Fighter Pilot
The Navy Variant of the joint strike fighter.
What is the F-35C?
This platform set to replace the P-3 Orion
What is the P-8 Poseidon?
This is the mission that the helicopters in the video were completing. Helicopters fly from the carrier to the supply ship.
What is ammo-offload?
The number of pilots that actually fly the F-35C
What is about 30?
The mission of the C2-Greyhound
What is logistics?
The number of hours the pilot said he spent flying when describing his day.
How much is 6 hours?
Name three of the general responsibilities of NFOs onboard an aircraft.
What are navigate, communicate, and act as final release control for the weapons?
Pilots have to practice contingency, including how to "dead-stick" the aircraft into a landing field" because of this characteristic of the F-35C
What is a single engine?
This platform is an AW platform, responsible for providing situational awareness for the strike group.
What is the E2-C Hawkeye?
These are the strong-suits of the MH-60 Sierra.
What are surface search and rescue missions and anti-submarine missions?
These are the primary responsibilities of an NFO on an E-2 Hawkeye as stated in the video.
What are navigation, air traffic control?
The biggest challenges people face as fighter pilots.
What are flying in close proximity to others at night, and landing on the aircraft carrier at night?
The primary mission of the P-3 Orion
What is anti-submarine warfare?
These extra parts set the MH-60 Romeo apart from the Sierra.
What are more sensors, radars, and sonobuoys?
Name 4 platforms that Naval Flight Officers can fly.
What are the FA-18 Super Hornets, EA-18 G growlers, P-8 Poseidon, E-2C Hawkeye?
(also the E-6B Mercury, P-3C Orion, EP-3E Aries II, and F/A-18D Hornet for USMC only).
"The thing about the F-18 that separates it"
What is "the ability to do pretty much everything"?
The term used to describe the way that aviators compensate for the big yaw and big P factor of the C-2 Greyhound when making power corrections. Also described as "moving two feet"
What is "riding the bike"?
These three cities were named as the usual bases for Helicopter Squadrons
Where are Norfolk, San Diego, and Jacksonville?
These three characteristics were the final point of the video. According to the narrator, if you can do these, then "you don't need to be the smartest person in the room."
What are having good head on your shoulders, making quick decisions, cooperating in the cockpit.