How Do Fighter Pilots Train For Emergencies? 

I was one of the Fire/Rescue guys and I was always impressed with how well pilots were trained to handle emergencies - you guys are the best

The memory capacity you have to fly all of these different types of aircraft is astounding. I really enjoy listening to your videos, they're so detail oriented. It really does take a lot to be a fighter pilot or a airline pilot. It's great explaining the differences between operation between the two. Thank you for all you do and all that you have done. Such a fantastic life you have had, and it's because of your desire to acomplish all and everything you wanted to do.

I remember a Growler pilot telling me “If you ever find yourself in a shitty situation and you can’t fly in a fighter, fly Martin baker”. Amazing video as always.

I work as a navigation officer for a cruise line, we have very similar procedures when we have issues such as rudder failure, Control of ship, Safety of navigation, Communicate. Very similar principles except we travel at 22 knots not 1000 haha

Great video as usual Mover. Your incident with the landing gear reminded me of an incident we had many years ago. As the full time Electric/Environmental shop chief in the Mass Air Guard for 31 years, we had some interesting calls, one of which was hard to believe and one we had never seen before. I was called to maintenance control to talk to one of our pilots who was having issues with his F-106 landing gear and declared an IFE (in-flight-emergency). He told me when he was on final and lowered the landing gear handle, the nose gear went down and locked ok, but the mains would go half way down, then back up, then back down, then back up......WITH THE GEAR HANDLE STILL IN THE DOWN POSITION!! His wing man joined up and verified it and said it looked like a bird flapping it's wings! I advised him to raise the handle and see if all three would go up and locked and stay there which they did. The "Six" had an emergency system for the landing gear that if they wouldn't go down and locked hydraulically, you could "Blow" them down pneumatically. Fortunately this worked and he landed safely. After towing the aircraft into the hangar, jacking it up, applying the hydraulic "Mule", APU, and performing an op's check, the gear did exactly as the pilot described - up down, up down, with the handle in the down position. The plane was shaking and almost fell off the jack stands. After some troubleshooting, I found a wire bundle near the top of the main gear that was chaffed, and a couple of bare hot wires were sending power to the "up" side of the landing gear hydraulic control valve every time the gear came half-way down. We were happy the pilot landed safely of course, but it was kinda funny to see the gear flapping up and down! (Bill from Slidell)

I’m a USAF maintainer and have worked F-15’s and F-16’s and have seen many IFE’s it’s interesting to hear from your (the pilots) point of view how they are handled. I know what goes on on the ground for us responding to IFE’s but nice to hear a different side of it!

I was taught Aviate, Navigate, Checklist, Communicate. I was taught that by a former naval aviator, and now I teach it to my students as well. Thank you for the video Mover!

The fighter community is an awesome group. In an airliner, we have two pilots. When things go bad, usually one guy is given the jet and the radios. The other guy works the problem. In a fighter, one guy has to do it all. Fly the jet, communicate, and work the problem. There is no second opinion as a backup. They are generally an outstanding group of pilots.

I agree with you and your Bold Face Writing/Stand-up training. Bottom line is you respond the way you train! Thank you for your time & the videos!! I look forward to them & really enjoy them! Stay Safe!!

I was a Naval aircrewman(AW) and while I went through the dilbert dunker and ejection training in P'Cola, for P3 guys it was find a parachute in the parachute storage rack as you didn't normally wear them and open the port side door(only door, except port and starboard over the wing hatch's that you pulled in and discarded) and hope you didn't hit the horizontal stab on the way down... You got GOOD at putting a chute on QUICK!!!!!!! Other than that if you were the junior guy on the crew to set condition of flight after take off, you had to look at Doppler height finding radar well(at rear of AC) and circuit breakers(Starboard side over the wing, over starboard wing) behind SS1 and SS2 flight stations and behind SS3 then report to flight station... the big prob was the UHF and VHF radio racks which had a tendency to kinda spark so to speak... Several times we had UHF radio fires in flight...

I usually just hold CTRL+ALT+E and let the ground take care of the rest.

OMG. Must have photographed hundreds of awards at Wing/Group commander "stand up". Now I know why it is called that!!! Thanks for sharing. Great with the landing gear effort. Crap, was looking at the performance numbers of the HUD vid. Scary. Old saying: A wingman is allowed to say 3 things. 1. "Two".2. "Bingo fuel".3. "Lead!!!! You're on fire !!!"

