What it's Like to Fly in an F-16 Fighter Jet with a Demo Pilot - 9.5G's with Cockpit Audio!

[Music] all right ready to do this let's do these things america hell yeah [Music] all right go make a little bit of noise here here we go there's afterburner just a little bit of power all right there's 200 knots altitude 300 there's 400 knots [Music] nice oh yeah this is cool eight g's all right we're gonna roll okay radar contact five zero one is leveling ten thousand [Music] all right doing good yeah money not too bad right yeah all right so we're ten thousand feet it's pretty up here yeah it's actually a little hazy usually you can see colombia and sometimes you can see all the way out to the coast what's that steamy stuff over there which which side uh on the right the smoke yeah uh it's probably the zero director six thousand two five percent it's probably just a control burn okay that's kind of what it looks like it's a little hazy lake marion there at 11 o'clock beautiful and then down at uh 10 o'clock low there's the range complex you see the big circle yes and the four uh strafe rags i was talking about yes and then back at your eight o'clock nine o'clock now is uh shawl so slightly different yeah oh wow i don't know that pond was there oh yeah it's oh it's a nice chemical pond standby to rco piper's it's nice and bright green real natural yeah all right so the guy's walking up to the control tower now we'll get handed off him in a minute and then we'll start getting ready to go oh man giddy up be kind of nice fair enough this is nice yeah this is this is kind of what this is this is kind of what the profile will be like just different okay just more violence so now i'm just staying inside the gray lines there on the left-hand screen but really i'm just looking outside and kind of i use that as my geographic reference as far as how far away to get and where to fly from all right happy new year one and you cleared all right you ready to do this okay let's do it pull a few g's forgotten country all right so we're just kind of pretending like we're tipping in here behind the crowd gonna surprise him we'll pull a few g's as we accelerate out here there's uh 500 knots 560. you ready to pull some cheese okay all right here we go all right 9.1 welcome to the 9g club how are you feeling my mask is slipping i'm going to tighten it okay sounds good push those bayonets up let me know when you're ready okay ready ready yep all right here comes the cuban eight here comes some g's all right g's are easing off gonna catch your breath we're gonna hang upside down for a second i like upside down all right well we got more of that coming you're ready was that the figure eight thing that was yeah there's the afterburner going back in and we've got some cheese here we go good money all right we're gonna do a triple roll now maybe an extra one or two all right getting a little bit of air speed here ready to start rolling that's wrong all right here we go two three four five we're stopping all right how are you doing good money money all right min radius turn do a little bit of air speed here we'll be turning left and then we're gonna hang upside down since you're a fan of that ready g is coming left here we go [Applause] and we're floating it and hanging upside down a little bit how about that and we're rolling left yep how are you doing i'm in the night all right get a little air speed and catch a breath here four point rolls what we're doing next some four ninety degree turns all right get ready to wait for the crown ready ready here we go one two gotta hang upside down and wave everyone bye long time hanging upside down when rob sees this he's gonna be really proud of you still upside down all right rolling out enough of that stuff all right how are you doing good awesome all right next up is the falcon turn some few g's and then we're gonna slow it down can we do two seconds before we turn yep okay you just tell me when you're ready i'm ready all right g's coming left here we go few more g's all right you still like hanging upside down yeah all right money money there's a bug in here there's been worse so that's not too bad all right roll we'll slow this thing down good time to catch your breath perfect i see why it's important to empty your bladder before you do it that's what i needed a second before because i was like oh it'd definitely be painful [Applause] like flying slow but if you look out to your left or right kind of get a sense just of how slow we're going about 100 knots across the ground which is pretty slow for an f16 the cool part is doing this and then we can just climb up and up and up and up and we're accelerating all right we're gonna roll here and guess what hang upside down again yay rolling all the way around from the left ready ready roll and lift all right next up we got the knife edge i forgot what that was but let's do it your head might hit the canopy you ready okay here we go all right wait for the crowd here we go jeez all right g's reason off next up is a dedication pass oh dear giddy up how you feeling good money well you hit 9.3 so let's see if we can beat that dedication pass is only 15 seconds yeah give or take okay i mean if you go to sleep and you won't feel the pain right i'm kidding all right here we go g is coming left that was it yep 9.5 you want to do it again no fair enough how about we drop down low and go fast yeah let's do a pass all right nice that's 600 knots about 700 miles an hour if they do this we're going to pull some more cheese and we're going to go straight up sound good prepare for jesus yeah in just a second okay we'll go wake up all my neighbors first all right geez and we're gonna roll a little bit all right 1000 feet to 15 000 feet pretty quick how you feeling i'm mostly good mostly good do you