In soviet russia, airplane lands you!
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Russian Navy getting their sea legs
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FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
Degrees is a unit
"Dimensionless" units?
Talk about high alpha at the ramp... gotta love those canards. I wonder if LSO's will have a new shorthand for that...
They already do. Most people just can't dork it up that egregiously. Though I wonder what LSO-speak looks like in Cyrillic . . .
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
Wow, you even wrote that with a Russian "accent"!! I wonder if instead of WSOs, if they had political officers as backseaters (kind of like they had them aboard Soviet subs who outranked even the skipper) to keep the pilot's political philosophy in check...
What is the LSO short hand for "high alpha at the ramp"? Was it created when the Hornet came online (kind of like the "Hornet High Pop" being developed from the Israeli's high pop (to 10,000 ') specifically after the F/A-18 was introduced)?
FlyingOnFumes
Nobel WAR Prize Aspirant
Funny how much of the footage focused on the kind of bread and berry preserves that the guy ate...
Maybe that's part of subliminal recruiting ad to show how deleuxe life at sea can be...
AOA...what's that?! I think the only time I reference it in the WarPig is during my no-flap approaches...and the damn thing is down by my left knee with the light post blocking anything above 11...I can only see if I am below 15 Units AOA by craning my head around the left or looking over at the right seat AOA...not conducive to a good instrument scan...
What comes between "Meatball" and "Lineup" in the mantra of those who fly the ball (to touchdown).
ryan1234
Well-Known Member
Just trying to understand this.....I'm not the shiniest turd in the toilet... so this may be a dumb question but....
You mentioned that you fly on the back side of L/D (max) - 17 'units' vs. 15 'units' .... is that because of the aircraft's physical angle upon reaching the deck and percent power required for spool time specifically? Since percent power required would go up on the back side of L/D (max) vice actually at L/D (max)?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't aerodynamically speaking the best speed to fly at would be L/D (max) for alpha adjustments to control airspeed/and power required for descent rate.... so are Navy aircraft designed with the tailhook in a certain position to produce near L/D(max) and percent power required for spool time to be at optimum?
It would be interesting to look at the SU-33 drag curve... because it appeared the aircraft in the video was operating at a higher alpha than the L/D(max)... which means it's approach would have to be on the front side (lower alpha) to be adequate for a carrier landing regardless of where lift/power required is produced.
I'm sorry if this comes across stupid...
What I've been told regarding the Prowler is that, in the past, on-speed was 2 units higher, and it was changed to reduce the bolter rate. As in physically putting the hook at a better angle to grab more wires more often. I'm sure the LSOs will chime in if I'm wrong, but that's what I heard.