function well in OFF mode" noob R² is shorthand for remove and replace in the aircraft maintenance record so: "R² Stick actuator" "R² flight suit insert" "redball" the pilot has an immediate problem that must be resolved if it is to fly A few times the pilot would show up and say "it will never fly Orville" to which we would answer "have faith Wilbur" also code 4 is chemical or nuclear contamination code 5 is battle damage "weekend screw" when you are guard or reserve and it is that weekend where it is particularly trying, like an exercise. "sergeant skillcraft" A lazy person who was caught falsifying records rather than doing the inspection. "pencilwhip" same as sergeant skillcraft For some reason in the USAF half of the places you need to go to end in farm, barn or rack. "back when Christ was a corporal" I am older and wiser than you
My dad is a retired F-15E pilot (but he's flown Phantoms and Talons in his career). I feel bad because he would have these talks with me when I was 7, and I now have the context after watching this. Hope he will forgive me. :)
all the stuff on your wall is exactly what my dads house looks like haha he flew f-16s all while i was growing up until i entered high school. i love your vids man, keep it up!
for A/C status in the Navy it's also referred as Up/Partial/Down status and after Opcheck ground turn we say shutdown Alpha (up) or shutdown Victor (down)
My 1st paying gig was flying freight and I heard DILLIGAF fairly often. Also, "Don't worry about the mule going blind and just load the wagon." DELTA was "Don't even leave the airport". There was Scare Air aka US Air. Here in SC every other pilot flew 16s with KSSC and KMMT nearby. "I'm a dot" I always liked.
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me! Lt. Commander Block: Uh, Sphincter Mucus Layer Ringworm, roger! Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I need clearance to land on runway thirty... thirty... something! Air Controller: Thirtysomething's been cancelled. Benson: "You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down every one of them. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life." Admiral Benson: My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians. LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off. Oveur: Roger. Murdock: Huh? LA Control Tower: L.A. departure frequency: 1-2-3 point 9'er. Oveur: Roger. Murdock: Huh? Basta: Request vector, over. Oveur: What? LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, clear for vector 2-3-4. Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence. Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
In an old book from the 1980s there was a list of expressions that naval aviators used, and one of the few I can remember was "Sierra Hotel" for Shit Hot... Does anyone still say that?
Most fun I had controlling was a 3v2 with British Harriers and Jaguars. The 3rd Harrier broke off just outside the Jaguars radar range. Both flights wanted close control to the merge becoming 3 flights when the 3rd Harrier broke off to sneak in behind the Jaguars. Former Navy AIC callsign Hyper.
In the UK (I don't know about other parts of the world), the military have a term for a low-hours pilot - (I believe that it's "Tyro"). When flying solo as a student, we are supposed to prefix our callsign on initial contact with "student". If flying into a MATZ, a low hours pilot can use the prefix "Tyro" when qualified. I like that convention. I wish that civilian FIS would adopt it.
Thanks! BTW Sully was asked if he wanted to go to Teterboro (KTEB), not Newark. Just threw that out since TEB is where I got my PPL over two decades ago.😆 Wise choice on his part, NO doubt! Any attempt to stretch a glide from where they lost both engines, to TEB would have likely ended REALLY badly! Nothing but several radio towers with guy wires all over that area, in close proximity to the airfield! Wires that you cannot see well, or at all sometimes.
A bit more detailed - FRAG/FRAGO = Fragment Order. Part of an overall operational or tasking order. FRAGs/FRAGO are more detailed part of the overall order. Overall order may not go into that detail or situation not originally covered. Your FRAG is a "Fragment" of the overall tasking. Back in the day followed 5 paragraph format.
When you did the maverick breakdown, you said the following and I’d love to know what it means. To Joker bingo, lead your own fire, I’ll take the fat one.
