WEBVTT 00:09.269 --> 00:15.695 The flight line at Kunsan Air Base is equipped with an aircraft arresting system also known as a barrier. 00:16.536 --> 00:19.589 Typically the most dangerous phase of flight is during takeoff and landing role 00:20.239 --> 00:25.888 So let's say, I'm on takeoff role and at a hundred and twenty knots I have a critical engine failure 00:27.378 --> 00:31.710 I am not able to stop on the runway remaining, I can lower my hook, catch the cable and stop. 00:32.610 --> 00:37.404 Whereas without the hook and without the cable, I would have gone off the end of the runway. 00:38.304 --> 00:46.084 It takes a few thousand feet to slow down to a stop, with the pit cable, you come to a stop in a thousand feet or less, typically within 500 feet. 00:47.902 --> 00:50.146 It can slow you down from a hundred fifty knots to zero. 00:51.005 --> 00:53.639 So you almost hang in the straps a little bit. 00:54.462 --> 00:57.021 There's a saying, there's those that have and there's those that will. 00:59.478 --> 01:03.713 A lot of the pilots that have either taken the cable or in the duration of their career will take the cable. 01:05.003 --> 01:09.307 The people that string these cables have a very important job and the pilots are very grateful 01:09.977 --> 01:13.652 especially those pilots who have taken a cable are very grateful for the barriers to be there. 01:14.781 --> 01:19.822 Today we went out to the flight line and made sure the aircraft arrest system are synced together 01:20.566 --> 01:26.394 so that when an aircraft engages the cable, we can make sure it stays on a center line instead of dragging it to one side or another. 01:27.584 --> 01:31.831 We work on that cable and the system that goes with it, so that the pilots have that last line of safety. 01:33.066 --> 01:37.805 It's a real sense of accomplishment actually, I know I'm working on a system, I've put my hands on it 01:38.390 --> 01:40.265 and I know for a fact that it's going to work and it's going to catch him 01:41.233 --> 01:46.393 Our whole crew is amazing, they're out there doing it, huffing it every day out there. 01:47.489 --> 01:53.507 It's just a really good feeling for all of us to know that that pilot is going to be safe and it will stop the plane. 01:54.555 --> 01:57.406 Senior Airman Nick Dostas, Kunsan Air Base, Korea.