The problem with going into AB on touchdown is that you can damage the arresting gear. In some aircraft, like the Hornet, the afterburner range on the throttle is just a “friction stop” that you push through. Quite a few guys will end up with a flicker of AB in the wires. The Tomcat throttles required moving the throttles outboard and then forward though the AB range. Never flew in an F-4 so I don’t know what it’s throttles were set up like.
Bandit,
Thanks for the info. I’ve been interested in Navy aviation and flying in general since I was a kid. Being at NAS Oceana for a couple of years and then, later, aboard the Coral Sea for four years and two deployments to Viet Nam only increased my desire to participate. Unfortunately, the best I could do was a Private License, ASEL, later in life.
Witnessing round the clock operations on Yankee Station was the biggest hi-lite of being aboard Coral Sea. Even though I was ships company, I was very proud to wear the Coral Sea patch because of the great record of high performance, accomplishments and sacrifices made by the pilots in the air group
Regards.