090 - AH-64 Apache 

I was stationed on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back in '09 doing detainee ops with the USN. Every other day, I would run the 8 mile perimeter road during my time off. I remember this one time running the road in a fairly quiet section of the base, focusing on not stepping into the uncleared mine field areas they have all round the base. It was a sunny day with ambient nature noises in the back ground. Suddenly--just like a scene out of a movie--I hear this WHOOSHHH and I look up and see directly over my head was an AH-64 flying some type of pattern over the base. It had to be about 300-500 feet overhead. I stopped in my tracks to look at it and thought to my self "I feel sorry for the poor SOBs who gets caught at the receiving end of one of those." They won't even hear them coming until its too late😂

I live in Raleigh, NC. There's a National Guard Apache unit at our airport and I've lived close to the airport for 10 years now. I still often rush outside to spot them flying over my house. Never gets old.

Can't wait for a cobra/viper interview

Leaving for Army Flight School in 42 days. I can’t wait to meet everyone at FT Rucker.

You should do a Interview with a 160th Pilot

AH-64 Apache is such a sexy looking beast

Early episode!? Oh man this throws my workday expectations straight out of the window! Lol.

Thanks Jello and team.. the series was excellent..gripped and ripped, long smooth and in the middle.. on the good foot.

In an Apache being the junior guy is the only place I'd want to be the junior guy. Lol

I love this guys honesty. I work with a ex Apache pilot now flys hems. Very good pilots. Multitasking is no problem for them. People don’t seem to understand how difficult it is to understand the symbology and Charlie mike at the same time. With the green monster. I think the echo model is transitioning to a f-35 visor display so it will help. Also 3200 helicopter hours is a lot. 3200 hours in a plane isn’t that much. Helicopters move 120kts or 100kts avg so any dual rated pilots as myself. I do crop dusting in fixed wing and my passion which is helicopters. And fixed wing ive been doing since I was a child with my parents and grand parents both. But helicopters are different animals. People think you can just land and take off. That’s not the case. To be safe we still need to have an approach and departure. I can land with a tail wind in a plane I’ve did it on accident at night and I quickly can see in my decent and the airframe can handle it. Doing a down wind Landing in a helo can be fatal quickly. LTE and couple of other things.

Oh man, I've been itching to learn more about this beast of a chopper. Thanks guys!

Funny to hear Dslyecxi asked a question for the podcast.

But by the gods,the apache is SO badass... CWO settle is truly blessed to be able to fly one of these things!

Seeing them more than 90 degrees below my eye level was freakin awesome. Cant wait to see them again sometime in the future

Tim was awesome! An “every man” but a great Dude.

Great month sir. And as far as the stories go... I could listen to them all day Dorothy!

"I AM THE GREATEST !!!"

Army month was great!

Sounds like an absolutely awesome airframe to fly! 🤘🏻👊

Sad for the interview to end. Enjoyed army aviation month. The Apache is a great bird. Good job sir.

DCS c’mon... Whats the hold up!! We need the apache lbw fly able. Please.

AH-56 Cheyenne ..... all im gonna typpeeeeee

Just thinking about your closing tune. " When the caissons go rolling along" . Growing up in the 50's and 60's we learned the military fight songs in either school or cub scouts. Funny thing is I still remember all the words to this army tune. Maybe it would be interesting to talk about the origins of these fight songs. For instance, who really knows what a caisson is as used in this song? I had to look it up. Anyway, I really enjoy these podcasts,

I seen the video of the ah-64 guy blue on blue. And I really felt for the guy and you can really hear it in his voice how he felt. And he asks to RTB and is denied.

GREAT Show !!!!

Another awesome home run interview!

Thanks jello! looking forward to this one.

Thank you for the early post!

Great interview

There was an Apache that took a round in the transmission for the rotor and had lost all transmission fluid 20 minutes away from base. They flew the whole way back and landed.

Responding to the tail end of the interview talking about potentially doing a Chinook episode and Warrant ranking was mentioned....my uncle Joe was a CWO-5 Chinook pilot. 20+ years in the Army. I don't know if he would be willing too do a podcast but I could ask?

