F-35 Refueling in AIR with Pilot Commentary 

I think this might actually be more difficult for us in the f14 sim. 😂

You know how some cars have that parking feature where you activate it, and the car perfectly parallel parks itself? The F-35 has that, but for refueling. To be honest, I made that up - but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that's actually a fact lol

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@@medotaku9360 most certainly is. You can’t feel the aircraft moving in DCS, and you’re looking at a 2D screen with no depth perception.

​@@PotatoeJoe69 lol I have seen three F-35s up close and worked on a dozen of these KC-135R aircraft while in the air force, honestly the 135 refuel tankers only thing i worked on in the service lol. I don't know about the f-35s and that feature u mentioned, although it's unlikely to have, it is still a good idea. I'll tell you the KC-135R aircraft were built 50-60 years ago and do not have that technology, at least as of 2017 when I left they didn't. But the KC135R aircraft are slowly being replaced by the KC-46 aircraft and that's been in the works for at least 5-6 years so there'd be no point.

I don’t see how you thought that

​@@elmoclips6589 you must have never seen footage from the edge of space

@@Mitchell4131 no I definitely have but that doesn’t look like it to me lol

​@@Mitchell4131 the dark underside of the plane looked like the blackness of space, and due to the wide angle lens the image displays curvature. I thought it was space for a moment too

@@FoxbyPlays I know I was referring to the guy that said he doesn't see it

CLASSIC!!!!

But f22 is older than the 35.....

So is my uncle

Nah, the F-22 is the lovechild of the F-15 and the F-117.

That's how the F-35 was made by a F-22

Probably easier. Can feel what the planes doing better and better depth perception

​@@dondelchulia3189 yeah you have better situational awareness irl

It's hard man, can't get it in the A10.

Irl you can feel the plane, and of course they are trained to do this for years

It’s slightly easier, believe it or not

Thank you for your service!!! 🇺🇸

So awesome to be able to see this actually being done in real time I'm sure that was cool asf huh. I worked on those KC-135R tankers for a few years while at Grissom (2015-2017) and while yes I had mostly a good time and was grateful to have learned a lot from those professionals, being able to witness this would have been so awesome, as simple yet as precise as it is. But I worked mostly in the inspection hangar, and was not a DCC to an aircraft so I never got to fly in one thank God, (i don't like leaving the ground, hence the aircraft mechanic career option vs the pilot career option, if eligible. I did go out on the flightline one winter to help/gain experience with the alert jets and helping those crews, went out there numerous other times and worked with every DCC there at the time, worked on all 12 or 16 135s they have/had? Two aircraft fleets of 6 or 8 a piece of those 135s still being used today just waiting for the kc-46 series to arrive. Pretty sure there's 16, two squads of 8. But it's been almost 6 years since I left could be wrong. And you usually always have one or two of those non alert jets deployed. Anyway shout out to Achenbach on #3510 I believe it was, if both of you are still there and with one another then dang I'm sorry to see you still slaving your lives away. Don't re-enlist, enjoy yourself and try to get her sent to the bone yard if she isn't already. Keep ya head up buddy and take care yourself.

@@paulmurphy2846 damn buddy I got carried away in a past life lol. Only reason I started that reply is because i was going to say thank you for your service as well my brother, and about making it home alive to be with your family. I never saw combat never deployed anywhere but I'll tell you what you ain't gotta go to war to fully understand and agree with that feeling/statement. Although it may be a slightly different but somehow similar feeling to the combat part.

I’m curious, did you meet H. Rempe?

@@petemarchi5112 Peter, I very well could have but to be quite honest my memory isn’t what it once was. Was H. Rempe attached to a U.S. Navy squadron in Spain? I was stationed there from 1988-1991 give or take a few months here and there. I do remember some senior chiefs a CWO, LT and LCDR. ✌🏽

Yes I agree

I used to hate it cus it’s kinda chubby but now I love it’s looks.

F 16 looks way better

​@@offbeatSPORTS1 I too like the little compartment under the cockpit, the little hiddy hole rest area. Place is so spacious that my friend is still lost in it after engines were accidentally fired up!

i prefer f22s and su57s tbh

Damn straight, they're awesome.

Thanks for all the work you guys do

Practice, then some more practice. When they're done practicing they can finally practice some more.

Digitally controlling a throttle is hard AF , got to be harder than having real control irl

QUAGMIRE! 😆

You win the internet today M8

That's the refueling plane.

The refueling plane is +60 years old.

@MAXIMUMF ok then.... look at you winning the internet today. Thanks for taking your time to respond. It was very necessary

@MAXIMUMF You're quite welcome Sir!👌🏾👍🏾💪🏾💛

correct, primarily by visual reference until you're contact

The boom operator manually controls the director lights prior to contact. Mostly just the forward light until the last couple feet when they flash the light meaning you're almost there. Then during contact the lights follow the boom position. But yeah, during the closure most receivers aren't looking at the lights too much, they are trying to "put the thing on the thing" lining up visual references.

Exactly what i was going to comment! I figured would see a lot of this comment but guess got a lot of young guns in here.

No its the other plane back that make it looks like that

Its the because the camera is placed inside the hole where the refueling rod comes out and some of the metal covers part of the camera.

thing is drogue is slower by a mile

They can’t because number one fly by wire instead of control by wire navy’s jets are way more mechanical as opposed to air forces digital jets

@@SimbaC2007 ik they can't but it would be cooler if they could, Is what I was trying to say. It would probably make AA refueling a whole lot easier.

The AF can also refuel with the “Iron Maiden” probe and drogue. I’ve refueled plenty of Navy/marine/NATO jets with this. Boom A/R is only 1 of 3 ways to refuel.

@@johnb3350 Interesting.

No, the Chinese would see the super secret lazer beam button.

Chinese government would just start photocopying the screen.

Good luck!

Do they mid-flight refuel at night?