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So you want to be a Carrier Pilot
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:04 am
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:04 am
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It's hard enough to shoot an IFR approach in crap conditions in a single-engine plane at 75kts with a 5,000 ft runway laid out in front of you on "terra firma" - minus the rolling and pitching deck in high seas/high winds.
This one landing alone deserves a medal.
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:08 am to tigerpawl
I've seen more difficult landings on NES Top Gun
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:11 am to tigerpawl
I’ve seen better wet landings in the quad.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:13 am to tigerpawl
This is why Naval Aviators >>> any pilots elsewhere.
That added layer of landing on a boat makes them the best alone.
That added layer of landing on a boat makes them the best alone.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:13 am to tigerpawl
If i were the pilot, i would have been saying to myself the whole time, do not become a meme, do not become a meme, do not become a meme while trying to land
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:19 am to tigerpawl
That is awesome. I love watching naval aviators slam the deck
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:26 am to tigerpawl
Did he call the ball?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:26 am to tigerpawl
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So you want to be a Carrier Pilot
I can't...I'm black.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:29 am to Itismemc
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I've seen more difficult landings on NES Top Gun
CALL THE BALL
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:30 am to Robin Masters
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Did he call the ball?
Someone tell me what that means. Been wondering since the 80’s.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:30 am to Commandeaux
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I can't...I'm black.
It's a flying job. No swimming required. Go for it bro.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:33 am to tigerpawl
i have many Hornet / carrier based platform pilot friends, and it never ceases to amaze me what this neanderthal group of absolute fricking retards is apparently capable of doing in a jet (i love them all)
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:35 am to tigerpawl
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:35 am to BRgetthenet
An optical landing system (OLS) (nicknamed "meatball" or simply "ball") is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier.
From the beginning of aircraft landing on ships in the 1920s to the introduction of OLSs, pilots relied solely on their visual perception of the landing area and the aid of the Landing Signal Officer (LSO in the U.S. Navy, or "batsman" in the Commonwealth navies). LSOs used coloured flags, cloth paddles and lighted wands. The OLS was developed after World War II by the British and was deployed on U.S. Navy carriers from 1955. In its developed form, the OLS consists of a horizontal row of green lights, used as a reference, and a column of vertical lights. The vertical lights signal whether the aircraft is too high, too low, or at the correct altitude as the pilot descends the glide slope towards the carrier's deck. Other lights give various commands and can be used to require the pilot to abort the landing and "go around." The OLS remains under control of the LSO, who can also communicate with the pilot via radio.
From the beginning of aircraft landing on ships in the 1920s to the introduction of OLSs, pilots relied solely on their visual perception of the landing area and the aid of the Landing Signal Officer (LSO in the U.S. Navy, or "batsman" in the Commonwealth navies). LSOs used coloured flags, cloth paddles and lighted wands. The OLS was developed after World War II by the British and was deployed on U.S. Navy carriers from 1955. In its developed form, the OLS consists of a horizontal row of green lights, used as a reference, and a column of vertical lights. The vertical lights signal whether the aircraft is too high, too low, or at the correct altitude as the pilot descends the glide slope towards the carrier's deck. Other lights give various commands and can be used to require the pilot to abort the landing and "go around." The OLS remains under control of the LSO, who can also communicate with the pilot via radio.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:36 am to tigerpawl
I bet he still got nitpicked in the debrief for incorrect comms or catching the wrong wire or something like that.
Military pilots are a rare kind
Military pilots are a rare kind
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:37 am to Saint Alfonzo
i watched a video on youtube that explained how to do the landing on the NES Top Gun and it's actually pretty simple. i think you just have to hit the d-pad the same number of times it gives you an instruction (or something like that). that doesnt really help the ten thousand Tomcats i put at the bottom of the indian ocean back in the day, but FWIW.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:38 am to tigerpawl
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This one landing alone deserves a medal.
You've got to be shitting me!
How many dicks did you suck in the Navy?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:43 am to BRgetthenet
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Someone tell me what that means. Been wondering since the 80’s.
There is a device on the boat which shows a red, yellow or green light. It is the ball. And the pilot will see red, yellow or green depending on whether he is below, just at or in a good glide slope. You are good in green and low in red. Watch Rob Roy's YT channel. You will see the ball on the port side of the deck. Calling the ball is the deck guys knowing whether the planes glide slope is good. I believe those guys can wave off a plane that is not in the right groove. And I think one or two of those deck guys grades the pilots landing.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:44 am to tigerpawl
Landing on a carrier, on a heaving sea in broad daylight, looks tough as heck. The instrument approach makes it a wee bit harder but not too much.
I took up a former Naval Aviator in my Cirrus SR22T. He was a career helicopter pilot who retired about six years earlier, and didn’t fly the last eight years of his career. He had flown fixed wings when he got his wings and he flew a King Air for one year during his service. So it had been about 14 years since he had flown helicopters and about 20 since he had flown fixed.
We took off KNEW and flew to the practice area where he asked for the controls. At 2,000’ he executed steep turns at 45 degrees with rollout at 360. Everything was on the numbers - and I mean RIGHT on the numbers; there was no need for an error margin like they allow me in my flight reviews. Then he landed the plane, not great but acceptable. Any pilot can tell you that’s impressive considering how long since he’s flown.
That’s military discipline for you.
I took up a former Naval Aviator in my Cirrus SR22T. He was a career helicopter pilot who retired about six years earlier, and didn’t fly the last eight years of his career. He had flown fixed wings when he got his wings and he flew a King Air for one year during his service. So it had been about 14 years since he had flown helicopters and about 20 since he had flown fixed.
We took off KNEW and flew to the practice area where he asked for the controls. At 2,000’ he executed steep turns at 45 degrees with rollout at 360. Everything was on the numbers - and I mean RIGHT on the numbers; there was no need for an error margin like they allow me in my flight reviews. Then he landed the plane, not great but acceptable. Any pilot can tell you that’s impressive considering how long since he’s flown.
That’s military discipline for you.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 9:50 am to choppadocta
When they say, “bla blah blah, call your ball..” is that the pilot speaking to the LSO, or vice-versa?
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