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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #270 on: September 10, 2014, 08:06:57 pm »
Spaz,
This is a video of the latest F/A-18E crash behind the boat off the west coast during a CQ event in June 2014 (very recent). The jet went down In Close, and the pilot ejected safely. The jet went down so close to the ramp, folks thought it hit the back of the boat. It did not. I have the gouge on what happened, will send via PM.

If you listen to the audio and see the "attitude" of the jet you can probably guess what happened.

Can you screen capture the PLAT section and post?

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #271 on: September 10, 2014, 08:27:36 pm »
OK thanks for info I'll have a go at capturing that part. Otherwise the safety brief is very informative indeed. I'm trialling a stupid screen capture program called SnagIt. It works and then it doesn't so anyway I'll have to 'edit' the capture - in meantime here is a screenshot of the successful ejection close to the ramp. Aircraft hits the water very nearby.

OK - I see 'Goonie' has explained the situation above. We can see how the aircraft goes high initially with power coming off to descend and then it all turns to doodoo.



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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #272 on: September 11, 2014, 11:28:19 am »
This looks like the story given the date on the PLAT/ILARTS is 04 Jun 2014

HSC-15 Search and Rescue Team Saves a Life Story Number: NNS140607-04 Release Date: 6/7/2014
By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman (SW) Matthew A. Carlyle

"PACIFIC OCEAN (NNS) -- USS CARL VINSON, At sea (June 5, 2014) -- The Red Lions of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 15 performed a search and rescue (SAR) mission after an F/A-18E Super Hornet made an emergency crash landing in the ocean June 4.

 The USS Carl Vinson SAR team recovered the pilot after he ejected from the aircraft prior to the aircraft impacting the water. The team was in the helicopter providing routine over-watch during night flight operations when they got the call that there was a man in the water. A call they are well trained to respond to but hoped would never come.

 That's when Naval Aircrewman (Helicopter) 3rd Class (AW) Aaron Perez, the rescue swimmer who executed the rescue, knew his first rescue mission had arrived.

 "As soon as I started getting dressed out, I got really nervous," said Perez, a 25-year-old native of Corpus Christi, Texas. "I didn't want to mess anything up; this is what you train for. We have people who have been in 20 years and never had a rescue so I thought to myself, 'This is it.'"

 With the helicopter positioned over the pilot, Perez was lowered in full SAR swimmer gear and quickly began using the training he learned at SAR school in Pensacola, Florida.

 "Once I got in the water, it all came back to me," Perez said. "First, I talked to the pilot to let him know what the plan was and that we were going to get him out of there as soon as possible. Then I pulled him out of his raft, disentangled him, and signaled for the rescue litter. The rescue litter came down and I got him all strapped in. I hooked him up and gave the thumbs up to my crew chief so he knew to pull him out of the water."

 After Perez was recovered from the water, he talked with the F/A-18 pilot as the helicopter made its way back to Carl Vinson.

 "I just kept talking to the pilot, asking him how he was doing," Perez said. "He said he was fine, just cold. By the time we got a blanket on him, we were already touching down on the carrier. Then corpsmen rushed in to grab him."

 Perez admitted that he was impressed by how composed the pilot was in spite of the dangerous circumstances and attributed the mission's success to how well both parties employed the training they had received for these emergency situations.

 "When I got to him in the water, he was just lying in his raft, with his hands on his flotation, just waiting," Perez recalled. "He was very calm and cooperative. It made it really easy. Our training helped us out a lot because we both knew exactly what to do and how to help each other."

 That's why the Navy motto "train like you fight" never rang more true than that night, when a potential disaster was calmly contained through prompt and skillful execution.

 "It felt huge because we train a lot, for a lot of different things, that some people don't ever get to do," Perez said. "It really felt good to get to use it to help that pilot."

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #273 on: September 11, 2014, 04:15:44 pm »
Nice, my old squadron got the rescue.
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #274 on: September 17, 2014, 09:35:15 am »
F/A18-E 15 second groove from wings level approach USS Bush Sep 2014:

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #275 on: September 22, 2014, 11:17:28 am »


Typhoon doing the Mach loop.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #276 on: September 22, 2014, 07:33:58 pm »
Here is the full video (unedited sorry) that I took during my trip to the JFK for a CQ event in 2002. If you want to see the air boss footage go to minute 21:00. You will see me acting like a dork since I was pretty excited being on the carrier. There is lots of deck footage shot from vultures row, which the radar energy kept interfering with the film, and from PRI-FLY. Also, you will see some PLAT footage from CATCC and in my stateroom. The jets were landing just above my head, so I got no sleep that night. Didn't realize how lucky I was to have live PLAT cam feed in my room. Some of the footage is pretty scary, see 28:25.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #277 on: September 22, 2014, 08:17:21 pm »
Many thanks for the video.
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« Reply #278 on: October 05, 2014, 03:06:57 pm »
Nice vid, good memories although only did a det on the JFK not a full cruise. We were always right below the flight deck in our berthing, either on the bow between Cats 1&2 or underneath the LA, next to the A-gear. I'm a light sleeper now, not sure how I ever did that during 6 month cruises!
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #279 on: October 11, 2014, 01:16:10 am »
Found this:

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #280 on: October 14, 2014, 10:09:02 am »
Just an image:



From here: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/2j6sve/i_took_the_a_few_years_ago_on_my_first_deployment/

Makes me think of the multiplayer carrier ops sessions after dark when we'd have all our nav lights on. :)

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #281 on: October 14, 2014, 02:24:18 pm »
cool pic. looks like he got a little slow 'In the Wires', must have been trying to grab that three wire....

Those MP sessions were fun!  ;D
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #282 on: October 15, 2014, 05:46:21 am »
It didn't really occur to me that the center light trail was the AoA indexer until after reading your post.  It's been too long. :P

Want to go flying in multiplayer again sometime?  Looks like there are a few of us still around.

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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #283 on: October 15, 2014, 02:11:03 pm »
Different people see different things perhaps? I thought that red trail with the double flashes down the centre was the anti collision light (flashing) but otherwise dimly visible? Is it possible to see the AoA Indexer lights on the nosewheel from that 'goofers/vultures row' position?
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Re: The Cool Video Thread
« Reply #284 on: October 15, 2014, 02:17:14 pm »
Oh, perhaps not.  I just thought so because Brennan said he got slow in the wires, and made the connection between the AoA indexer colors and the AoA light on the nose gear assembly.  With a long exposure, the light would streak as such, and it is amber all the way down to the wires, where it turns green.