The fighter pilot podcast series#

Hosts’ stories will illustrate these while also demonstrating the evolution of technology that have increased (or sometimes hurt) capability and situational awareness. “Honing the Craft” will give the listener a basic understanding of the tactics and terminology of air combat terminology such as BFM, CAS, One-Circle vs Two-Circle Fight and others, while also introducing the importance and roles of formations, wingmen, and flight leads. This episode also introduces the limitations of physical ranges due to high speeds and long ranges of modern aircraft, sensors, and weapons. Listeners will hear about the evolution of BFM and air superiority as technology changed from guns to first generation missiles through today’s high off-boresight weapons. This episode explores the world of post-graduate fighter training through the lens of the Air Force Weapons School. Host stories and experiences explain the concept and need for DACT and OPFOR while also discussing the changes over time in potential enemy aircraft, the surface-to-air threat, and our own Aggressor/Adversary aircraft including the declining ability of traditional Aggressor aircraft to model modern threats. “The Threat” describes the nature of America’s aerial adversaries and how we simulate them. Host and panel stories illustrate the objectives and processes of these events as they have evolved over time as well as further demonstrate the limitations of exclusively physical training ranges and expense of flight hours both in monetary and airframe costs. “Putting it All Together” takes concepts from the preceding episodes and explains large scale exercises, introducing assets beyond fighters and even beyond aviation assets to train for modern multi-domain joint operations in settings such as Air Wing Fallon, Red Flag, and the Army’s NTC and JRTC. military aviators in their own voices, Fight’s On! takes the listener on the journey of combat aviators from Initial flight training through advanced tactical training and multi-unit exercises, ultimately describing the current and near future systems and programs that will ensure American air dominance into the future.įight's On! is a production of Authentic Media in association with BVR Productions. Told through the stories and experiences of U.S. takes newly minted (warrant) officers and molds them into combat aviators able to fight and win in today’s high-tech battlespace.

The fighter pilot podcast series#

The episode and series will culminate with an unclassified description of LVC: what it is and how it works how it mitigates the challenges discussed previously and discussing how LVC not only provides better training, but that better training means all-live flight time is more profitably used.įight’s On! is an eight-episode series about combat aviation training focusing on how the U.S.

Topics will include datalinks and platform interoperability, low observable technology, space- and cyber-warfare in air combat, and the evolution of modeling technology. “The Future” will tell the listener about new technologies in use and on the horizon that will better train the warfighter in combating 5 th Gen threats as well as better modeling joint interoperability. Bumper music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell. Learn more about the Raytheon Missiles & Defense Joint Strike Missile here.Įpisode artwork by Janek Krause. Listener questions addressed on this episode include Navy flight school selection tracks, A/A training kill removal, flight callsigns, unique aircraft personalities, tips to succeed in flight school, and the lowdown on the F-22 pilot who raised his landing gear too early while operating in NAS Fallon, NV with a TOPGUN callsign. Navy Captain Dan 'O.J.' Catlin joins FPP cohost Matt 'Flounder' Arny to discuss the precision landing mode, once known as MAGIC CARPET, that revolutionizes fixed-wing aircraft carrier landings to the point of nearly making them routine. Navy is exploring doing away with carrier qualifications as the capstone of a student naval aviator's training for the first time in history. But with recent technological advancements comes a system that so simplifies and improves the safety of these landings that the U.S. Turn out the lights and add some ocean swell and these landings are downright treacherous.

Aircraft carrier landings are generally regarded as one of the most difficult-and dangerous-activities performed in an airplane.