Flying the F/A-18A+ Hornet | C.W. Lemoine (Part 2) 

TOMCATS!

Cheers mate.

the best thing about mover is, he is still 'current' military.

Thanks David.

He need's to ask better questions. He's just reading questions from a script but to take this show to the next level, he needs to rift with these guys and have a real conversation. Mover said many things that warrantied follow ups or clarification, but it's just boom, on to the next scripted question.

@Bill Siedel I sure hate the United States Coast Guard retired the HU-25s! That was an awesome Aircraft

Thanks very much for your kind words, Steven.

Cheers Ian!

@Flight Sim Historian the United States Marine Corps Reserve 4th Marine Aircraft Wing Marine Aircraft Group-41 now has the Boeing F/A-18C+ Hornets in VMFA-112 "Cowboys" at NAS.JRB. Ft. Worth, Texas. They made that transition not long ago. They are keeping those until they move to MCAS. Cherry Point, North Carolina with the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning IIs

Ha I love this comment! Yeah I will take being “Wossy” and great to hear you enjoyed it mate.

Cheers mate.

Cheers mate.

Cheers.

Thanks Danny.

Thanks!

Energy Excursion - Can I get more explanation of what that is about?

Google helps

Slow speed maneuvering refers to where the Hornet can fight most effectively. The Hornet, for instance, likes to maneuver around 250 knots. The Falcon prefers to fight at around 350. There isn't a particular advantage it's just where the airplane works best. Nose authority is simply the ability to quickly move the nose of the airplane so it points at the bad guy so you can get a shot. Which leads to AOA. If the airplane can operate at high AOA you can use that ability to maneuver more quickly to get a shot. The downside is it loads the airplane and will cost you airspeed.

As a bit of an extended answer to my colleague above, the hornet has great alpha and nose authority/slow speed maneuvering qualities. Where is this an advantage? Well, say an aircraft that wants to stay fast might be able to make its way around a circle at x° per second, but the diameter of the circle may be fairly large. A hornets advantage comes in its ability to point its nose across the circle and basically fly around inside the radius of the plane trying to race around the circle, keeping its nose pointed at it the whole time. The hornet also has unique rudder authority at high alpha. Most planes will lose rudder authority due to the body blocking airflow over the vertical tail at high alpha, but thanks to the f18s LEX and canted out tails, it still has loads of rudder with the nose at high alpha. RU-vid f18 loaded roll for example.

T-38

Never gonna happen that ship has sailed

Could be worse, at least they are not like a Rectum. lol

s george play DCS much? lol

@@higaluto I don't have it ,but I read info from google give it to me ( real pilot of the f18 ,f18 forums )

@@simageorge63 what forum?

@@higaluto one it is F16 net.There are real and retired USAF F16 ,F18 pilots , answering about many aspects of the flying ,systems procedures or truble they had declassified stuff ,off course.I like to play IL 2 ,it is about first planes ww2 germans, russians japanesse, and many

@@simageorge63 ok thanks, will check it out

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