Relevant to the 'Kenan' question about 'vLSO waveoff using needles' on previous page....
The complete article about NOT using the 'needles' as a substitute meatball is here:
Night carrier landings with ENBSeries/Shadehttp://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=5024.0Otherwise relevant excerpt below:
Naval Aviation News Winter 2011 ‘The Backup Meatball’ NOT!
http://nanarchive.omnitecinc.com/20102012.aspx“...caused the Hornet to strike the flight deck rounddown at the point where the tailhook is attached to the aircraft.... The pilot ejected and landed on the flight deck, sustaining major injuries; the aircraft was lost.... ...the
pilot stated that his carrier landing technique was to use his Automated Carrier Landing System (ACLS) needles as his primary reference & use the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System, or meatball, as a backup for glide slope information.Grampaw Pettibone says: “…And our intrepid aviator? Well, Ol’ Gramps knows that every pilot has his way to do stuff, but
using the ACLS needles in close instead of flying the ball is about as dumb as skinny dippin’ with snapping turtles. Gouge is great, but it’s no substitute for knowing the right way to do things and stickin’ to what’s worked for a long, long time. Gramps knows that
none of this fella’s LSOs taught him that ACLS technique—he should have stuck with what he’d learned."....”