High Speed Low Level in an F/A-18 Hornet
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- Take a low altitude, high speed ride in a #usnavy #fa18hornet over California mountains and deserts.
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Just incredible and thank you for not putting any music on it.
Don't you like the loud Rock or Dubstep beats?? 🙂I'm always amazed when people don't realize that if you can't stand the music, you will dislike a potentially very enjoyable video content.
@@Bobinification On the one hand, you could mute the video and watch in silence. On the other, you can play your own music that suits. Either way, it's less work to simply upload the raw audio.
Ah come on - you mean you don't want some Top Gun Danger Zone in there??!! 🙂
@@FighterPilotPodcast Indeed sir.
No that's a given. Everybody's all in for Danger Zone.
Always wanted to do this in a Hornet (my favourite fighter jet).... and much more.
Life happened and I didn't make qualify for RAAF fighter school.
Massive respect to the men and women that get to pilot these incredible machines daily.
Keep these clips coming for those of us that worked to do this but fell short of their dreams.
Ya know when I was young I wanted to fly jets and do what pilots do. However I allowed things to side track me and dad signed me into Army at 17 with a GED I just wanted to go away from home. After doing my 3 years I got out and was blessed with a good job , I retire this August with 35 years and full medical . During that time I attended easy hundred Airshows around Sacramento and while stationed in Germany. Talked to many many aircrew and love building models with that one wish of being able to fly. Well went to the airport did a bunch of GA flying and I can honestly say god bless America I never became a fighter pilot as I experienced panic attacks last cpl flights and am happy to know people like Jell-O Mover Mooch Hazzard Gonkey and of course Starbaby from the F-4G days we’re in it to win it. Keep up the great content Vincent it is much appreciated and now to complete this GR-4 Tornado cockpit while I listen😎
I had a feeling the pilot could almost touch those tree tops on certain points, amazing flying.
As an avionics tech at a Marine training squadron, I had the pleasure of a few hours in the back of our TA-4 Skyhawks. Had one low-level flight out in the desert west of Yuma, and it was a lot of fun! Not quite as much fun as shown in this video, but still very cool! Unfortunately, I was never able to find another job with such good perks! 😀
Headed toward El Centro or Chocolate Mountains?
@@golfnovember It was out over some of the old gold mines west of Yuma, and not far from the sand dunes. I don't recall where else we went on that flight, but it was a good time!
When this video started I thought it must be slowed down.....then things got real tight and it was definitely fast enough😮.
Always thankful for your videos and to those who serve their countries with well honed skills and dedication.
Always shows up slower on video, which is why they sped up the canyon scenes like this one on 'Top Gun: Maverick'
@FighterPilotPodcast Here is a suggestion for another video. Could you talk us through a short part of it? I do wonder why you took some of the lines or went more than a 90 degree bank. A full commentary may be too long but a short would be excellent.
I applied to the RAAF back in 1997 and was bounced on my family's medical history. I passed every other test they had.
Flying an F-18 is all I ever wanted to do since I was 13 years old. Studied hard in school. Trained in the gym every week with someone my neighbour recommended... my neighbour was an RAAF F-18 pilot. I still didn't make it based on something I couldn't control. My parents medicals.
I believe the entrance limits are different now, but this video here... is all I ever wanted to do.
Had the same dreams from my earliest memories. When I went to join the CAF the recruiter told me I’d probably never fly a plane because I am a white male. Oppressing people in the name of ending oppression…makes sense.
I was puckered, giving Tom Cruise a run for the money. I bet the crew chief loves cleaning the bugs off the canopy 🤣 Awesome video, thanks for the ride 😎🤟
Being up high is awesome, but THAT has to be the greatest feeling you could ever feel!
hiking in the Cascade Mountains i saw a Hornet fly past below me.
i will never forget the experience.
i Salute every United States Naval Aviator.
Flying a Hornet is my childhood dream (i´m 47) and i love flying and everything related but this is pretty scary! must be an awesome feeling. Thank you for sharing, pure gold for me. Regards from Portugal.
