Night Carrier Approach and Landing
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Uploaded by THX138Driver on Oct 19, 2006
This author's own approach to the USS Carl Vinson. Thousands of miles out to sea - a night instrument approach and landing during Nimitz class aircraft carrier operations - one of the most demanding tasks in all of aviation. Landing on an air craft carrier is a challenge, but a generator failure made the pass and this vid a little more interesting (hardly by design).
Comm was wired directly from my oxygen mask whilst flying the approach and landing aboard the USS Carl Vinson on the Indian Ocean. The dimly lit ship is barely a speck in the night at about three miles (time 1:22). Warning tones are (1) radar altimeter (set to 1200' and 375') and (2) a rapid warning tone from the radar altimeter due to a generator failure. LSO calls for "Wing lights," which were lost due to the electrical malfunction (unknown to LSO). Expeditious emergency procedures for an electrical failure to regain lost electrical buses were completed while performing demanding tasks involved in landing a jet aboard the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night.
"Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. Then they must find this speck lost somewhere on the sea. When they find it, they have to land on its pitching deck. Where do we get such men?"
- Rear Admiral George Tarrant 1954; in James Michener's
"The Bridges at Toko-Ri"
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@AV8ER3 - both are a automatic correct? Is ICLS more accurate? Why the difference?
Thank you.
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Nice Job!
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My dad did this and said it was scary as hell. For him that said a lot
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me: sitting on couch, rubbing fat belly and drinking a beer..."whats the big deal?....i could do that!"
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Of note, "needles" is ACLS, not ICLS as depicted in the video. The ILS needles are called bullseye, and the little ACLS dot that you fly is called needles. Strange counter-intuitive convention, but it is what it is.
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amazing
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BZ
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great visual......
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Not that i don't trust the IFR Instruments, but I always bring my nightvision googles along with me on every flight.....:)
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Pucker factor: 10.0
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Excellent - you will make a perfect backseater!
Someone sign this guy up for RIO school.
MiGSweep 2 years ago 22
LUKE.....I AM YOUR FATHER
edgar5001 2 years ago 15