Formation of 3 fighters performing flypasts for the RCAF Battle Of Britain parade, at Rockcliffe, Ontario, Sept 2019. Helmet-cam and voice-over commentary by Dave Hadfield, and Joe Cosmano. www.hadfield.ca
Aircraft owned by Mike Potter, Ottawa ON, and flown in association with Vintage Wings of Canada www.vintagewings.ca
Song "On Track" (c)2018 Dave Hadfield
Sony AS-50 helmet-cams, wide-angle.
NOTE: There are many comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In a quick-response situation the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they'd go to their airplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness "just-so" for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the "oh-crap-forgot-that" mistakes.
