How a Software Update Made Landing on a Carrier 98% Easier
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0:00 Landing: The biggest focus of naval aviation
2:24 Sponsor: Conflict of Nations
3:11 Landing on Aircraft Carrier is an administrative work
3:24 How did aircraft traditionally land on carriers?
4:30 Why pilots had to make so many adjustments before landing
5:22 How MAGIC CARPET simplified carrier landings
7:05 How does MAGIC CARPET work?
8:11 How new pilots feel about using MAGIC CARPET?
10:56 What if MAGIC CARPET fails?
12:42 Fully-Automatic carrier landing system
14:20 What seasoned naval aviators think about MAGIC CARPET?
15:45 MAGIC CARPET is a win for everyone!
MAGIC CARPET (Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies) is system that simplifies landing on aircraft carriers. But how it works, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
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the MAGIC CARPET being an actual fucking acronym caught me offguard. haha
You know that Yakuza meme? The one where the guy hits the table? That's me when he said they changed it.
Gotta love the us militaries ideology of acronym everything.
Some people have a lot of time on their hands. I know a guy who sank over 80 work hours tweaking an EPR to read DIRTBAG down the left side
Classical backronyms in the military. As another example, the MATADOR - "Man-portable Anti-Tank, Anti-DOoR".
Has to be a backronym
Fun story about this, the system is so accurate that it caused excessive wear on the flight deck because the hooks were hitting the same spot ervery time. They had to add variation to the landing area.
Or just make a replaceable deck wear plate for that spot, perhaps with a hardened surface or a low-friction (don't walk there!) coating.
@@paulbade3566 yeah i would do this. the fact that it hits the same spot everytime is a gift. you know something is off if its missing it
@@paulbade3566 Low friction coatings wear out. Hit the same spot with the highest-wear action that happens on a carrier, they wear out FAST.
Suffering from success
@@Louisiana1815 Unintended consequences, actually.
As a software engineer, it’s cool to see a pure software update have such an impact on safety.
Yeah! I dig it- and, the cost/benefit ratio of software versus hardware updates, vis. the ease and expense of implementation, etc, is a huge advantage of such software based solutions.
With the increase in bandwidth of modern radios then they can send a lot more information to ensure the landing is safe. If they can send real time data to the plane that includes the angle of landing deck, wind speed/direction, and it can more accurately propagate the landing path using edge computing on the plane. Predicting where the aircraft and ship will be is essential when giving an accurate landing. The more data the better Gotta increase that sample rate!
@@mitchconner403 Yeah... Nice! Remember when it was a big deal that dialup went from 14.4 to 28.8? I could finally run DOOM P2P with a pal. (Using an ancient protocol called 'Kermit', if my memory serves). Cheers.
I always love how much "power" GPU's get thanks to all those driver updates. One or two don't matter that much, but if you compare the first driver with the last at the end of a GPU cycle, it is always insane. The 750ti, is better than cards that should be better but have their support dropped a long time ago.
You all guys will be replaced by ai soon and you'll be unemployed
I was part of the NAVAIR team that did the first hands off landing. It was some years back on the Teddy Roosevelt and the project was JPALS. Joint Precision Aircraft Landing System. I was part of the instrumentation system team. I actually had to go out under the aircraft while on the cat and flip switches for final calibration of the system. INTENSE! Being under a Hornet while ready to shoot off the sound is so loud it’s a physical thing. I felt my guts being pummeled and got nauseous a few times. RIP Danny Greer, my team leader.
It was an honor and fun to work on the X-31 VECTOR program that helped develop the DGPS tech that enables JPALS and MAGIC CARPET.
A had a family member that worked at Pax River. I used to love staying with them on base and watching the air show and practices. The full motion simulators were pretty fun too!
Probably got some brain damage from that eh? Just like these guys with all the booms giving them brain injuries
Seeing a lot of comments saying that this is just ILS or ACLS. It's a totally different system. Magic Carpet changes the control laws of the aircraft so that the stick and throttles actually perform different functions in PLM. In the standard control mode, pulling back on the stick is a request for more AOA, which slows the aircraft down, meaning you need to compensate with throttle, which changes your AOA, so you change the pitch command, etc. etc. In PLM, pulling back on the stick is a direct request for more lift without changing pitch or airspeed. Now the stick operates in a manner more similar to the collective on a helicopter: pull back and you go up on the glideslope, push forward and you sink down. Because you're changing the basic function of control inputs, this system requires a 100% fly by wire aircraft, so, no it's not a rebrand of something we've had since the 70s.
