There’s a lot of things I miss about being in the Navy, and in naval aviation particularly.
This, not so much.
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This, I Don’t MissBy lex, on February 17th, 2012
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They say that a really topnotch horror film is more about what you don’t see than what you do see. This is up there with the best.
PS: I don’t watch horror films (or police documentaries) for this very reason!
Hey, that was nice…definitely a clear night. Rain & fog change the equation like the GOT in the winter monsoon.
VA85 guy.
Somethings I’d rather not see too often. I’ll keep my head down in back, concentrate on the MPDP breakers in front of me, keep an eye on the altimeter over my MDU and be thankful the guy up front isn’t a plumber. Nights with Nado, Cap, Gumbie or Motors up front were tolerable.
Hi Blackeagle603,
Takes courage to sit in the back as well.
I know from some of Lex’s postings that there is always an interesting story as to how a “handle” is assigned. What is the story behind “Motors”?
I don’t know the story but Motors was a great stick — as long as he got his smoke before calling the ball. A good MO and decent guy to us grunt enlisted aircrew as well.
I really got a kick out of the way the “Fly Navy” message comes on at the end. Just extending the thinking a little, the Marines have the saying “A Few Good Men”. In conjunction with this video the Navy could modify that to “A Few Crazy F***ers!”
I was about to say “Fly Blind, Fly Navy,” but that’s pretty lame next to yours.
And this is supposed to ENTICE people to enlist how ???? Only if there desire is to enlist and become the next naval aviator who misses the deck landing at night.
Next we’ll see an EOD commercial where the good petty officer gets to stand near an IED just as it blows but walks away unscathed….Tag Line – ” NAVY EOD – More Bang than you’ve ever gotten before…”
Sure, it would work for me. Like a picture of Everest for a climber.
A very eye-opening video! I gather such landings are somewhat rare for this customary reasoning:
If female pilot has ever done this, why wouldn’t our reliable press corps not have sensationalized it long ago? Just a thought or two.
Wow. Been in that exquisite situation where your “runway in sight” is one light at a time but that is amazing…
Can’t be a Hornet. Did you see a HUD?
Must be a historic, manly, non-HUD a/c.
+1 Internetz!
Holy shitballs. You have go to be kidding me. Glad I flew Army.
Lex, excuse my sailor cussing here – I duely expect to be moderated.
That’s why we have ACLS!
Naval Aviation News | Winter 2011
‘The Backup Meatball’ [night rampstrike]:
http://nanarchive.omnitecinc.com/20102012.aspx
“…caused the Hornet to strike the flight deck rounddown at the point where the tailhook is attached to the aircraft.… The pilot ejected and landed on the flight deck, sustaining major injuries; the aircraft was lost.… …the pilot stated that his carrier landing technique was to use his Automated Carrier Landing System (ACLS) needles as his primary reference & use the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System, or meatball, as a backup for glide slope information.
Grampaw Pettibone says: “…And our intrepid aviator? Well, Ol’ Gramps knows that every pilot has his way to do stuff, but using the ACLS needles in close instead of flying the ball is about as dumb as skinny dippin’ with snapping turtles. Gouge is great, but it’s no substitute for knowing the right way to do things and stickin’ to what’s worked for a long, long time. Gramps knows that none of this fella’s LSOs taught him that ACLS technique—he should have stuck with what he’d learned.…”
And don’t forget, there’s a big ol’ ship to the starboard of those lights.
MikeyB
Did he catch a wire? Yes?
Well, then he gets an “OK – 4.0″ from me.
No offense, O Host Extraordinaire, but innat what flight pay is for?
Night occupation of an artillery position, pitch dark, in the rain, with six howitzers, six prime movers, ten ammo trucks, and a dozen other vehicles driving around an area no bigger than a few football fields along with a few dozen walking/running Marines is not something Lloyds of London would come running to insure.
That would be the same aviation career incentive pay that AF pogues get for wrestling their a/c to a stop on 13,000 ft. of runway.
So the short answer is, no.
That seems more exciting somehow than cruising along beneath the mountaintops along a valley using just starlight and maybe some moon; pickling the flares, popping up, hoping to see something worth bombing. And again we stall the advance of the Asian Horde.
URR,
Been there, done that, got the shirt.
It’s wet, muddy, noisy, and dangerous.
I just showed this to my husband. One of his good friends was an F/A18 Marine pilot in a life before we knew him. I had him come watch this as I said, “Hey, get a better feel for what Tom’s really made of…”
Both of our families have kids in Scouts. One camping trip my husband was away on business and couldn’t go, so Tom was with his wife and four kids and I pulled up in my van with my three boys. I have no problems pitching a tent, setting up camp, cooking, hiking… you name it. But for the life of me, I cannot back up my mini-van. I get dizzy. So I threw him the keys and said, “If you can land a fighter aircraft on a postage stamp, you can back my van in…” Next time I’ll have him do it in the dark.
I didn’t get that far, but I was a bit worried about flying a chopper nap of the earth in the dark. I’m sure my life insurance agent is glad I got eliminated early in the Army’s flight training program.
Oh, my Goodness.
Sincerely, Peter Warner.
I promise I will never, ever talk badly about my fighting hole again, even though I haven’t seen it in 40 years.
Not so lean, not so mean, but still a Marine