F/A-18C Hornet Startup in 60 Seconds!

In this video, we'll show you how to startup your F/A-18C Hornet in just 60 seconds! This is a quick and easy guide that will get you up and flying in no time!
If you're looking for a quick and easy guide to starting your F/A-18C Hornet, then check out this video! We'll show you how to startup your aircraft in just 60 seconds, so you can get up and flying as soon as possible!
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Hey pilots! Tricker here and I want to welcome you to my channel on combat aviation. I’m a real world pilot in the Airbus 319/320/321 series and I enjoy DCS World, Falcon BMS, Falcon 4.0, IL-2 Sturmovik, X-plane 11, and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
If you want to fly WWII aircraft over Normandy and the English Channel, then DCS World WWII is for you and they have plenty of aircraft to choose from such as the BF-109, FW-190, Spitfire, P-47 Thunderbolt, and P-51 Mustang. If you enjoy modern aerial combat then you want to focus more on DCS World products such as the F-16, A-10C Warthog, AH-64D Apache, F-15, F-14, JF-17, SU-27, Mirage, Mig-29, F-18 Hornet, Mi-8, Mi-24 Hind, Uh-1 Huey, Ka-50, F-5, Mig-21, AV-8b Harrier, and the F-4 Phantom. Some of the mods that are out there for DCS World are the F-22 Raptor, SU-57, A-4 Skyhawk, Rafale, and Gripen.
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[@jorgec2824]

Ah yes, my daily brain massage

[@blazingguyop]

🤣🤣

[@andrewgordon235]

Watching this really made me appreciate car keys

[@Drnken229]

To start the engines its 2 buttons really.. the rest is just aid and to fight

[@tallymeban-anas]

A close buddy of mine is an f18 pilot he drives a tesla , I guess I see why

[@joaorodrigues-dy9rm]

Great comment😁👌

[@ZombieEmpire9199]

he would enjoy the noise too, Quiet drive and a really bloody loud flight.@@tallymeban-anas

[@okalright3941]

in modern cars at least its that simple, in the older ones, even just ones with carburetors, BOY youre in for a rough start in the cold

[@bageldoctor1484]

Me sitting in the cockpit of the stollen Cf/18

[@beardedalienfpv1294]

Pause play pause play pause play. Fuck no ont removed the chalks!

[@scooterparsons7221]

Instructions unclear, detained in Guantanamo

[@commandernomad2817]

​@@scooterparsons7221 wrong country, he said "CF18"

[@fallinginthed33p]

Who forgot to fuel up this bird, eh?

[@SonOfTheChinChin]

​@@commandernomad2817 maple is a burger ally

[@kiio1291]

Would love to see one for the Huey, these guides are quick and to the point and I feel like I learn more than watching a 10 minute tutorial lmao

[@d_kortman]

Yessss I always just auto start the Huey. I’d love one for the UH-60L Blackhawk too! My attention span is too short to learn from a long video 😂

[@MyKillerson]

​@@d_kortman The huey is like 10 steps? Are you a gold fish?

[@d_kortman]

@@MyKillerson I just never learned. Hopped in just to fly and never cared to learn 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@d_kortman]

@@MyKillerson I actually LEARNED the Apache though. It’s super easy

[@drScorp1on]

​@@ceciliacole5098yes, you can? you can move the time-line at the bottom at screen

[@Majd_Saad]

Pilots doing all of that in an emergency scramble is so impressive ngl

[@NAISBAISFSX]

in a emergy scramble all of those expect the ngines are already set

[@j6077xxd]

Ok got it. Let's go, LEROY JENKIIIIIINNNNNNS!

[@shaider1982]

Man, that's one of the OG memes.

[@EveningOfficer]

He said, after the part of the video where he turns on the right engine and he thought “Meh, I can figure it out from here.” 😂

[@DubbaDDave]

@@EveningOfficer this makes it funnier... oh well at least he has chicken.

[@Richardgg94]

Lmaooo

[@somefeker9104]

I have never played DCS but this is brain candy

[@Bryan-cd9cl]

😂😂😂 this is why anyone Can play with..but DCS is not a game.. it's a sim.. that's means a Real tutorial in every aspect 🎉❤

[@tophmcgoph9229]

I just started DCS...this is 1000000% a game you dedicate alot of time to. Single plane....like I got 10 hours just working on learning the basic controls.

