Fighter Pilot Breaks Down More Flying Scenes from Movies | GQ

you got your victory dance well i got it right here yeah your high five and walking out to the jet and stuff like that you're most likely going to die on that mission hey gq it's wiz welcome back to part two of the breakdown where we're going to be watching some more awesome fighter pilot clips [Music] first up independence first wave in our day our target is to the north centered above what remains of downtown los angeles got to stop right here love independence day because now the marine corps gets a little love here we know marine corps aviators are in fact naval aviators and even coast guard so navy marine and coast guard aviators we all wear the uh the same wings of gold as a naval aviator so who's given the brief right now it's it's a little awkward to usually if the person leading the flight the flight lead will give the brief at this point it looks like some high rank in general or something like that is given the brief so up until the flight lead steps up there you might have an intelligence person come up and give their part of the brief the weather person absolutely has to come up and give her breathe maybe the the general or the admiral steps up to give a little newt rockne speech but the flight lead whoever's leading this thing airborne that's the person that's going to lead the brief ultimately bring that bad boy you lose your side got your victory dance well i got it right here so how we're feeling at this moment walking out to the aircraft depends on the type of mission we're going to be flying and no matter what whether it was wartime or a peace mission when you're walking up onto the flight deck of an aircraft carrier everything changes you put your game face on one of the most dangerous places on the face of the earth to walk or to work is the flight deck of an aircraft carrier you got propellers spinning you got jet blast you got people getting blown overboard you get people walking in the propellers accidentally so walking around on the flight line you want to get in your jet as quick as possible but walking out to the aircraft especially if it is a combat mission you kind of got your game face on for taught to compartmentalize meaning i'm not wondering you know if i paid the mortgage is the grass too long or anything like that you have to put all those things aside to focus on the mission at the end of the day we are all about the mission and we are focused if you're high five and walking out to the jet and stuff like that you're most likely going to die on that mission hey you don't get pre-patrol on me soldier we don't light up to the fat ladies when i heard that line i could hear every marine across the world literally their head explode he called him soldier don't ever call a united states marine a soldier a soldier is in the united states army a marine is in the united states marines it's a huge misperception about fighter pilots especially in these movies captain jimmy whatever it says wild raven a lot of people think that that's your jet that's not your jet so in a typical fighter squadron we might have anywhere from 12 to 15 jets the first two jets in the squadron they have the name of the commander of the air group and then the commanding officers jet and then the executive officer and then it kind of goes down the picking order until we're running out of pilots or running out of jets so a common misconception about fighter aircraft is that that's your airplane so the pre-flight preparation that you're seeing in independence day is pretty realistic walking up to the aircraft you'll be greeted by who is called the plane captain in the air force it's called the crew chief they are assigned an airplane and they know the hydraulics the fuel they give it the tender love and care that we just can as aviators so you salute the plane captain give them a firm handshake and they're going to give you a brief about the status of the aircraft any what we call gripes hey sir the last time this jet flew that the radar had a couple issues or there were some hydraulic problems so they'll give you a quick brief and then you walk around the aircraft and do a pre-flight because it's an extra set of eyes it's what we call mutual support we take care of each other all right boys where are they he's here to target four minutes that looks like the battle of britain on whatever that was supposed to be some sort of radar screen just a horde of the good guys going after a bad guy we wouldn't have that many aircraft necessarily going that close but i don't remember reading a book about huge ginormous enemy spaceship and the requirements for the aircraft but today we have what we call the f-35 the joint strike fighter it can fly completely autonomously an f-35 most likely is going into enemy combat by itself because it doesn't need anybody else it has that much situational awareness so the days of you know kind of this battle of britain hey launch everybody type of thing are kind of going away in essence why we on this particular mission we'll never know but i do know here today that the black knights will emerge victorious so the relationship with your squadron mates is absolutely uh critical to mission success so in a fighter squadron you had to have absolute trust faith and confidence in your in your fellow wingmen and if you didn't the unit broke down it's a family you know there's give and take and arguments and stuff like that but at the end of the day if there's any problems we circle the wagon and protect each other we can make fun of each other but if anybody outside of our squadron did now you got an ass kicking coming the willingness to literally lay your life down to potentially lose your life to take care of a squadron mate really makes it an organization i've never seen again in my life i left being a fighter pilot to go to wall street and i can't even tell you what a letdown it was i mean on wall street the guys will push their own mother in front of a train to make a buck in the military just not it is a complete culture disconnect they were family members and and are