VT-9 Birdstrike with Pilot Summary (T-45 Goshawk)
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The aircraft is a T-45 Goshawk trainer.
Once again this is a fine example of if life gives you lemons; you make lemonade. I think this shows that the military often studies its mishaps and often makes them public so that everyone can benefit by learning from the mistakes, thusly prevent additional mishaps. Often tragedies are learning e
xperiences. Like they say, the road to success is often paved with failures. Demonstrates superb airmanship. It's not just that "in the air piloting" ("stick and rudder") skills that are necessary to be a good pilot; in order to be a good pilot (and crew) one should be honest open and able to give
honest evaluations and self-criticism. I think they did an excellent job getting the aircraft back on the ground safely, however they knit picked and analyzed the mishap so next time hopefully it can be handled even better. Note and warning to pilots. Turning back to an airfield the after a loss o
f power is extremely dangerous. It is often referred as going for the "sucker field". Quite often the best option is to make a controlled crash without doing any extreme banking in the flattest remote field that you can. Unlike civilian aircraft this aircraft had ejection seats, that could have all
owed the pilots to bail out if they didn't have enough energy to return to the runway. Also the engine still was producing a fair amount of power, and they had a fair amount of speed and altitude; which allowed them to return to the field. The Martin Baker Mk 14 ejection seats gave them a high proba
bility of survival in case an ejection was needed if they stalled or came up short.
Tags for this video: Aircraft Airplane Aviation bird Birdstrike Crash CRM Fighter Flight Goshawk Mishap Navy Pilot Safety strike T-45 Trainer
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can absorb a great amount of crash-energy that would otherwise be transferred to the airframe and cockpit occupants. 5 stars!