Couple of times I almost expected a SPLAT! 😂
Awesome video Jell-O! Alpha to Bravo is so picturesque.
I am almost 100% certain that this is the southern route that F18’s take out of NAS Lemoore where they go up the Kern River and drop down into the Owens Valley. Fantastic video, the real thing beats the …. out of the Top Gun movie!
A really nice touch was threading through “THE NEEDLES” for that pull over (is that the correct term?).
When the video cut off the jet was heading across the Owens Valley towards “Star Wars Canyon”. This route has an official navy designation but I wonder if they always thread the “NEEDLES”.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
The Sidewinder Low Level Route (Rev 2) with JEDI Transition was developed to standardize low level training for DoD operations within the R-2508 Complex and is for local use only. This route is not a published military training route (MIR).
All points will be flown sequentially, ie. A, B, C.. M or C, J, K...M, etc.
Opposite direction flight is prohibited.
• Aircrews must comply with R-2508 Complex noise sensitive area requirements IAW paragraph 2.4 of this handbook.
Aircrews entering the Sidewinder LL via Point A must avoid Lake Isabella and swrounding communities.
I thought so too until the end of the video where the pilot ends up in Fallon.
@@Mentaculus42 maybe so, I could be wrong. This is not my video.
@@FighterPilotPodcast
It was bugging me and if you google “The Needles” which are in California and are on the official training route the pictures are a 100% match. Also in the official accident report for the F-18 crash in Rainbow Canyon (Star Wars) outlines this route but I can’t find a link.
Anyway it doesn’t matter, it is the video that is outstanding but I was just getting a more vicarious response if it was.
In reference:
COMMAND INVESTIGATION INTO THE CLASS A FLIGHT MISHAP ON 31 JULY
2019
Ref: (a) JAGINST 5800.7F CH-1
Encl: (1) Command Investigation into the Class A Flight Mishap of 18 Sep 19 w/ Enclosures
It is noted “The Needles” are called out on one of the exhibits. Fortunately I saved a copy but don’t have a link.
This video definitely looks like it ends up in the Owens Valley.
I was going to ask to confirm until I saw this post. Not so much by air but definitely by ground familiarity, this seems to be the Kern River, north of Kernville, tracing the kern river up to the headwater near the Golden Trout Wilderness and over to the Whitney side. Bad-ass representation of what I've seen going down while in Kernville or running a mountain bike ride up towards Sherman Peak. I've seen a lot of F/A18's dropping into the canyons on a northbound trek, north of K'ville. Always thought it would be a blast to do it but I can't pedal the C172 fast enough to make it really enjoyable! 😂
What I wouldn’t do for one LL canyon pass….. One of my fav videos on YT. Beautiful stick work brother 🙏🏼
That is exactly how I get to work in the morning! ;) huge fan! Keep up the amazing content!
Thanks! 🙏
What a GREAT video to provide for us in Memorial Day! One question: what is the major contributor of the noise, wind or ECS?
ECS
This is exactly what it’s like in my Piper cub at 50 ft off the ground as my tires brush the tops of trees.
Except for the sound.
I got a kink in my neck watching this one! He’s flying so low that he was getting bugs on the windscreen.
Excellent footage and even better flying.
Do some of that pilot shit, Jello!
This was a friend, not me!
The Sidewinder Low Level Route (Rev 2) with JEDI Transition is definitely a great name. (The video doesn’t get to the JEDI Transition I think as I thought that was in the Star Wars Canyon area unless that is what the transition from Sidewinder to Star Wars is called).
A great name for the video would be “Threading the Needles on the Sidewinder ‘EXTRA’ Low Level into JEDI Transition”!
Please ask your friend how many times he flew this route before the video was made, it is just a thing of beauty with how low and fast with all the anticipation set ups for the next turn. There is no way that could have been done the first time as this route is so long.
