The thought alone of flying a jet both interests and terrifies me
that wistful "yeah... I miss it too" straight into that hard bank was rad as heck
it's incredible how casual they can talk [I]making an incredibly delicate mid-air move while flying death machines at 600 miles per hour.[/I]
[QUOTE=aznz888;53180446]it's incredible how casual they can talk [I]making an incredibly delicate mid-air move while flying death machines at 600 miles per hour.[/I][/QUOTE]
thats what thousands of hours of practice on both ends will get you
Hell yes. USAF Pilots are one of the chillest pilots you can get out there. They used to do Air-to-Air refueling near where I did my training but I never got the chance to eavesdrop on them since they use UHF for these type of comms.
But once in a rare moon you do get Reach popping in 123.45 which is a chat frequency in our area. The Reach guys are usually C-5 and C-17, but most of the time it a civilian contractor 747 who has just left the Atlantic. (The frequency is used for Air-to-Air over the Atlantic where there's no ground stations)
Really chill ass guys, when not transporting "hot cargo" (I assume) they'd be happy to chat about their flights. The best part is that their radio phraseology is much more casual than what's normal in the region. And I'm ashamed to admit that my own radio style have been heavily influenced by them.
Also interesting considering the boom operators and pilots likely have a significant rank difference. Raptor pilots (technically all pilots in the USAF) are commissioned officers. Raptor pilots in particular are probably fairly seasoned veterans (and I'm guessing that puts them a few tiers above the baseline CO).
Makes me wonder, kc-135 crews are up there for a long time, so do they actually have provisions to cook food or sleep while airborne? Like did he mean that they were going to be making cookies [I]midair on their way home?[/I]
[QUOTE=GunFox;53180555]Also interesting considering the boom operators and pilots likely have a significant rank difference. Raptor pilots (technically all pilots in the USAF) are commissioned officers. Raptor pilots in particular are probably fairly seasoned veterans (and I'm guessing that puts them a few tiers above the baseline CO).[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but at the end of the day they're all humans and they like to converse with one another, nice bit of friendly social interaction is good.
[QUOTE=GunFox;53180555]Also interesting considering the boom operators and pilots likely have a significant rank difference. Raptor pilots (technically all pilots in the USAF) are commissioned officers. Raptor pilots in particular are probably fairly seasoned veterans (and I'm guessing that puts them a few tiers above the baseline CO).[/QUOTE]
judging by the fancy boom these clips are from a kc-46 which isn't in active service yet, just trials/training, so it could be someone a little higher up operating the boom, although definitely not as high up as a raptor pilot.
pilots make their job look so easy
[QUOTE=adam1172;53180513]Hell yes. USAF Pilots are one of the chillest pilots you can get out there. They used to do Air-to-Air refueling near where I did my training but I never got the chance to eavesdrop on them since they use UHF for these type of comms.
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So the reason you can't eavesdrop on these type of things is because it's encrypted comms. Something like this, especially if it's a deployment is something that planned in a weekly basis. So the crypto for the week will be the same,possibly and change during the course of the week or w/e the SOP is. So say if this guy's frequency was 153.3. IF you have VHF or UHF set up, despite you having this frequency all you'll hear is static because their radios are in Cipher Text. Doesn't mean there's other people using the frequency or the possibility or of jumping on it.
Radio shit is fucking bizarre because guys at my unit managed to get into contact with a Spanish operating force, and it was found out that that they had some how shot comm over to Spain. IIRC they had encryption but I guess these guys had the same everything by chance.
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;53180617]So the reason you can't eavesdrop on these type of things is because it's encrypted comms. Something like this, especially if it's a deployment is something that planned in a weekly basis. So the crypto for the week will be the same,possibly and change during the course of the week or w/e the SOP is. So say if this guy's frequency was 153.3. IF you have VHF or UHF set up, despite you having this frequency all you'll hear is static because their radios are in Cipher Text. Doesn't mean there's other people using the frequency or the possibility or of jumping on it.
Radio shit is fucking bizarre because guys at my unit managed to get into contact with a Spanish operating force, and it was found out that that they had some how shot comm over to Spain. IIRC they had encryption but I guess these guys had the same everything by chance.[/QUOTE]
Oh yea forgot about the encryption in comms. Well either way I never bothered trying to listen on because our little inferior civvie planes don't have UHF anyway.
Funny you mentioned Spain. I did my training well close to Rota and because both bases there are technically Spanish the ATC was operated by the Spanish. There was one time where ATC just went "Reach xxxx, military command asked me if you're carrying any VIP or Hot Cargo?" because they were about to use him as target for interception practice. I guess the Encrypted Comms are only used for hush-hush/operational stuff but to me that was weird as fuck since ATC was asking on Seville South frequency.
[QUOTE=adam1172;53180513]Hell yes. USAF Pilots are one of the chillest pilots you can get out there. They used to do Air-to-Air refueling near where I did my training but I never got the chance to eavesdrop on them since they use UHF for these type of comms.
But once in a rare moon you do get Reach popping in 123.45 which is a chat frequency in our area. The Reach guys are usually C-5 and C-17, but most of the time it a civilian contractor 747 who has just left the Atlantic. (The frequency is used for Air-to-Air over the Atlantic where there's no ground stations)
Really chill ass guys, when not transporting "hot cargo" (I assume) they'd be happy to chat about their flights. The best part is that their radio phraseology is much more casual than what's normal in the region. And I'm ashamed to admit that my own radio style have been heavily influenced by them.[/QUOTE]
Haha! I never would've figured military would use fingers
[QUOTE=Citrus705;53180614]pilots make their job look so easy[/QUOTE]
reminds me of my dad
he flew fighter jets when he was in the navy (he's an airline pilot now)
and he fell asleep on a roller coaster once
and after the ride he told me how it was nothing compared to what he had when he was in navy
Was that boom operator talking about baking cookies [I]on board??[/I]
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;53181106]Was that boom operator talking about baking cookies [I]on board??[/I][/QUOTE]
It’s not science fiction, it’s what we do every day
[QUOTE=NuclearAnnhilation;53181358]It’s not science fiction, it’s what we do every day[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but you wouldn't suspect there to be cooking facilities on board, at least, I wouldn't. But then again, I have no idea how long Stratotankers are up in the air for.
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