E-2 Hawkeye Overhead Break to Full Stop

[@richardlindqvist556]

Very well executed. I'm sure Bob Hoover smiled watching that landing from far far above.

[@boystainey]

Love to watch these dude. The E2 and C2 are my favorite aircraft. You guys don’t get enough credit from the genera public.

[@beachinallday]

I was mowing my lawn in Bayview the other day...you probably were one of the E-2's that flew over me.

[@waynerhodes278]

Nice....I was an Air Traffic Controller back in 89-92 at this airfield......NAS Norfolk....good old Chambers Field.

[@treyshelton03]

very cool!

[@leonc100]

We may have talked. I was a controller at NTU from 90-95

[@joshnc101]

Pretty cool that I stumbled on this and get to see a pilots' POV at Norfolk Chambers Field. I have a pool client I go to that is just off to the left when you're making that left final at 1000ft. Half the time they seem to be a bit lower,

[@spins321]

Loving your videos! Thanks for sharing them! Seems like a great plane to fly

[@buckrowe9196]

Always a pleasure to watch these Hawkeye vids!

[@p51dmustang8102]

Would love to see videos like this with the radio chatter!

[@tmangamingx]

I agree that would be the icing on the cake for me with these videos!

[@johno9507]

Here's the radio chatter you want...well the Australian version anyway. 😀 "Bankstown tower, Cessna India Mike Delta inbound one thousand with information Oscar, requesting runway 25 right for landing."

[@bernardanderson7569]

Great Flying the E -2 overhead break !! I was in the va area of Charlottesville and there was one doing takeoffs and landing

[@Matt-mo8sl]

As a kid, I never dreamed of flying fighter jets. iI always wanted to fly the E2 or a P3. Love those Navy turboprops!

[@Matt-mo8sl]

@@blastisocco What possesses one to comment like this?

[@MySilver5oh]

Man, I was a former AE in a “hummer” squadron. I’ve changed many a failed trim actuator, but I’ve never realized how much the pilot flies the aircraft with the trim system. Interesting.

[@MySilver5oh]

@AwakeAmericanow. The trim system moves the flight control surfaces according to where the pilot needs the aircraft to be, as well as the pilot controlling the vertical and horizontal flight control surfaces with yoke and rudder pedal inputs.

[@FlyNAA]

@AwakeAmericanow. many people use it as one, to one extent or another

[@TyphoonVstrom]

I'm guessing being a relatively short aircraft, it is much more sensitive to pitch and yaw trim than your typical twin of similar weight, so probably needs frequent trim adjustments as speed and configuration is changed.

[@ravusursi893]

@AwakeAmericanow. If you think the trim is not a control, maybe you should be @SleepAmericanow?

[@ravusursi893]

@AwakeAmericanow. The trim “controls” the aircraft’s attitude due to air passing over the major control surfaces at different speeds causing varying lift properties. Also, what about rudder trim at take-off? That’s controlling the yaw of the aircraft. You’re just being a pedant. Also, with grammar like that, I’m glad you weren’t my flight instructor! 😉

[@rogerball41]

I love this airplane, beautiful. Tks very very much to share your videos.

[@rjhornsby]

Those engines purring - until the hammering midgets show up - can hardly call it noise, so buttery smooth. Wow.

[@robertgary3561]

You should hear them on the king air. Those pt6’s just hum like angels all day long.

[@stevenhardy5414]

I need more fantastic E-2 Delta videos, please!

[@JungleYT]

I was in the Air Force stationed in Korea. And during the annual exercises we'd get a mix of Navy and Marine pilots landing at our base. Guys patrolling the flight line at night said they could always tell a navy pilot or a "Squid" pilot by how *hard* they landed?

[@ekspatvos6264]

Awesome!!! 😁 Thank you for sharing this with armchair pilots like me. 👐

[@knife-wieldingspidergod5059]

Armchair pilots unite!

[@lepetitnabot]

Great flying. Don't mind the trim hating armchair pilots. The idea is to fly the airplane, not wrestle with it.

[@mental720s]

Whose hating on the trim never have flown a plane. Having the fight with the plane

[@lepetitnabot]

@@mental720s Yep! Even in a Cessna, you use the wheel a lot, especially during configuration changes.