[@cmj0929]

Maverick must’ve stole his fast as hell

[@kevinlofgren4824]

Just a reminder, Maverick stole a F-14 Tomcat, not a F/A-18C

[@kevinlofgren4824]

When I realize, yes he actually did. Forgor

[@EECAI]

⁠@@kevinlofgren4824he didnt, he stole a super hornet (i cant tell if its E or F) not the C

[@SonOfTheChinChin]

​@@EECAIe

[@mrljones01]

@@kevinlofgren4824He also "stole" the Fa18 that he used for training when he proved that the canyon run was possible.

[@vividpsychosis8222]

Don’t forget to remove blink from HUD in menu and set distance to 100nm. Then don’t forget to setup program 1 and 5 on dispensers so you aren’t wasting chat and flares. I use program 1 for 1 flare x10 every .50 interval and program 5 as 1 chaff x5 at .50 interval. You’re welcome. Also reason you remove blink is you can lock targets with HMD through the floor or body of your airplane ;)

[@Feser64]

Nice, now I just need to find a F/A 18

[@nequals151]

You don't have one? Wow. I mean. I don't know what to say.

[@brianburnes3470]

Radar goes to STBY once you are out of the ramp area. This way you aren't blasting ground crews with radiation. Source is a F/A-18 Instructor at NAS Lemoore

[@karadiina3257]

Hmm I'm not disagreeing that it's like this but I read somewhere that radar won't blast while weight on wheels in the 18 even on operate. Might be just standard safety thing for all planes to follow

[@De_Geit]

Also off when you are in the air refueling

[@brianburnes3470]

@@De_Geit I believe it goes to standby when doing a/a refueling, not off. I'll look at the natops

[@MarkGTLLC]

Question: is there still more in Lemoore? 😁

[@Chris_Bro_aka_MR_PLAT1NEM]

I learned this by heart when I first got the game only to learn days later you can skip a lot of this with two key presses lol. But I still done it this way sometimes just to do it more realistically.

[@andrealves2630]

Yup you can save yourself a lot of time by just pressing Rshift + Home and Rshift + L but do I do it? NO! I always do the full startup, its part of the immersion

[@Aereto]

I shave off a lot of time doing it manually. Very helpful in Scrambles

[@augiehicks4588]

Hey Tricker, you might want to clarify that when turning on datalink, the first push of the button only brings up Link 4 and a second push of the DL button is needed to bring up Link 16 and subsequently turn it on. Someone might inadvertently turn on only Link 4 and they’re left without situational awareness.

[@TrickerDCS]

Thanks Augie, will definitely do that!

[@kierenstreet3826]

Never in my life have I seen another with this pfp

[@magnetacyan5032]

Thank you now i can sucessfully steal an f16 smh😂

[@EnigmaticPenguin]

Watching this makes it seem like a lot when you’re new, but it’s actually pretty straightforward after a while if you fly the Hornet.

[@Imadog989]

Or just hit windows home and it’ll startup for you -operatordrewski 😂

[@pyroman7550]

This was one of my first full fidelity aircraft. You are the best for these startup tutorials. I have this startup memorized so well now. 320 hours in DCS later lol

[@JayLupe]

Amybody down to go for a ride..? I know how to turn an F18 on💪

[@belevezero2279]

you just increased my appreciation of the F16 by %100

[@PappaBear_yt]

Man, I was wondering will you make it in 60!... 😁😎👍🏻👏🏻💪🏻🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@TrickerDCS]

Haha it was tough, had to squeeze thru the HMD alignment to make it

[@PappaBear_yt]

@@TrickerDCS Well done, man! Keep 'em coming! 👍🏻

[@I01I1]

That one photographic memory person could fly any plane watching this dudes content

[@CenobiteBeldar]

Seems easier and more straightforward. I guess Boeing heard F-14 aircrew frustration (from maintenance and supply to pilots) and built the Hornet series.

[@TotalTirpitz]

I would love if car start-up was like this. Hundred of books and start-up guides.

[@PeiqiLi-RealLove]

I love this kind of tutorial, no useless stuff just what we need

[@jeffleduc1398]

Seems simple 😂

[@KarmaNagitashe]

Its actually easy just gotta remember it not hard tho

[@Tingleton11]

@@KarmaNagitashe you can also press win + home for the auto startup

[@alexmaine2922]

@@Tingleton11really? Does it work?

[@Tingleton11]

@@alexmaine2922 Yeah

[@BlindxSide]

man really started to struggle with the 60 second timer at the end there lmao.

[@tracytrawick322]

So, I guess a key FOB is out of play? You know, cabin temp, heated seat & auto in/out config, present cabin latch, etc. - oh, and engine startup & status. 😉

[@misterprimeminister473]

This ain't no SAAB.

