Navy Flight Deck Operations from Cockpit of F/A-18 - Original Unedited Audio
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Ride along on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln inside an F/A-18 Super Hornet from taxi to catapult.
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That's totally, totally fascinating. Never seen that much footage from parking space to launch before. Amazing.
Nor in such high quality! awesome video!
@@Aeronaut1975 YES !
Sometimes it's hard to believe they're doing all this on a ship until you see it with your own eyes, and even then it seems unreal!
@@Pow3llMorgan With the ship rolling and the wind blowing ( bow into a head wind, I don't know what the wind speed across the deck is )
I know!!!
As a non-military person who loves aircraft carriers, I find this utterly fascinating and hypnotic. Thank you for posting this.
They chew up and spit out their crew. They could care less about the sailors who live and struggle in the belly. Then when they get out, do NOTHING for them. Yeah, real cute. Bet you wouldn't love to spend Three and a half years getting constantly abused and neglected. How funny.
@@douglashayden329 What does it mean the sailors who live and struggle in the belly?
@@douglashayden329 What the...?!
You should check Chasse Embarquee’s chanel if you love aircraft carriers and fighters in-cockpit views ;)
@@thewildbruce5612 USN has a huge mental health crisis and is leaving vets in the lurch when it comes to treatment. It's not exactly new news, but very under reported on
Great launch video! I'm proud to have served on the USS John F. Kennedy CV-67! This brings back amazing memories onboard the flight deck! Much respect to all Navy pilots!
Thank you for your service!
😊😊
How many people kiled in iraq & afghnstan ?
I fly f35 bravo in the marine corps off amphibious assault ships
@@User_wolf_2when I went out on a MEU cruise in the Persian gulf supporting operations in afghan I'd estimate I whacked several hundred Talib while performing CAS operations in the Panjshir Valley
I served in the Australian Army for 20 years. I had the pleasure of visiting the USS George Washington on a visit to Australia. I cannot think of many things harder or scarier than landing on a carrier. Throw in night and adverse weather it must be terrifying. To the pilots who do the job, you are amazing.
They can use automatic carrier landing now for case 2 and case 3 . I used it in dcs lol
@@erfguuipo8084 DCS bruh 🤣
@@erfguuipo8084 Never anything like this. I have worked on a Navy Flight Deck and that was even scary as hell - but super exciting and the same time, LOL.
I read that Alan Shepard (moon walking astronaut) said that landing on a carrier was harder than landing on the moon.
@@MarvelousLXVII Well yeah lol, much bigger surface area on the moon than an aircraft carrier.
Tight quarters, little room for error. Kudos to flight deck crew
Way bigger than a Kitty Hawk Class CV.
@John Carlson yeah but the landing isn't a walk in the park there's sudden lift causing a hard landing to arrester cables snapping
Thanks to ALL the crew. Even the ones WAY down below in the belly!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree !
As an Air Force Crew Chief for many years with our jets moving on the ground in wide open spaces...it's cool to see a driver actually following the marshaller's directions...lol. Very cool video sir!
Riiight! I’ve always felt like marshaling isn’t as serious for us as like aircraft carrier guys! This was fascinating!
It was my experience that all the pilots I directed followed directions well. However, one time we were inspecting Alert Birds before they re-entered the alert pad after a Cocoa exercise. I was holding the aircraft in position while the crew inspected his tires (because they Cocoa at near max takeoff weight). The pilot wasn't paying attention and started to roll, with guys in front of the gear. I ran in front of the aircraft giving the brakes signal. He jerked to a stop. That was one incident that drove home the reality of being around these moving aircraft. One other occasion a pilot was on the radio with the tower instead of paying attention to me on the ground on interphone and started rolling with me directly in front of his tires. I had to push off the tires to get out of the way. My partner was giving him the brakes signal but he was talking to tower and not to us. If my back had been turned he might have ran me over.
@@rael5469 yea, would have been an ass chewing if he rolled when someone was near the jet. Regardless of who they are talking to or doing
@@dustinjohnson8285 Yes, I did speak up to him in a terse tone. I didn't know if I would get an Article 15 or not. I said, "I was in front of your tires when you released brakes." He looked at me and walked away.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I had a U2 pilot taxi up to the hangar next to where I was standing marshaling him to park. Haha
This stuff is just so fascinating to me, even at 70 yrs old. If there was a "Make A Wish" for old ladies, this would be on my list....to experience a carrier launch and landing. This became my silly wish when I was a 9 yr old girl and got to tour the USS Antietam with my 2 Navy uncles in Pensacola. Also got to see the Blue Angel F-4 Phantoms parked outside the hangar. What a day that was!