to this day next up iron eagle this has got to be the worst series of fighter pilot movies god ever created and it couldn't happen to a better service the united states air force it's just you couldn't it couldn't be any worse i mean so the navy marine corps team got top gun and my air force buddies got iron yeah if you come up here and show me where the throttle is to begin with so we got a teenage kid flying an f-16 so here's what's funny about all this stuff so the air force is pretty anal about a lot of stuff especially security not that the marine corps navy are relaxed about this but we have bigger things to do like fly jets off of a boat or storm beaches so their security on an air force base is epic so the fact that this kid like god is even sitting here right now is physically impossible i can't even it gives me agita watching this but apparently this this kid's dad was is a air force fighter pilot or got shot down and uh you know he's got to rescue him if the air force is resorting to teenage kids to rescue their downed pilots we're in a load of trouble man this is falcon 6 ready for takeoff okay for takeoff [Music] so the oxygen mask contains your microphone to talk and obviously oxygen i hated the thing a minimum you have to wear during takeoff and landing what happens if they're flying along at 400 miles an hour and something bad happens and they have to eject there's no wind and all of a sudden instantaneously you're in 400 mile an hour wind that mask is going to rip off probably take the helmet off and might take your head off with it too up at higher altitude you definitely have to have your mask on because even though the cockpit of a fighter jet is pressurized guess what you got a little pinhole leak in the canopy and the pressurization leaks you could end up dead where you want to go you're driving let's see what you got you sure you're up to it [Music] oh man here we go with the with the music in the in the in the jet you know bringing your what is that a walkman first of all we have designated operating areas so as soon as you get all airborne you're supposed to go be going to a place a restricted area a warning area or a military operations area this whole hey we just got airborne out of an air force base let's just start doing it's comical but let's see what he does you know now i'm really starting not to like you [Music] head over to the range so the idea that this colonel with thousands of hours in the f-16 could be like feeling a little not up to being pulled around by a teenager is comical at this point it is this is just pure comedy gold anytime i took off in the f-18 hornet even if it was a furry flight for example taking off out of point a just to get to point b i rolled the jet inverted at some point just getting airborne out of air force base x to go do some aerobatics it doesn't happen i cut off that stuff let's screw up my rhythm so we got a teenager in an air force f-16 dropping live weapons it just doesn't get any more realistic than this come on and he needs his music to be able to bomb correctly unless it's wired into your headset you're not going to hear it all we hear in the jet it's surprisingly quiet you don't hear the jet engine you hear the hum it's the hum of the electronics too and the and the ecs we call it the environmental control system there are guys nowadays that i know who you know they'll put their earpods in or something like that but not during medicine critical parts there are limited ranges in the united states where you can drop live ordnance but it's it's very very obviously restricted away from the civilian population but you have to drop live weapons to get familiar with their use the first time loading live weapons or you dropping live weapons in a combat situation isn't the first time you want to be doing it you want to have done this in training a lot before before doing it live all right turn this thing on let's let's head back to base dammit chappie i'm doing it my way if if the instructor pilot says all right this flight's done let's go home and the guy's like no screw it i'm gonna do it my way literally when you got on the deck it would be it would have been an ass kicking this is physically impossible that would have happened it makes me laugh but it's just it's inconceivable that this would happen well it's better too because he turned up the volume so he's going to get better now because his cheesy 80 music is louder so yeah you know he just put the bombs right through the target right there and he's going to go save his dad god bless him i would have done the same thing for my dad but it never ever would have happened i love the little display in the cockpit that said target destroyed i don't know how the jet figures out that you destroyed the target but yeah that that doesn't happen either so that's another unrealistic element is the fact that i could be sitting in the jet watch the bomb go right into somebody's window blow up the entire building and still not know until we have what we call bda battle damage assessment so at the end of the day iron eagle has got to be the most ridiculous movie about fighter aviation that could have ever been created i'm gonna stick with top gun and i'm gonna stick with maverick at the end of the day next up dunkirk so this is a uh believe it's a spitfire so the battle of dunkirk just a strategic disaster in the military we have a term called successful failure the way that the british rallied to save their troops from dunkirk is just fantastic and the performance out of these aviators was nothing less than stellar 70 dollars 68 gallons fortis leader so obviously back in the day these guys aren't too worried about oxygen mainly because they're not flying really high up at altitude so they could kind of have their mask hanging down here and you can see how they hold it up to their mouth to realistically be able to talk now they're checking out their fuel and as you can see they're switching to different tanks so you know they can say hey the right wing tank has this much or the fuselage tank has this and the left wing is that so they're reporting