[@harrysangwine2188]

Even though I don’t have this game I still love this guys videos

[@mcortez4656]

This is the best tutorial ever! Now my jet is working

[@lordleroyyoung]

Yes left to right. Miss those days flying the plastic bug

[@Wonder_Wondering]

My Dad actually worked on a few F/A-18Cs aboard the USS Midway. No wonder I could put folks to sleep foaming about the Navy's aircraft.

[@diboc741]

This sim is absolutely amazing.

[@akrtechgamingsub]

Thanks for letting me start a f18 whith like the entire airforce it actually started which is the fun part

[@HalalMuaz]

Pov: you have a pagani

[@rafox66]

Saving this for when I need it.

[@davidmadden3293]

Dang, planes are complicated 😵‍💫

[@Kraken9911]

This is just the gamer level introduction to operating the F18. The real life pilots have to learn a wholeee lot more.

[@dantetrend3215]

@@Kraken9911 You don't say

[@learningthehardway]

Yeah, I spent 100 hours learning startup and basic radar tracking, I wanted to try fighting others in a PvP environment, only to be shot down by a SA6. That's the day I started researching the AGM88 HARM anti radiation missile. Definitely a learning curb.

[@Damen178]

I'm fascinated by how much overlap there is in starting the F/A-18 Hornet with starting the F-14 Tomcat.

[@navyav8r653]

Dam!! Just dam. I can't say exactly what is or isn't missing but this is good

[@andrealves2630]

He forgot to turn bleed air on. Not gonna be a problem in game as far as I know but it could make the pilot run out of oxygen on long missions. Also a lot of these steps arent so simple and require more actions to be done

[@bird.9346]

@@andrealves2630 Iirc it's already on if you don't do the engine warning tests which he didn't

[@Bond.JamesBond00]

Do you choose violence like I do and send both throttles to idle before starting engines?

[@MrHeuvaladao]

And don't forget to set the trimbulator to middle position.

[@pafry6432]

Sweet, I got it. Thanks for teaching me how to fly a f18.

[@grauadler4935]

Sick startup video !! That’s what I call a Mach startup

[@AngelousXeroX]

now thats a startup guide No more wasting time Time to fly

[@gooberminium]

looks sick! i am about to buy head tracking, and a full on HOTAS setup!

[@ripnob]

you just taught me more than any teacher could lmao

[@Sam-760]

DSC is my childhood dream come true❤❤❤

[@javierdelgado4695]

Turn left engine on first then set up DDIs and bleed air rotation before right engine start. Got this tip from a buddy who is a rhino driver.

[@Dumbowombo]

Thankk youu! Saved my life

[@therussianbias3703]

I'ma need one of these for the f15e when it comes out cause if it's anything like this it's gonna take me 2 weeks just to get past the damn startup

[@izanagisburden9465]

The max fidelity modules are gonna be this complex untill f35 is here with Huge ass screen as UFC XD

[@ilumin8trx]

its cool seeing my muscle memory in a video haha well done sir

[@jeremyfoster6942]

let's go!!!, half an hour later😂😂😂😂

[@ac06god1]

*switches radar to operate while parked* Ground crew: sniff.. .sniff... is that my skin cooking and why am i suddenly going blind🫠

[@VonHoffnung]

Thanks for these @TrickerDCS

[@nickej25det]

I bought it at an auction for a very reasonable price, but it did not come with a manual and I was wondering what to do with it. This is going to cut my commute time down to 1/8th.

[@TrickerDCS]

When turning on datalink, the first push of the button only brings up Link 4 and a second push of the DL button is needed to bring up Link 16 and subsequently turn it on. DCS World www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/

[@0BuLLeT01]

Wait wut? That explains so much...

[@MCD10000]

How the hell was I able to manage to memorise the A10c || start up but half of this lost me

[@Gintyyy22]

I'm going to stick to the sim battles in war thunder lol, but I like these videos.

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

Close to the real procedure. Only minor changes needed.

[@Eluderatnight]

Spill it...

[@laszlokiss483]

Are there steps missing or is it rather the order in which things were done ?

[@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon]

@@laszlokiss483 Steps.

[@MondoChow777]

​@@laszlokiss483 This is the correct start up procedure. These modules cost upwards of a million dollars to make due to the expertise and resources it takes to develop.

