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No, that was a real flight in an F-16N years ago.

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Glad you enjoyed it. Best of luck to you!

Awesome, congrats! Great jet. I flew it from the backseat a couple times. I'm sure you can find some videos online.

Niloc, glad you enjoyed the video. Flights are always based on training. In this case it was a "warm up" for BFM to reacclimate to pulling G's, inverted flight, etc. Basically just go out and bend the plane around so I had the flexibility to do as I wanted. If the Vipers around you are low they could be on a low level route designed for bombing runs. Military Training Routes (MTRs) are shown on Sectional and TAC charts. You could look them up for your area online.

@@FrankFurbish I'm pretty sure they're of the 180th fighter Wing of the Toledo, OH ANG

If you like Sims, look into FalconBMS or DCS

Hi Ben, you are correct. This was an adversary aircraft and we didn't even have drop tanks. The gun was removed from the nose and we had an older and lighter radar. Probably the best performing F-16 ever made! I can't remember the empty weight but I'll check with a squadron mate and see if he remembers. If so, I'll reply back. - Frank

@@FrankFurbish Wow, that's a swift response, Thanks for the Info! Everything I've read about the F-16N makes it sound like a real hotrod, regarding the weight, that would be excellent if you can find anything out. Thanks again!

Why would advanced F-16 avionics display indicated instead of calibrated....

My question is why do pilots of the F-16 use as a default the "Calibrated" airspeed on the HUD? Second, why do they call it "calibrated" in reference to Mach speed? Ever since before WWII, the CAA (later the FAA) defined the term "Calibrated airspeed" as a correction to be applied to the "indicated airspeed". The "calibrated" airspeed is unique for each aircraft because when the pitot-static system is designed for any particular model of airplane, there are always slight differences in indicated airspeed due to the placement of the pitot tube and static port. The calibrated airspeed for every particular airplane can be found as a graph that accompanies the airplane when build and sold by the manufacturer. More importantly, there was a reference by Bob Hoover somewhere where Hoover had a bet with another pilot that if they used two identical airplanes, the top speeds should be the same (side note, I may have the term of the bet confused or backward but the idea and result is the important point). After Hoover and the other pilot raced, the speeds were different. Hoover knew there was a mechanical reason for the difference because the planes were identical but the pitot tubes were placed in different places. For those who don't know what a pitot tube is, essentially it is the port where the air flowing at the wing is measured for airspeed information to be sent to some of the aircraft's instruments. Hoover eventually determined that the most accurate place to place the pitot tube is approximately 1/3 back from the leading edge of the wing. Once this was changed, both planes flew at exactly the same top speed at full throttle. I hope I got the details correct.

Modern avionics are accurate enough to have negligible error between Ias and Cas. In the P8 our IAS is CAS. Ie what we see on the airspeed tape is CAS.

@@GZA036 true airspeed is useful for navigation, calibrated airspeed is useful for knowing how the aircraft will perform aerodynamically.

Most of the flight was in W291. A military warning area (MOA) off the coast of southern California. The island is St Clemente.

It's based on the block 30. See more here: www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article22.html

Good information! Thank you

+David Ross Also he pulled over 7G and was still able to talk, and hardly breathing heavily or particularly fast. Edit...didnt notice sang ko already stated this lol

+David Ross, there the same. One is the real term, one is slang

It is in knots, i mispoke. It's a bit over 1,300mph.

Well to be fair knots are miles per hour but nautical miles

+Bee Aye, "Meatball" is slang for the Fresnel Lens which sits on the port (Left) side of the aircraft carrier. We use it to establish a glideslope to land on the carrier. Obviously not in an F-16. I flew F-14 previously. BTW, I did call it a "tadpole" on the takeoff.

Tadpole is the "great circle steering cue", the circle with the tail. Some people call the flight path marker (FPM), circle with 3 tick marks representing a mini-airplane the meatball as nicknname. The tadpole happens to always be at the same distance above/below horizon as the FPM by construction so either are equally valid to reference for flight path angle.

+Bee Aye , yes, we called it a tadpole. The engineers called it a flight path marker. I did the tape for non-pilots so I didn't call it a tadpole

+Frank Furbish thanks for the response. I haven't finished your video ...I'm actually watching it right now :) . What do they call a meatball? I hope I'm not bothering you too much.

+Bee Aye also it's amazing how close this is to the simulator Falcon 4 BMS 4.33u1

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