aircraft carrier can rely on LSO (Landing Signal Officers – radio callsign “Paddles”) talkdown. Following is an excerpt that provides some details that allow you to better understand the role of the LSO, mentioned by Austin Hulbert in the comment to the footage above.įrom the last three quarters of a mile all the way to touchdown the pilot approaching a U.S. There’s a full post posted on this topic here for you to deep dive if interested. We have often explained how trap landings aboard U.S. Fortunately, the foot well is well-barriered and the card was easy to retrieve once I got out of the jet.” Arrested landings. “The item that flew forward was a divert card to plan for a fuel divert in case we weren’t able to get the jet aboard. Naval Aviation lingo) as it approaches the flight deck. The left MFD (Multi-Function Display) shows the attitude indicator and gives a clear idea of the rotation of the jet around the roll and pitch axis of the VFA-211’s “Rhino” (as the F/A-18F is dubbed in U.S. Indeed, you can see the amount of inputs on the throttle and stick that are required to keep the desired airspeed, rate of descent and attitude in bad weather. The control inputs are bigger than normal due to the gusts and turbulent winds.” “There was a pretty big thunderstorm that was dumping down so much rain we could not see the ball (“meatball”=the visual landing aid we use to land aboard the ship) so the LSOs (Landing Signals Officers) had to talk all the aircraft down. “This video was taken during a foul-weather recovery aboard the USS Enterprise,” says Austin Hulbert, a pilot with the VFA-211 in the comment to the video. The video is not recent: although it was uploaded to Youtube in 2018, the trap landing occurred almost 10 years ago, in 2011 (based on the other videos posted by the same pilot) during one of the last cruises of USS Enterprise, that was retired from active service in 2012. Filmed in the cockpit of a Hornet “in the groove” (the final part of the approach flown with level wings) the footage below focuses on the hands of the pilot as he controls throttle and stick until the successful arrested landing aboard the carrier. There are many clips showing carrier landings from inside the cockpit but you won’t find many videos like the one in this post. F/A-18F trap landing from a great, different perspective.
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