All the work you put in to this as an instructor is paying off right here! Flight deck ops have got to be near the end of their training and by the looks of these guys your training has been well done! Thanks for sharing this!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

@kiwidiesel

4 ай бұрын

Lets not forget the fact that at this point in their flying if they screw the pooch you are not going along for the ride😂

That sense of elation at passing your carrier qualification must be one of the most rewarding feelings those students will feel in their lifetime!

@Jyard

4 ай бұрын

Yes, got part of the quals done, but, it still gets dark out, with not much light on the deck.

@firefly510

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Been there, done that - 1966 Lexington

@Jyard

4 ай бұрын

Yep, been on the Lexington, probably in 72. Like O’Hare, only props taking off and landing. Fun to watch from up in the island cat walk.

This is amazing, it's like we are right on deck watching all the action, I was on edge rooting for the students to get a good trap, Pail thank you for putting so much into this and all your Jams, Polly!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Cheers!

I love the slight nod of approval from the officer at 3:30. Like he's watching his kid catch a line drive :P

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Yeah…saw that too.

Watching these various touch-and-go's with the landings from the LSO deck is just such a cool perspective! Excellent!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

For a long time, I was mad at the Navy for not allowing the deaf people in service, As I got older I started to appreciate the wisdom for not allowing the deaf people in service. It's simply a very dangerous job, especially on the deck. I thought my ASL skills would translate into doing the work on the deck. That's not the case, especially on the carrier. The best I can do is to thank all the sailors and the solders for the service and tell them thank you for allowing me to be an American. Thank you for protecting us all.

@steveanderson9290

9 ай бұрын

You offered to serve. That's as good as doing it in my book.

I wish that I was in one of those T-45's! Great video Pail! As always FLY NAVY!⚓✈️⚓

Sounds breezy and looks it. Have a nice day. Stay positive and best wishes to all students.

Awesome flight deck video Instructor Pail. Love those T45's ... Memories of times long ago. Thank you for being such a rock and inspiration to our new fighter pilots. Please stay safe!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Go Navy Thank you Navy and thank you instructors and most importantly THANK YOU to all that are involved in these operations. I feel like documentation like this is important to show what a day at the "office" is like. I love it

Dang right that is the truth!! Yet we have faith and confidence that those nuggets will learn quickly and learn right as they gain experience.

Just so good! Really enjoyed watching this!

I can literally watch hours of this. It's amazing to just watch the touch and go's to see what wire they'd hit and then to see them in the pattern, and then Land, oh and the launches!!!!!! I feel like a kid!!!! Watched a few times already to see what else I can notice. Thank you!!!!❤❤❤

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Cheers!

I’m a Air Force brat I was born and raised in the Air Force tell my dad retired in 1976. I was 16 my dad did maintenance on them airplanes engines and raised me up on them and I always love the military life. Keep these videos go on their great.

Again, thank you as always, the view from the deck to the view in the cockpit are fantastic.

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Absolutely excellent video. You are filling a huge void documenting the supposedly mundane aspects of flight ops, the very stuff that makes it all possible. Thanks to you and everybody on that deck (and everybody up the chain) that allows you to do this. I am honored to have been a tiny part of that team (back before you were born...lol). Keep 'em comin'! Fly Navy!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Fly Navy!

There's a great video out there in KZread land that shows the CQ process in excruciating detail for some C-2A drivers. The stress is through the roof for those young aviators trying to get CQ'd. This was awesome content, really enjoy the perspective of an LSO.

Another awesome video. What a way to spend your days!

Sir..all i can say is thank you..for these great videos..your sense of humor..and of course..your Service to this great Nation..

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

I loved watching this. Since I know very little about what was going on, I missed your commentary, it is very educational. Still, I loved watching this.

Another great video. I could watch this all day.

You earn your pay gentlemen. Thank you for serving our country. You make us PROUD! Aviation enthusiasts sincerely appreciate these videos. Being able to experience a small slice of carrier life is fascinating.

That’s definitely where the rubber meets the road. Awesome video.

Very cool. I am always fascinated about carrier deck operations.

I enjoyed this video. It never ceases to amaze me to watch an aircraft coming to a full stop in less than a football field. Keep these videos coming. And as an added bonus loved seeing future Marine pilots making the traps. Semper Fi!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Semper Fi!

Amazing work, Brandon! Thanks again for sharing this

Thanks a lot to you and your Crew,with riscing your lifes every day, to keep the free world together. Greets from Germany

Ahhh yes, another great Pail video to make my 0330 Monday morning coffee tolerable. Thanks for the extra effort that you put into these for us, and as always FLY NAVY!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Fly Navy!

I always thought that the LSO's on the backend had some fun, and it looked like a chat box, until I looked closely, on another channel they weren't chatting at all, but reviewing every step until the landing, extraordinary. I live in Belgium, and we don't have that kind of aviation, so it's always great to see these videos. Because I want to know more about working on a carrier, thank you very much to take your time for this great content. Keep safe and keep up the good work, greetings from Belgium.

