3 ms·
USN 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
by numpad0 3y ago
USN 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.