I really enjoy your channel. I'm a low hour pilot that had been grounded due to Congestive heart failure. You really have done a lot that most of us dream of. your training is amazing. Keep up the great videos and have a great day, year and of course your life

In his great book 'Chickenhawk' Robert Mason wrote about how during flight training in helicopters with the Army IP's would mercilessly chop power to simulate a power loss and always did it during the worst possible moments like trying to squeeze into a training LZ with power lines on the upwind side close by. By the book you'd autorotate into the wind but the IP's always created scenarios specifically NOT covered in the book. This training saved the author's life multiple times on combat missions in Vietnam.

Before my dad passed away him and I built a Glasair III with the IO-540. Fun times!

Definitely a lot more to deal with in a single seat. Helo crews are very similar to commercial airlines in that you have multiple people engaged to deal with the problems. As a CH-46 crewchief, my NATOPS check ride was 95% emergency proceedure and we had tondeal with a real situation as well.

Thank you for all the "behind the scene" things with fighter pilots. It is very fascinating and makes you appreciate even more of what you guys do. I've been enjoying your books. I'm on Executive Reaction. I finally understand what a jinx is thanks to your books! Looking forward to ther next book already! Add always thank you for sharing what you do and thank you for your service to this country, but fot what you did to protect my family.

Just finished I am the sheepdog on audiobook Loved it thank you

A perfect description of Dunning-Kruger. Very worthy tale.

I dont know if you read old post but I just want to say I love your videos. I was a crew chief on f16 I spent most of my career at Luke afb. I'm a Louisiana boy I loved the f16 and no matter what anybody says I know it is an amazing aircraft. Just wanted to say thank you Sir for what you do. Emerald knights.

Calm minds always prevail! Thank you for sharing.

Jumper here. We do similar emergency procedure training, where there are rote responses you must go through (of course, jumping at 1000 or 1500 feet, one way or the other, it's going to be over in 90 seconds, unless you're being towed). Yeah, you can train through the startle factor. I had a zebra malfunction on my second jump - applied my training without thinking, had my best landing of the whole week, didn't have time to freak until after I was on the ground. And I've seen the same from the jumpers I've been instructing when they have had problems.

I wish my local airport had a Glasair 1RG! Looks cool to train/prepare with!

Dad told a story about Vietnam. He was on radio listening to a pair of A-10's. Dad was on the USS Morton, a destroyer. I remember how he always felt guilty because he couldn't help as he heard one disappear off of the map of the area he was patrolling.

Awesome video! Very informative and helps us have a greater appreciation for how much training is involved!

I'd like to hear about your SERE training if possible. Get to eat any bugs Mover?

Thanks for this, very informative and helps to understand "the World" of pilots. Keep flying, I enjoy your videos!

great as always, looking 4ward to Mondays now...ha ha

The first firefights I was in were like out of body experiences. I made no conscious decisions but instead performed every action through pure muscle memory due to the way we train to fight in the military. I really felt like I was outside myself watching me do things with no thought.

Thank you MOVER. And like you said i will use this in my life. I work on cell sites. And i am in training for a new software load i will be doing. So i really like your VLOGS.

Good stuff! Thanks for the knowledge and wisdom share. Good stuff.

Just did my multi flying recently. I had 3h in the airplane before my flight test and the examiner pulled the engine on me at different times than I expected and MUCH quick than I had trained. The many hours in the ground running drills kicked in and I was surprised at how well things went. He was a good examiner and Im lucky I also had a great instructor

Good one.

They did a study and..typical change what works. Like now at school they don’t recite the times tables because of some study but without thinking I can do 7x8 or 12x6. It’s just there. How do you think slash could play all those songs when being a heroin addict? Memory! He’d done it a thousand times, didn’t need to think about. It was there inside his head and coupled with muscle memory. I agree with you, somethings you need to recite and do over and over so when it’s required it’s in you, don’t have to think you know the steps, do A, if A doesn’t work go to step C, and so on. How they think in an emergency where time is so critical you’re going then go look up what to do?? In some emergencies time is vital, it has to be almost instinctual, there’s no time to go to page 32 and read through then apply a checklist. Pilots have nearly crashed or crashed within seconds of a failure, not minutes but a few seconds. In those instances training can literally save lives, sadly sometimes even the best training and the crew doing everything right isn’t enough but by giving them the best training you’re giving them the best chance of survival. I bet if you asked pilots who’ve had emergencies what helped them the most I’d bet the overwhelming majority would say the training, they’d practiced it in the sim, they’d read about it, so when it happened it was still oh Sh1t but ok I know I’ve got to do X, then Y etc.

