10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

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Buy 10PCT Merch! https://www.10percenttrue.com/shop Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh 0:00 intro & tea 2:00 “To shave or not to shave”, that is the question - intro & origins 11:13 Starting with the F-5, married or in a car crash….. 14:48 You don’t die tensed up! 15:00 Map tricks 16:40 Looking for fast jets with an eye on the Hornet - turns out there ARE points for second place! 19:10 F-5 a good lead-in to F-18 21:20 Attrition in training and doubts? 24:05 Fighting the F-4S 25:55 KA-3 with chicks in tow picture (lot of strange sound clipping in this section) 29:00 F-5 and CAS (periodic sound interference continues) 33:40 A tangent 34:10 What was the training scenario? 38:35 Expectations 40:45 Maps, navigation and low level 44:45 Spatial disorientation, camo considerations, yellow Jags 51:30 Survival and the bear (not TU-95) 55:20 Close calls/coping mechanisms/cautionary tales 1:01:30 Air to air F-5………to…..Hornet 1:08:25 A single pilot with much more to do….HOTAS 1:12:58 The talent pool/competition 1:20:18 Air Canada vs 9/11 1:23:45 Beating a Hornet with an Alpha Jet 1:27:35 DACT vs others (14/15/16) 1:30:55 Flying an aircraft (like the Hornet) with carefree handling characteristics 1:34:00 G… 1:36:30 Institutional shift/challenges therein/carrier landings

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Buy a tee! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/magnum-classic-tee Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh 0:00 Intro 2:55 Disco’s career chronology 7:20 Eagle vs friendly contemporaries 26:35 Making fighter pilots smarter 27:00 Flanker factor 29:10 Intel deployed for political leverage instead of frontline efficacy 33:15 Exiting a fight on your own terms and 3D chess 40:45 1 vs 2 43:20 Max performing 56:30 “Feeling” the L/D curve 58:35 Eagle cheat codes? CAS and roll coupling 1:03:30 Being where you don’t want to be 1:08:30 The 2 v 1 and the importance of comms before Datalink 1:13:50 Can you disengage from an Eagle 2 ship? 1:16:50 Mitigation for the Eagle’s size/visual detectability 1:20:35 Balancing your defence with remaining offensive 1:25:30 DTT - welcome to Steve’s rabbit hole 1:31:00 Weapon School Grads and politicising the patch 1:38:00 A short 1v2 story and a classic fighter pilot deception 1:44:20 2v2 1:56:05 Enemy tactics that posed a threat, what to train to? 2:03:00 Iraqi AF competency and tactics beyond Desert Storm 2:06:40 High fast fliers

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Buy a tee! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/magnum-classic-tee Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:40 Getting into flying and the military 00:07:00 Early non-conformism and academy adventures 00:13:30 FAIP 00:19:25 Dangers of complacency 00:21:35 Setting sights on flying the Eagle 00:27:40 Early influence/fighter culture? 00:30:50 State of Air Force at the inception of the Eagle 00:38:10 The fighter mafia and replacing the Phantom with the Viper NOT the Eagle 00:47:20 Inauspicious specs of initial Viper! 00:48:35 “Free” bomb dropping capability built into the Eagle 00:51:05 Getting started with the F-15 at Bitburg 00:56:25 As to Cs and developments in weapons and avionics 01:07:10 Back to Bitburg and the threat/myth of the Flogger 01:14:55 Tactics in the face of comms jamming (pre-datalink) 01:20:42 Sparrow to AMRAAM 01:28:00 Importance of SA 01:35:15 Expectation vs reality (briefing vs doing) 01:41:10 “Tumbleweed” 01:44:40 Personal development (and golf) 01:59:30 Preview of future episodes