Quibbling, So To Speak, and Standard are all used in the exact same meaning, in common conversation. quibble, if you will, but they're pretty standard, so to speak.
stack - line - spacing .... hey mover, you need to "tighten up" the DCS bros and teach them what "formation" means what they call formation is really just (dangerously?) close loose trail (plus it looks ridiculous)
Priceless. I probably would've been a solid fighter pilot if I'd been groomed to be one but I ended up being a professional limo driver.. which is badass in and of itself, at least to me, but I can relate to the focus, self discipline and calm demeanor of fighter pilots. Anyways.. I'm definitely adopting this lingo and will watch this video until I memorize most or all of it. I appreciate the insight into the FP lifestyle.
Navy is using the same aspect system for ships. When you want to calculate how far away another ship is passing you or you want to intercept without using radar you use basic triangle math. If you regard yourself as stationary and the other guy shows you a ten degree bow right in a distance of 6000yds you can use sinus 10 x 6000yds and get 3200yds distance of track. Ther it makes more sense to say that a guy going right towards you is showing zero Angle of bow due to the math. At least on subs it’s used a lot when working with a periscope. I don’t really sea a necessity for a navy Air Force difference there though.
Things must have changed, we used code 1, code 2, and hard down in the Marines in the early '80s. I was Phantom radar shop so we had a lot of code 2 stuff that didn't get worked on until after the last jet was on the ground or when it went hard down for something else, (and after that shop had worked THEIR gripes AND the jet wasn't needed for another hop right away). The saying was, "fuckit, flyit, fixit later." I just remembered, in the maintenance control shack they had a board for aircraft status, two columns with an arrow drawn in each block on every jet's line, up arrow or down arrow. First column was airframe status and second column was radar status. Up and up, up and down, down and up and down and down were the possibilities.
Super interesting, thanks! So if you heard me over the radio saying, “Tally, 1500, low aspect, I’m Jester, turning hot” that’d make sense? Asking for the time I’ll never actually say that in real life 😅
Have you ever done an in country SEAD mission? I was JFO qual'd and went to JTAC school for army soldiers. I only had to do one and that was during the invasion of Iraq.
In the Army dash one is the dash 10. All TMs end in dash 10. IE HMMWV to is 9-2320-280-10. Why that shit is still in my head 14 years after I did my last pmcs, I dunno.
If you're a trucker "holding hands" is when two trucks are pacing each other on the highway and not letting other vehicles by. Also known as Chinese road block.
Not meaning to be repetitious if you have already spoke on the following subject but here goes: are you making airtime flying the t38 with AIR FORCE or as contractor yet?
There's a GCAS recovery video floating around here on UA-cam and they're saying something like "knock it off" or "knocking off" haven't found anything online about that phrase.
Just wanted to say a big thank you to this channel! I report to OCS November 3rd this year with the Navy. Once that is done I go to Pensacola for flight school. Anybody who is trying to become a military pilot should definitely watch this channel. I used your advice and tips numerous times. The best advice I received was to MAKE THEM TELL YOU NO! (multiple times)
Hell yea man! Much respect.
wish you luck man hope your goal becomes reality!! Im heading to basic soon as a 19k Army. Have future plans to be a pilot in the Army.
meaty thank you and good luck as well. Just a heads up I believe the army has a WOFT program that can take you from high school to flight school with them. Just another option if you wanted to try it out. I know it is super competitive though
@@kylebrazas5895 Yea I was originally going to do that but ended up not meeting the GT score requirement... Fortunately, I have the opportunity to take a fast track class to bring that up in the future. I'm going to submit a packet once my first enlistment is over.
Good luck Kyle... I wish you all the best for your future endeavours...keep it real and may you always remember, "An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding."
Thank you now I know what my wingman is saying to me in DCS. Awesome videos as always man!
i took out a notebook and pen, hoping to impress someone in DCS :) i'll probably make a fool out of myself mixing up terms while playing anyway
You really dont have to know all of them. If you know the main ones, you are all set. From my experience, if you just tell the other you only know the main ones they will simplify it for you, at least on the servers i play on which have a chill community@@RDxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"They misuse the Queen's English a lot"
You're Goddamn right. *Sips tea furiously*
Your name made this comment 100% better hahahaa
GetColonised Gekoloniseerd 😄
“GetColonised”😂😂
@@kapilbusawah7169 de leden van de Staten-Generaal keuren deze opmerking goed
I spent a career as a C1 30 flight engineer one of the terms we used a lot was” ‘wing-off light’Which meant exceeding aircraft performance envelope
I too was a FE in the Lockheed trimotor (10 years) but I never that term. With I would have cause I wound have incorporated that in to my vocab. 😊 thanks !
