A confident Bombardier/Navigator films his pilot’s approach in an A-6E Intruder.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQ9pS1b4R4[/youtube]
Think that’s hard?
Try doing it all by yourself, sometime.
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Why is it all CATTC controllers sound alike?
[...] definately not as challenging as doing one of these, landing at the old Kai Tak airport in Hong Kong must have been one interesting little landing. [...]
Every once in awhile I remember why I’m not so disappointed that I didn’t pass the flight physical because of my eyes. I’ve said my share of things about the Navy over the years, but that takes cojones!
Marine6 Sends
From a sometime A-7 driver, I can accept the slight. From a full-time HUD crippled deck spotter, NO WAY!
Always a lot more fun on the long duration missions to have someone to talk to. And as they say, when you go to the job site you should take your pickup truck, not your bicycle. Don’t think they’ll be calling an F-18 alpha strike a Mini ArcLite any time soon.
I fast forwarded because I thought there was something wrong with the video… guess not… it is darker than crap out there!
Think that?
Think that’s hard? Try doing it all by yourself, sometime
To quote a famous “foxhole follies” cry:
*cough*Mode I*cough*
Actually, one may not even have to do it by one’s self in the not too distant future…
-SJS
Can’t see vid right now (youtube-not PC at work machine) but I’ll Guano-tee ya it ain’t me flying if it’s a no-grade!
re- “Try doing it all by yourself, sometime.”
Cmon Lex. That sounds like a JG response! Your pyramid has sorta been flattened with the All-Hornet wings o’today! You shoulda flown aboard wid da stick between your knees using a video camera. Or maybe put auto throttles on and used the camera with your left hand. Anyway if’n you had been more imagination you coulda been a “star” on youtube, too!
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Try doing it all by yourself, sometimes..
how about: w/o a HUD
w/o coupled up
w/o auto throttle
w/o radar altimeter
w/o fan tail drop lights
w/o airborne tankers
It might be different doing it by yourself, Lex. But I’d guess the hardest job is being a BN with another guy always driving . . . and just trying to be quiet and calm.
Or hearing over the ICS from the backend(after another CV-Vertigo One approach) “This sucks, I think I’m getting the leans…”
-SJS
What was the saying…”finding a postage stamp in a closet with the door closed and the light burned out?…something like that?
No needles, no bullseye, Mode 3 denied, dark as a$$ in the San Diego marine layer. Tacan in the A-6 had a lovely habit of refusing to stay locked on mother with the nose gear down. Breaking out of the clag only to notice that we were going from right to left of centerline and back again, all with nary a lineup correction. Always good to have a B/N along to ask CATCC if the ship was being helmed by a wino that night…”Hey, I didn’t say it!”
Give those B/Ns credit, I wouldn’t get in the right seat for a night recovery of my own volition!
I enjoyed hearing from the front end (E2) on a particularly dark & stormy pitching-deck night behind the Midway “Oh man I’ve got a serious case of vertigo…and the damn windows won’t unfog!”
Lovely.
Let it be said that we who have night traps recorded in our logbooks – regardless of whether we rode or drove – are all just a little bit touched in the head in some special way. Best fraternity in the world – extremely honored to be a member.
VR – Brian
Yech, not me. Ya’ll are either really brave, or slightly crazy. Either way, I’m damned proud of every single one of you.
Jim C
Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t look any better once the EA-6B is on the deck–anyone else have a clue where the scupper was?
Finally saw it. Excites my old senses.
A normal nights work. I’d expect a tad o’VSI info from BN, but when your working, your workin.
Zane- that ain’t a “queer”, that’s the real thing.
I heard an S-3 behind ‘em coupled. That’s sorta odd. Must be workups.
Where’s Nose? Are you gonna grade it?
b2
Having never shot a night approach in a tactical jet onto a carrier, I can’t truly say; however, *prepare of enign-ese* It seems RIDICULOUS to not hear a peep out of the BN during the entirety of the approach, regardless of holding the camera or not. Is that pretty standard protocol to have the ‘FO keep his mouth shut on a CCA?
I would show you electronic display of a Navy SSN trying to surface in Tokyo harbor back during the 80’s but it’s still classified and we can’t talk about liberty boat ports or transitions…The Silent Service.
BKT(SS)
At that point of the approach, the gear was down the L-checks were complete. I reckon if’n the pilot was responding to needles (crosschecked continmuously against bullseye and all other things including engine instruments were optimum, than thar weren’t much to say!
Sometimes it works out that way. In the groove, “so to speak”, often times happen long before 3/4 of a mile and the real groove are encountered. Sorta exactly what you’re learning now in flight school- “at thumbs up airspeed and ahead of the aircraft”.
O’course that BN probably was looking through that ol viewfinder of the video camera, too!
Sometimes it can be like that…other times it’s nice to have someone thar to lead-turn ya a little, as we all get behind sometimes. O ‘course the breed-like Lex has to kick themselves in the arse when needed..that’s a trait learned early in Jet initial/advanced CQ and perfected in a single-seat cockpit I’ll reckon.
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