That's so cool! That launch would be a two second thrill ride!
Was stationed on the Coral Sea CVA 43. Flew off the ship. Those pilots were special breed.
Me too Mam 😢
Me2 ...on the queen elizabeth, britains new acc
I’m only 60 but feel like a make a wish everyday I wake up.
One of the most interesting jobs i have ever done. Hard to imagine at 19 i had the priveledge of working on the flight deck of the Uss lexington and the uss JFK. Got the hat belt buckel and poloroids to prove it. Im old and retired now. And would gladly do it all over again if that clock mysteriously warped back 50 years. There are many other things in my life i wouldn't want to do over if the same time warp happened.
How nice, have fun? Alot have been abused and spat out with no help from Veterans Administration. Abused for three and a half years in the belly of JFK. Bet you reaped all the Veteran benefits while some of us are left to suffer and pushed away. How nice
Thank you for your service!
Gear up.New Med bed technology will take you back to your 20"s. I am 71. GOING TO USE IT to do my 100 year humanitarian projects.
Man that is so cool thanks for taking this 74-year-old man for a ride it felt like I was flying your parents I know are very proud of you Randy Monroe Michigan
From Wyandotte, MI here--love Monroe.
Just in time for Top Gun: Maverick! Coincidence? Not! lol
Come on, they did since 80’s lol
Get it while it's hot!
But this man isn't acting. What a coincidence lol
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Id rather watch reality than imagination
Such an impressive ballet going on here - as you're passed from one handler to the next. And all of it possible in almost all weather conditions and all hours of the day or night. You all make it look easy,; Thanks for posting!
Absolutely one of the most badass videos I've seen on KZhead. Fascinated watching you from start to finish on the carrier. Excellent video!
This popped up on KZhead and being the computer warrior that I am I had to watch it. I enjoy watching military videos from past to present, but I've never seen one like this and in such good quality. I always find myself a bit nervous watching the carrier landings. Watching this video made me appreciate the pilots and deck crew even more. I'm so proud of our military whether it's 100 years ago or present. Stay safe!!!
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Absolutely brilliant video. Naval aviator, what a job! And much respect to all the people throughout the entire crew, because nothing works without them. Teamwork makes the dream work.
A lot of people don't realize just ho wmany people it takes to get a single hornet off the deck... let alone 20-30 of them one after another. The sheer amount of skill on the part of the deck crew and the patience of the pilots makes for a simple, yet fascinating scene.
As a desk operator for many years this is highly fascinating. Never have I've ever seen this much action in one day.
That was cool. It seemed to be slow when they launched with the catapult from this angle, but when you watch from external, it get the plane up to speed real fast. I love how perspective can change that.
View my aviation art!
Wow, that is so amazing! Thanks for the brief ride along sir. And, thank you for your service.
Fun fact, I was aboard the Lincoln in 1991 after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo! I was about 7 years old at the time (now 40) and seeing this again brings back some nostalgia. I didn't even realize what carrier you were on until I read the video description! How cool!!
Just absolutly incredible! Thank you for sharing!!!
I was a Brown shirt and a Green shirt with VFA-81, It is nice to see it from pilots view. My father was a fighter pilot also. So many exciting times and bad times on the flight deck. Working on aircraft at night and bad weather sometimes all the way up to launch bar hookup and engine run up. Thinking back being up in a wheelwell checking hydraulics with the aircraft runup for launch seems kind of scary now. At night I had to trust they would not launch until I came out with the thumbs up. This was back when they had A-7Es, I wonder if that would be considered safe today.
The thing that struck me the most about this video was the dedication of the deck crews working through all types of shitty weather.
@@sonnyburnett9393 18-20 year olds... blows my mind sometimes how much trust the military gives young people .. then the real world .. well you know the answer .. haha
Those are some seriously long days and hard work. Thank you for your service!
That is too cool. I love the raw video without music or narration. Thanks for making these.
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Exactly. I don't need the music. It's not there in real life.
Brings back memories. At age 76 still miss carrier Flight Op’s! Three years of Carrier duty in the 60’s witnessed several hundred take off/landings. Always wanted to get one more ride as a civilian.