I went non-current 26 years ago after 23 years of daily use. Nice to see little has changed. These terms become so part of you that you some times inadvertently use them in current situations (totally mystifying those listening).
One of the maintainers sayings that I liked - Pilot writes up something in the forms, specialists spend hours troubleshooting and finds nothing. Maintenance Chief asks, “How did you sign it off?” “Could not duplicate, Short between the headsets”. Another great video Mover. (Bill from Slidell).
Or the classic IFF in the OFF position
It's the code ID-10-T
We had a version of this when I was in motorsports too, one variation or another of "problem exists between steering wheel and seat"
@@max_archer it is called a "gasket problem" over here. Like, the gasket needs replacing. One between the wheel and the seat.
We called it a joystick actuator failure
It’s really funny hearing the Air Force and Navy lingo and comparing it to our own lingo in Army Aviation.
We also recently had big change in our brevity terms and now I know where some of them came from
Army aviation, I thought that was turned into the "air force" like 60 yrs. ago?
@@raynic1173 Army has tons of helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, and drones.
@@mr_beezlebub3985 oh yeah, the cavalry gave up their horses for heli-s. Fixed wing? What are they flying?
@@raynic1173 they operate a lot of different kinds for transport of cargo or VIPs. Examples include the C-12 Huron, Cessna UC-35, and C-26 Metroliner, among others. It's a little known fact that the Army has more than just helicopters.
You should cover some of the more basic ones for fighters. Fox 1, Fox 2, Fox 3, Rifle, Magnum, RTB, MadDog/Pitbull, Bug/SuperBug, etc. Love your videos, Mover. Keep it up.
Also crank/extend/notch etc.
I just finished watching the vid and nearly craft
Dead bug
Also jinx
Cypher jink*
The best call I ever heard was a flight lead in a flight of 4 coming to the merge against another 4-ship: "No Visual, No Tally, No Clue. Blow Through!"
Thanks for your service, Mover! I'm an ex-wingnut (B-52 AMMO) and my previous next-door neighbor is an Eagle wizzo who flew with the Navy Growlers. It was interesting (to say the least) to hear him describe the differences between how the AF and Navy operate. Be good, brotha!
"hey are you with that other F-16 out there?"
"Yea we're holding hands..."
daawwwww
Flying off in to the sunset :)
Must be a navy thing... 😘
@@dampsok Navy don't have F-16s
@@surmatise correct, an air force thing, daawwwww.............lol. Navy might be "we're sharing a stall" go figure that out, lol.
Great video that brought back memories when flying in fighters with the USAF a hundred years ago. Surprised that lingo still is used. One of my all time favorites and still use it quite often 'WAG, for wild ass guess. Thanks for the video I enjoyed it.
SWAG- scientific wild ass guess.
One of the best calls I've ever heard was from the lead of a 4-ship approaching the merge with another 4-ship. The call was "No visual, no tally, no clue, blow through!"
Mom: clean the dishes!
Me: unable
Mom: you like having gas in your car??
Me: Copy that. WILCO.
If you are unable, seems it would be impossible to wilco.
@@razorbackblood06 Unless you suddenly find yourself able!
I last flew in late 81 in the F-4 and it is good to know that I can still understand the lingo. BTW, I know a guy whose call sign was Nordo.
We also had a NORDO. haha
@@CWLemoine However, the guy I knew as a young Lt worked out pretty good as he was Commander of PACAF and retired as a four star.
The F-4, dang, just saw a documentary on that beast. I also made a model of it as a kid, always have loved it. If you were to remember one or a couple several things that stick out like a sore thumb about that aircraft (good or bad) , what are they? Interested to know from someone who actually flew it
F-4...proof that a brick can fly if it has enough thrust...Digger
@@eagle6212 That is a standard derogatory remark, but the old Rhino could actually turn and was a joy to fly. One just ha to understand how to fly it. It was actually far more nimble than a Thud.
