Fight's On! Honing the Craft

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 217 minutes

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Summary

“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. Hosts’ stories will illustrate these while also demonstrating the evolution of technology that have increased (or sometimes hurt) capability and situational awareness.

Fight’s On! is an eight-episode series about combat aviation training focusing on how the U.S. takes newly minted (warrant) officers and molds them into combat aviators able to fight and win in today’s high-tech battlespace.

Told through the stories and experiences of U.S. 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.

Fight's On! is a production of Authentic Media in association with BVR Productions.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Fightson is produced with commercial consideration from Kubik Corporation. Since 1972, Kubik's
0:06.8	ACMI has been a cornerstone of air combat range instrumentation. Kubik's LVC will expand
0:13.0	that capability into the future across multi-domain operations, truth in training, Kubik
0:19.0	LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
0:24.0	Welcome back to Fightson. We've made it through the discussion of flight school for the Army,
0:28.6	Navy and Air Force, and hopefully you've picked up the basics of what it takes to be a military
0:32.7	pilot. But just as it is for newly minted aviators, this isn't the end, but rather the beginning
0:38.7	of your journey. With your newfound knowledge, we're going to move on to honing the craft
0:43.2	of flying and fighting high-performance fighters. Returning to represent the Air Force and
0:48.2	tell us about the B-school training in the F-16 is Brian Rainwater's, and after that we'll
0:53.7	sit down with Navy pilot Craig Krunch Schneider and Rio Ward-Much Carroll about learning
0:59.6	to tame the F-14 Tomcat in the Navy's fleet replacement squadrons. It's a lot of information,
1:05.9	and you'll be drinking from the firehose, just like new aviators. So to help out a bit,
1:10.7	I've switched up the format and broken the episode down into three individual interviews,
1:15.7	each about an hour long so you can take a break in between. Stand by because the Fightson.
1:24.7	And so the way to defeat a Doppler radar is to get in what's called the Doppler notch.
1:30.7	Now you're starting at the merge, emerging more than about a thousand knots of closure,
1:38.7	trying to figure out how do you get into a weapon to get into and kill this other guy.
1:45.7	Let's say you're a hundred feet from somebody and hit them with the machine gun.
1:49.7	There's pieces that are coming off that airplane that are going down your range, and that's a problem.
1:52.7	The aggressor's turning, entering the airspace at this time.
1:57.7	Resurrection in the combat spread.
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