F-18 fly by.

[Nark]

I captured this on the weekend.

Enjoy:

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[sschlesinger]

My best guess was it was landing and where was this at. Very cool video and looks like you were very close.

 

[ftyflyboy]

...uh...was that intentional or just a near miss?

 

[EineBeBoP]

Well since I know your in San Diego, im guessing its headed for Miramar?

 

[Hacker15e]

...uh...was that intentional or just a near miss?

"Near Miss"?

Please...that's not even close to being inside the "well clear" distance of 500 feet.

 

[Nark]

He was landing at North Island. It wasn't that close.
I guess the interent adds 15 feet.

 

[coa787]

It does seem closer if you're not accustomed to seeing stuff like this.

 

[Hacker15e]

It does seem closer if you're not accustomed to seeing stuff like this.

It's the same thing that drove that PC-12 pilot out in Phoenix to claim that the F-16s were 10 feet off his wing or something.

 

[coa787]

Yup.

 

[ladder360]

Those guys love to mess with GA a/c around here. Especially if you're around an MOA.

Great vid! You had to have been pretty quick on the draw to get your phone out fast enough! (assuming you taped this with your phone.)

 

[amd87]

Those guys love to mess with GA a/c around here. Especially if you're around an MOA.

Agreed; today at a non-towered airport south of a MOA my student and I were minding our own business in the pattern and an F-16 buzzed over us at about 500' (just a guess) with the burners on. Awesome!

 

[Hacker15e]

Agreed; today at a non-towered airport south of a MOA my student and I were minding our own business in the pattern and an F-16 buzzed over us at about 500' (just a guess) with the burners on. Awesome!

The last time I checked, F-16s have only one engine.

 

[coa787]

Nah, last time I checked, F-16s have five engines... maybe six?

 

[Hacker15e]

Nah, last time I checked, F-16s have five engines... maybe six?

Outside of the PW-220 or the GE-129 (whichever it happens to be equipped with), none of the others you're referring to have "burners".

 

[coa787]

What? I was only kidding.

 

[Hacker15e]

What? I was only kidding.

The Viper does, technically, have several other "engines" on board -- the EPU, for example.

 

[coa787]

Okay, I see where you're going with this. What I was referring to was the turbofan jet engine that the F-16 has. I said it had five or six of them because I was being stupid.

When amd87 said "burners", he was referring to the F-16's one jet engine.

The "engines" that you're talking about are the other systems that provide power to various systems on the F-16, such as the EPU that you mentioned, which uses a gas turbine powered by the engine bleed air or by hot gases generated by decomposition of hydrazine, which then drives the emergency electricity generator and the emergency hydraulic pump.

So you see where one could get confused.

 

[Hacker15e]

I'm not confused.

I was originally just pointing out in the original post that he said "burners", yet there's only one engine on the airplane that even has one. It was more a poke at the single-engine vs two-engine rivalry between the F-15 and F-16 in the USAF.

You said as a joke that there were five or six, and I admitted that it's true that there are several smaller engines on board the jet.

That simple.

 

[coa787]

I was confused.

You admitted that it's true that there are several smaller engines on board the jet. But I was not talking about those engines.

I said that there were five or six jet engines, you know, the things that have a "burner". The F-16 obviously has only one.

I just wasn't sure whether or not you knew which engines I was talking about when I made that stupid joke, that's all.