Great video, this just proves the only thing more impressive than flight ops on the ship is night flight ops on the ship. Thanks to all now serving, those who have, and those who will in the future. FLY NAVY!!!

As my dad used to day, that's pretty much the most exciting thing you'll ever do with your pants on...

Amazing how the carrier just appears out of the dark and you're using a strip of lights to land. Great job

Loved the subtitles that were moved around for the different people. Lots going on in that last couple minutes of flight.

Great job - best vid I've seen showing an E-2 landing with comms. Former E-2 pilot here. IRL you can see a little more but it's still really dark. This video doesn't even show haw hard the pilots have to work in the "stack" before they "push".

Carrier night landing, in the dark gives a whole new meaning to "pucker power". I don't know how you aviators do it but you have my total respect.

I literally watched both of your videos multiple times over and over lol. I know to you guys it's just another day doing flight ops (day or night) but to anyone who's never been on the deck of a aircraft carrier (especially as a pilot) it's absolutely sick how coordinated the operation is.

Lost ALL orientation watching this in full screen. Full applause for you when you said, "Money!!" ...Nice.

Thank you for the view and audio.Tons of respect

I can't imagine the pucker factor landing at night in inclement weather with rough seas... Respect. Thank you for your service!

I've seen just about every carrier takeoff/landing on KZfaq and you guys are the best !! Fantastic video, can't wait to see more

I'm only watching on a screen and my palms are sweaty! Wow. Nice work.

I dont know if its the camera but it only shows how insanely difficult to land on an aircraft carrier at night. Kudos.

Outstanding job! Damn good eyesight.

Very cool. Thank you for your service.

I am telling you, these Navy fly boys have Balls! I couldn't even see the ball till just a few moments before touch down and I have a pilots license!

Its just mindblowing. Huge respect.

I'm a sport pilot, but landing at night with E-2C on the deck... it's different level of flying 😁 RESPECT 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That's just amazing. Thank you very much for the captions. And for the video. ☮

if I could give that two thumbs up I would. As a PPL holder and bit of a plane nut this was the best vid, top one!! I thought my first solo and cross country was cool, to do a night carrier landing has to be the pinnacle of flying

That is an amazing bit of video.

incredible stuff to watch, went like clockwork, a hair high and right, but well within references. hats off to the men and women who do this, it's a heck of a job.

They are big and brass. Great job.

Beautiful approach to the crew and landing

Magnifique merci pour le partage de la vidéo Salutations de la Suisse

From the intercom conversation I would guess this is a non CAPC (Carrier Aircraft Plane Commander) making their first or among their night traps. There is an interesting comment many will have missed. At 4:05 the CAPC advises "a little right for line-up" at 4:09 he advises "Don't let the burble get you." If you freeze the video at 4:09 you will see that the aircraft is passing through line-up left to right and and is about 1/2 to 3/4 of a ball high. Since we can't see the Angle of Attack repeater we don't know about the approach speed. The pilot is 4 seconds away from touch down and has at least 2 of 3 factors that need attention at a very critical part of the approach. For the E-2 this is the most demanding (and potentially dangerous) parts of the approach. As an E-2 CAPC my brain is telling me - if I try to correct for the high ball with a power reduction there is a distinct chance the burble will cause a rapid sink rate and come down at the ramp. With an axial wind this line-up will work okay. I will maintain power settings and tweak the nose down ever so slightly. (Again, this is without knowing the angle of attack.) This is a perfect illustration of what makes the E-2 difficult to land well. Little deviations from ideal can gang up on you and turn an otherwise great approach into a can of worms. GJD - thanks for posting and causing my blood pressure to spike. 😰

AMAZING landing man! Cheers.

it sounds like the first officer was the Pilot Flying, the encouraging words from the captain during the approach reminded me of when i was a FO on the 737 good luck for you both

Awesome job!

Moooooooooooooore!!!!! Every flight please!! These are gooooood!