My dad was stationed on the Lincoln at one point and now my husband is a DOD contractor who did her overhauls in dry dock while she was home ported at PSNS. My dad is a retired CWO5 nuke but I always loved going on tiger cruises and seeing the air shows. Neat to see this from inside the cockpit. I’ll never forget the deck crew giving us dependents a very stern talk about never jumping onto the plane lifts when they were lowering.
I never got to thank you guys for the time y’all literally saved our ass! Great skill and definitely a angel on our shoulder! Thanks
When did these guys saved you? When they dropped bombs on civilians?
Thanks for not putting music on it. I really appreciate it. Thanks for your service Sir.
That steam of the catapult flowing over the deck brings Top Gun memories. Awesome take off!
Shout out to all the DCS pilots who are in awe of the deck/air crew doing the real thing. Amazing footage. Thank you for your service.
Funny that as a DCS player I can kinda tell what the deck crew is signalling. Then again, the signals have not changed much since the 1940's when they were first published.
Well dcs players are not real pilots
@@flight2k5 some of us are.
@@flight2k5 the supercarrier module has deck crews giving you signals to help you to get the plane positioned over the catapult
@@pogo1140 no shit. But that’s not the point I was trying to make was it?
Obviously I am a complete and total stranger, but as a once private pilot, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU AND OF WHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO DO. Stay safe and keepem flying.......Thank you for your service!
Awesome video! This is truly fascinating. Thank you for the publication.
Awesome to see! Very much respect. Thank you for your service
Best video! Thank you for sharing. Love carrier ops since my childhood and i learn a lot with this videos (ex: how to place correctly my statics in my carrier in my DCS simulator so i can have more RL decks). Cheers from Portugal. Be safe.
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Impressive, all round. The equipment, the teams, management, and the pilots.
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After 21 years and several deployments, it's cool to just sit back and appreciate the complexity of launch and recovery ops. I'm glad I don't have to be out there anymore. Thanks for sharing.
I am a 76 year old grandma and that was the coolest thing ever!!!!! Thank You....to all of our military.
I'm a Chinese,I believe that you can help us against CCP
This is fascinating 🧐…..I’m a 🇬🇧 uk housewife and watching this makes my day…I’m in awe of what you and those guys on the aircraft carriers do …..Thankyou for sharing 🤗
Why you feel the need to share that 🤷🏼♂️
@@xHORZAx sausage
Loved it. I was amazed at how quickly after being at dead stop the jet was in the air.
Just a cool thing to see with the orchestration between the various deck crew and the pilot. Such a well oiled machine they are
AWESOME -- thanks for that, Alex! Was a bit surprised at the force in which you checked control surface movement right before the shot. Always something new to learn!
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Ahhhh, the good old days :) I did a nice 10 month cruise on CVN-72. Nice video...thanks!
Same here....02-03 OIF, OEF, OSW.
hi, thank you for the service, I was on the FFG based out in 32nd street San Diego.
Nice. I did a few years on 72 from '05-'08.
@@MinhTran-fc7jl Thanks and thank you as well!
Thank you all for your service. It’s fun to reminisce about the good times. Seems like a totally different life now, I’m sure.
Love the little details, like the little clunk as you taxi over a cable, grabbing the canopy handle during catapult launch, and 3 seconds of catapult.
Thank you for sharing this video, it reminds me of my adopted father, who was stationed on the Bataan, and worked on the flight deck. That position was a good fit for his personality, and he seemed to enjoy serving ! ⚓🇺🇸 Go NAVY !! 👍
Loved this!! Worked Fly 2 as a yellow shirt on the USS Theodore Roosevelt from her commissioning until 1989 with some great guys.
Was a brown then green shirt in vf 143 the world 🌎 famous pukin dogs, we were the first airwing to rough up her decks back in 86 or 87 sans reproache
Thats insane was in awe watching the entire thing. You sir are a legend!!
Just what I needed, a down to earth-with-no-cheesy-music video of a F/A18, thanks!
Love seeing this stuff. Thanks for posting!
