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Carrier Landings
micro:
--- Quote from: Great Ozzie on January 28, 2008, 03:36:34 am ---Microbrewst, I do have one question for you sir (at least it is a hope)... you are a trusty Shellback, aren't you? :o
Rob O.
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Unfortunately, I never got to deploy. I made it through CQ and then suffered an injury which cut my carreer short. Now I've moved on to the grown-up task of corporate flying, and all of my tactical flying is done from my laptop! Hence the delay in my response. My company was able to find the last reamining hotel in the country without internet service for my 4 day trip.
Great Ozzie:
Thanks for the reply ;D and again thanks for your info (re: trapping).
Man am sorry to hear that about the career being cut short... but... wow 2 envious jobs: the million dollar gold wings and a corporate slot. :-)
I am so glad about this FSX and Accel as it seems is the next best thing to being there or dreaming about it.
I was at Kaneohe MCAS '81 to '84 and did 3 Westpac’s (2 with 1/3 and one with 2/3) is why I had to tease you about the Shellback thingy. Yeah... call me a jarhead... you'll still rate a hand salute!
Btw, I saw your video you did in the vein of TOP GUN. Man was impressive and very professional looking. Bravo!
Rob O.
SUBS17:
Heres a video featuring a carrier landing from the HUD view.
Yeah my PC ain't the fastest these days so there is low FPS whenever I try to record movies aside that note the following in this trap I had a full load of fuel. I also today did some traps without the flaps which work mainly because of the FBW which automatically lowers the flaps. Funny thing about this is in the F-16 you don't need to lower the flaps for landings as the aircraft knows the moment the gear is down to go into landing configuration. Funny how the Hornet doesn't have this but then again its probably due to the FBW being quite new at the time of development. Now the seat of the pants thing, my method involves setting up the hook, flaps and gear, once thats done eyes should be watching the carrier, AoA bracket and the meat ball. Main things of interest are the speed and the altitude plus the FPM and i just simply line up and apply power when needed and maybe a touch of speed brake every so often. Crude I know I suppose if I had the F/A-18 NATOPs and Tac manual I'd probably try to use that as a guide I might look into getting those later on or just wait until the next Hornet sim is released (which will have a manual anyway). 8) Next best thing to a video is pictures to help the noobs learn to land.(and learn some of my bad habbits)
SUBS17:
--- Quote from: Great Ozzie on January 30, 2008, 12:31:38 am ---Well SUBS,
You can't possibly be flying "by the seat of your pants" (it's a romantic notion tho) because you would need to simulate the forces acting on your body that cause your butt to slide around in the seat from not using enough or too much rudder. And in today's "modern" civilian trainers, that sliding is nearly negligible in standard rate turns... so much so that the student normally requires prompting to keep the ball centered.
If your allusion "by the seat of your pants" means you just go up there and stick some power setting in and drive it to the deck (and by some small miracle you manage to slam it on the flight deck an "walk away")... then sure I understand that. But I don't possibly see how you are flying a stabilized pattern/approach to landing and trapping on every approach. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones and can do that w/o thinking or knowing why you do what you do... you just do it (but I think that is Top Gun fantasy).
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Its from years of practice with every carrier sim from F/A-18 interceptor up to FSX acceleration, eyes on HUD and meatball and you can't go wrong.
SUBS17:
How about this for an approach don't use the meatball at all. ;D
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I think I need to save up and start building a pit like this.
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