F18 carrier landing youtube full#

Instructions radioed to the pilots (extremely important also to prevent the pilot from concentrating on the deck, thus not paying as much attention to the optical landing system) are concise: вЂњLittle lowвЂќ, вЂњLittle rightвЂќ, вЂњPowerвЂќ, etc.Д®ven though itвЂ™s only two of the LSO team to be in contact over the radio with the plane (a duty one and a supervisor), on the special aft platform a team of five or six LSO-qualified pilots work on: at least one member for each embarked squadron, supporting the two CAG LSOs the whole crew depends on. Therefore the pilot must follow a steady moving deck. Landing on a carrierВ is anything but easy as correctly setting up the aircraft for landing is not enough: as a matter of fact, difficulties in deck-landing lie in the fact that the angled flight deck moves as the carrier sails in rectilinear motion. LSOs are skilled and experienced pilots whose job is to watch the deck-landing of all the airplanes and provide the pilots with radio guidelines to adjust the final phase of the approach, and complement IFLOLS (Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System) and ICLS (Instrumental Carrier Landing System) visual information. aircraft carrierВ can rely on LSOВ (Landing Signal Officers вЂ“ radio callsign вЂњPaddlesвЂќ) 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.ДЇrom the last three quarters of a mile all the way to touchdown the pilot approaching a U.S.

F18 carrier landing youtube full#

ThereвЂ™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.вЂќ Arrested landings.

вЂњThe item that flew forward was a divert card to plan for a fuel divert in case we werenвЂ™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-211вЂ™s вЂњRhinoвЂќ (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.вЂќ вЂњThere was a pretty big thunderstorm that was dumping down so much rain we could not see the ball (вЂњmeatballвЂќ=the visual landing aid we use to land aboard the ship) so the LSOs (Landing Signals Officers) had to talk all the aircraft down. вЂњThis video was taken during a foul-weather recovery aboard the USS Enterprise,вЂќ says Austin Hulbert, a pilot with the VFA-211 in the comment to the video.