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Sit in f 35 cockpit8/15/2023 ![]() My experience is that especially dehydration, but also lack of sleep affects g-tolerance negatively. A short distance usually means that the main objective is to practice gun engagements, either attacking or defending.īefore the training begins, we always check whether we are “fit for fight” will I be able to withstand the g-load today? «G-awareness exercise» implies two relatively tight turns, with gradually increasing g-load. Greater distance means more energy, higher g-loads and often ends in a prolonged engagement. Starting at different distances allows us to vary the focus of each engagement. That kind of restriction may seem conservative, but 300 meters disappears quickly in a combat aircraft. This kind of disciplined approach to the basic parameters is important, because it makes it easier to extract learning in retrospect – a methodical approach to train for air combat.Ī typical training setup begins at a distance of one, two or three kilometers from the attacker to the defender. In this kind of training we usually start out from defined parameters, with clearly offensive, defensive or neutral roles. Nonetheless, this kind of training is always important, because it builds fundamental pilot skills. This particular situation – a dogfight one-on-one between two airplanes – may be more or less likely to occur, as I have described in a previous blog post (Norwegian only). I’ll start by talking a little about how we train BFM. For now my conclusion is that this is an airplane that allows me to be more forward and aggressive than I could ever be in an F-16. As an F-35-user I still have a lot to learn, but I am left with several impressions. In this post, however, I write more specifically about my experiences with the F-35 when it does end up in a dogfight. In a previous post I wrote about aerial combat in general (English version available), and about the likelihood that the F-35 would ever end up in such a situation. I now have several sorties behind me in the F-35 where the mission has been to train within visual range combat one-on-one, or «Basic Fighter Maneuvers» (BFM). The F-35 in a dogfight – what have I learned so far? ![]() He provides a first-hand account of what dogfighting in the F-35 looks like to a pilot who has a significant experience with the F-16. Navy Test Pilot School graduate, and currently serves as an instructor and as the Assistant Weapons Officer with the 62nd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. ![]() “Dolby” has more than 2200 hours in the F-16, he is a U.S. ![]() Kampflybloggen (The Combat Aircraft Blog), the official blog of the Norwegian F-35 Program Office within the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, has just published an interesting article, that we repost here below under permission, written by Major Morten “Dolby” Hanche, one of the Royal Norwegian Air Force experienced pilots and the first to fly the F-35. ![]()
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