Can US Pilots fly Russian Fighter Jets

[armedstories]

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[indoraptor]

Fun fact: there are more ww2 era planes im service than su-57s

[Kev]

Blue Angels visited Russia, and flew with The Russian Knights. They also took turns controling the stick and had a blast doing so.

[JustismGaethje]

They didn’t switch to F/A-18’s they switched to F-14’s

[billyponsonby]

Hey Google, Wake me up tomorrow and tell me how many comments here admonish that’s not an A-7 Corsair, it’s an F7U Cutlass.

[sillyboiWT]

"its better to fly badly than crash well"
-gaijin

[DaemonwarriorJulius]

It's the same with any new machine. If I get assigned a new modem of forklift that I've never operated before I also need a bit to get used to the controls because muscle memory kicks in and I automatically reach for controls of the previous forklift. Different layout means previous muscle memory needs to be overwritten with new one.

[LowSparkofHighHeeledBoys]

Wait, I saw Clint Eastwood steal a Russian plane in the movie Firefox and he flew it like an expert. Just had to talk to it in Russian. 😂😂😂😂😂

[AceIndiana]

Anybody who is here looking for the shortest answer?
It’s no.
American pilots cannot just jump into a Russian jet and take off without even looking at a manual.
Even civilian pilots need training for any aircraft they are taking over or going to fly.

[gringogreen]

My understanding of Russian vs Western aircraft is that when Germany unified in the 1990s it wasn't feasible to really cross train on either platform so they just kept the pilots in their respective planes at the time. So... not really.

[michaelw]

The first pilots allowed to fly captured enemy planes are always experienced test flight pilots who have flown many different types.

Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC, Hon FRAeS was a British Royal Navy officer and test pilot who flew 487 types of aircraft, more than anyone else in history.

No. 1426 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight RAF, nicknamed the Rafwaffe, was a Royal Air Force (RAF) independent aircraft flight formed during the Second World War to evaluate captured enemy aircraft and demonstrate their characteristics to other allied units.

[Ishrak-edlo]

Russian jets are maintenance friendly. Making them less user friendly. US jets are purpose built even if they are harder to make and maintain.

[HistoryTalksYT]

The "let's put that into perspective" hits hard 🔥

[erictaylor]

A lot of what a pilot learns when getting a new type rating. Every airplane flies more or less the same. From a Cessna 150 to a Boeing 747, the "stick and rudder" flying is more or less the same.
However, the planes will have vastly different performance characterizes, limits, and procedures. For example, a Cessna 150 will be torn apart long before it reaches the stall speed of an F-15.
My dad was a CFI in the 70's and 80's and he somehow got invited to fly the C-5 simulator at Travis.
The C-5 is so much bigger than the airplane my dad was used to flying, you could fly the plane through the cargo compartment without touching the C-5 at all.
He asked to try something, with no additional training (other than reading up on the C-5 performance notes) in a simulated flight he was able to taxi to the runway, take off, fly Around the pattern and land, then taxi back to the ramp. All of it without a single word from any instructor.
You'd never try something like that for real. You'd want the extra instructions. but in an emergency he could land the plane safely.

[joshschneider]

i feel like "possible but ridiculous and unsustainable" is pretty much accurate too

[JamesGreen-dehl]

I think a commercial plane crashed once because it was designed by not Russia and the attitude indicator was designed differently, causing the not well trained on the new plane pilots to crash because they thought they were doing the inverse of what they were actually doing (could be very off on my facts it’s what I remember from air crash investigations that I saw years ago)

[DodInTheSky]

Fighter jets are unstable by design to improve manoeuvrability.They are really difficult if not impossible to control without the aid of a computer. So you have to know the systems well to fly one effectively. Plus like all airplanes, getting one in the air is usually not the hardest part. Getting it on the ground is.

[nuclear-strategic]

Bruv, tell your AI to mention what a US pilot stated after flying a Mig-29,
He basically said it was smooth as hell.

[dalemsilas]

Any pilot who doesn't dabble in flight sims flying everything there is rare.

[johnwhitehead]

Chuck Yeager amazed MIG designer Mikoyan when he revealed that he'd dived when test flying a captured MIG after the Korean War, they met during a thaw in US Soviet relations.