Basic Fundamentals: F 14B Tomcat Long Startup

[Pac-Man]

 

 

I hope you guys enjoy!

[LcSummers]

Thanks!

 

 

Loving it. This clears some problems for me!

 

 

Great job!.

[Len62]

Great! Very helpful.

[ivo]

Very good thank

[sLYFa]

A few notes:

-Combined hydraulic pressure does not mean Left+Right hydraulic, it means the pressure of the -combined (i.e. the LEFT) hydraulic system, so jester´s callouts make sense there.

- The "navigation radio" is the ARA-63 CILS reciever, used to tune the carrier ILS channel.

- You completely omitted the cockpit preparation step before applying power to the aircraft. This rendered your ARA-63 BIT test later on useless as you did not have ILS selected for the HUD and VDI modes (it is in ACL by default, which means localizer and glideslope information from ACLS will be used instead of CILS) and therefore did not see the needles appear on the HUD and VDI

- You have a little misconception about the wing-sweep system. Putting wingsweep in manual does not mean using the handle, it means using the wingsweep position rocker to set wingsweep. Using the handle means using th emergency mode, which is not supposed to be used during wingsweep/control surface testing. Also, putting wingsweep in AUTO at the end of these checks does not mean sweeping the wings forward with the handle. You keep the handle oversweep and simply move the wingsweep rocker on the throttle to the auto position. Wings are then extended on the CAT (or before the hold short for shore based procedures) by moving the handle out of oversweep all the way forward and stowing the handle, thereby exiting emergency mode and reverting control to the CADC.

 

A few tiny things that are missing in the startup (not your fault, heatblur omitted them for some reason).

- Before turning on avionics, you put the WINGS/EXT TRANS switch to OFF. When extending the refueling probe, check that the WINGS/EXT TRANS switch goes back to AUTO. After that, you put it back to OFF and then back to AUTO before reading the takeoff checklist.

- Windshield air is tested after refuel probe extension/retraction by cycling the appropriate switch. In RL, the plane captain would check for airflow somewhere (don't recall exactly where) under the nose of the aircraft which is indicative of windshield air operation.

- I am not sure why the handle remained forward when you put it back into the stowed position. Theoretically, it should have moved back to 68° (the manual commanded position at this point as indicated by the captains bars next to the wingsweep tape on the indicator) at this point, since when the system was not in emergency mode anymore (i.e. handle stowed) and the handle moves in parallel with the wing position when in normal mode. Maybe there is some mechanism to prevent this when the position commanded by the switch and the handle position are disagreeing by a large margin.

Edited March 18, 2019 by sLYFa

[Pac-Man]

A few notes:

-Combined hydraulic pressure does not mean Left+Right hydraulic, it means the pressure of the -combined (i.e. the LEFT) hydraulic system, so jester´s callouts make sense there.

---------- I agree that does make sense now!! Thank you for clearing that up. lol.

 

- The "navigation radio" is the ARA-63 CILS reciever, used to tune the carrier ILS channel.

- You completely omitted the cockpit preparation step before applying power to the aircraft. This rendered your ARA-63 BIT test later on useless as you did not have ILS selected for the HUD and VDI modes (it is in ACL by default, which means localizer and glideslope information from ACLS will be used instead of CILS) and therefore did not see the needles appear on the HUD and VDI

---------- Yeah, that's why I didn't comment on it. I was trying to keep the video as short as possible as it was already 40min. In the end, it bit me in the ass and by the time I noticed it, I was too far in to start over.

 

- You have a little misconception about the wing-sweep system. Putting wingsweep in manual does not mean using the handle, it means using the wingsweep position rocker to set wingsweep. Using the handle means using th emergency mode, which is not supposed to be used during wingsweep/control surface testing. Also, putting wingsweep in AUTO at the end of these checks does not mean sweeping the wings forward with the handle. You keep the handle oversweep and simply move the wingsweep rocker on the throttle to the auto position. Wings are then extended on the CAT (or before the hold short for shore based procedures) by moving the handle out of oversweep all the way forward and stowing the handle, thereby exiting emergency mode and reverting control to the CADC.

------- I actually caught that I kept using the wrong verbiage and was going to put text in the video until I realized how many freaking times I did it.

 

 

A few tiny things that are missing in the startup (not your fault, heatblur omitted them for some reason).

- Before turning on avionics, you put the WINGS/EXT TRANS switch to OFF. When extending the refueling probe, check that the WINGS/EXT TRANS switch goes back to AUTO. After that, you put it back to OFF and then back to AUTO before reading the takeoff checklist.

- Windshield air is tested after refuel probe extension/retraction by cycling the appropriate switch. In RL, the plane captain would check for airflow somewhere (don't recall exactly where) under the nose of the aircraft which is indicative of windshield air operation.

- I am not sure why the handle remained forward when you put it back into the stowed position. Theoretically, it should have moved back to 68° (the manual commanded position at this point as indicated by the captains bars next to the wingsweep tape on the indicator) at this point, since when the system was not in emergency mode anymore (i.e. handle stowed) and the handle moves in parallel with the wing position when in normal mode. Maybe there is some mechanism to prevent this when the position commanded by the switch and the handle position are disagreeing by a large margin.

 

----- Thanks for this.. I'll try to touch briefly on all of this in the next video

Edited March 18, 2019 by Pac-Man

[Pac-Man]

Thanks for all the support! Next one coming very soon!

[Pac-Man]

Corrections added in the next video!!

[Pac-Man]

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