Not 70s but the A320 has been flying with the same control law since the late 80s and that sounds exactly like what they are doing to the F18 except 40 years later
On my first time on a carrier, I was walking through a corridor that was directly under the flight deck. An aircraft landed directly over my head. Those landings are not soft.
Try to imagine being in a hard, wooden chair, suspended 10ft in the air..... ......then being dropped onto a concrete floor.
@@Rotorhead1651oof 😅 sounds like it would hurt a bit!
I remember doing my first proper guided simulated carrier landing at the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum, and was surprised to learn how flaring onto the deck involved pushing the nose down as opposed to gently floating in like a normal landing. Learning about that deliberate slamming is when I realized why a carrier landing keeps getting called a "controlled crash".
"The shock absorbers on the plane have been paid for, so I'm gonna use them!"
My berthing compartment on USS Ranger was directly under #2 cable - pretty close to where the landing gear hit on a good "caught the #3 cable" landing.
Thank you for pointing out the pilot was rescued. I dont know if that's a new KZhead requirement, but as a viewer it's nice to know I'm not watching someone's last moments.
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at 11:36, "what if an angle of attack probe failed"... and proceeds to show a pitot tube. That's a pretty serious failure of an AOA sensor if it turns into a pitot tube! 😄
Similar to that "landing" at 12:28 that shows a take off 😅
The biggest problem with this new system is the damage to the deck caused by the unbelievable consistency of impact on exactly the same spot on the deck . Software changes have spread the impact area reducing the damage .
Imagine how hard being a carrier pilot was back in WW2. Everything is bound to be much easier with computers taking a big amount of the workload off the pilot.
imagine landing well and still ending up with a flipped plane
IMO, easier in WWII...harder with jets, to a degree. Speeds increased, a bit more involved in training carrier Aviators. Meatball, line-up, and AoA have been the basics forever. Magic carpet, changes things a bit for the good...unless it fails. My understanding it has redundancy but the main issue is the pilot. Why an F35 had a ramp strike.
@@rElliot09 Isn't it true that due to jets being heavier the stall speed is higher which also makes it harder.
@@Powerof7even -- the higher stall speed in modern fighter jets (since the 80s - or earlier) can make it more difficult. Weather also causes problems!
Jets really upped the difficulty of landing on a short runway like an aircraft carrier. Older aircraft had a much lower top speed but could also stay airborne at pretty low speeds without stalling, so you have more margin for landing.
This channel always has quality video footage to go with the posts; Unlike other channels (that I won't name here *cough! Infogr......), there's never a ton of unrelated stock footage, or unnacurate, even misleading BS, sensationalism, etc... Cheers!
Thanks very much! From the get-go, we always have focused on using quality footage. It does make things more challenging though, as you can imagine. We like the Infographics Show too. They are just a different type of channel, that's all :-)
@@NotWhatYouThink Right on. I (and I would assume, other viewers) really appreciate that effort. And, thanks for not jumping on the AI train for graphics, etc. The channels that have done so (with AI) have, imo, suffered a drop in quality. A ton of their illustration now looks repetitive, devoid of interest, and sometimes very misleading. (It just feel lazy, too.) Anyway... Cheers! Edit: I've been digging the shorts, too. Very accessible.
The kitten footage was the best part of this video.
most of this footage is from highly skilled Sailors that work in public affairs offices on the ships, they upload these products to DVIDS [Defense Visual Information Distribution Service] for all eyes to enjoy.
@@zavtparticles6828 Yeah. That is such an amazing rating. (I had considered the Navy, a family tradition, until I blew my knees out in high school and so could probably never be an aviator even if I did get accepted to Annapolis...). Although, I thought that a communications speciality (simaler to what I eventually pursued in college) would be a possibility... So much of their work is of excellent quality (naturally), and even though it's not usually a front-line kind of duty, it's still important; I still admire the sailors that do that work, and what they must get to see and understand. (It just seems super interesting, eh?)
I think this channel sets the gold standard for what a narrator should sound like. Serious but not angry, good pacing and just the right inflections so you know what the important bits are and he holds your attention without shouting (Looking at you Steve) so thank you for not stooping to a robo-voice.