I am really impressed how pilots/controllers can understand each other with so fast-speaking one-word exchanges over the radio... I would probably have to ask you to repeat half a dozen time. I understand the need to be terse though, nothing worse than having people blabbing over and over.
I always thought that. You learn what to listen for as you get more experience and disregard all the other stuff. Sometimes it difficult though.
It’s called using Standard Phraseology. They aren’t just speaking free-form. When you use the same words and same phrases, it’s easier to understand with marginal radio frequencies.
Theres a reason there is a brevity list. These are mostly official joint terms.
The DCS event was a lot of fun to watch and I really enjoyed the running commentary. Well done!
Just for fun, I think I'll try to start talking like this regularly with my student pilot friends.
But seriously, this was a great video. It would be awesome if you did a part two and beyond on this topic. I know many of us, your audience, would love to watch that.
*Wife:* _stop binge watching Mover vids and pay attention to me_
*Me:* _unable_
What up bro? It's Mouth from the Air Guard!! Long time brother!! Great video. I knew it was someone from New Orleans when you said 'the Saints won'... I'm still there bro. Give me a shout when you can!!!
My favorite was always -- "Make a play for the deck"
Another pilot euphemism I like is, "Temporarily uncertain of position" = Lost.
We used “geographically misplaced” in the Army instead of lost. :-)
Excellent ! That was about a 3 way split for me. 1/3 new, 1/3 confirmed/clarified and 1/3 Yup understood that already. I'm a former NORAD Weapons Controller and it's interesting to compare with the terms used in the old SAGE environment. We had a sometimes useful automated ystem of guiding our primary interceptors (F-106) to targets using datalink and my 2 favorite terms were
"Follow Dolly" (Telling the pilot we are sending them a target to attack via datalink - follow that guidance.
"Judy" The pilot would call that when he didn't need any more voice guidance for the target (Shut up and let me get this kill) That also meant we were no longer responsible for getting them in behind the target (Almost every intercept was stern conversion where we drove them to the point where they had about a 30 to 45 degree angle off the nose of the target and we were to guide them to turn and roll out behind the target at about a 1/2 to 1 mile range. Of course that was in the benign intercept with no evasion permitted. Naturally that became more difficult to achieve when the target turned into your pilot.
The one unique situation we often had was that we were often controlling planes over the great lakes region and in fall and early spring they hated going "feet wet" then. After the lakes totally iced over not as serious and of course in the short summer not a big issue. Many times we were directed to set them up on cap stations over the lakes and they were always unhappy with that. You'd get repeated calls of "Goliath LimaHotel 02 Feet Wet" Their meaning was - GET ME THE "H" over land NOW, stop having me orbit over water. Most times there was nothing we could do because our assigned MOA was mostly over water.
Let me tighten you up a bit regarding Up/Down. 1st off, I am old, .(The mighty F4J/S) so this may not apply anymore...also, I was in the Marine Corps, so the crayons may have NON-RFI'd my memory. We used two ups or two downs or a combination of both: Aircraft is up and up (GTG) Aircraft is up/down (Good airframe/engine, bad avionics/electrical) Aircraft is down/up (Bad airframe/engine, good avionics/electrical) Aircraft is hard down(inclusive) Keep up the good work and please stay safe. Regards.
Thanks! I'm now less clueless.... I do believe this was the first topic I messaged you....
Hi Mover, It was a pleasure to meet you at DFW! I really enjoy you videos and thanks for the smooth flight to OKC! -Mark P.
Thanks Mark! Great meeting you.
Mover, completely professional presentations, highly informative, loose but lucid, and more than a bit entertaining, bloody good job!. One question though. In my 21 years in the R.A.A.F. I found the answer why so few non-fighter service personnel were not able to score a ride (a 'jolly) in a two seat fast mover, and it all boils down to the the 'Four P's'. If a person was not Pilot, Press, Politician or Pussy, your chances were close to zero...just sayin'.
Love the term "Helmet Fire"
"Helmet fire.... So to speak"
Imagine a bunch of fighter pilots picking up girls in a bar being like "tally target visual friendlies"
Gracias!
