Fredbob711
Pre-takeoff checklist
You see Navy squadrons posting videos pretty regularly, but I don't remember seeing many Air Force videos so here you go.
The F-15 was always my favorite military jet growing up. Helped that it was built by a hometown company I guess. Hope they find some way to keep the production line going once they're done with the jets for Saudia Arabia.
https://youtu.be/zD8BedEHpB8
Funny story about the F-15SA (don't remember posting this before but apologies if I did), I got to go on a tour of the Boeing plant here with one of the DoD test pilots working with Boeing. He's actually an F-18 pilot, and had some 'nice' things to say about Air Force jets and how fragile they are.
Anyway, we get to the part of the tour where they have the finished or mostly finished jets staged. As he's an F-18 pilot we walked past the entire production line for the F-18s and got to see them in various stages of construction/assembly. So this is the first time we're seeing completely assembled aircraft. So we spend some time looking around a finished F-18 (mght have been an EA-18G actually) but my eyes kept straying over to the other side of the building where the F-15SA's were parked. After a while we went to that side of the plant and he had a story to tell us about a feature the Saudis had asked for in their jets. So apparently since most, if not all, of their fighter pilots come from the royal family, they're not used to having to work for stuff. So when they come to the U.S. for training, they're pretty laid back about it and really don't care about perfecting what they learn. I guess at least recognizing this, Saudi Arabia asked for an extra button to placed in the cockpit. If the pilot gets lost, or into a situation they don't know how to get out of, they hit that button and the autopilot will engage and fly them back to their home base. Yes, the F-15SA has an 'Easy Button'.
I just found that very amusing, not sure if anyone else will.
The F-15 was always my favorite military jet growing up. Helped that it was built by a hometown company I guess. Hope they find some way to keep the production line going once they're done with the jets for Saudia Arabia.
https://youtu.be/zD8BedEHpB8
Funny story about the F-15SA (don't remember posting this before but apologies if I did), I got to go on a tour of the Boeing plant here with one of the DoD test pilots working with Boeing. He's actually an F-18 pilot, and had some 'nice' things to say about Air Force jets and how fragile they are.
Anyway, we get to the part of the tour where they have the finished or mostly finished jets staged. As he's an F-18 pilot we walked past the entire production line for the F-18s and got to see them in various stages of construction/assembly. So this is the first time we're seeing completely assembled aircraft. So we spend some time looking around a finished F-18 (mght have been an EA-18G actually) but my eyes kept straying over to the other side of the building where the F-15SA's were parked. After a while we went to that side of the plant and he had a story to tell us about a feature the Saudis had asked for in their jets. So apparently since most, if not all, of their fighter pilots come from the royal family, they're not used to having to work for stuff. So when they come to the U.S. for training, they're pretty laid back about it and really don't care about perfecting what they learn. I guess at least recognizing this, Saudi Arabia asked for an extra button to placed in the cockpit. If the pilot gets lost, or into a situation they don't know how to get out of, they hit that button and the autopilot will engage and fly them back to their home base. Yes, the F-15SA has an 'Easy Button'.I just found that very amusing, not sure if anyone else will.
