Good Morning Arizona Interviews Santa Going Solo!

Santa Claus is a regular client at Fighter Combat International. Unlike other years where he was always under training with one of our military fighter pilots, this year he takes the aircraft up solo for the first time! Fortunately, Bruce Haffner with Good Morning Arizona TV3 had a chance to grab Santa just as he was finishing his calisthenics prior to jumping in the cockpit. Also shown is a clip from Santa’s earlier in-flight training while in formation with the TV3 helicopter…

Air Combat Clip

The cockpit scene you view on this clip is about 1/2 way through an air combat engagement that was initiated with a high-aspect head-on pass at approximately 7,000′ MSL (5,500′ above ground level) with a closing velocity of about 500 miles per hour. In this clip, Eric follows the Fighter Combat instructor pilot’s coaching from a position of slight advantage to a position of effectively employing a lethal gun attack on the adversary aircraft. Watch Eric fly and listen as Smo highlights various air combat concepts to Eric discussed the mission briefing for him to apply to the actual engagement.

High Aspect Basic Fighter Maneuvers

This scene starts with aircraft flying in side-by-side tactical formation just prior to the formation lead calling “check away” to setup for the neutral high-aspect engagement. When formation is subsequently directed to “turn in” the aircraft point head-on to each other closing at over 400 mph! When the two aircraft meet at the merge, the formation lead calls “fight’s on” to start the engagement. Watch and listen as BJ coaches Mud Ball through this high-energy fun-filled dogfight against Mud Ball’s brother-in-law, Blondie. Don’t let the results of this engagement fool you, in the next engagement (not included here), Blondie sets a Fighter Combat International record of 12.95 seconds from merge to guns kill.

Ratchet Roll

David arrived at Fighter Combat wanting to see everything the Extra could do and was specifically interested in the Point Roll (or Hesitation Roll). After an instructional demonstration and a few practices, he was able to fly the maneuver more effectively using a slower roll rate with crisper “stops” at the 90 degree points which characterizes this maneuver.

The Inside Loop

Category (Basic, Advanced or Extreme): Basic
 
The video clip below contains several maneuvers in sequence that starts with a G-Warm-Up Exercise with alternating level 3-G turns, an Inside Loop followed by two Aileron Rolls. Our client “air show pilot”, Teresa, had lots of fun flying with Fighter Combat Instructor Bill Moffat, formerly a Canadian and US [...]

Media Coverage: Canada Above & Beyond

This was truly a thrill of a lifetime! Check-out video coverage of Denis and Gaye Fournier taking to the skies with Fighter Combat International …

Group Event: Introduction to Air Combat

This experience was too awesome to describe. The briefing was professionally done by Otter–despite no previous experience with aerobatics or combat flight, I felt like I understood what we were trying to do. [The instructor] walked me through the drills in the air very clearly and with patience. I felt extremely safe at all times. It was clear that he was not only an accomplished, talented pilot himself, but he was also a great teacher and looked for reasons to give positive feedback…

Added A Whole New Dimension To My Life

The pure joy of rolling and dancing around the sky in an inordinate array of attitudes with what appeared to be such ease and freedom added a whole new dimension to my life. This really was flying and must be the closest one can get to the real thing as is humanly possible. I can only hope to come back as a bird in the next life.

Holiday Season Promotions

Far Beyond My Most Exaggerated Expectations

The entire experience was far beyond my most exaggerated expectations. The flight was exhilarating, exciting, thrilling, invigorating, breathtaking, spine-tingling, mind-blowing, incredibly stunning and what else can I say but “I loved it”!

Fearless Shark Teeth!

The entire experience was incredible thanks to a very professional staff and an aircraft that is down right fearless. The shark type teeth decals on it are a complete understatement! I thought that repeated horizontal spinning was something only a helicopter could do…

Santa Claus is Back to Sharpen his Skills!

This video was taken by the Channel 3 helicopter in the Fighter Combat International training area in the eastern corner of the Phoenix Valley in Arizona. Check it out as Santa Claus flys a series of aerobatics to show the kids his flying skills in preparation for his Christmas flying duties with the Reindeer and Sleigh!

Adventurer from Italy Flys Hard

Alex arrived at Fighter Combat excited to gather some great experiences to tell his friends about back in Italy. He wanted to see everything the Extra could do. As you’ll see in the included video sampling below, his wishes came true and had a blast flying with Fighter Combat pilot, Paul BJ Ransbury, just 2-days before Christmas.

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