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Trained all the original F/A-18 pilots 1984 through 1991 in the WTT's, OFT's and PTT's at NAS Lemoore, USMC El Toro, and NAS Cecile Field. All the A's now retired and so should the B's but the training RAG still using them I assume. Trained the Australian, Spanish, Kuwait, and other pilots as well. CV-64 Connie was the first cruise and she is retired now also. CV-41 Midway stationed off Japan is now a museum, even the Big E is gone. Can't believe they are still making Hornets with F's and G's and a 60 year old actor as Maverick is back again. I got in trouble back in 1986 when I dubbed the Top Gun theme song from Kenny Logins into an aerobatic flight routine recorded for flight simulator use and weapons tactics trainer use; not authorized by NAVAIR, and COMLATWINGPAC had it removed. And now every pilot in the fleet is posting carrier opsec videos from the cockpit. What a different world.
My daughter accompanied a group of 6 SQDN Royal Australian Air Force pilots to Lemoore a few years ago. I can't remember the exact year, but it was probably around 2011 at the time when they were taking delivery of their Super Hornets and training was being conducted in the USA.
I didn’t have a long extensive career as yourself but I served between 1990 - 1994. VFA-27 and VFA - 25 at NAS Lemoore. We were transitioning from A7 to F/A -18 . The flight deck was always my favorite place to work . I was always the weird one that like being at sea . Thank you for sharing your story. Have a blessed day .
Awesome footage and angle! It's amazing how calm that guy looks.
It’s absolutely amazing to see all the men and women working around those planes in all weather conditions to make sure every launch/landing is perfect 👍
Thank you for this. These videos never get old and no music too. This is the grestest job in the world and was my obsession from age 5 until my late 20's. It was not because of the Top Gun movie either. I was originally going in for this exact job (was going to request F-18's too) and go into Officer Candidate School after college in 98, then 99, then 2000. I ran into univetsity problems that I never though would happen and took longer to finish the almighty Bachelor's Degree. Then my eyes went bad, so I never applied. At least you made it. Definitely will try again in the next life.
You will be a excelent pilot... buddy.
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greatest job in the world?!!...wait till you spend hours in a sitting position and pulling G'S..plus bad weather landing ....greatest in the world ....questionable
Such a shame, you'd have been a great asset to the US Navy. Hopefully you can serve in another capacity.
@@samnwakefield2032 you seem to know it all 🤣
For those of you who are wondering, the camera's shutter moves faster than the screens on the pilot's dashboard can display changes in its information, hence the blinking. From the pilot's perspective, there is no blinking. My guess is the camera records at 60 frames per second while the monitors output
left bottom screen blinking.......
Thanks, yes, was wondering about that.
I’m not a military person but have always found the videos of carrier operations to be so intriguing. Such a ballet of personnel and equipment moving around in such a small (relatively) space. Great admiration for the men and women performing these duties. I had to chuckle a little right at the start of the video when the pilot was adjusting the small mirror on his left 😀. Such a small item on such an expensive aircraft but I’m sure it served a significant function.
It’s good to see the Victory stripes still being used. I’m a F-14 era Jolly Roger. Sometimes I’ll wear my Skull and Bones gear when I’m traveling, hoping to meet a VFA-103 guy or gal.
I worked the flight deck. It’s totally the most dangerous workplace in existence. One must constantly be aware of your surroundings. Very exciting. Not so good for ones hearing.
Huh, what did you say?😁 I resemble that remark.
The closest I ever got to a ship was while I was in bootcamp, but I still remember they showed us a video of this dude jumping over a snapped cable that was about to cut him in half. TWICE.
I love after all these years. After all these technological improvements we still have three actual mirrors . A rear view and two side mirrors.
I’m amazed at the choreography on the flight deck and how all of you work together. Utterly exquisite! (Ok f’n awesome but exquisite came to mind!)
That's amazing. Great persective. Much appreciated!
Thanks for showing its not always fun and sun with clear decks.
Just amazing! What sucks is after your Navy jig is up its straight to the right seat of an Airbus............... It has to be hard to transition. Great video!!
Dude, I once rode jump seat in an Airbus with a pilot who had been an F-18 test pilot. Him and his first officer got visibly nervous the closer we got to Chicago, dealing with all of the air traffic. The hardest part of the flight was taxiing around O'Hare airport.
Thanks man for uploading this fantastic cockpit.
An awesome job you have there. Thanks for sharing something that few get to enjoy.
Just fascinating to see how much the aviation carriers have evolved so far it's feels like something you can only experience in video games
Outstanding video. I never imaged such choreography. I worked F-15C flightline and, while dangerous, it's nothing compared to carrier ops.
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So awesome thanks so much for allowing us to get just a glimpse of what its like to be in one of those and get catapulted off a Carrier! So cool.