I really like to listen to your videos. You are a professional fighter pilot

I worked with a retired B-52 pilot who flew the chrome dome missions during the cold war. He said one of his trainers was curtis lemays son. while in trying on the BUFF lemay would start pulling out fuses mid-flight!!!

Great info!

Great video man. I hope to fly for the Air Force one day. And I’ve gotta check out some of those books.

Great video mover, love listening to this stuff.

Oh boy, memories.

NASA Apollo and Space Shuttle training was very good. I have read those things many times.

Great video, thanks so much for sharing your experiences.

I had nose wheel problems on a Piper Malibu. Got 2 out of 3 lights and then after the 8th time cycling the landing gear got 3 lights.. Put her down easy at San Martin in California with fire department standing by. Luckily no problem landing.. Just a loose leaking hydraulic line from some AP mechanic 2 weeks prior.......................................................

I prefered the days when airlines had a flight engineer as standard

I’m thinking of reading one of your books for school

I'd be interested to see how your F-18 checklist and procedures transfer over to the DCS F-18

Section III of the Dash 1 ..... Emergency Procedures. Just before going out to the airplane, Use to have to answer Bold Face written exam in Squadron Operations. Then when we went to fly after that, a no notice check ride !

Wow...

I don't fly real planes but enjoy what your content for gaming. Can you elaborate terminate or knock-it-off? also what was R in FEVER? Engine idle vs throttle off and reasoning why you idle first then throttle off second (assuming fuel flow...?)

GreaT Insight ✌

I have two questions: 1. when are you actually ready to transition from a sim to real flying and 2. Do airline pilots do check rides on their airplanes like the 737?

This is good stuff

Balls to the wall!

GREAT info.... thanks. "Stand Up" sounds like a good thing, stressful tho it may be.

Hello Mover! Can you do a video if you have done air to air refueling and if you have what the procedure is?

CW have you seen the swedish pilot that had his f16 landing gear break and he had to eject? 20 mins or so . very sobering. On the upside after hospital visit he was hoisting beers with his squadron mates that night.

Most Air Force guys that flew the T37 can recite the Single Spin Recovery many years later.

Dude it worked on here for 35 years every day is a school day and I have 45 hours f104

No way. I live right down the road from Ama in Luling.

It is my ultimate wish to have ago in one of those.

Great video mover, I was wondering what your thoughts or experiences are with the large joint military exercises like the upcoming PACAF, did you ever participate in something like this? Whats it like as a fighter pilot to participate?

I hope your answer is not classified. How does a fighter pilot deal with a nearby radioactive combat environment when nukes are used?

I have my own opinions when it comes to the "why" memory items are no longer focused on. It's the same opinions I have when talking about the lack of rote memory necessary in modern Freemasonry. It's difficult and takes time. Neither of which seem to be en vogue in today's "but there's a "quicker" and easier way to do it...just read it off a cheat sheet". The actual knowledge wasn't as important as it showed the willingness to work hard at MEMORIZING and the ability to RECITE as an individual under duress. To some, memory checklist items, obligations, scripts etc...are slow to develop but if they REALLY "want it" they'll buckle down and power through it. EVERYONE can read with little effort and much less time in simply remembering which list to grab and which tab should be flipped. Also, with practice comes proficiency. I think it takes MUCH less practice to simply always "refer" than execute under pressure.

if you let say go expired on instrument check ride for some reason and you don't have SEFE available, and you are in a combat they need you to fly, are they just going to ground you or what

I see Deuce at 5:33 :D

Awesome video. Thank you. Makes you think, we should only allow ex fighter pilots to fly passengers around. I'm against this whole x amount of hours to any tom dick and Harry and bam! You're now an airline pilot. With respect to good old school pilots out there.

Do you practice emergency procedures in the cockpit of a real jet?

In my experience if you just ignore emergencies long enough the situation will resolve itself.

CW, have you ever had to eject?

Do you have any combat hours?

you should be an astronaut

Why is concrete better than a grass field?

Is it possible for me to be a fighter pilot if I have ADHD?

Ya boi 1st

The picture accompanying this post is a photoshop fake. Jet engines do not have large voluminous flaming exhausts. Other than afterburner mode, there are no flames exiting the engine. During AB, there is a flame that is conical, distinct and confined.