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Offline mthrockmor

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Re: F-15 vid
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2013, 06:11:01 PM »
Great video and I said it with the first one...I could tak'm!!
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Re: F-15 vid
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2013, 06:20:21 PM »
Did one of the F15s cut afterburner in one engine to create added yaw for a roll and break?

I remember reading an account of dogfighting in WW1 in which the auther noted that in his first combat he was aware of turning to keep up with his lead and planes all over the place though when the smoke cleared he swears he did not see a single German plane. Situational Awareness is a premium and I could see one would get lost in these fights, certainly without 6k icon range and red markers for the bad guys.

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Re: F-15 vid
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2013, 09:52:06 PM »
:salute for the detailed information, sir.

What about the physical training for the pilots?  Some weekly special neck training methods with gym machines?

Once I read from somewhere, during the turn fight the pilots are setting/throwing their heads to certain angle and then pull hard.
The target tracking is made with eyes only, while head will stay still on those hard/High G turns.

True?

There is some training and advice on how to do strength training for fighter aircrew but there are no real standards for that, other than if you can't do the job or have problems handling the Gs or fail the generic fitness test then that is obviously a problem.  Injuries seem to happen to all types of people, although I haven't seen any stats correlating fitness level to injury rate or severity.

Pre-positioning the body prior to pulling Gs is a fairly standard technique, yes.  Once you are pulling you don't really want to move.  If you guess wrong on where your head will be facing, you probably will have to unload, change position, then pull again.
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Re: F-15 vid
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2013, 09:05:33 PM »
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