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Title: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: SysError on August 05, 2015, 10:39:02 AM


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150805-how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet   

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Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Lusche on August 05, 2015, 01:47:01 PM
That would be one of my better AH landings... he even had the gear down!  :old:
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: mike8318 on August 05, 2015, 03:37:42 PM
I hate the term " fighter jet".
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Serenity on August 05, 2015, 03:59:58 PM
I hate the term " fighter jet".

Why?
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Ripsnort on August 05, 2015, 09:46:33 PM
Russian pilot.
Nuff said.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on August 05, 2015, 09:51:36 PM
flawless landing.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: eagl on August 05, 2015, 09:53:54 PM
Would have been stylish if he hadn't of gotten too slow and ham-fisted the rollout causing the sink rate and bounce.

We practice a continuous turn to short final/roundout/flare for flameout approaches, but that's an emergency procedure.  We do it enough to get good at it but the vast majority of our landings are lower risk approaches with a roll-out on final around 1/2 mile or more from the touch down point.  Airspeed control is critical.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: mike8318 on August 06, 2015, 10:13:35 AM
Because there haven't been any prop aircraft in the fighter role since Korea?
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: BoilerDown on August 06, 2015, 06:05:47 PM
Because there haven't been any prop aircraft in the fighter role since Korea?

I thought there was in counter-drug-smuggling ops in South America.

I immediately thought of the guy who pretended to drunkenly hijack a biplane that was linked here before.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: eagl on August 06, 2015, 06:59:28 PM
Latest air to air kill video I saw was a turboprop chasing down a drug smuggler in S. America just over treetop height.  Short bursts of .50 and the druggie finally spun into the trees.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: PR3D4TOR on August 06, 2015, 07:07:41 PM
Because there haven't been any prop aircraft in the fighter role since Korea?

But there are other jets, and other fighters...

If you do a google image seach for "fighter" most results will not be jet fighters, but something like this:

(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141005214047/deathbattle/images/8/86/Ryu_SF.jpg)
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Rino on August 06, 2015, 08:37:54 PM
flawless landing.

     For a "Naval Aviator"  :bolt:   Sorry guys, saw the cheapshot..couldn't resist  :rofl
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: XxDaSTaRxx on August 06, 2015, 10:30:27 PM
But there are other jets, and other fighters...

If you do a google image seach for "fighter" most results will not be jet fighters, but something like this:

(http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20141005214047/deathbattle/images/8/86/Ryu_SF.jpg)
I wonder what happens when I google image search "trash?"...

Oh, right.

(http://wpmedia.ottawacitizen.com/2012/02/air_f-35a_aa-1_flight_top_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: PR3D4TOR on August 07, 2015, 12:13:51 AM
 :P
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: MiloMorai on August 07, 2015, 04:56:14 AM
The Russian pilot should give lessons to this F-16 pilot.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54a_1358227242
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: mthrockmor on August 07, 2015, 06:08:23 AM
A long, straight line with slow descent rate makes for an awesome landing.

Why the -35 comes in roughly 90 degrees off the runway, no idea. As for the -16,

boo
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Russian on August 07, 2015, 06:38:13 AM
The Russian pilot should give lessons to this F-16 pilot.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54a_1358227242

Looks like he maybe lost hydraulics / brakes. Since it's a civilian field there is no net / aresting equipment to catch him.... so going off the runway is only thing he could do. 
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: craz07 on August 07, 2015, 09:36:49 AM
I think he just got schooled on physics to tell you the truth... seemed like he came in super confident, and got a lucky bop in the head on how dangerous it really is to land a several thousand pound metal machine...
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: SysError on August 07, 2015, 09:51:07 AM
Looks like he maybe lost hydraulics / brakes. Since it's a civilian field there is no net / aresting equipment to catch him.... so going off the runway is only thing he could do.

quote from the text on the F16:
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...cockpit fogging, pilot lost visibility. The aircraft's ventilation system failed and condensation formed during the final approach (that can happen rapidly during a jet descent). It also explains why the airbrakes wereot deployed: he was distracted just getting the plane down.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: SteelyDan68 on August 07, 2015, 04:23:01 PM
I wonder what happens when I google image search "trash?"...

Oh, right.

(http://wpmedia.ottawacitizen.com/2012/02/air_f-35a_aa-1_flight_top_lg.jpg)


That's kinda harsh.  :eek: True, but harsh...  :neener:
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: BaldEagl on August 08, 2015, 06:40:05 PM
So the implication is that as long as it's not a fighter jet it's a perfectly good way to land?
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Ripsnort on August 08, 2015, 09:27:10 PM
The Russian pilot should give lessons to this F-16 pilot.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54a_1358227242

Meanwhile in Canaduh...  :rolleyes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2683047/F16-fighter-jet-lands-dangerously-close-plane-spotters-display-RAF-Waddington-Airshow.html
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: MiloMorai on August 08, 2015, 09:43:08 PM
Meanwhile in Canaduh...  :rolleyes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2683047/F16-fighter-jet-lands-dangerously-close-plane-spotters-display-RAF-Waddington-Airshow.html

I think you have to take some geography lessons. Royal Air Force Waddington is a Royal Air Force station located 4.2 miles south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire and 13.3 miles north east of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England.

That is ~4800km from Canada. :eek:

For those still using the archaic system, that is ~3000mi.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Ripsnort on August 09, 2015, 07:54:53 PM
Canaduh=Englands Biatches.

Same country, different locations.
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Scherf on August 09, 2015, 09:00:12 PM
(http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad212/mhuxt/77c_zpsvbmxhprg.jpg) (http://s937.photobucket.com/user/mhuxt/media/77c_zpsvbmxhprg.jpg.html)
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: Puma44 on August 10, 2015, 10:07:27 AM
Meanwhile in Canaduh...  :rolleyes:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2683047/F16-fighter-jet-lands-dangerously-close-plane-spotters-display-RAF-Waddington-Airshow.html
A more accurate headline would be "Plane spotters stand dangerously close to approach end of runway during normal F-16 approach and landing".
Title: Re: -how-not-to-land-a-fighter-jet
Post by: craz07 on August 10, 2015, 10:12:13 AM
puma has got the know how