Hehe thanks! Finally someone who likes the narrator! 😅
@@NotWhatYouThink Totally. It's good to be unique. Is that a Philly or NY accent?
lmao, he is not even from the US I believe. Pretty sure it's a foreign, eastern European (?) accent.@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n
What part of that is funny? @@moogle68
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n His accent doesn't even _remotely_ sound like the two you mentioned. It just doesn't sound like any American accent that I can think of, so I found your guess amusing. Not trying to be mean, it just surprised me how off your guess was, but I don't know you so for all I know you rarely hear those accents you thought he had, or maybe your audio device is messed up.
A f18 hornet with a combat load can come close to 70 million dollars. The thought of having to land something that expensive on a pitching and rolling short runway in the middle of the ocean, at night, is enough to get me sweating and my heart beating faster, I cant even imagine how streesful it is in real life. No offense to the other branches, but Navy pilots are something else!
Technology like this, that not only makes the pilots' job safer but also easier means more missions, less crew/material losses and a more effective operation. So cool to see!
I've heard of this but as an old naval aviator, Vietnam era, all I can say is you have got to be kidding me..... OMG I had no idea it was this effective
tech's come a long way since the ACLS on the tomcat haha
yes but somehow after a strike mission on NV dodging flack, taking my hands off the throttle and stick at night, in the rain, no moon, no horizon, believing in the "software" scares the crap out of me just thinking about it. @@DesertPunks
This channel has without a doubt the best footage! Very well done & I don't really mind the ads when they enable such great content..Thankx!
Im suprised NWYT has not gotten a sponser for Raid Shadow Legends. Hes bulletproof literally
Naval aviators deserve the ultimate respect with nerves of steel. Just image what it takes to land on that short deck at night in bad weather with the deck pitching up and down 20ft.
Can you imagine the titanium steel cojones of the test pilots on the Hercules on a Carrier landings?
Landing is always the hardest part. Whether an aircraft can take off is quite easy to find out... but once you're up there, getting it down in just the right spot, time, angle, and speed is hard! After noticing how hard it is even in fairly simplified games like BF1942 and BF2, I long wondered how the hell they do it in real life and sure enough, it takes an immense amount of instruments and trainings to make landings as reliable and safe as they are today. Landing automation has been a critical target of automation in commercial aviation as well, with some landings being only possible with auto-landing systems (when the clouds/fog hang very low so that a visual approach isn't possible), and I'm sure it will continue to remain a key focus until it can be automated almost every time.
oh yeah. i remember trying to land planes in Battlefield as a kid every now and then when I was bored, and boy was it a struggle. i'd be lucky if i could get more than single digit success rates during a 10~15 minute run before i got bored and went off to do something more entertaining
Landing is easy! Unless you’re a spaceship, it’s physically impossible to not land again somewhere, somewhen. The trick is being able to take off again afterwards 😂
bullshit, landing is easy. even if you cock it up you're still making it to the ground!
Yes it is. Especially the first one. Your first solo, I don't care who you are, there is this moment (just after you get over the pitch angle you can hold climb airspeed without the Instructor's weight), when it kinda hits you that you have to land it. In my case, I had always landed the plane but for the couple of times the instructor demonstrated something. He had never had to intervene or help. So nothing was actually different, and it all went as planned. But there was that moment...... the reality became extra real. "Plan B" just got out of the plane. Forty years ago and I can laugh now, but it IS a reality moment.
This is the only channel, where i do like at the start of the video. all of them are so interesting! thank you.
Don't let anyone say this will make naval aviators soft. The improvements in landing reliability will reduce maintenance unavailability from hard landing and increase the cadence of flight operations and lead to flying more combat missions. Keeping pilots safe while improving the combat effectiveness of the carrier air group is pure positivity.
The work to make that backronym fit is pretty impressive too
Thank you for sharing your amazing content with us and the world! Navy pilots are a breed all their own! The only tougher is the Marine Helicopter Pilot because, they have to fly into the combat zone at low altitude!😮
I never knew any of these things. Very interesting! Thank you. 😊😊😊❤❤❤
Amazing video!!
This is an excellent video. I learned a lot. One small fault I noticed. When talking about what could on a landing jet, you mention the angle of attack sensor and included a shot of a pitot tube which measures dynamic pressure - basically the pressure of the air being blasted down a forward facing tube so this is used to measure airspeed. An angle of attack sensor. Basically just a little wind vane sticking out the side which measures the vertical angle of the air flowing by the aircraft.
nice reporting. Thank you!