Jedi is way east of this location
@@socalairshowreview7410
Yes, JEDI is across the Owens Dry Lake. The the accident report that I took this from stated “JEDI TRANSITION”, so that might suggest the transition BETWEEN Sidewinder to JEDI which was the route the accident with the F-18 that flew Sidewinder and then transitioned to the JEDI entry to Star Wars Canyon into Rainbow Canyon which is where the crash was. That terminology was specifically named in the accident report along with detailed maps with waypoints that were explanatory but that particular “phraseology” of “JEDI transition” seemed to suggest that that was the area crossing the Owens Dry Lake. Anyway that was my interpretation and I thought I was trying to state the difference between JEDI transition vs JEDI.
The distance between the end of the video and Star Wars Canyon is approximately 30 miles or about 3 to 4 minutes flight time if I remember the terrain from the last time I was there.
@@socalairshowreview7410 Incorrect. The Jedi Transition starts at Point Charlie and runs to Point Juliet. This video ends a few seconds shy of Point Charlie which is very close to Cartago, CA.
In other words, the Jedi Transition is an optional short cut on the Sidewinder Low Level omitting Points Delta through Inca.
This comment is based on what is described in the R2508 Handbook which is available online.
What’s the MSD? Looks very very fine. Some of those burnt out trees could ruin your day if you misjudged it though.
I love going out there and getting photos of em zooming thru that area!
Are you based out of China Lake or somewhere near? This area is my home town! If you are ever up near Owens Lake again come give us a buzz, I am building a hotel up at the Cerro Gordo ghost town and we get low level fly bys all the time from VX-9 and VX-31 guys. They really do put on a show for us! They will usually circle around to make sure we have our phones out and then come in low and fast. Awesome stuff, your channel and podcast are great! Keep it up
Love it!
Jell-O, was this one of your flights?
No, a friend of mine.
Bloody hell! That would have scared the ' be Jesus ' out of me! Couple of times that was almost inverted 😮
Thanks for posting. What was max number of Gs pulled while flying during this sequence?
Wow, I love these types of videos! ❤️👍
Looks like the Sidewinder Low Level Route
Awesome. I'd love to know do you pre plan ever valley, turn and ridge crossing exactly, or just use judgement based on getting better waypoints?
It’s all visual
Fantastic! Greetings from Brazil!
olá 😀
Question: is that low level stuff still relevant for combat, or, just because you’ve got an F-18, an extra 20 minutes of fuel, and it’s fun. Not that I have a problem with the latter. 😉
Come on, haven't you seen 'Top Gun: Maverick'? It's the preferred tactic!
(but, yes, more the latter)
Nothing wrong with getting there a little early!
So sweet, Jello! Quick question: Could the Charlie with the EPE's exceed the Mach on the deck with any kind of loadout or pylons...or did you have to be completely slick? What's the highest Mach you ever saw in the Legacy in straight and level flight? Love the content.
@@airupthere-vu9sg no, the EPE bird would still need a dive to hit Mach on the deck. I may have seen 1.1 or 1.2 straight and level at altitude.
@@FighterPilotPodcast Thanks, Jello!
Sure beats walking 😊
That's beatifiul
I was wondering where this is until you flew over the needles.
You know you're flying low when there are insect splatters on the canopy.
I was fly fishing on a quiet, peaceful stream in the middle of nowhere when two Air Force planes went over us like that, separated by about 15 seconds. It was impressively loud! I enjoyed watching the second one. The first one startled the crap out of us and was gone...
You catch any fish after that or were they similarly scared?
@@FighterPilotPodcast Yes! The fish didn't seem too bothered by the jets. These were A-7D's (which dates me). I've had EA-18's go over me low (at 2am) while camping near Whidbey and they were much louder.
@@Seattle_Daniel You still find time to get on the water? Fly fishing is my favorite hobby but I live as far as you can get from a trout in the state of California as you can get (San Diego). Make it up to NORCAL a time or two each year.
@@FighterPilotPodcast I get out once or twice a year. My sport in the NW is kayaking. There are lots of streams in the Cascades that are good for trout. Now if you flew for Alaska, you could head up to Kodiak Is for a really nice fly fishing trip. I did that a while back and caught some King Salmon.