This is unique, hard to find and generally not easily searchable on the net. Am glad you choose to cover it.
I foresee bewildered faces during my conversations in the coming weeks.
Do you plan on a follow up or Part 2 video on this topic?
Disclosure - A similar endeavor of mine to include Scuba Diving Lingo in everyday conversations ended up as a DUD.
One of my most favorite calls in a SES, "Miller time Miller time"
Hey Mover, great channel, brings back a lot of good memories!
I was an F-15 weapons troop back in the mid 80s and 90s and I wanted to add some lingo for you from a maintenance side. Sorry that I came late to the discussion. Most pilots are awesome, but we had ways of talking about things, no disrespect
"Short between the headset" The jet might not be the problem
"No sir, the radar will not function well in OFF mode" noob
R² is shorthand for remove and replace in the aircraft maintenance record so:
"R² Stick actuator"
"R² flight suit insert"
"redball" the pilot has an immediate problem that must be resolved if it is to fly
A few times the pilot would show up and say "it will never fly Orville" to which we would answer "have faith Wilbur"
also code 4 is chemical or nuclear contamination
code 5 is battle damage
"weekend screw" when you are guard or reserve and it is that weekend where it is particularly trying, like an exercise.
"sergeant skillcraft" A lazy person who was caught falsifying records rather than doing the inspection.
"pencilwhip" same as sergeant skillcraft
For some reason in the USAF half of the places you need to go to end in farm, barn or rack.
"back when Christ was a corporal" I am older and wiser than you
My dad is a retired F-15E pilot (but he's flown Phantoms and Talons in his career). I feel bad because he would have these talks with me when I was 7, and I now have the context after watching this. Hope he will forgive me. :)
example of low SA and No SA
I said to Hollywood : Where did the go?
And Hollywood said "Where did whooooo gooooooooo?"
all the stuff on your wall is exactly what my dads house looks like haha he flew f-16s all while i was growing up until i entered high school. i love your vids man, keep it up!
for A/C status in the Navy it's also referred as Up/Partial/Down status and after Opcheck ground turn we say shutdown Alpha (up) or shutdown Victor (down)
Oh god as soon as i heard "code 1" starting having memories of the spam of code 3s on fridays
Especially when its actually been broken since Tuesday but nobody told you so they can keep flying.
"sensitive new age pilots" lol
Callsign, "Snowflake".
That last one “See You Next Time” is a very important one!! 😲
My 1st paying gig was flying freight and I heard DILLIGAF fairly often. Also, "Don't worry about the mule going blind and just load the wagon." DELTA was "Don't even leave the airport". There was Scare Air aka US Air. Here in SC every other pilot flew 16s with KSSC and KMMT nearby. "I'm a dot" I always liked.
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach:
Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!
Lt. Commander Block:
Uh, Sphincter Mucus Layer Ringworm, roger!
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach:
I need clearance to land on runway thirty... thirty... something!
Air Controller:
Thirtysomething's been cancelled.
Benson:
"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions and I was shot down every one of them. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."
Admiral Benson:
My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians.
LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, you are cleared for take-off.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
LA Control Tower: L.A. departure frequency: 1-2-3 point 9'er.
Oveur: Roger.
Murdock: Huh?
Basta: Request vector, over.
Oveur: What?
LA Control Tower: Flight 2-0-9'er, clear for vector 2-3-4.
Murdock: We have clearance, Clarence.
Oveur: Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
In an old book from the 1980s there was a list of expressions that naval aviators used, and one of the few I can remember was "Sierra Hotel" for Shit Hot... Does anyone still say that?
Yup. It can also mean Shit Happens. Situationally dependent.
Moaning in the Royal Navy is referred to as ‘dripping’ as in the annoyance of listening to a dripping tap.
"No joy" was referenced in Top Gun.
Bazzyg I think it’d be great for mover to go over top gun in this way, all the lingo
Lmao! @ “That’s ok though, they misuse the Queen’s English a lot.”
Edit: We need a video two on this with whatever else was left out.
