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CARRIER LANDING TERROR!
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/carrier1.html ^
Posted on 02/21/2012 12:52:03 PM PST by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 12:59:30 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:01:24 PM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:02:58 PM PST
by
Gil4
(Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
To: navysealdad
It is not at all uncommon to see the deck pitching like that during flight-ops.
I will say that when the pilots walked by after night ops on the way to the Ready Room, the pits, crotch and backs of their flight suits would be dark with perspiration, and as they carried their helmets, their hair was usually dark, wet, and plastered to their skulls.
It sure impressed on me how difficult it must be.
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:04:37 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:10:34 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(time to Obamanos)
To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:11:08 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(time to Obamanos)
To: rlmorel
Little in this world can be as harrowing as landing on a pitching, rolling carrier deck at night.
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:18:47 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
To: editor-surveyor
I would agree. I haven’t done it in a jet like that, but I have been a passenger in a CG helocopter landing on a severely rolling and pitching flight deck. After 25 or so years now, there are parts of me only now becoming un-puckered. :-)
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:28:05 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: editor-surveyor
“Little in this world can be as harrowing as landing on a pitching, rolling carrier deck at night.”
Watching the evening news comes pretty close anymore.
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:28:36 PM PST
by
MeganC
(No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
To: navysealdad
“A night carrier landing is a cross between an orgasm and a train wreck.”
-Anonymous
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:30:25 PM PST
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: navysealdad
WOW! It’s great to be reminded that they’re still THE BEST. And DUMBO wants to scap 50%? IDIOT COMMIE!)
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posted on
02/21/2012 1:56:56 PM PST
by
WellyP
(REAL)
To: navysealdad
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posted on
02/21/2012 2:04:33 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
(Two hundred ninety seven USS Forrestal landings.)
To: navysealdad
For later, but I’ll say, Wow! for then.
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posted on
02/21/2012 2:06:48 PM PST
by
Lando Lincoln
(But that's just me.)
To: HOYA97
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02/21/2012 2:24:36 PM PST
by
HOYA97
(twitter @hoya97)
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02/21/2012 2:24:54 PM PST
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(Where liberty dwells, there is my country. - Ben Franklin)
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posted on
02/21/2012 2:34:56 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: editor-surveyor
Especially if you are low on fuel with no available divert.
Pucker factor, indeed.
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posted on
02/21/2012 2:41:21 PM PST
by
rlmorel
("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
To: editor-surveyor
When I was going through Pensacola they told us that measured stress levels during night carrier ops were higher than measured stress levels in combat.
Thankfully, I went helos and never had a night carrier landing. However, making a 45 degree approach to the back of an LPD underway was an exercise in suppressing mental/visual dissonance.
And night, confined area, no-hover landings or night confined area sling loads will sure wring it out of you.
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posted on
02/21/2012 2:48:54 PM PST
by
BwanaNdege
(Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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