An unusually thorough and nuanced treatment of current carrier ops. It's nice to see productions like this where someone really did their homework. I would like to point out that there are still E-2 Hawkeyes and C-2 Greyhounds landing on carrier the old-fashioned, manual way. And most flight school students still obtain their initial day carrier quals in manual T-45 Goshawks (completely solo, by the way) prior to obtaining their wings. Although the Navy is moving towards starting to have those students who will proceed to fighter aircraft (F-18/35) skip the Goshawk CQ and move that first carrier landing experience to their fleet aircraft training squadron. I'm happy to see the Navy moving in this direction overall. The benefits mentioned in this video are real and significant. But at the same time, I am very proud of my 400+, completely manual carrier landings . . . even if I was occasionally terrified! Fly Navy!
nICE landing dude. No I did not specify which landing.
the military's acronyms never cease to amaze me. that guy must get paid pretty good money XD
Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜
The F-14 had something called ACLS (all-weather carrier landing system or something like that) which would land the plane for you through Link 4A. Coolest system Ever
True. But it doesn't help you in case I. The Tomcat did also have Auto-Throttles that maintain AOA and I would argue the biggest advantage it had was the Direct Lift Control System so the pilot could adjust vertical descent rate without adjusting throttle or attitude.
someone didn't watch the full video.....
Scared cat!
@halcisakdylan5 read the original comment: "something called ACLS" .....which is clearly mentioned in the video.
The F-14 wasn't the only carrier a/c that had ACLS. If my memory is correct, only the prop driven a/c like the E-2 didn't have ACLS. The E-2 pilots had to fly using the "needles". If the ship's ACLS was active, needles gave the pilots a lineup indication on the glideslope, but it was not connected to the throttle or control surfaces as the ACLS was.
I miss sooo much working on a fly deck of a Carrier. My 7 deployments in my 21 years of career in the Navy were not enough!! The adrenaline of fixing Super Hornets on the fly deck while keeping your head on swivel for so long was an unpresedent event for me. Every American should live this expierence at least once in their lives.
A great improvement for safety.
8:45 Since I'm an athlete, I decided to track my heart rate during my flying lessons. You can see when I was coming in for a landing, my heart rate would spike! Pretty hilarious considering I'm only flying a Cessna 172.
No comparison to carrier landings, especially at night and/or in weather. But we train quite a bit to stay current and safe.
@@rElliot09The OP mentioned flying lessons, so presumably at the start of their flying career. I am sure that night carrier landings are more technically demanding, but given comparative experience levels, probably equivalent in terms of stress to the pilot.
You want to see something really cool , In foggy weather or bad visibility aircraft perform a case 3 landing circling the ship lower and lower each pass to locate the deck , Only seen it a couple times but neat to watch !
I'm sure this system is a blow to many egos, but it looks like this is much safer.
The fact that computers can respond faster and more accurately shouldn’t be a blow. The fact that they went out of their way to make this system so pilots could still feel like they’re part of the landing process should be. The system should have been fully automated from the start.
Glad you included a number of these points, since all these aircraft are FBW, they can't fly without computers or sensor feedback. We have seen digital flight systems fail when the sensors fail, and at that point, the plane can't fly because it doesn't know what to do. Thus, using this system, along with other safety nets like AGCAS is a no brainer in practice. Secondarily, otherwise-qualified pilots wash out simply because they can't land on the boat. It's sad that despite being fully awesome and capable, a person can't be qualified and has to leave the program. It's a problem that the Air Force simply doesn't have.
interesting , Thank You .
I knew something like this was in the works as soon as I heard about drones making carrier landings.
My respect for Naval Aviators knows no bounds. IMHO they are the best in the world. VA 85 A6intruder USS Forrestal 76-80
Currently flying the T-45. The navy no longer sends all of us to a ship in advanced, as the CQ training is not seen as vital anymore, only ~50% of us go. I really hope to go to the boat just so I can say I've landed manually on an aircraft carrier before.
That seems like a huge mistake... but I suppose with improved barrier recovery of damaged aircraft, it's probably not as necessary... just land the jet before the barrier on speed AoA and the barrier does the rest... More impressive is that military avionics are that reliable now... because things like ACLS have existed for decades but haven't been traditionally used due to the absolute shit show of reliability that it was.