10:02 another one
Boola Boola
Most fun I had controlling was a 3v2 with British Harriers and Jaguars. The 3rd Harrier broke off just outside the Jaguars radar range. Both flights wanted close control to the merge becoming 3 flights when the 3rd Harrier broke off to sneak in behind the Jaguars. Former Navy AIC callsign Hyper.
"No impact/No idea" was our old Jarhead grunt equivalent of Cluedo. "Lost in the sauce" works too.
In the UK (I don't know about other parts of the world), the military have a term for a low-hours pilot - (I believe that it's "Tyro").
When flying solo as a student, we are supposed to prefix our callsign on initial contact with "student". If flying into a MATZ, a low hours pilot can use the prefix "Tyro" when qualified. I like that convention. I wish that civilian FIS would adopt it.
Thanks! BTW Sully was asked if he wanted to go to Teterboro (KTEB), not Newark. Just threw that out since TEB is where I got my PPL over two decades ago.😆 Wise choice on his part, NO doubt! Any attempt to stretch a glide from where they lost both engines, to TEB would have likely ended REALLY badly! Nothing but several radio towers with guy wires all over that area, in close proximity to the airfield! Wires that you cannot see well, or at all sometimes.
Mover, using this as a concise explanation for my friends who always call me out on the mil pilot vernacular.
"as fragged" - comes from "fragmentary order". You have a published Op order - changes or additions are fragmentary orders to the original order.
A bit more detailed - FRAG/FRAGO = Fragment Order. Part of an overall operational or tasking order. FRAGs/FRAGO are more detailed part of the overall order. Overall order may not go into that detail or situation not originally covered. Your FRAG is a "Fragment" of the overall tasking. Back in the day followed 5 paragraph format.
I haven't heard many of these terms since I left the USMC. Served as an enlisted aircrew on CH-46E. Really miss flying everyday.
Terms I have heard listening on the scanner during Red Flag. "Bullseye" and "With Picture".
When you did the maverick breakdown, you said the following and I’d love to know what it means.
To Joker bingo, lead your own fire, I’ll take the fat one.
Things a wingman should say.
Great video!! I would love to see a Part 2 with things like Commit vs Engage.
Wanking: 100 sailors set sail and 50 couples come out!😂
"It ain't ghey when you're underway."
Nothing wrong with being gay
That's how the Village People were created. Hence the song- "In the Navy" and the "WMCA".
Q Anon thanks for giving me what i need to report you :)
Quibbling, So To Speak, and Standard are all used in the exact same meaning, in common conversation. quibble, if you will, but they're pretty standard, so to speak.
Same - My old fire department used that term. "Dixie Engine 1 will be en route to structure fire 64 west." "Dixie Engine 2 same traffic."
stack - line - spacing .... hey mover, you need to "tighten up" the DCS bros and teach them what "formation" means
what they call formation is really just (dangerously?) close loose trail
(plus it looks ridiculous)
True story.
Even with your detailed explanations I'm still cluedo.
Not a pilot myself but have heard “4 Sierra” as an alternate call for “tango uniform.”
is Delta foxtrot still used?
my fave is "nervous" which means terrified.
Priceless. I probably would've been a solid fighter pilot if I'd been groomed to be one but I ended up being a professional limo driver.. which is badass in and of itself, at least to me, but I can relate to the focus, self discipline and calm demeanor of fighter pilots. Anyways.. I'm definitely adopting this lingo and will watch this video until I memorize most or all of it. I appreciate the insight into the FP lifestyle.
Navy is using the same aspect system for ships. When you want to calculate how far away another ship is passing you or you want to intercept without using radar you use basic triangle math. If you regard yourself as stationary and the other guy shows you a ten degree bow right in a distance of 6000yds you can use sinus 10 x 6000yds and get 3200yds distance of track. Ther it makes more sense to say that a guy going right towards you is showing zero Angle of bow due to the math. At least on subs it’s used a lot when working with a periscope. I don’t really sea a necessity for a navy Air Force difference there though.
Thanks for the videos by the way!
I love the fighting falcon! Big laugh over here from that joke. Thanks for doing this video Mover!
