Night Aircraft Carrier Landing

filmed from the right seat of an S-3B Viking jet.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• navy
• carrier
• jets
• aircraft
• S-3B

[Dubsweets]

That was cool

[mjmoto72]

@jiajiang ,.nice i have the utmost respect for you guiys.. spent alot of hours in cexnass on short 1000 ft runwayss and i think you guys are the shit.. where is your reference point .. or outer marker.. how do you even get to that ? " pre gps days " ? and how do you do it know ? im sure the boat has all the electronic equiptment but do you guys ride in on VORS stil l ? thanks and keep up the good work

[jiajiang]

@mjmoto72 you'll have to make constant, rapid, tiny corrections. You do NOT look at the landing area - this is called "spotting the deck," and is a no-no. The plane ahead of you will either taxi clear of the landing area in time, or not. If he doesn't, the LSO will give you a wave-off, and you'll go round for another try. Your attention constantly bounces from the deck height meter light rack, to your line-up, to your AOA gauge. The landing thump can never be guaged, it's always a surprise.

[TheHookemhornman]

Only the best have gold wings! Go Navy!

[bmwnasher]

spot on brain surgeons of the sky..

[bmwnasher]

spot on brain surgeons of the sky..

[DennisFranz]

I am guessing seats change often on night landings. I figure most aircraft landing at night come home with only 1/2 a seat.

[mjmoto72]

are you guys constantly looking at the guages?

[redeye010]

Jk that was a great landing

[redeye010]

thats weak