8:18 is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. What video is that originally from!? Such a stunning view and shot of the plane!
0:30 And side-to-side, though not normally as much. Carriers roll. and the flight deck is high enough to translate some of that into side-to-side motion. Ex-USS Ranger (CV_61) sailor.
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Wish I had that during my carrier career!
Have you covered any of the Swedish Air force? Like the take off and landing on motorways?
My dad a senior defense computer research scientist worked on the ACLS system project
Learned something.
Also working on the Dassault Rafale, since the early versions if I recall correctly
7:27 The aircraft knows where it is at all times
I wonder how long it will be before people say pilots are no longer skilled because they are less at risk of faceflooring the flight deck
They probably train for landing without the system, in case of system failure.
I was thinking about that. Probably when doing practice runs or however navy pilots get their flight hours outside of combat they would be practicing without it unless its needed, meanwhile the team behind it would be bug testing it (hopefully on land)@@Aramis444
But they will be less skilled, obviously.
@@BariumCobaltNitrog3n Less skilled at one very specific thing, perhaps. It's like saying drivers are less skilled because antilock brakes replaced the need to learn the skill of feathering the brake in slippery conditions. Perhaps true, but the benefits far outweigh that very specific skill.
@@keith6706 If something isn't as difficult, it requires less skill. Your example proves my point. Benefits outweigh skill. What is your point?
This is so cool.
Just like the video stated i would make at least 1 out of 5 sorties done in manual mode so pilots doesnt lose the skill of landing in a carrier however with the age of drones already upon us feels like complete automation is an inevitability
Aladdin and The Magic Carpet got nothing on this one 😂
i think one day it will mean lighter landing gear with improved envelopes of bring back also. maybe after they prove how much easier it is on the gear/airframe
Yes
that first failed landing clip was so painful to watch like the "pilot successfully rescued" note kinda gave away that it was gonna fail but the plane looked _so much_ like it was gonna come to a stop at the last second
So the JPALS navigation functions exactly like the civilian LAAS (GBAS in Europe)? (Which is supposed to replace ILS or bring instrument landings to smaller airports)
Can you make a video on other countries aircraft carrier that are active like England, France, India and China.
That's got to save a lot of wear on the airframe as well.
I see Magic Carpet as similar to the technologies introduced into cars. One of the funniest videos I saw was a bunch of kids with about 5 years of experience first driving a current car in adverse conditions and then switching to a 1980s car!
it wasn’t what i thought 💭
Wow this would save millions maybe billions in long term
This software has been around since the '70s. Before it was called The magic carpet or whatever acronym you're using now it was called ILS or AILS. And airplanes have been landing on the aircraft carriers automatically for a long time. I was in avionics technician in the Navy and this was one of my skills was working on the electronics for the landing systems. The only plane had a problem with landing automatically was the EA6B prowler and the A6 and they KA6B. For some reason no matter how it was programmed the system would try to lend them in the jet engine test bay On the end of the ship. So the pilots would leave this on until balls was called and they'd turn it off and finished the last little bit of landing for those aircraft that AILS didn't work. ILS stands for integrated landing system, and AILS stands for automatic integrated landing system. AILS was just an upgrade to the ILS.
thats a great Thumbnail there 🗿
I think it would be helpful to take over the drone development from Dji and everything that revolves around communication from Huawei. Does anyone have any other ideas on which competing companies could work together?
Its a win for operational range, they can count on getting the planes down quickly
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This reminds of an ILS landing on an aircraft with an auto throttle. Once it’s in final approach mode the aircraft more or less follows the glide slope down and lands itself.
13:50 the JPALS is neat. But according to this video, it’s based on GPS. That worries me, because we are probably going to lose the GPS satellites in the next major war. Thank goodness for backups, and training.
My thought also. There should be a backup mode that uses aircraft radar to measure relative speed and distance to the carrier. That would also take out pilot error in the manual entry of carrier speed.
Imagine, being that pilot with that single bolter out of 594 landings :D
So do the pilots still control the jet and the software makes control much easier OR do the pilots just catch the glideslope, engage the software and then the software does all the rest? The pilots can hold both hands up while landing so it looks like the latter is the case, but then how do they engage TOGA thrust? Is it also automatically triggered by a wheels-on-ground switch or similar?
What is happening with the landing plane at around 7:10?
