Posted on 04/18/2017 1:04:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There is such a fine line between landing and crashing either you land or crash is the only two options
The two options are:
Walk away
Don’t walk away
All of this automation will result in pilots who won’t know how to fly without all of this automation.
MAGIC CARPET is too hard to remember. I prefer to just say Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies.
A landing is just a very controlled crash that you walk away from. :)
Good Landing: Everybody walks away.
Great Landing: They get to re-use the aircraft.
Like self driving cars. How long before folks can not remember how to drive?
Lots of variations in landing or crashing though.
Perfect landing, so-so landing, rough landing, landing so hard you pop tires or lose the nose gear, landings where you clip something and damage the plane but no one gets hurt.
Conversely a controlled crash landing sliding on the belly, or with an unlocked landing gear down, to a runway overrun crash, to a crash on water safely thru total destruction, to a crash that breaks up the airplane that people survive, to a crash where its just a huge fireball and no one survives.
They will still have to practice landing without this.
I've heard it said that a carrier landing is the closest thing there is to a crash landing.
True, so true.
They’re making it so easy that even Zoomies can land on a Carrier!
The automation will eliminate the need to have a pilot on the aircraft.
“All results showed benefits in touchdown dispersion reduction of more than 50 percent...”
Crapping yer pants is down to only half of yer landings!
I was looking for a 10x improvement.
If landing on a carrier is equivalent to combat, then what on earth is landing on a pitching carrier deck...in a storm, and AT NIGHT equivalent to? Worse than combat I guess.
I’d still be afraid of the computer lockin’ up. They do that...just when yer life most depenz on ‘em.
“The automation will eliminate the need to have a pilot on the aircraft.”
Commercial aircraft built since the mid-1980s have been able to take off, fly, and land without pilots. The pilots are there for back up in extreme emergencies (think Capt. Sully) and to reassure the passengers.
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