in with their fuel state and the reason you do this every once in a while first of all what if all of a sudden out of the blue you developed a fuel leak and you didn't notice it and all of a sudden you flame out so checking your fuel periodically you know keeps you keeps that scan going even when it gets lively safe enough to get back so right now they're a little tight if you're in bad guy country you don't want to be flying close formation as a bunch of airplanes because if you look at the right wing and the left wing those wingmen right there are staring at who they're staring at the flight lead right now i don't want to be flying formation in what we call sucking wingtip so these two wingmen right now are sucking wingtip i want them spread out a little bit more and their eyes out of the cockpit looking around for enemy aircraft it does no good to be flying this close formation right now when you could have what six six eyeballs out of the sky instead of just the flight lead looking around for this too i have you on my porch i have no eyes on 40s either of it understood for this one a little bit for a look so back in the day you know this early on in dunkirk there wasn't any aviation radar per se the the aircraft just didn't have any radar the only radar was your brain housing group and your eyeballs so really having to look hard out there and and literally a speck on the horizon could be an enemy fighter all they had was their eyeball so they were a lot better at picking up visual and they had a much more disciplined what we call scan meaning they just didn't sit here and look around randomly they had a pattern that they would go through and look through the sky and not randomly so where can you look for example this guy on the right wing can look behind the wing that left wing means six o'clock right and the left wingman can look all the way to the right and look behind that guy's six o'clock so whenever you hear the term check six it means look behind you flight discipline and lookout discipline is very very key in situations like this and back in the day the best place and even to today in air and air combat you want to come from what's called out of the sun unless you're you know a superhuman you can't stare into the sun so if you come if you decide to attack from out of the sun you have a very big tactical advantage i think we might actually see that found it 11 o'clock the first person who cites an enemy aircraft you call it out bandit and then the clock code bandit 11 o'clock and you call out the position he's on me so above the canopy they actually had a mirror so he he isn't straining to look behind him at this point he's actually just looking up above his canopy into a mirror and he can see i believe it's a messerschmitt on his six o'clock [Music] [Applause] so right now he's in a tough spot he's got to shoot this german down but he doesn't want to shoot his wingman down [Music] so there you go awesome so you're looking at a gun reticle so this is what is displayed right in front of the pilot's vision it's right in his line of sight and in these old fighter planes the guns out in the wings are aligned to what we call right in the middle right there that's called a pipper you see that little orange dot that is right on that dude's head however when he's squeezing the trigger right now guess where those bullets are gonna go behind him so what we have to do whenever you're trying to shoot somebody down you have to do what we call pulling lead so right now when he squeezes those bullets there this guy's already going to be gone from where he is right there so he's got to aim let's say i don't know one or two three airplanes in front of him to put those bullets out in front of the bad guy so he flies through them in a modern fighter aircraft there's not that many i think 600 ish in the f-18 which might sound like a lot but it's literally this much you ready that's it so about two to three seconds if you kept the trigger down and the f-18 you'd be out of bullets a lot more back in the day these guys weren't carrying air-to-air missiles or radar so their wings were full of a lot more ammunition once you're out of bullets you're out of bullets i mean there's been some circumstances of you know guys running out of ammo and ramming other airplanes and we saw just horrifically in the pacific for the japanese you used what they called kamikaze the divine wind they would lock these guys in a plane like this put a bunch of gas in a plane put a bunch of bombs on it and have them go try and crash into an aircraft carrier or a ship they were the first if you want to call it guided bombs of the modern warfare era so even if you're running out of ammo you still got you at the end of the day right there perfect shot and now he put some rounds right in front of the german aircraft and the german's gonna fly right through boom he's about to splash into the ocean so splash one kind of navy fighter pilot navy marine fighter pilot for i just shot somebody down splash one splash two splash three so great fighter discipline great pulling lead and didn't waste any bullets is he down yeah he's down for the cat what happened they're both staring where had a dude flying into the water the guy was on fire he's going into the water why are they both staring at him and one of them just got shot by who another german so very very bad that's the hair on the back your neck should stand up if we're both staring at the same piece of sky or water in this case and nobody has their eyes out looking for the other bad guy so great scene dunkirk great movie and really speaks to the the heroism of the uh of the men and women in the royal air force you can tell that they actually are using the spitfire aircraft you can tell i think they even had the actors in the airplanes uh so very realistic all right thanks for watching part two of the breakdown those were some awesome clips had an absolute blast make sure you stay safe out there and fly navy

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Length: 20min 24sec (1224 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020