[@parksal1981]

Yeah that was legit, Don’t have to bother with the radar if not using it but basically need battery on, start apu, start right engine for back up emer systems/ recharge apu pressures, reset fcs, left engine start. All thats needed to start for maintenance turns

[@MrUNCLESAM84]

Thanks for the video 👍🏻

[@bloopereel33]

Do an A6 intruder!! My dad and his buddies flew those in the marine Corp.

[@mahdisarrami9904]

Before you test the fcs you should put the flaps to auto and then when you want to take off bring back to half And i have a question , why you put that to ifa instead of nav?

[@tomspeed2000]

I wish if i have all those buttons and switches in my old car with actual functionality

[@duanegerous3484]

I really want to play this but I'd be sitting on the ground reading the user manual all day with the world burning around me. Don't make me humanities last hope 😂

[@prasenjitjanbandhu7218]

Thank you ...just need one now.

[@alecvuorinen]

I started playing dcs 2 days ago😁

[@ThatGamerPilot]

Damn i was gonna play this game

[@trottheblackdog]

I didn't know there was an FCS BIT switch!

[@Arpeggio2007]

So much easier than the complicated non-intuitive F-16 startup.

[@funnygamer678]

Need to download this

[@macdam11]

Damn, this goes way faster in Top Gun:Maverick ;)

[@lochuudang662]

I have to learn it to fly airplane suicide mission vs anime at all types

[@nextgen89]

I've done this twice... Its taken me like an hour each time

[@VanillaFox1-1]

Why switch the ins to in flight alignment instead of the nav mode?

[@Monarch683]

IFA continually updates and adjusts the INS alignment via GPS. Nav mode is only used in settings where GPS is not available.

[@VanillaFox1-1]

@@Monarch683 interesting, thanks for the information

[@butterfliege885]

Hey can you do a tutorial for the sa342 gazelle?

[@emielv7677]

I've got a question. I downloaded dcs last week but I can't figure out how I can manually operate an aircraft. I can do pretty much everything with the keybinds but the manual switching is much more satisfying

[@flametionist7410]

A faster way to start up the actual engines: Right after the battery, switch on the APU and engine crank. I usually enable the throttle anywhere between 0-18%. When the throttle RPM gets to 34%, you can switch the engine crank for the other engine and they both will start.

[@nathanskupowski4726]

I’m about to live inside this video for the next couple of days…

[@fr9456]

All this just to go grab milk at the store

[@soisaus564]

The one guy doing every step with no flucking idea what he's doing: *"this is fine"*

[@JayDKBGames]

YIKES thats why Im still using Autostart for te hornet lol

[@Leshii413]

Thank you!!!

[@k3nfr0st39]

Should do carrier catapult takeoff.

[@omega8822]

I can only imagine the amount of classified military Documents that will be leaked on this games forums.

[@bird.9346]

They're quite strict about that

[@JohnWayne7777]

My questions is, if you get shot down, do you need to start your plane every time again?

[@felixfaulkner5293]

yes if you respawn in cold start

[@Eluderatnight]

A HIND would be nice as a surplus one costs the same as a 4cyl honda acord.

[@kingstart3531]

Only a beginner will loose its braincells after listening to this guy

[@captainedward8278]

Only nitpick is you need to press D/L twice to get to Link 16, the first time you press it, it's Link 4 for ACLS.

[@timdutton2056]

I'm happy to just turn the key to the right. You don't even have to hold it anymore. The computer takes care of everything.

[@danidanchen5795]

Yes.

[@rjacosta1070]

Differently an E Ticket ride soon

[@The-Madcat]

Can you do one for the F5E tiger 2?

[@Tops-f2g]

Ima go jack one now!

[@Sam_the_Spinosaurus]

quick question, why does everyone and their mother fly the old Charlie model, rather than the Super Hornets?

[@tigerace351]

GOT IT! What was the, middle part again?

[@lordgman1]

Is it common practice to turn on the radar on the ground? Also hopefully you don't bump the CMS controls on takeoff or you're going to burn down the airfield

[@callsingCLUELESS]

I always accidentally start the left engine first becuase of the ah-64D apache

[@JV81]

Never thought that its so simple and easy to startup a jetfighter.

[@alexmaine2922]

How do u adjust RPM power percentage ?

[@raystrickland344]

Throttle up

[@web-cams5873]

F-15‘s engine start video was uploads ？

[@Gd_dash69]

how do you remove the wheel chocks

[@Cage_67]

thanks

[@TrickerDCS]

No problem

[@osprey2023]

New to DCS, can’t figure out camera controls without number keys, how do you remove chocks? Or get a better camera for the matter?