want to fly some um can we do some like just looking around we can do some looking around if you want i don't ever get to be up here so yeah screw it down low and go fast one more time then go back to the pattern we go back to the pattern uh completely up to you sure you want to drop down low then head back sure listen this was awesome hey i'm glad you enjoyed it this was really cool the best part is you saying that was it to 9.5 g's i i think i worked myself up points at five zero one thank you all right let's go fast i understand direct initial if i can go direct inside downwind that'd be great it's a fuel warning i set just to give me uh awareness where our stat you know where we're at that way we don't run out of gas that'd be awkward real awkward yeah we don't want that yeah hard pass we're gonna head over this way and hopefully those guys are drinking coffee and close the tower the only thing i don't like is what it makes my elbows feel like are you are you having all the towel racks like up on the rear oh look at those little airplanes yeah so down there say hello to them invite for when you're ready to park contact shawl channel four cyber over the floor we'll see em so if i pursue once with you inside points in five zero one shot departure i didn't stay replaced that viper has shown sight light to go direct to the field south of shaw northeast town viper one a firm one radar contact receive direct initial report from sean sean [Music] oh wow you're really slowing down yeah it's a lot different we're still going 220 knots this is about 250 miles an hour drivers left base gear low approach two two right five zero one runway two two right wind two two zero at one three guess one eight cleared lower uh yep yeah right down there what's up cows yeah just chilling out larger one is clear and low production right hey this is a different perspective it's pretty out here i like it yeah it's kind of it's real hazy like clearly this you can't really beat this type of day for flying that's for sure still blue sky day for us so yeah now today is pretty awesome just being real needy that's all i am altitude altitude bingo i preserve one request closed five zero one right close shy from through four base runway two two right five that looks like the med group right there the shiny one yeah [Laughter] we got enough gas to go around one more time if you want to do it sure okay cool [Music] [Laughter] maybe even two runway two two right wind two one zero at one four guess one eight foot low approach five percent one's approach yeah so right here we're going 180 knots by the end of the runway we'll probably be doing about 380 400 or so so it's a big speed difference try to worry about our friends again yeah they'll get huge brownie points [Music] all right wave at these guys taxi enough double down yeah double down all the gamblers taxing out altitude altitude line request closed zero one make right close traffic based runway two two right for the right yep that's definitely it do you all live on base now we're office actually flew over it yeah we're probably like 15 minutes like doors four ship requests cross two to write it off runway two two right wind two three zero at one three gusts one eight cleared low approach all right brazil wants clear low approach right yeah so definitely throw the devil down to these guys whiskey here they're jets for a fight [Music] crossing our way to too right bingo bingo all right it's time it's time now well thank you that was awesome why would you do it that was awesome i'm so excited right now you did a pretty aggressive profile too so it's pretty awesome thank you yeah i'm glad we could do it i think those boys just didn't know how tough i was no we're giving you credit no one's right base gear stop gt right five zero one runway two two right win two four zero at one one guess one eight cleared to land five one scooter land t2 right it's always a sign when we come back from the pattern if we're going around and around then they knew because if you didn't do well it's one to a full stop ah all right down three green we're clearly in teaching right what do they grow here do you know i'm not sure what that is i know a lot of there's a lot of cotton fields around here but i don't know what that is off to the right it's definitely really green yeah looks cool the patterns yeah just different perspective [Music] all right welcome back man oh man that was neat your job is awesome there's worse things to be doing that's for sure i'll take it [Music] all right i'll make sure the little breaks work boom all right you go ahead save your seat oh yes okay safe um that's the yellow handle thing right it is just behind your left knee yeah i did that one and then uh if you go and snow all your loose items when we get under the sun shade i'll crack the canopy so we get a little bit airflow i don't think i have any loose items okay just in case you brought a book or something like that to read that i didn't know about that would have been funny this is so boring right now during the turn that would be pretty epic i couldn't lift my arms up i tried [Music] that was my g-meter in the back seat see how high i could hold my arms up [Applause] it's quite painful it's a good workout yeah no kidding i like on a warm day like if i do a demo i burn anywhere from like 300 to 600 calories oh wow that's pretty good yeah that's a good little workout [Music] but you know that counteracts something all right i don't have to run today so that's nice well actually the air is working now it feels nice it feels i'm not uncomfortable yeah my air like just started working up front it's glorious

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Id: w14zGmFtHO4

Length: 24min 40sec (1480 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 25 2021