@@Seattle_Daniel I can still fly on Alaska for free. 🤩
I have done low level on a computer. Fun doing it too.
Wow, what a ride. Loved the cloud formations - some of them very weird. Loved the landscape below - so sorry to see some burned out timber. Was waiting with baited breath to see you fly by Half Dome, but see you didn’t make it to Yosemite. I’ll never forget the day I saw an F-14 Tomcat fly across the face of Half Dome. I knew he was paying a tribute to a beloved rock. 🏞️
Pilots can get in trouble for flying in National Parks.
@@FighterPilotPodcast 😳 Noooo…say it aint so‼️ it was beautiful‼️
Could do that all day long if they'd let me
Watched on my 75" 4K TV sat close and felt woozy 🥴🤢 😋
Hah!
Are u able to maintain that speed and maneuvering with dry thrust?
Yes
Hot Diggity!! 🚀
💪
I just want to know what road(s) that were flown over. Those look absolutely scenic and fun. Then there's a chance of an F18 flying over? I'd be absolutely giddy! Ask my wife when we drove from Miami to Key West.
Most of the road is (521?) Mountain 99 up the Kern River, some others are small mountain roads. Possibly a little of Sherman Pass road.
Holy smokes!
😎
Awesome video. Is this as dicey as it looks? What river(s) are those?
Nah, pretty easy for experienced pilots. Not sure.
Oh man!! Would i wanna be there
Is this the Southern Sierra?
Yes.
Sweet!
You didn't do it in 3 minutes, did you
So awesome, are you going to break it down?
No current plans
I’ll break it down.
Hornet + NOE = Awesomeness.
You’re welcome. 😎
Is this the same area covered by the DCS nevada map or is it somewhere else?
This is Just North and West of the DCS Nevada map.
@@tommcintosh9158
This is the Sidewinder Low Level route north out of Lake Isabelle up the Kern River and then dropping over south of Mount Whitney (probably about around 20 miles south) into Owens Valley heading to the JEDI transition.
@@tommcintosh9158 Thank you.
@@tommcintosh9158
Didn’t know that the Needles were in Nevada.
Speed Enforced by 20mm :)
Wow
I want to see a P-3CUpdateIII on a low level, let the rockeye go 🤣
Idk man I’m obviously not a fighter pilot but my guess is that you would have to (from time to time) check your own confidence when flying these things. I was a truck driver 18 wheels 53 foot trailers and when you get confident you tend to make mistakes. Idk if that translates over to being a pilot especially a fighter pilot at the speed, precision, and consistency of their movements. Vice verse as well cause some days you just have a little off feeling.. it takes longer than it does to get warmed up to the vehicle, your seat just don’t feel right your shifts aren’t as smooth as they always are..(in my case operating a big vehicle that I can potentially kill ppl with very easily; the odd feeling is not a good feeling) so I can’t imagine how much of a shittier of a feeling that must be if these guys and girls experience the same thing LOL
Jello.....Do you know where that's filmed at?
You read the video description...?
Yep, that was low alright
This has to be near Reno, heading East?
Rainbow Canyon, Crowley Vista Point at the end there. Awesome awesome!
nope
Rainbow Canyon is around 3 minutes AFTER the end of this video going through Jedi Transition (Owens Lake).
And the finale coming out Star Wars canyon! 💯 A+
Ends at Jedi Transition to Star Wars Canyon.
Graphics settings pls
🤣
knots indicated air speed English translation of KIAS 7:38
Where was this at?
(Read the video description)
Kansas?
@@terryboyer1342 Not quite, Toto.
Up the Kern, over the Needles, back into the Kern, up Ninemile and Red Rock Creek, past Indian Head, around Templeton, over the Sierra crest, and down S fork Ash creek to Owens lake bed.
@@K6ARK
“Over the Needles”, THROUGH 😊 Thanks for the detailed description.
Kinda looks like area around NTC.