OK BGG, that's part one answered :ok: - any chance of the rest? ;)

Impressive... but I don't think they would allow that type of display these days...

Hear's another Fat Albert display from the Blue Angels

That Blue Angels clip is simply....well, I suppose charitably you could merely say, 'so American'...

What sort of utter wanquerre states "Let's go fly" in response to a call of 'Vmca?

As for that ar$e with his continuous hyped-up commentary....:mad: Do they really need all that intercom yak ("I'm outside") to fly such a very simple display?

In any case, I suspect that most spectators were probably bored fartless after the first minute or so....

"Oo-rah....:\"

Hmmm, in addition....

Chuck seems to be slightly lazy with his feet.

The runway centreline needs repainting - it doesn't appear to be coincident with where Chuck is taking-off or landing.

:p

They're all just a warm up act for the Vulcan - or at least any air show where it's appearing :ok:

Based on when they occurred (after bunting) I would say it would have been oil pressure low ACAWS. Flight manual says 7 seconds is the limit of an intentional negative or zero g manoeuvre.

Given that most of them didn't occur under sustained (or even any) negative G I'd suggest they weren't. I've certainly never seen a low oil pressure acaws whilst bunting. Could have been anything.

Er, no they weren't. Each one was acknowledged with the co making a "continue" call. :hmm: I can guarantee that the cautions were for something phenomenally dull though.

Would 'pie oven over-temp' fall into that category or is that one of the more important cautions?;)

Beags....when you wuz doing the same in the Beverly....did you not do much the same?

SASless - Don't you mean when he was on the Vickers Valentia?

I bet you both, he found throwing the wheel about like that was punishing on the old Wing warping....... :E

Gee...I wuz trying to be polite and talk of the most modern aircraft he flew....not the one he flew the longest part of his career!

Fat Albert display from the Blue Angels
 

Well, I have to fly slightly in the face of popular opinion here. Sorry about this, but I thought the crew coordination was pretty bloomin' good. Yes, they spoke American, but after all they are... ...American. I liked the way responsibility for various parameters was passed between pilot and co and the constant monitoring of everything that was going on. Can't argue with what it might have looked like from the ground, but the cockpit was lively place and guys so focussed on what they were doing. It looked mighty professional and I liked it muchly.

On the other hand, I do have to agree 100% with comments about the Vulcan display. Fast jet man all my life, but at airshows she was the only moster that made the earth shake. Utter power!!!

M2

Beagle slagging off Americans (twice) simply because he can? Who'd have thunk it?!

Glad to see that there are at least a couple of fellow Brits who can offer credit where it's due.

I think I might actually agree with M2 here (just once). An object lesson in crew coordination, as you put it. I've never flown anything with that many people watching me, but I have to say it all looked very slick.

BEags, really sorry here (and I know why you hate it), but I kind of liked the "let's fly". You'd have thrown me out of your jet for that, wouldn't you? :ok:

Actually, just re-watched al the vids on this thread and Mrs C and I are totally in awe of the people that do that stuff in big aircraft. Hats off to the zebras!

The thing is Courtney, old horseman, that in an aircraft operating to Scheduled Performance criteria all intercom calls during the take-off roll must be standard and only essential calls should be used...

"Off the peg" is unnecessary - a silent cross check of ASIs reading is all that's required.

"My yoke....your yoke". Well, we'd just call "My controls" and no response was required.

"80 knots" - happy with that.

"Vmca"? Well, I don't know why he would need that. Or why he needed to say something as puerile as "Let's go fly" in response. In the VC10 the next call would be "V1", followed by "Rotate". Then "V2" followed by "Landing gear UP"...."Selected" - and nothing else until flap retract at 1500 ft agl apart from the odd radio call.

I didn't hear many checklist items called during the Blues' C-130 performance - and quite why so many height/speed calls were needed for such a simple display, I really don't know. All we would call would be deviations from pre-briefed criteria.

Standing by for incoming from the usual non-ME aircrew keyboard warriors....

Have to agree with that as well.

What, no positive handover BEagle?

Nope, deemed unecessary The 'My Controls' call was only required if the LHS pilot was the handling pilot as at 80KIAS he/she would move his/her hand from the nosewheel steering to the control column, keeping his/her right hand on the thrust levers until the V1 call, whereupon he/she would release full control of engine thrust to the Air Engineer.

The SOP was developed to minimise intercom calls during take-off to only those which were essential.