[@torx0149]

Trims are made exactly to prevent pilots wrestle with the plane. Of course the idea is to fly the airplane with the yoke, not with the trim. But trimming even on short final i quite common.

[@dreadykruger2266]

ALL ya'll shut the hell azz up.

[@tylerdurden4006]

I wish they had pedal cameras like in race cars...awesome vid.

[@paaat001]

SMOOTH!!! At flaps down that rattles likes loose rocks in a dumptruck.

[@iFlyFlightSims]

DCS E-2C Hawkeye coming soon.™

[@ColumbianSpirit]

I'm not gonna even lie, I'd buy that shit in a heart beat. I would love to have a playable aircraft like that.

[@quackgarage9551]

I would denifitely buy that too, DCS has the best flight engine and some "normal" planes would be awesome.

[@soljb]

wow insanely smooth.

[@norms3913]

They must be doing their touch and goes at Norfolk naval air station I could interstate 64

[@Stan9106]

Willowby Spit to the right at the begining of the. vid.

[@322_smokey-aviation]

Nice vid bro🤘🏻

[@nightfall22]

Damn, straight butter. Very nice!

[@12345fowler]

Nice ! Seems you got her pretty well in hand.

[@markfortuin7111]

Thrilling!!! BREATHTAKING!

[@pauljninan8671]

Also the internal voice is good to hear not so noisy

[@SCP-POOL]

Show off! American Military hardware & those that make it work at their best! AND WE SINCERELY THANK YOU!!!

[@31186dan]

Very precise 👍👍

[@roderickwinslow8642]

Quick question does the E-2 get sluggish or I should say does it have a higher landing speed due to the dome effecting the elevator, I just built a rc version of this plane and it flys amazing but when I come in to land it's like it wants to stall, so I have to come in at a faster speed but then she just wants to fly😅 I have a video up if you wanna check it out thanks.

[@jet6619]

That's pretty neat! You can tell how neat it is just by the way it is.

[@834877]

Like a Boss !!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dankuettel5063]

Wow that nose gear bay makes a lot of racket

[@blave549]

Great vid, I really enjoyed it.

[@thomthumbe]

Oh yea! Addictive drug for the eyes, ears and brains.

[@leighjacobs4800]

Nice break and final turn. Where is the rattling sound going from? Gear, flaps, coffee thermos?

[@badlt5897]

Best last name in the business!

[@mkii1964]

Nice job!!

[@apolloactual7666]

Awesome perspective!

[@pauljninan8671]

Your video is just as the thumbnail pic... I can experience the flight. Nice camera view. Many videos thumbnail looks good but video is not that much good , but your videos are great

[@amedeocestini]

What the pilot control with the LEFT THUMB?

[@FunnyGarden01]

ATC be like : okay, landing to any runway you want 😁

[@nazimL1011]

Gorgeous....nice job. What’s your typical Vref in these airplanes ? Nice cockpit too, have they been upgraded ?

[@737Maxter]

Yeah, 2nd Hawkeye video I’ve seen with a loud irritating rattle after gear and flaps lowered. Are those the gear doors vibrating? The landing reminds me of my ATR days 😎 whaoggghhhhh reverse.

[@afcgeo882]

EVERYTHING vibrates. These are old, rough birds.

[@Jackfrost751]

Whats a typical Vref in that thing? looks like u were going pretty quick over the numbers? could just be the camera angle.

[@tyberious3023]

Navy carrier pilots whenever they land on "fixed" runways must think its the easiest thing in the world compared to carrier landings.

[@robertgary3561]

May even need to learn how to flare

[@brucelaughton3108]

@@robertgary3561 Actually Navy pilots don't flare. From your first training flight you are taught attitude landings. That is where you establish a stable angle of attack (around 10% above stall speed) and maintain that attitude using throttles to adjust your speed of descent. All carrier aircraft have an angle of attack indicator that show fast, on AOA, and slow. In this video, look for the little vertical box on top of the instrument panel. This landing it indicated faster than optimum since it was a field landing. I flew E2-Bs back in the stone age.

[@robertgary3561]

@@brucelaughton3108 you just repeated what I said.

