FPP199 - How to Land an F-35B on the Boat
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Landing an F-35B Lightning aboard a ship at sea is not as simple as pulling alongside and then setting down from a hover. Numerous procedures, policies, and contingencies come into play, which is why it's always a good idea to have a trained LSO monitoring the approach.
U.S. Marine Major Brian "SAK" Kimmins, a former AV-8B-turned F-35B pilot explains the efforts he is undertaking to develop a formal landing signal officer school similar to what Jamboy explained exists for conventional carrier aircraft on episode 178.
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| 0:00.0 | The fighter pilot podcast is sponsored by L3 Harris throughout the month of November as we honor |
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| 0:29.8 | The F-35B community now. |
| 0:31.8 | Originally we kind of hit copy and paste on how we do things around the ship because we were just like, yep, yep, |
| 0:38.0 | both aircraft land vertically and hover, so it should be the same, right? |
| 0:42.0 | And it kind of turns out after a couple deployments now, we're starting to learn a lot |
| 0:46.1 | about the similarities and differences and ways that we can optimize employment of the F-35B |
| 0:51.9 | on the amphibs. |
| 0:53.0 | And so we're changing our qualifications to where if you're a Stoville LSO, you can control |
| 0:59.0 | good weather, bad weather, heavy sea states, com C's, as long as that individual in the cockpit is qualified at the ship. Hello, Hello and |
| 1:23.6 | Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast. |
| 1:26.6 | I am your host Vincent Aiello Callsangello. |
| 1:29.7 | And joining me today in the Circle Air Group Studios |
| 1:31.8 | here at Gillesby Field in San Diego, California |
| 1:34.2 | is Major Brian Kimmins. |
| 1:36.0 | Sack, welcome to the show. |
| 1:37.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:38.1 | Well, we know you're a Marine because I'm wearing red. |
| 1:39.8 | I always do that for you guys. |
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