I usually never comment but that video has me wondering about something Does that technology also exist on the french Charles de Gaules nuclear carrier ? Since it is the only non-US carrier that is able to operate US figthers jets due to the CATOBAR design being implemented there ? And in the same topic, does the Rafale also support said technology ? Since they are the only non-US plane allowed to land on US carriers ? From a french viewer !
Great questions! I should hope so. Salute to you from a retired U.S. Navy chief petty officer.
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We had automatic landing system on the F4 but it was not reliable enough for pilots to trust it. The engineers called it "Project Shoehorn".
Eventually the F-14 wasn't the only carrier a/c that had ACLS. If my memory is correct, only the prop driven a/c like the E-2 didn't have ACLS. The E-2 pilots had to fly using the "needles". If the ship's ACLS was active, needles gave the pilots a lineup indication on the glideslope, but it was not connected to the throttle or control surfaces like it was for the ACLS equipped A/C.
This might be the hardest stretch for an acronym I have ever seen in my entire life.
Can someone answer this for me? Why would you wanna aim for the third wire? Why not the first so that you have 3 more backups rather than just a single backup (the 4th). What's the point of the first two then?
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This is so badass! Can I get something like this for backing into my parking spot lol
This is way simpler then it sounds. All it is an easier controls. Think of cruise control in a car. When you hit an uphill, the cruise control will apply more power to maintain the space. Vice versa for a downhill. As the pilot nose down to reach the glide slope the plane speeds up requiring the pilot to pull back on the throttle(two inputs). With Magic Carpet takes car of the throttle adjustment automatically. At least one throttle adjustment if not more saved. Similar with aileron and rudder. When you apply the aileron to turn, you must compensate with rudder to stay coordinated. It sounds like there is a little extra software to the pilot pick the best glide slope and speed for the airplane and conditions. The same software could be used for air to air refueling.
As a kid in the early 70s my dad told me he designed landing gear for Naval aircraft. I thought (to myself) didn't the guy who made the airplane do that already? Later as a Sailor, I realized that Navy planes land much harder than regular planes. Sometimes 7 Gs. Also note every man on deck is watching the plane come in. That is because those arresting wires tend to break and whip about, and have enough force to cut you in half. One video I watched where a deck hand leapt over a severed wire twice! That wire killed another. Most dangerous job you will ever love.
Its exactly what i thought
somebody should cheaply animate a pilot landing a magic carpet on an aircraft carrier and make it look professional. I need a laugh.
You know the old saying: the takeoff in an aircraft is optional - the landing is mandatory. 😁🤟
Crazy to think that these updates came to the military many years after ILS was invented for commercial aircraft.
Feels like a mustash is required to be a navy pilot.
So, in other words. The navy took the software that's been in the F16 for the last 30 years and put it in the F18.
It's a bit more involved than that. I believe it's actually an outgrowth of work that Boeing did for a very wonky plane they were working on as a jet replacement for the Greyhound/Hawkeye/Viking. It was a twin truss wing design(the wings were the Radome/Sensor arrays), and it's big claim to fame was it's flight control system actively changing the flight control behavior based on the portion of flight/mission mode it was in. Even MCAS has some ties back to this, as one of its big features was also it's ability to make the plane behave as if were a different aircraft (you could toggle between it emulating a Viking, or a Prowler or Greyhound etc). Never made it to production, but a lot of the crazy active aero control that Boeing has been showing off on the Super Hornets last blocks and the F-15EX go back to that trapezoidal air whale
f-16s land on carriers?
Now i could understand why the French Navy perform Landing with Rafale on USA super carrier
I started playing CON WW3, and now this guy is sponsored by it lmfao. Everytime i discover something i see it everyday
This system has been available since 2010 so the Navy adopting it NOW is just about fucking time.
Seems like they should still have it as a training requirement to land without it... And then land without it x amount of times a year. I'm sure it's mostly software but imagine if your aircraft was damaged you had nowhere else to land and you had to land manually for the first time
and here I am, struggling to get half-decent glide slopes in the F-16 simulator
Damm aladin is granting wishes based on the thumbnail
Why aim for 3? Why not one so you have 2 or 3 more chances?
Aiming for the first wire increases the chances of hitting the edge of the flight deck.
They get a score on their landing which is publicly displayed on the Aircraft carrier
1:58 oh is that drone that just landed I want to know
Are pilots that failed the qualification pre software implementation getting another shot at it now? Or was that sth. like a yearly opportunity to be taken again anyway?