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The Cool Video Thread
pyroperson87:
Sweet vids Spaz! Those VX guys sound like they get to have tons of fun screwing around in the name of "carrier suitability" ;D It's definitely a job I wouldn't mind having!
SpazSinbad:
Magic Carpet for F/A-18EnF&G EMALS AAG X-47B Hook14
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Carrier Suitability F-35C SR&R Hook14
GOONIE:
Very cool Spaz! Keep 'em coming!
Now I want to test out the Magic Carpet ride HUD :o
Spaz, what did you think of the comment at 3:38, "If you fly the Superhornet, and you tell me that you don't already deck spot with the velocity vector... your lying"
SpazSinbad:
I think 'Sludge' via a serving Hornet pilot outlined that 'crotch' method of landing some years back now. I have no idea about it otherwise as I was strictly basic 'meatball, line up and AoA Optimum' with a mirror now a long time ago. So I do not use the HUD at all. But I have seen other comments by HUD pilots about it and how accurate modern HUDs are these days. Things change I guess. Deck spotting otherwise - in that real sense - is NEVER an option however.
The new tech including 'Magic Carpet' and later perhaps the 'Bedford Array' will allow different style carrier landings for sure. They will be more accurate most likely and also allow perhaps ops in more difficult conditions - especially the 'Bedford Array' AFAIK. It may be used concurrently with IFLOLS for those aircraft equipped to use potential 'Bedford Array' such as the Super Hornet and F-35C. This is where 'Magic Carpet' and 'Bedford Array' with the Super will be most useful (also the F-35C which will be using IDLC - their version of 'magic carpet' already under test).
I really appreciated the explanation about "Magic Carpet" because otherwise it was difficult to grasp how it worked but I think I could explain it to someone else now.
Also I have never flown an 'auto throttle' approach. Our A4Gs did not have that function (I think it was installed with A-4Es and above). So that is a bit of a mystery also. Anyway it just goes to show the tremendous innovation underway in Naval Aviation these days - not only with the F-35C but the Super Hornets.
The F-35B on CVFs will be using the 'Bedford Array' for their SRVL approaches along with the necessary SRVV Ship Referenced Velocity Vector (which will be in the Super Hornet and F-35Cs if required for Bedford Array use or otherwise). This will be like 'deck spotting' also however the pilot is legitimately putting the SRVV on the spot on the deck indicated otherwise and the aircraft will go there. The CVF may be rocking and rolling and heaving so that means the touchdown spot will move so that the SRVV has to be moved to it and that is not deck spotting. Deck spotting - just by eyeball alone - gets people killed.
Mickey_Techy:
--- Quote from: GOONIE on September 09, 2014, 03:28:34 pm ---Very cool Spaz! Keep 'em coming!......................
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Ditto......
Thanks Spaz..loved both the videos.
--- Quote from: GOONIE on September 09, 2014, 03:28:34 pm ---....................."If you fly the Superhornet, and you tell me that you don't already deck spot with the velocity vector... your lying"
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..........and.....
--- Quote from: SpazSinbad on September 09, 2014, 06:26:20 pm ---..............Deck spotting - just by eyeball alone - gets people killed.
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Damn. I should have been (virtually) dead a long time ago, :)
Had never thought about it, but in the groove I always had a four point check (instead of the 3 point check),
1. Meatball,
2. Lineup,
3. AoA, and
4. V/V (on Cat 2 and slide towards and ahead of Cat 3 as one comes closer).
The point 4 above, was not a conscious check point, but I just realized, I am always doing it (virtually speaking of course).
Love this hobby. Not a day, when one doesn't learn something new.
Thanks folks.
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