[@gamerspitt8089]

but can it fire lasers ? no lasers no fun

[@alriciab.p.7936]

Great p.o.v that's how should be done! Nice

[@mikcheka]

If mirror says Object in Mirror is Closer Than It Appears, that's bad news

[@rtaf4206]

In other word, if you see it it’s already too late !

[@nackdibby7960]

Well good grief! Ive been eating up this E-2 footage lately and this is just another example why! Hair raising! Can someone explain the reason behind the constant trim to me? Is this inherent to the E-2? Is that what im seeing with the left thumb actuation on the yoke? Just curious. Oh, and the full release of the controls once shes down and rolling straight other than throttle and prop pitch. Is it just yaw control at that point? Sorry so many questions!

[@treyshelton03]

the airplane has 3 rudders and both propellers spin the same direction, so its hard to trim the nose on speed and maintain coordination in turns. once we slow down on the runway, the yoke isn't doing much unless we need a crosswind correction, so we transition to the nose-wheel-steering handle by our left knee and keep tracking down the runway with our feet until our rudders lose effectiveness.

[@cwhitty05]

I don’t fly an E2, however that maneuver starts at high speed and ends at approach speed, so you’re slowing down quite a bit, which requires a constant trim adjustment. It’s the same in the jet I fly. If I’m doing 250kts and air traffic control assigns me 170kts, it’s going to require a large change in pitch trim to maintain altitude, or the forces on the controls are going to get exceptionally high.

[@nackdibby7960]

@@cwhitty05 Awesome! Thank you so much for walking that out for me. Makes sense now! Always so much to learn about flying!

[@nackdibby7960]

@@treyshelton03 Man, thank you s o much for the explanation! I've always loved this plane, as I do most all carrier born U.S. aircraft, and learning about all the little details about them is half the fun. Love building scale models of them as well and that really brings the history portion into focus too! Thank you again!

[@marktownsend7361]

Welcome to Pax !!!

[@billjacon4527]

This may sound stupid, but how do you steer the aircraft on the ground. You let go of the yoke going down the runway.

[@garrett1488]

rudder pedals by their feet. Push right pedal to go right, left pedal to go left, press the toes to stop.

[@freakbuttt3270]

@@garrett1488 no, they steer with a nose wheel

[@karlsandin4515]

@@freakbuttt3270 the rudder pedals control the nose wheel. Only in large jets is a tiller that assists with the degree of nose wheel turn available.

[@treyshelton03]

not a stupid question at all. we actually don't have our rudder pedals connected to our nosewheel steering like just about every other airplane does. when our rudders lose effectiveness as we slow down on a landing, we have to transition very carefully to a pistol-grip handle near our left knee to steer the nosewheel.

[@karlsandin4515]

@@treyshelton03 very interesting! Always something to learn

[@kolbpilot]

Energy management.

[@SurfVR]

Im an armchair pilot. And I love trimming.

[@_iLLuSiv3_]

We are not talking about nut-sack trimming here.

[@SurfVR]

@@_iLLuSiv3_ Haha it took me a couple of seconds to get it..

[@SurfVR]

Let me just add how much I want an E-2 for DCS.

[@buckrowe9196]

Good trim control is the mark of an excellent pilot. This guy flying the E-2 is a very good pilot.

[@SurfVR]

@@buckrowe9196 indeed

[@scrappydew7599]

Is that trim you are adjusting with your thumb?

[@treyshelton03]

yes - up and down is elevator, left and right is the rudder.

[@skylarculek]

@@treyshelton03 left and right is rudder? Huh, that's neat. I would've thought it was ailerons.

[@treyshelton03]

@@skylarculek ailerons are on the other (inboard) yoke trim hat in a Charlie and are on a box on the back of the power pedestal in a delta

[@skylarculek]

@@treyshelton03 huh, that's really cool! Thanks. Ive never heard of rudder trim on a yoke. The more you know.

[@DavidVerbout]

What does the toggle on the left of the yoke control?

[@tailhookmd2546]

I think it’s the trim. And I think it’s integrated airleron and elevator. I’m not 100% sure but I cant think of anything else he’d be adjusting that much on short final. Maybe that helps. But I might be wrong.