@jeffbrooks8024

4 ай бұрын

Note…the LSO’s are being assessed too. From my understanding the “LSO” is the guy with “PADDLES” written on his back.

What an amazing POV!

Growler I love to be aboard watching the T-45 carrier qualifications

After my experience of 30 years backing up in my drive I can testify that this isn't an easy task. Hat's off, aviators!

Good fun trying to guess which wire would get caught on each pass. Love this.

Can’t wait for the breakdown video. So many questions!

I loved being a Shooter for VT carrier quals...an awesome mix of excitement, anxiety, accomplishment, and exhaustion. The dirty shirt was never more fun for me than during those ops.

Don’t know how I missed this one! Great footage Pail! Love seeing the future fleet aviators!

i salute you guys that takes so much skill.......i remember vietnam stories about the pilots being more scared of the carrier landing than the anti aircraft weapons

Wow , Newbees in training... never saw that...Thanks for sharing... me like very much 😊

Glad to see CQ on the T45 is still required to wing. I guess I had been under the impression that with PLM on the F-18 and F-35 that new pilots wouldn't see the boat until the RAG/FRS

Operations on the deck kinda puts everything else in life into perspective. 🇺🇸⚓️

So proud of these future pilots. I can imagine you standing there feeling both proud and a bit anxious for them lol.

Love it! Brings back memories as an instructor at VMFAT-101 in the carrier pipeline

@GrowlerJams

Ай бұрын

💪🏻

Love the videos, but please add more videos like this. Thank you for your service.

I love your videos. Just awesome. (And for those not paying attention, the two bolters were by the same guy, and the last trap of the video was him making it.)

@tiladx

9 ай бұрын

Not a good way to start your Naval Aviation career.

@Jimmythefish577

9 ай бұрын

@@tiladxbut he did it, I’d say fighting through the stress of two missed traps and nailing on the 3rd shows a good strength of character.

@rickwilliamson9248

9 ай бұрын

You've got better eyes than I have. I could only make out the number on the one parked closest to the platform.

@mary_mildred

9 ай бұрын

One down, nine to go.

@akiko009

9 ай бұрын

@@Jimmythefish577 Agreed.

Very nice! Thanks for putting this on the channel...!

Dang! I miss the Navy SO much! Thanks for the viddy. 😊🤙🏼

A great and marvellous vidéo !!! thanks !!!! 😃😁🤩👋👋👍👍👍👍!!!... take care of you and fly safe ...

Dang, I was thinking 14B were the wave off back to shore...but glad they finally got the 3 wire. Awesome footage!

When I lived in Pensacola, FL (actually Gulf Breeze, FL) I use to love watching the USS Lexington, when it was used as a trainer, as it head out to the Gulf.

That was interesting. Thank You, Sir.

💗 bellissimo ! grazie pail 🤙✈

Thanks for the work out there...Fly Navy!

Great video Pail! I'm thinking about becoming a Naval Aviator in retirement. Gonna need some waivers. Could totally hit the three wire every time. You guys are cool!

Love it! God bless them all! 🇺🇸

Thank you for your service.

Thanks to all those willing to risk their lives every day to protect us. No doubt, they are the best among us. Thank you!

Just amazing dude ! Thank you so much !!

Phenomenal content! Thanks Pail!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks Pail! ❤ Would love a video on LSO terminology and voice inflections. Perhaps a part two in the series of grading. ~Juice

@GrowlerJams

2 ай бұрын

I’ve got another video ready to go that is something like that. I’m not an LSO, so I can’t dig into the nitty gritty, but I do cover grades and communication among the LSOs on the flight deck.

i was at the airport these aircraft were operating from Cecil Airport. To see the carrier operations that the same aircraft I fueled is really cool.

Thank you all for your service and sacrifice.

Met some F-4 pilots on R&R at our unit docked at Alpha Docks P.H. during the Viet Nam thing .....Best trained pilots in the world for sure !............. GO NAVY. HCU-1 Pearl '71-'72

Love the videos. I know it would be long but I’d love to see one of these videos with a voice over of what everyone is doing and what happened with the misses.

You can almost tell by their height over the fantail whether they'll catch a wire or need to bolter. Very interesting stuff - thank you again, Growler Jams!!!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Very true!

This is so cool! My wife is 3MC on the GW! I remember when you did this. I was the Ombudsman to The Gw! The CPT of the GW. Is one of the best CPT’s I have ever met! The whole triad rock’s actually! Super Cool! Fly Navy!!

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Fly Navy!

Thx for these great videos man. Awesome :)

Nice video nice jam

Ah, memories! Thanks for the nostalgia hit, Pail! BZ

@GrowlerJams

7 ай бұрын

Cheers!

