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Tim Berg - Test Piloting and Detached Observation (Immersion Series #5)

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The Most Dangerous Part of Being a Navy Pilot?

The most intense thing about being a Navy pilot is landing on aircraft care. The back end of your airplane goes over the back end of the ship, like maybe by like 12 feet. So if you get a little bit low, like say you got 12 feet low, part of your plane is going to hit the back of the ship. And just very bad. You know, so there's a very, the tolerance is tight,. If you're not going straight, if you were going too far, right or left, you'd run out of, you'drun off the ship or hit another airplane. Yeah. No, I can't imagine.

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