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Night CQ on the Connie PLAT
- Thread starter BigIron
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I'll wait for input from someone whose actually landed an aircraft on a carrier (or maybe even waived them), thanks.
Because it's so easy....I'll wait till I land on a boat to critique doing so....
flysupertomcat
Jim told me I can buy Gaydar online
Tons of sparks = bad trap? Please explain how you keep a tailhook from making sparks when slamming against the flight deck
Lonestar155
is good to go
I never ever have trapped but even thinking logically, I would argue that "making no sparks" is virtually impossible. Anything coming in at 160 kts. and slamming onto a steel deck will inevitably cause sparks.
Hence my edit after the fact eliminating that part of my post. Forgive me.... 6 cervezas supercedes logic....
MasterBates
Well-Known Member
BS, with you, EVERYTHING precedes logic.
Looks like a typical night initial CQ for the RAG .... i.e., a controlled horror show. 
Normal LSO calls ... but we didn't call WOD on the "Roger Ball" call unless there was something really unusual about it ... like ... what difference does it make to the average pilot??? Especially guys on initial night CQ???
We didn't get a "needles" call for confirmation as we seldom used it --- ours was an early SPN-41 and it was usually tits-up.
There's nothing worse than a PLAT LSO, so I won't re-wave any of the passes (who cares anyway??) but it's interesting to see the "daisy chain" of the other lights (aircraft) coming up the BRC and/or the SAR Helo motoring across the ship's wake from time to time ... at least I think that's what it was ....
On a clear night when waving ... you could see many aircraft coming down the "chute" from marshal strung out for miles ... always impressive.
Normal LSO calls ... but we didn't call WOD on the "Roger Ball" call unless there was something really unusual about it ... like ... what difference does it make to the average pilot??? Especially guys on initial night CQ???
We didn't get a "needles" call for confirmation as we seldom used it --- ours was an early SPN-41 and it was usually tits-up.
There's nothing worse than a PLAT LSO, so I won't re-wave any of the passes (who cares anyway??) but it's interesting to see the "daisy chain" of the other lights (aircraft) coming up the BRC and/or the SAR Helo motoring across the ship's wake from time to time ... at least I think that's what it was ....
On a clear night when waving ... you could see many aircraft coming down the "chute" from marshal strung out for miles ... always impressive.
The experience of watching that video just isn't complete without hearing and feeling the jets slam onto flight deck above you.
On the Big E, I wasin RR7 right under the 3 wire. We had the PLAT on 24/7 and would instinctively plug our ears with our fingers when we saw one at the ramp...or heard the AG guys yell "ramp" down the p-way.
We got so conditioned we'd reach for our ears during a playback of a recovery if we didn't know it had ended.
We got so conditioned we'd reach for our ears during a playback of a recovery if we didn't know it had ended.
Thats cool, thanks for sharing.
First time hearing carrier comms.
First time hearing carrier comms.
I got to thinking some of those RIOs sounded damn good on the radio...so I pulled the old logbooks....I was in there somewhere as I was a VF-124 FRS instructor at that time. It was an interesting time to be in VF-124.
