Timeline for What makes it so hard to land on an aircraft carrier?
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 13:28 | comment | added | New Alexandria | I have no problem marking @MichaelHall as a the accepted answer, but I'd like to see someone edit-in other context to make his answer comprehensive — since it sound like you'll delete yours once I switch. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 2:14 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 0:08 | comment | added | Michael Hall | P.S. In the day time case 1 pattern if you were aiming for where the ship will be in 30 seconds you would be waved off for being long in the groove. Target straightaway time to keep the pattern tight for efficient recovery is only 15 to 18 seconds in the groove! | |
| Jan 10, 2019 at 23:57 | comment | added | Michael Hall | Just a comment on "sideways movement": While it is technically true that the ship is "slipping sideways" to the right, this is perceived by the pilot only as a slight crosswind. Most pilots would consider a crosswind within +/- 10 degrees of the runway heading as negligible. Also, the pilot does not aim for a point in front of the landing area. See my answer below for more perspective on this... | |
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| Nov 13, 2014 at 20:10 | comment | added | Rhino Driver | Actually, aside from your lineup, you don't aim for any part of the boat--that's called deck-spotting. Your glide path should be controlled by the ball, and you'd like to see it either centered, or slightly above the datums. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 21:38 | comment | added | Phil Perry | Something else that makes transition from a runway to a flight deck difficult: you're just about landing on the nose gear (which is very beefed up in carrier aircraft), rather than flaring to touch down on the main gear. Naval aviators (they disdain the term "pilot") have a saying, "flare to land, squat to pee" to indicate what they think of Air Force pilots :). | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 4:36 | vote | accept | New Alexandria | ||
| Jan 10, 2014 at 16:39 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 16:12 | comment | added | abelenky | @PhilippeLeybaert: See the picture that I added to the question. From both the perspective of the Pilot and the Carrier, the plane is aiming for a point in front of the boat. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 16:05 | comment | added | Philippe Leybaert | @abelenky It depends what you meant by in front :-) From the standpoint of the pilot or from the standpoint of the carrier? :-) | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 16:02 | comment | added | yankeekilo | What about the size. It´s a tiny piece of ground for a jet. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 15:53 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 15:46 | history | edited | abelenky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2014 at 15:31 | comment | added | abelenky | @PhilippeLeybaert: Did I write anything to indicate the boat would be moving towards the plane? That is not my intention. You are correct that they'll both be moving in the same direction. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 15:03 | comment | added | Philippe Leybaert | I can't imagine that the aircraft carrier will be moving towards the landing aircraft. I suspect it will be moving away (in the same direction as the landing plane). But then again, I've never landed on an aircraft carrier :-) | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | DeltaLima♦ | The glide path argument doesn't really hold. There is no back ground reference where you aim at, it's all sea. You will just approach to the carrier as if it was a normal runway. The fact that the ship is moving by about 30 knots makes that it feel as if you encounter an extra 30 knots headwind. | |
| Jan 10, 2014 at 14:46 | history | answered | abelenky | CC BY-SA 3.0 |