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Difference between USAF and USN landing techniques: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLAOPg6AxFM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLAOPg6AxFM
by ridgeguy 3y ago
Difference between USAF and USN landing techniques:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLAOPg6AxFM https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KLAOPg6AxFM
- Kon-Peki 3y agoI would bet that the culture started back in WWII when the navy started to use converted passenger ships on Lake Michigan to do carrier certification. They were only about 2/3 as long as a real carrier, so you better follow the landing signal officer's instructions perfectly. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR8znA1kxw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR8znA1kxw
- numpad0 3y agoUSN carrier landing procedure is to get nose up to a precalculated angle, get speed to precalculated value, then match velocity vector HUD icon to the touchdown point using throttle. Technically, this USN method is not just a special carrier landing procedure, but the correct procedure for all aircraft landings. Airbus passenger planes are flown in basically the same way. I think most piloting textbooks has it within first 1/3rd of Volume 1 or somewhere around. Thought it cool when I found it, fired up a random flightsim, it works. It's just better. Even takes off mental loads. I can't speak to actual, human carrying flights, but for sim hobbies I'd "recommend" sticking to this method. e: forgot to add back disclaimer - am not a pilot any shape or form
- defrost 3y agoAll aircraft save those with a tail stinger boom, you don't want to be dragging that and ripping the instrumentation out. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/geophysical-survey-airplane-tail-stinger-magnetometer https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/geophysical-survey-airplan... They're not all as high and angled as the image above.