44:27 Jugroom Fort is basically Hollywood came to the British Army. A pair of Apache's are supporting an attack on the Taliban held fort of Jugroom. After the ground forces withdraw they discover that one of their guys is missing. The Apache's search with their cameras and Locate L.Cpl Mathew Ford down in the entrance to the fort. A ground assault to recover him was sure to be a blood bath. So the Apache's collect 4 volunteers and fly them in to the fort to rescue L.Cpl Ford. Before the rescue another pair of Apache's arrive on station to provide support. The original Apache's fly the rescue party in and in the end one of the front seaters leaves the aircraft to rescue the downed soldier. They end up strapping him to the aircraft and flying him out. After dropping the rescuer's off they recover to Camp Bastion. On the recovery they discover one of the supporting Apache's went "Winchester" supporting them. Sadly Lance Corporal Ford died of his injuries.

Hey jello u need to interview Gary coker from the night stalkers for a ah 6 little bird episode

This was fantastic man 👊

Are ya'll ever going to interview Newt the 98-year-old P-38 pilot I emailed you about? He's not in the best health.

I'm here because of the Australian purchase. LET ME IN LET ME IIIIIIIN

Great episode! Took me right back to my very first "sim" experience: "Gunship" by Microprose on the Commodore 64. :) I played the hell out of that as a kid, and the Apache has always been my favorite helicopter ever since. And, of course, Jane's "Longbow" and especially "Longbow 2" were fantastic sims that I miss a lot. BTW, Jello, if you are reading this, I would love to hear your thoughts on the recent DARPA tests where an AI allegedly beat a human fighter pilot in simulated ACM five times. Would be a good topic for a podcast "special". ;)

Great podcast. Like the listener questions for the interviewee

Could you please do a video on your opinion on the future of mil aviation with the success of alphadogfight trials?

Fire Birds? Never heard of that one. I’ll check it out though!

I mostly remember the Apache from the movie lone survivor

"Army Aviation Month" when I read that I rolled my eyes. But, was I pleasantly surprised! Every episode was just as informative, entertaining, and well produced as any of the others. Kudos!

Sir is there any way possible that you could please ask CW4 Settle if its possible that I contact him regarding WOCS and my packet. I took the sift and passed I wanted to know how to increase my chances at getting selected. I'm new to the army and I'm an 11B.

I love the movie FireBirds

Did he say he isn't looking forward to this podcast?

Nice 12th CAB bird!

The most interesting part was the "dorothy" story :)

Iv heard of a cobra that extracted a small spec op team on the ammo doors.

So what comes after the Apache? What is on the drawing boards and is anything headed for production in the near future?

Hey Gelo I got a friend who flew in the back of Growlers and was in the USAF for 20 years. Now at the Pentagon. Have you done the Growler yet?

How were you able to track down a warrant officer to talk to, must of been like trying to catch a ghost

I wonder if there will ever be a attack helicopter air to air battle.

It is made in Phoenix Arizona.

I wonder what settle would think of the mi-24/mi-28(which is very similar to the apache..)

If I dreamed of getting jets but I got a Cobra................. it would be fine !!!!

does the apache have 2 torque rotors like in the picture?

When flying do they wear regular BD or a flight suit of some sort?

IREEEENE!!!!!!

Excelente video 👍

cant wait for the F-100

Army Aviation 2021 MH-6/AH-6 MH-47 DAPS T-11

My brother was a crew chief right after he joined 9/12/01 (well took him some time after joining)...I never realized how big these were. Also on a funny note, I thought all of our military helis/planes would be spotless on the inside..but all the buttons, modules, controls, etc would be spotless like a commercial jet cockpit, but you only need it to run and work 100%...looks aren't important (though the outsides are beautiful).

Now India using apache against china in high altitude borders

Air-to-air refueling capability?

British Army extracted someone from Iraq on an Apache wing

Missed notoriety - flown in combat by the veteran formerly known as Prince Harry!

Oh by the way a guy I know who flew the Apache he actually made the very first aircraft carrier landing in a AH-64D longbow. He said he talked to the test pilots of the rah-66 Comanche and that was one bad ass bird. You could fly 90kts side ways. He actually decided to stay in the army hoping he would get to fly the Comanche. It’s actually a badass helicopter that would have advanced aviation by several years sadly they cancelled it and stopped the development so we’ve lost a lot of technology they put back on the shelf.

I wish that Apache wasnt replacement for Ah56 Cheyenne, could have been a very interesting heli... But no, politics fucks everything.