Something I really didn't like about the photography was the reuse of the same camera shots, and shots that were obviously from completely different flights in different areas.
For example, the FCLP flights with an airplane landing on the centerline of the runway and not the carrier box after talking about the carrier box a ton. Or the BFM flights that are out over the water and then suddenly at 1500' over land and then back out over the water. I get that it's tough to shoot that stuff when it's scripted, and adding a couple of chase planes to a student training sortie is a risk management nightmare that no one would allow, but I kept thinking, "how many times am I going to see the same airplane land on the centerline of the same runway at Meridian?"
I'm surprised they didn't use real HUD footage. Unless something has changed, there's nothing classified about the T-45 HUD, or the maneuvers in the syllabus.
For example, the FCLP flights with an airplane landing on the centerline of the runway and not the carrier box after talking about the carrier box a ton. Or the BFM flights that are out over the water and then suddenly at 1500' over land and then back out over the water. I get that it's tough to shoot that stuff when it's scripted, and adding a couple of chase planes to a student training sortie is a risk management nightmare that no one would allow, but I kept thinking, "how many times am I going to see the same airplane land on the centerline of the same runway at Meridian?"
I'm surprised they didn't use real HUD footage. Unless something has changed, there's nothing classified about the T-45 HUD, or the maneuvers in the syllabus.
