ACMI Air Combat Manuevering Instrumentation
Instructor & three students watching ACMI training simulator. One-hundred mile scope of ACMI range itself, shows moving to vertical & 360 degree rotation & other possibilities.
08:05:58 Electronic view of F-15 cockpit, F14 cockpit shown in various colors. View of lights moving on screen w/ voice over of tower. Night shots of planes on ground & taxiing, take off. Day & F-15 above clouds. Top Gun type flight footage from in cockpit & air-to-air.
08:08:01 Landing seen from rear of runway. Langley AFB, Virginia. Four pilots walk away from planes; two walk together into building talking as ACMI, Eye in the Sky, described by narrator as “best training in the world”.
08:08:38 Pilots discuss benefits of ACMI in reviewing flights as it shows from all perspecitives what took place.
08:09:21 Control tower in early morning light. Mission briefing of maneuvers against F-14 Navy Tomcats. Control tower; pilots into planes. Flight line w/ canopies lowered.
08:10:24 Tower view at sunrise. Planes move out for taxiing, crew, control tower. Taking off.
08:11:10 Briefing, planes in air, four F-14s, wings folded back. Scope w/ planes shown. F-15 and F-14 involved in exercise. Monitor representation of attackers & defenders intercut with live flight footage. Very fast passes, views from various planes. AF planes flying home w/ dramatic lighting behind, crew on tarmac walking in. End credits.
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ACMI Air Combat Manuevering Instrumentation Instructor & three students watching ACMI training simulator. One-hundred mile scope of ACMI range itself, shows moving to vertical & 360 degree rotation & other possibilities. 08:05:58 Electronic view of F-15 cockpit, F14 cockpit shown in various colors. View of lights moving on screen w/ voice over of tower. Night shots of planes on ground & taxiing, take off. Day & F-15 above clouds. Top Gun type flight footage from in cockpit & air-to-air. 08:08:01 Landing seen from rear of runway. Langley AFB, Virginia. Four pilots walk away from planes; two walk together into building talking as ACMI, Eye in the Sky, described by narrator as “best training in the world”. 08:08:38 Pilots discuss benefits of ACMI in reviewing flights as it shows from all perspecitives what took place. 08:09:21 Control tower in early morning light. Mission briefing of maneuvers against F-14 Navy Tomcats. Control tower; pilots into planes. Flight line w/ canopies lowered. 08:10:24 Tower view at sunrise. Planes move out for taxiing, crew, control tower. Taking off. 08:11:10 Briefing, planes in air, four F-14s, wings folded back. Scope w/ planes shown. F-15 and F-14 involved in exercise. Monitor representation of attackers & defenders intercut with live flight footage. Very fast passes, views from various planes. AF planes flying home w/ dramatic lighting behind, crew on tarmac walking in. End credits. Military Electronic Technology; Computerization; Service rivalries; Virtual Reality;