Not a pilot, nor ever been on a carrier. My country (NZ) barely has a navy (a few ANZAC class frigates, patrol boats, and support vessels) and no strike capability in our airforce. Mind you, our entire country's arned forces are smaller than NYPD! I've worked as a medic/pararescue in both fixed and rotarwing and on ships/oil rigs, so I've really enjoyed watching the complex safety systems these carriers have with airops. Watching your taxi videos, all the hand signals they use, its a fantastic example of how incredibly complex that environment is, and yet despite all the modern technology, you guys use simplicity at scale and are masters at it. The USN no doubt learnt hard lessons paid in blood since carriers were developed, and why use complexity when simplicity, like hand signals to taxi around what must be the world's most dangerous airport, or 3 green or red lights to get you landed safely works. I teach CRM (for resuscitation/emergency medicine teams) now. My profession could learn a lot from things like the different coloured shirts people wear to designate roles/responsibilities, the intensity of training and seeking of proximity to perfection, the seeming ample human resource at the pointy end and the C2 aspects of synchronising the complex operations safely.Thank youu for taking the time to record and post this, I doubt you would have thought it could have an impact on other high-stakes fields, but it does. Kia Kaha!

Epic as always.

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Cheers!

APG-65 and 73 tech here. One of my RAAF ENGO mates got to go do carrier work on an exchange. Was very jealous

It’s pretty awesome the Navy has their student pilots do some touch and goes on a carrier deck I can’t even imagine the pride the crew feels seeing future pilots do this

Missed your excellent commentary.

That was awesome

Excellent! 🙂👌

As professional aviator, one never stops learning. Look at all those professional pilots learning to be LSOs. Now back to my WINGS programs.

Great stuff Pail thanks!!

@GrowlerJams

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Beleza! Show de arremetidas de caça! Abraços

Would love to see a video from start to finish of selection to training to selection (again) to the T-45 and finally to the grolwer/hornet

Everyday tasks on a US Carrier. So impressive, these people are making extraordinary feat appear normal. God bless them. They are the best of us.

This is so freaking cool, thank you for sharing; These men and women are BADASS

As a UK citizen, it seems really weird to see “Hawks” on a carrier! Thanks for another cracking video!

@a320nick

6 ай бұрын

You answered my question....... are they actually hawks?

@georgeperalta936

6 ай бұрын

@@a320nick "Goshawks" Specially modified to be a carrier trainer instead of a land-based one. McDonnell Douglas and BAE teamed up in the 90's to make it. Cool bit of kit!

@anthonywilson4873

4 ай бұрын

It’s a Hawk modified for US Trainer work built by Boeing, I first saw a Goshawk at an Oceana air display Norfolk Virginia. Spotted it Hawk shape straight away. Cool air show had a C130 with JATO hostage rescue package. It looked like a space shuttle take off.

Part of something big; f-ing awesome.

Could watch this for hours... Just the kind of video most of us wanna see. Real footage!!

Interesting video. I like the raw but it would be cool to have some of your expert commentary mixed in as well. Like explaining the rotation of LSOs and other tasks being performed. Thanks for sharing. Cool stuff.

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Stay tuned.

I do this everyday....on Oculus VR. Thanks for sharing!

Former yellow shirt here and man this bring back memories

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Cheers!

I was a T-45C IP with TW2, 2010-2013. I miss those days, the 45 was fun to fly, especially at the boat.

Love our Vets. Go NAVY 🇺🇸

Let it be said, our reputation may not be the best at the moment, BUT YOU GUYS ARE. May your Wing never let you down. You guys rock!!!

My wife and I are Enjoying the videos , You are doing a high quality job with putting these together and instructing viewers like me as if we are in the back seat of your jet. you have motivated me to watch top gun 1 and 2 this weekend. Thanks you for your channel and your service sir.

@GrowlerJams

19 күн бұрын

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In the RAF we called this circuit and bumps. Take off land take off land etc. Instructors would watch everything. Great fun. 😅😅😅😅

thank you for sharing this

Have a really good beer...or two. I really enjoy your videos.

@GrowlerJams

9 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Amazing stuff…..Thanks….I was hoping you guys would beat ND..😢

I'll never forget that racket. Four years on the FID.

These new pilots hit the jackpot. They're getting a multi-million dollar education. T45 operating cost is $10,000 per hour. That doesn't even figure in what their initial training aircraft cost or the next advanced aircraft they will fly from here. Jackpot. Congratulations. You earned it

The sparse fight deck felt odd . One day while at Pearl base recycling they sent us to the far side of Ford island because we had a Sea Bee equip oper . We get over there and they have a SLBM hanging from a crane over an Ohio class . I look around and there's small groups of 3 or 4 people - diver dudes , kaki guys , a couple Marines - a dozen ? no more than 20 total people hanging out . I'm thinking I'm as close to the power of Armageddon as I'll ever be and not only isn't there a company of Marines with tanks for security no one seems to care - that felt odd also .

Awesome. Feels like we are right there on the ship

So touch and go training. Done that myself.