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Autolandings
GOONIE:
"Auto landings will one day become the standard way to recover on the CVN. A pass flown manually will be an emergency!"
WTF >:(
Thought I would share this month's link to the LSO newsletter and Approach Magazine. The newsletter discusses a new landing system, the bedford array and ship stabilized velocity indicator and future navy, with an autolanding only fleet. This autoland goal is to reduce expense (flights/$fuel) by not requiring FCLPs and/or carrier currency and quals.
http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesMonthlyAugust2011.pdf
http://safetycenter.navy.mil/
-CAPT
SUBS17:
Even F/A-18C has autoland its nothing new they also have tested autorefuel with the basket not sure if that will ever be added to next gen aircraft.
GOONIE:
--- Quote from: SUBS17 on August 15, 2011, 01:43:06 am ---Even F/A-18C has autoland its nothing new they also have tested autorefuel with the basket not sure if that will ever be added to next gen aircraft.
--- End quote ---
Subs, I am not surprised by the autoland capability on the hornet, even the A-6E had autoland capability, what I am surprised by is the LSO saying autolandings will become THE normal way to fly an approach, and a hand flown carrier approach will become the emergency case. Seems backwards, and I am not a fan.
-Capt
SUBS17:
Yeah that does sound backwards and lazy.
SpazSinbad:
Will be interesting to see the effect on night carrier landing ops with this DAS + HMDS combo. JPALS is the new key to very precise auto landings BTW.
Three-Dimensional Warriors
http://www.sldinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/SLD3-DWarrior.pdf (3Mb)
The Distributed Aperture System and 360-Degree Situational Awareness p.24
"SLD: How does the new helmet for the F-35 interact with the DAS?
Rossi: The DAS provides 360-degree NAFLIR (Navigation Forward Looking Infrared) capability.
So if you think about it we’re out there staring at the world. We have all this information. We can then take and post-process where the pilot is looking on his helmet. We also have an auxiliary channel where he can dial in any particular sector that he wants to keep track of and we can give him near 20/20 IR imagery of the world about him.
So now night landings on carriers are fully enabled. We show this stuff to Navy pilots and they’re just awestruck that they can even see the horizon, let alone the boat out there and the wake...."
http://attach.high-g.net/attachments/das_jsf_tailhook07brief_287.jpg
FROM: F-35 Tail Hook.ppt (4.6Mb)
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_download-id-12218.html
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