[@flutetubamorg]

Yes that is the 2-axis trim but probably rudder and elevator

[@tailhookmd2546]

@@flutetubamorg thanks for clarifying!

[@AWaifuInVR]

@@flutetubamorg Aileron and elevator.

[@Brad2117]

KTCM?

[@cdubois13]

What base was this?

[@afcgeo882]

NAS Norfolk, VA

[@alanaustin4260]

@@afcgeo882, my last duty station. Worked WC660 @ AIMD. Left there in 6 Nov 88.

[@ChuckMahon]

KNGU?

[@treyshelton03]

Correct. RWY 28 at KNGU

[@davidespinola7710]

Very good !!!!!

[@huntforandrew]

Is this an E-2C or an E2-D?

[@treyshelton03]

E-2D

[@huntforandrew]

@@treyshelton03 I saw you have a video landing and launching for the USS Gerald Ford. How is the EMALS compared to the older steam catapults? Also glad to see you guys are getting some new toys to play with, that new all glass cockpit looks awesome.

[@treyshelton03]

@@huntforandrew the EMALS feels like a stronger initial acceleration but very smooth

[@jamesclark8962]

Umm, is it just me or did they not come to a complete stop?

[@treyshelton03]

We did stop. I just clicked off the camera once we were at a safe taxi speed

[@radiobikini6429]

Awewsome.

[@samomar7245]

Wow..

[@Dr_Kenneth_Noisewater]

No more than 20 deg in the pattern! 😂

[@robertgary3561]

In the airline world it’s referred to as an unstable approach. Go around. :)

[@sipu842]

Ah..full stop...?!?

[@BKetch]

Who saw this after listening to the E-2 Hawkeye episode on the Fighter Pilot Podcast?

[@samuelWx]

NAS Oceana?

[@treyshelton03]

just up the road at Norfolk

[@ChuckMahon]

NAS Norfolk, Chambers Field.

[@samuelWx]

@@ChuckMahon T4

[@samuelWx]

@@treyshelton03 Roger that, thanx for the vids!

[@afcgeo882]

Oceana’s just fighters, I believe.

[@LeonelEBD]

Great

[@ILM787]

Shit is easy when you have to land Air Force style!

[@NoPulseForRussians]

Go Navy 🇺🇲🤘🏻⚓🔱⚓🤘🏻🇺🇲

[@BIOHAZARDXXXX]

NAV DATA OUT OF DATE

[@Nyamchik-0_0]

Судя по приборам над Украиной летают)

[@calinutza33]

Aha , so if you are wearing gloves you can be an awesome pilot ! 😂

[@drinksnapple8997]

...we tell you where to enter Initial, where to break, which RWY to land, AND which TWY to exit the active. ATC RULES over flyboys!!!!!

[@afcgeo882]

That’s funny, because the pilot can ignore ALL of that. The decision always rests on the pilot. ATC gives information.

[@buckrowe9196]

George L “Unable”.

[@rdbchase]

"Brake"

[@afcgeo882]

No, BREAK. As in a sharp break to the left.

[@rdbchase]

@@afcgeo882 No, "E-2 Hawkeye Overhead Break to Full Stop" -- the view is from overhead and we see the E-2 brake as it lands. It's moving at a high rate of speed at the end of the video -- "to Full Stop" is wildly erroneous.

[@afcgeo882]

@@rdbchase The description is of the content of the video. It is from a left break to a stop on the ground. You’re trying too hard to catch others

[@avgeekviolinist]

@@rdbchase I can't tell if you're being facetious...if not, "full stop" is a term that means "NOT touch-and-go" in pilot jargon. (I'm not a pilot, just a fan of aviation.)

[@rdbchase]

@@avgeekviolinist No, I'm just using English correctly. "Full stop" is used to emphasize the end of an utterance and in British English describes the period ("."), but from the context here it seems that "complete" is intended, though why is obscure -- "E-2 Hawkeye Overhead Break to Full Stop" is incoherent. It appears that most of readers' problems derive from assuming that the author must be inerrant because he's allowed to operate an E-2.

[@MrEastern021]

liar.......no full stop

[@johno9507]

Man you missed all the wires. 😉