My favourite callouts on DCS are "Fox three pitbull" followed immediately by "Raygun"
Lead, Trail, Saddle[d], Drag .... all cowboy / driver lingo from the eat-dirt-days. Never heard y'all use "Swing" (the side rider), do you?
That was great. I can see how it becomes standard when used all the time. That may not be many of us.
“In the Navy it’s the other way around so... they’re backwards” hahaha @ how you said that
Thanks for the tighten-up!
Things must have changed, we used code 1, code 2, and hard down in the Marines in the early '80s. I was Phantom radar shop so we had a lot of code 2 stuff that didn't get worked on until after the last jet was on the ground or when it went hard down for something else, (and after that shop had worked THEIR gripes AND the jet wasn't needed for another hop right away). The saying was, "fuckit, flyit, fixit later."
I just remembered, in the maintenance control shack they had a board for aircraft status, two columns with an arrow drawn in each block on every jet's line, up arrow or down arrow. First column was airframe status and second column was radar status. Up and up, up and down, down and up and down and down were the possibilities.
Super interesting, thanks! So if you heard me over the radio saying, “Tally, 1500, low aspect, I’m Jester, turning hot” that’d make sense? Asking for the time I’ll never actually say that in real life 😅
C. W. Lemoine has Bravo Delta Energy, gents.
I work on the T-38C. Interesting bird.
Have you ever done an in country SEAD mission? I was JFO qual'd and went to JTAC school for army soldiers. I only had to do one and that was during the invasion of Iraq.
What I first thought of reading the titel: Nigel, we've got some of Jerry's cabbage crates up at three roger, tally ho.
In the helicopter community of the Army, of which I was part, instead of "Pull Chocks" we'd say, "Pull Pitch".
Rotorheads are pros at pitch and yaw. Too bad they're easy meat for ADA.
Great episode! I sure hope for a follow up. Best greetings from Germany and a successful, healthy and peaceful New Year 2020!
In the Army dash one is the dash 10. All TMs end in dash 10. IE HMMWV to is 9-2320-280-10. Why that shit is still in my head 14 years after I did my last pmcs, I dunno.
If you're a trucker "holding hands" is when two trucks are pacing each other on the highway and not letting other vehicles by. Also known as Chinese road block.
As a trucker there are days when j feel like" pulling the brakes "on the hiway and becoming a " 70 foot road block"
Maintenance special for dummy gripes: R&RP Remove and Replace Pilot
Richard King We used to use “removed and replaced stick actuator” (USAF)
Roger that. What caliber is that shell? How often do you fly and how do you balance a roster and home life?
Entertaining. Knowing this slang helped me to follow parts of the Spectre book.
Could you post that list online some where?
here a pretty good list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiservice_tactical_brevity_code
did you cover target fixation? difference between pilot or aviator.
Thanks for sharing this! As a writer I find it so helpful!
what does the term "99" mean in brevity?
I read:
"99, buckshot Armstrong"
in Raven One, one of Kevin Miller's Novels
"Everyone" or "all players"
Exclusively a Navy term.
@@CWLemoine Ah great, tx
Not meaning to be repetitious if you have already spoke on the following subject but here goes: are you making airtime flying the t38 with AIR FORCE or as contractor yet?
It's interesting that you use the word quibbling just like we do.
Clear as mud CW. I get all them phrases buddy 🇱🇷
There's a GCAS recovery video floating around here on UA-cam and they're saying something like "knock it off" or "knocking off" haven't found anything online about that phrase.
Terminate training engagement. Like a practice dogfight and it's time to stop either for safety or it's done.
@c.w. lemoine What about Speed Angels Left/Right?
Good stuff. Look forward to Fighter Pilot Lingo part 2 should you decide to make it.
Macos!!!! HARB!!!! I was there recently! Never a quiet morning there and it’s awesome!
I got one from offshore diving industry, 'left bottom' it means diver back to the bell or bell back to surface or somebody says he farted
Can we have a part 2, Mover? Or more?
Hmm, will I get an answer? Is the Raptor the top dog in the world? For Mover only.
To my way of thinking, making your way to the bar when the beer light comes on is the most important push of the day.