In the following videos, you can experience Naval Aviators training in aircraft carrier operations with their T-45 Goshawk.
Over the following years through the Required Avionics Modernization Program (RAMP), all T-45A would be upgraded to a digital cockpit display and designated the T-45C Naval Aviator Qualifications Initially, the T-45A had an analog design cockpit. Introduced into service in 1991, this naval training aircraft was developed to replace the T-2 Buckeye and A-4 Skyhawk trainer aircraft. The smaller size and less power associated with the Goshawk make it a perfectly sized aircraft to teach inexperienced pilots. The Goshawk has an empty weight of 10,403 lb while the Hornet is 23,000 lb. The F-18 has a maximum speed of 1,190 mph while the T-45 only 645 mph. The F-18 has a total of 9 hardpoints for live weapons. It also only has one hardpoint under each that may carry a practice bomb. The Goshawk seats two crew, a student and his pilot. Compare that to one of the other fighters a naval aviator may pilot, the F-18 Hornet, which has two powerful turbofan engines that produce 11,000 lbf of thrust each. The T-45 has a single turbofan engine that produces 5,527 lbf. Also Read: Jet Friday – As a Fighter Pilot You Definitely Recognize This Aircraft
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The aircraft a naval aviator is expected to fly commonly operates from aircraft carriers and knowing how to launch and land on one is a requirement. One of the important training segments for naval aviators involves becoming carrier qualified. There they will fly the T-45 while learning instrument flying, formation flying, nighttime flying, bombing and air combat maneuvering, and other more advanced training. The pilots chosen for the advanced strike pipeline are assigned to Naval Air Station (NAS) Meridian, MS or NAS Kingsville, TX. It is used for intermediate and advanced portions of the Navy pilot training program for jet carrier aviation and tactical strike missions. If you proceed down the path to advanced strike fighters, you’ll find yourself in the current jet engine training aircraft the T-45 Goshawk, a carrier-capable trainer. Another option would be Advanced Maritime which would lead to the KC-130. One would be advanced strike fighters leading to jets like the AV-8B Harrier and F-18 Hornet. Eventually, training will lead the student naval aviator down one of the four pilot training pipelines. During flight training, pilots will see primary flights in a propellor aircraft like the T-34 Mentor or T-6 Texan. The training is very demanding and typically lasts 18 months to two years to accomplish ground and flight training. If you are part of the small percentage of candidates to be chosen through selection and then pass aeronautical screenings and the aviation selection test battery, then you will be designated a student naval aviator. To be an officer you must have a four-year degree. To become a pilot you must be an officer. There are stringent physical standards to meet. It is a difficult task to become an aviator in the United States military.
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