Saying Goodbye to the Hornet - My F/A-18 FINI Flight Explained

just loosening the pull on the downwind g, so it turns downwind and, uh, I. Request the touch and go for the pattern and then simple Jack goes to request the final point and that gives my friends who would come to see me, you know, time to go out, maybe see a pattern or two, while he stops completely. and he gets out of the way, which is good for him to do this here, so I make the touch and I go behind, uh, simple jack, uh, I make the full stop and then I take off and I actually get out and come back to enter because I wanted to take another break on the aircraft carrier, just one more and I had planned to go up initially and then stop completely, but well, and go down one. here they are going to ask me my intentions and at first I said yes, period and I said, yes, just one more shout out so yeah that's just the radar altimeter since I'm approaching with the gear on but um yeah that. it closed for the last time, turned back around and came to a complete stop, it was actually one of my best landings, I mean it was a pretty decent landing, the

hornet

was always on fire, you know, I wasn't one of the guys that did the aircraft carrier.

It landed every time I tried to take it off and it was very easy for a plane to land, it wasn't very difficult to have a really smooth landing, that was it, you know, I looked. Finished I could see my friends hanging out and waiting for me and that chapter of my life ended. I appreciate everything after doing the post-

flight

checks and all that stuff. You go to the ramp. They check you if you're hot. it breaks and it falls apart and then they, you know, the final wave, they know and it's all a little surreal at this point, I can see my friends there hanging out, I can see where my park is, they didn't know, obviously No.

I'm allowed to go under the umbrellas, you know, all the planes active or taxiing, but it's just a beautiful day to fly, there's not a cloud in the sky and it's a beautiful day to

fini

sh my

hornet

career, so in taxi I let out a deep sigh knowing it's over and I turned off both engines and hoped that one day I would fly again and I was lucky so after that the fun begins, they hose you down, it's a tradition on your Fenney

flight

, they hose you down with fire or fire bottles. trucks or whatever is around and that's bo, which you may have seen in other videos, he was my deputy at the sheriff's office and, um, the guy with the ball head is, I gave him an incentive trip in the F-18, that's also if you look. in the flight videos that are there and they just spank you and say congratulations, hug him, hug him tight, I hope you enjoyed, uh, this money episode with the moving company, uh, it's a bit of a bittersweet moment, but no I knew I could eventually leave.

Come back and fly, which, as I saw in my T-38 video, is back and you know, I'm happy to report that it's going to happen again and I'm going back to the T-38, that wasn't one of those examples, yeah, I'm kidding. about the two times you get on the plane and you know I've had two Fenney flights, now one in the F-16 and one in the F-18 and you know it's hard, but it's always better than some of my friends. as you've seen in the memorial video you know they walked to the plane not knowing it was their last flight you know they were killed in action or you know it could be a medical issue I mean there could be times where your flight fenny just doesn't I know what happens and all of a sudden you're never going to fly again so I was very lucky to have the opportunity to get that flight so anyway that's it for this episode of Money's with Move next week we'll talk about the Five Things which I love about being an airline pilot, so I will change a little.

Thanks for watching and see you next time.