Google Prowler videos

[Pugs]

All,
Wonder how long this type of thing will get to be posted in Google before someone steps in? Takes me back though, looks like some VR-1351 or 1350 footage and a bit of FACIT in the Okanagan MOA maybe?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=861169457856744127&q=Prowler

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6196440102245782337

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7057886897793589688

 

[Gatordev]

So other than the dude not wearing his required gear, what's the issue w/ the footage? Not trying to be a smartass, just curious, as maybe I'm missing some secret squirrel piece of the puzzle.

I've got some flying footage that shouldn't be posted online for many years, but I'm not seeing the same type of "fun" being had.

 

[Fly Navy]

I'm missing some secret squirrel piece of the puzzle.

I love this phrase

I too am wondering what the problem is?

 

[SteveG75]

Video was taken by misshipman so I doubt they had the back seat turned on.

For the non-Prowler bubba's, the backseat displays are classified when turned on. Can't see it well enough to tell what they had up.

 

[Pugs]

I'm not saying that I find anything wrong with it but that does not mean that when some ADM thats a technical Luddite sees it pointed out by his teenage son that he might overreact. in my experience they've been known to do that over the most minor of things. FWIW you can get glimpse of a DDI but it appears to be the GEO display which, even if you could see everything gives up nothing.

 

[Brett327]

For the non-Prowler bubba's, the backseat displays are classified when turned on.

I wouldn't go quite that far. I don't see anything wrong w/ the video. It's pretty benign really.

Now, Marine Prowler vs. gondola? That's a video I want to see.

Brett

 

[Gatordev]

Copy all.

 

[macattack]

Now, Marine Prowler vs. gondola? That's a video I want to see.

Brett

Ouch. Low blow.

 

[nittany03]

So other than the dude not wearing his required gear, what's the issue w/ the footage?

For some reason they never issue mids or stash Ensigns gloves for their backseat rides . . .

 

[NavyLonghorn]

Apparently their is a video floating around of two kids in the back seat of a C-12 while on their Air Nav solo.

"Hey.. if you're back here, and Im back here, then whos flying the airplane!?! Zoom forward to empty cockpit"

Now thats something a little more on the retarded side. I havent seen it, so, could be BS.

 

[Brett327]

Apparently their is a video floating around of two kids in the back seat of a C-12 while on their Air Nav solo.

"Hey.. if you're back here, and Im back here, then whos flying the airplane!?! Zoom forward to empty cockpit"

Now thats something a little more on the retarded side. I havent seen it, so, could be BS.

Yeah, that would have been really funny if the AFCS had kicked off or gone haywire, pinning those two A-holes in back while their plane smashes into an elementary school. There's funny, then there's just plain stupid.

Brett

 

[NavyLonghorn]

if the autopilot failed, the airplane would be trimmed well enough to probably continue straight and level.

If the electric trim malfunctioned..could be bad.

I dont think the System woul allow for something immediately catostrophic, but. still an incredibly retarded thing if its true.

 

[Gatordev]

For some reason they never issue mids or stash Ensigns gloves for their backseat rides . . .

True. I can't remember if I had them for my F-14 ride.

 

[A4sForever]

For some reason they never issue mids or stash Ensigns gloves for their backseat rides . . .

I'd have been more than happy to give 'em mine ....

 

[MIDNJAC]

if the autopilot failed, the airplane would be trimmed well enough to probably continue straight and level.

If the electric trim malfunctioned..could be bad.

I dont think the System woul allow for something immediately catostrophic, but. still an incredibly retarded thing if its true.

what about a runaway attitude control on the autopilot......its happened to me before (not in a government aircraft). If I hadn't been quick to pull the breaker and shut it down (for example not in the cockpit), we would have certainly exceeded critical AoA and had a bad ride (I hear T-tails don't spin well)......I'm sure the chances of this are pretty minimal however, but I don't think its wise to risk it. Then add the risk of a midair, which is often a possibility

**Edit...I reread the second line of your post**