TOP GUNS: AIRCRAFT CARRIER OPERATIONS
- Top Guns
- 🎵 Steve Stevens Anthem
- 🎶 Musical Introduction: Flight Deck Operations
- USN Carrier Air Operations
- C-17 Globemaster lands on a ski-jump aircraft carrier
FLIGHT DECK ROLES AND HAND SIGNALS
Flight deck roles identification and functions
- Shooter (SHOOTER: yellow)
- Flight director (FLY: yellow)
- Catapault (green): C
- Ordnance (purple): AO
- Quality assurance (white): CO
- Final checker (yellow): RASH
- Safety (yellow): CAT SAFETY
LAUNCH
PILOT'S PERSPECTIVE
CARRIERS
- CVN-71: USS Theodore Roosevelt
- CVN-76: USS Ronald Reagan
- EMALS Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (USS Gerald R Ford)
- Issues with EMALS and AAG (USS Gerald R Ford)
- Wet weather launch (USS Gerald R Ford)
- Flight controls
IN FLIGHT OPERATIONS
- Aviate, navigate, communicate
- https://lnkd.in/g4af8Bt8intakeAir-to-air refuelling
FLIGHT DECK OPERATIONS
- Pilot's perspective: circuit and landing
- The Landing Signals Officer (LSO) - Paddles: The LSO holds a device (a pickle switch) that controls the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (meatball) that signals to the pilot to proceed with the landing and/or add power, or wave off (abandon the landing).
- Deck operations
- The Bubble (Integrated Catapult Control Station (ICCS))
RISKS
Accidents
Burial at sea
Failed carrier flight deck aircraft operations
- The "runway" is pitching, and in one case a plane flies into a wave coming over the bow!
- For example ...
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