Landing on a dark carrier deck like this is like being in a dark warehouse and having someone hold a lit match across the floor next to the door and telling you to throw door key in the dark and make it go into the key hole… 😳

best navy in the world right here

Amazing 😮

Let’s gooo New GJD upload

it's so surreal to land on a postage stamp at night. awesome

Wow! It's SCARY DARK landing on a carrier at night! And this appeared to be in relatively good weather! Night carrier traps are probably the hardest thing to do in aviation!

Wow...just, wow. 👏👏👏👏

Фантастика!

That's some crazy sh*t! I'll stick with SONAR ty! Your talent shines, sir!

GREAT VIDEO POST MORE

Blurred avionics or just compression artifacts? Lovely video.

just wow!

Imagine during a storm at night!

Fine flying

Amazing. Now imagine a F14 at night and a storm

Ho. Lee. Chit. !!! You guys are badass

Such brave people.The human can be trained to do almost anything.

Amazing!

Потрясающе

I do believe I would be more afraid of working on deck at night than to be in the plane.

That's probably the scariest thing I've seen on KZfaq.

Well that's pretty terrifying.

Amazing

now that's just insane! you can't even see the people outside!

unfuckingreal dude! anyone with little knowledge on aviation knows how hard that was.

Awesome asf!

Ik a guy in the day , flew F14s off a carrier . Said the first thing, on a( Night landing ) they did after u squared everything away. Was to give u a shot of whiskey , for the nerves. After seeing this I get it !

in the groove

Worthy!

Doin this in the day in clouds in a Cessna 172 is tough. This is just amazingly tough.

Awesome!

Gggity. Keep it up.

Man oh man.

Wow!

I just noticed that you landed 4 months later

Nice video, can you let me repost your videos?, obviously I’ll give you the credits and I’m gonna recommend my audience to follow you 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Its awesome. But i hve question, you have night vision for landind? Or only with your own eyes?

Wow.

Flying skills fit only for the young and the brave.

Slick

Carrier Landing at night on a moving ship

Naval Aviation at it best

Call the Ball

WOW! Talk about being dark! Are y'all wearing night vision or is this strictly naked eye? Awesome landing, and thank y'all sooooo much for y'alls service!!! THAT'S MONEY, DUDE!!! LOL!

All that and no 12,000 foot runway or droge chute...sorry AF...FLY NAVY. My dad flew these...he mostly wasn't fond of night traps, especially during darken ship in the Gulf of Tonkin. They had like 2 red lights, and the ball...

I hope in fact you had some visual instead of poor GoPro recording quality at night. Anyway awesome job! I can't see shit, suppose when you saw lights on carrier it's to late to correct and go around is only option

Unreal!!! Next life I'm begging God to give me a bigger brain... ALOT bigger brain.

What's it mean when pilot says "Betas?" at 4:20?

woah

Hi,rio de janeiro-brazil.

I need a flashlight, i wont be able to see the controls.

amazing. 3.7 is for 3,700 lb of fuel left?

Bruh i can`t see shit How this is possible best pilot

Can I ask how old this video is? My wife and I are both AC’s and we’re both pretty convinced this just might be my voice on the other side of the freq.

Very impressive, but turn up the contrast in the game options and you can just see the carrier 😎 You'll learn kiddo🍻

Hey! I love your videos, Do you have an instagram account where i can see more? Thanks

Non-rate here brother was a shellback I was hoping to see the touchdown...at night...

fuck yes

Who is paddles?? 3:49

IFR!!!

“RADALT HOLDING 200” can you explain what RADALT is please..?

What is that sound at 4:02? Minimums?

I HATED night landings....on LAND! I can't imagine how I would have felt landing at night on a bobbing carrier.

I thought the red lights were the aircraft carrier. Fuck. That.

What is the "hatch"?

Hello GJD, would it possible to contact you regarding one of your videos i.e via mail? I would love to discuss a permission to use it if this is possible. Greetings!

Think the Chinese Navy at this level yet?

mamamia!...

It possible to landing at night when fog weather?

G’day Hawkeye flight crew, have you guys ever requested permission for a fly by, to buzz the tower on the carrier? I reckon that’d get a laugh from the deck crew ✈️🚜 . Things are not good here down under, you’re welcome to bring a strike force and liberate us, thanks in advance. Ex Air Defence Regiment Gunner here 🤙