I could watch this footage ALL DAY !!! Thanks
what beautiful eyes the aviator has...
Indeed
Amazing. The training these guys must go through would be intense.
Thanks for posting - very nice to see this kind of stuff.
There are so many handoffs. Very cool video.
Naval pilots must be the finest pilots on Earth. They don't get to have 10,000' runaways, or miles of taxiways. Their landings have to be within just 10s of square feet. Imagine landing an aircraft and immediately going to full throttle in case there's a mishap and you have to take off again without a catapult! (Edited for addition) And it must be a massive relief to finally get shot off the deck and get in the air. Also, we shouldn't forget the deck crews, all of them literally putting their lives in danger while working in and around running aircraft including prop-driven aircraft like Hawkeyes and helicopters as well. If it weren't for them, none of those aircraft would get airborn!
@Wite Powa can’t tell if you’re serious or just being absolutely ignorant on purpose.
Aviators. Navy pilots don't pilot aircraft, the Navy had pilots long before aircraft
@Wite Powa as long as they have a wide and long runway and perfect flying conditions chair force pilots are okay but nothing special with the exception of A-10 Stick Operators who rank up with Navy Aviators
@Wite Powa they would get lost in the clouds
Stop your bickering, children. You all know damn well that the RAF and RN would clean you up each and every time, as they have done year in and year out for the last 7 decades. The only thing US Navy pilots are good for is joy riding in an A6 in Italy against regulations, killing 25 people in a cable car, and then fleeing the country to escape prosecution.
Craziest thing about this is how "normalized" it appears. Yes, it is pretty awesome to see jets taking off. As a civilian without much exposure though, it is a far more down-played version of what we see in a movie...obviously. Just really cool to see how precise and "clinical" something as awesome as sling-shotting planes off a runway actually is...
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen, motivates me soo much to become fighter pilot, thank you for posting
Unfulfilled dream became reality "through your video". Thank you for sharing the amazing experience.
Apart from being utterly amazing and really cool to watch, thanks for your service ladies and gentlemen!
Awesome! Perfect example of a team effort.
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I could watch these kind of vids all day. Thanks !
Thanks for absolutely awesome video!!!
this is so cool man
25 years in 4 and a half on a carrier and this still amazes me.
@snipe69 ABHCS
@ IL.fieldnative Hi mate - I'm looking for someone familiar with holdback assembly. Maybe You could help?:)
I had no idea how much they could fit on deck. Watching everybody work together.. Amazing
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That was amazing, thank you for video.
Mad respect for these pilots 👍🏼🇺🇸
And everybody else on that flight deck!
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For anyone wondering at 4:21 he is slamming the lat-stick around to do what's called a whipe out, for the "final checkers" to ensure all flight surfaces are a go.
Why it seems that heavy, as the pilote does the test with his 2 hands ? There’s some electric assistance on flight that is not active on the ground, or it’s just the usual « weight »of it ?
@@elyw2174 the built in test (BIT) does check for that, but in the navy as with all things, we double check and then final check just to be sure. Last thing we need is losing a pilot, or ground crew. Safety is always the top priority.
While watching, I had song in my head-sky pilot, Eric Burden and the animals.terrific footage!
Dang that's fast Love watching professionals do things right Thank you
Never gets old! Go Navy!
Beat Army !!!
The only airport where the ground is rushing by before you start the takeoff. Aircraft carriers are Awesome!
Very cool stuff. I never get tired of watching carrier aviation, whether it be from the deck or in the cockpit.
Top Gun..Awesome video..With surround sound & 55" TV.Make's it feel like your in the cockpit..Thank you for your service Sir.I,hand salute you..
He's back
Amazing! Saludos y bendiciones desde Argentina 🇦🇷💙💪
KZhead recommendations are a funky thing, great video here!
Awesome ride along. The closest we will ever get to the feel of launching a fighter jet off a carrier deck!
It has to be so freakin intense!
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Hi Alex. I missed your videos. 👍
My Son served on the Lincoln, 2015-2018. Got to tour it when it was in Newport News, awesome experience
This video shows how accurate a conversion of the super carrier deck and F18 Hornet DCS world conveys, when you put that VR headset on it looks just like this, incredible!
After a long time 🥲
I drove a tank in the Army. This looks more fun, although I did get it air born a couple of times!
Me too! 2nd Armor Division 85 thru 88.🇺🇸
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing!