World’s First CIVILIAN F-16 Dogfight

Cockpit Chronicles
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1 Video View·Dec 8, 2025
Ride along for a flight in the first civilian F-16 with Hasard Lee as they fly in the aggressor role. Captured in 4K UHD, & 360° with full radio communications.
Hey, this is Hazard and today I'm flying the world's first civilian on minus 16.
Kelly started at 3 o'clock.
Let's go.
Okay, let's go. Mill power.
There is Mill.
Feel the acceleration. Now comes the afterburner.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 steps with 100 knots.
135 knots when taking off. The aircraft is going up.
Yes, you can definitely feel the afterburner, how it accelerates.
It's like a kick in the back.
And each of these five afterburner levels, which ignite, accelerates the runway down.
This is really different from everything you experience in the normal world.
Because the faster you fly, the faster you accelerate.
And behind you is a windman.
Approximately 10 seconds lag 297.
Negative yardstick means that the air-air turn does not work.
So we switch.
That measures the distance to each of us.
Carpet course 080.
GX is really important.
We are exposed to strong G forces, which are nine times higher than gravity.
So you weigh nine times as much in these curves.
Unfortunately, you can lose so much blood that you become powerless.
And at the speeds with which we fly, you will probably hit the ground before you wake up.
About a pilot per year dies of a loss of consciousness caused by GX.
That's why we do GX to warm up to the GX.
Who is ready?
G Consciousness present.
90 degrees left. Go.
1. Good GX.
As 2. Good GX.
Hey. Here is G Consciousness present.
180 degrees right. Go.
All right. Now it's about 180 degrees.
Even more GX.
You can see the whirls coming from the wing route.
So we have 5 to 6 GX here.
That's 91 degrees left of GX 2.
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Okay. Back to action. Ready.
Aces 2 is ready.
Aces report, the fights go on.
Second battle, Aces 1, will be the goal of the conclusion.
These are two fights on bases 2, secured 3, 4, 0, 3, 6, 2, 4, 0, 0, 0.
One clean, one targeted, 1, 5, 0, 2, 7, 4, 0.
Okay. Now we practice catching from great distances.
This is outside the range of Fox 1.
Fox 1 is a semi-active radar rocket.
He has fired three missiles so far.
But you have to support them with the radar of the jet.
Timeout.
North 22,000.
Timeout means that the rocket has exploded, but it is out of sight.
So he can't fire a shot at this distance.
We will say, they have failed to force them into a battle within sight.
West crossing level 6.
This is high back right 5 o'clock.
Has a small advantage over us.
Try to get together here.
Cross the circle to 9 levels.
Have the nose position.
Jake is a little further up here, a little too far.
Try to get out of the plane with him.
10 kilometers to the ground.
Okay. He has a good attack position.
Stretch deep up.
Over the hedge.
Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go.
Okay, so we set it for fuel.
The F-16 does not transport much fuel.
Sometimes you have to switch to the next sentence when the DLOS is reached and the desired learning goals are reached.
Right. These planes are definitely not aircraft.
Where did you get them?
We bought them from Israel.
Originally, they were jets of the US Air Force, which were to be sent to Iran in the 1970s,
but due to political problems at that time, the jets were converted to Israel as part of the training program.
Israel received these jets at the end of the 70s, beginning of the 80s
and about five years ago, the most important support points recognized the need for advanced 4th generation fighter jets,
to train both for the US Air Force and ideally for partner nations.
When the ACC began to talk about the need for advanced fighter jets and fighter jets of the 4th generation,
the best airlines signed a purchase agreement with Israel for the purchase of 29 of these F-16s with a viewing range of 18,000.
Switch on the lights.
Okay, now we're making a visual contact. We're at Mach 0.9, so 0.9 times the speed of sound.
You see, that's about 1,600 kilometers per hour approach speed.
Kelly 3 o'clock, a little too high.
Okay, he has the offensive advantage here. He flies straight along the PL and tries to get out of the plane.
The most difficult thing is to keep the sight. And if you are exposed to these G forces, the sight shrinks,
so that it looks less than 9G as if you were looking through toilet paper.
Now on the ground for a speed fight. He has the advantage.
Pull yourself together a little.
Let's see if we can get a little closer.
Again, we try to achieve the desired learning goals. He wants to fire a shot with a high side ratio.
And we are the target here. We try to make it possible for him to fire this shot at us without making it too easy for him.
So you're a civilian company, but you used to fly as attackers.
All these other guys used to fly as air force attackers.
Confirmed.
And basically, the concept behind Top Bases is really to be an extension.
Our goal is to be an extension of the US Air Force aggressors on the side of the contractor.
As you have already mentioned, we are all civilian pilots. It is a civilian company.
But we bring this legacy of the aggressors into the civil market with the goal of being a professional contractor for aggressors
and to repeat this seamless integration and expansion of the US Air Force aggressors.
So these jets did not have this old avionics, although they were built in the 70s and 80s.
Yes, so we have made some improvements. No light defense.
There were a few improvements on the jet to improve the radar operation.
You know, some of our jets are still pretty much the base UEM jet, if you will, with minimal improvements.
And then we have our Advanced Aggressor Fighter, which is essentially a modern aircraft in an original fuselage.
So what we did with our Advanced Jet is to introduce a completely new UFP operation flight program.
We introduced this via an open architecture mission system, which we call our Advanced Aggressor Mission System or AMS, as it will also be called.
And the mission system allows you to call information from the CoreJet 17 Albuquerque Center.
And allows us to operate all of our advanced systems without having to get inside the aircraft.
Albuquerque Center, do not exceed 30 knots.
And the reason why this is important is that we are about to check the airport of the city.
The reason for this is that if you do something with the operational core flight program of the aircraft, this can have significant effects on the airworthiness and must have consequences that must be validated again.
If we do this with our advanced Aggressor Mission System, the core aircraft essentially does not know that this system exists.
This allows us to add our advanced radar, a wing system mounted on the helmet, a wing 16, an IRSU and tracking function and much more.
This is only our initial set, but you can basically attach almost any advanced sensor to the jet and the mission system.
The new Open Contact Approach 11 Niner 4
pulls the required data from the jet and then passes it on to the mission system to operate all of these systems.
And we do this from the perspective of the pilot.
We do this with a new multifunctional color MFD here in the cockpit.
And then I can use it and the Helmwatte-Schlangen-System to operate pretty much all the systems I need without having to climb.
Without having to change the core program. 1 is directly David's M at 17,000.
All right. Three green landing permits. Good pressure.
1 base free left 51.
Understood.
62 late echo control golf.
Right.
Caution left.
All right. So let's go. We are preparing for the landing.
The F-16 lands with about 150 knots, about 175 miles per hour.
For the brakes it has, this is a very heavy jet.
It weighs over 20,000 pounds and the brakes are about as big as a Toyota Corolla.
So you have to set up.
You set up with about 175 miles per hour.
And then you have to make an arrow brake, where you make a wheelie.
And you can slow down from air resistance to about 100 knots.
And that's exactly when you can let your nose down and apply pressure to the brakes.
Otherwise you'll ignite them.
Done.
All right. Thanks for watching and keep an eye out for the next one.
Take care.
