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China Fleet Sailor
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http://vholdr.com/video/lap-around-boat

Cool video, although the pilot may get a talking-to from TRACOM for making it in the first place.
 
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tsibindi
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What? No Nomex gloves?
 
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What? No Nomex gloves?


I noticed that also, I always wore my gloves, how can you grab anything hot or burning without them?


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China Fleet Sailor
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Just one of the reasons I figured the young man needs to get a talking-to.
 
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I think I had a whopping 150 hours the first time I "hit the boat", solo, of course. Heck, it was the first time I'd ever been on a carrier.

A video wouldn't have worked in my airplane. The suction from my butt would have pulled it off my helmet.


JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous.
 
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Gloves are optional around the boat because they're slippery as snot when wet (leather palms). If you have to eject you want to be able to operate the parachute fittings when you hit the water.
 
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China Fleet Sailor
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Gloves are optional around the boat because they're slippery as snot when wet (leather palms). If you have to eject you want to be able to operate the parachute fittings when you hit the water.


Wouldn't you want to operate the parachute fittings before you hit the water?
 
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Wouldn't you want to operate the parachute fittings before you hit the water?


No he's talking about disconnecting from your harness once in the water so you don't drown. The chute opens automatically after an eject.



 
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China Fleet Sailor
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I'm a little rusty. I never was in a paid flight status. But I had my NATOPs quals and could work the AWG-9.

But that was a long time ago.
 
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A video wouldn't have worked in my airplane. The suction from my butt would have pulled it off my helmet


LOL!

Judge I was a photographer & worked PLAT, USS America while in the Token Gulf (72/73).
(pilot landing aid television) for you none Navy types.
I really respected you pilots & during those night landings everyone on the flightdecks asshole was puckering not just the pilots. Especially in rough seas. Lots of memories there!.



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A Tomcat not a Vigilante, but I still didn't hear the 'grunt' when the cat fired.

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The catapult fires. The weight on my chest forces me to grunt. I strain my neck as I try to pull my head off the rest; if I succeed, I will eject. Seventy thousand pounds of airplane is accelerating to 170 mph. As the "Vigi" clears the deck, 3,000 pounds of hydraulic pressure in the nose gear extend the Oleo strut hard enough to vibrate the nose and make the instrument panel a blur (barely noticed in the daytime, this could create moments of confused terror at night). I can now lean forward, reach with my left hand to raise the landing-gear lever and pull the throttles back from afterburner to military power. I keep low, turn starboard away from the carrier, accelerate, then climb and look around for my F-4 Phantom escort.


Pilots, ship's captains...sometimes they're hard-headed. VIDEO
 
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Originally posted by tsibindi:
What? No Nomex gloves?


I noticed that also, I always wore my gloves, how can you grab anything hot or burning without them?


I never wore my gloves around the boat.
 
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