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Bad weather carrier ops aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford
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lots of practice and enough money to replace airframes so crashing one doesnt get you blacklisted like in shittier countries
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They don't, carriers are made up, you really believe that somehow 100,000 tones of steel can just float, yeah right.
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>>64201865
Zero visibility landings are literally 1920s technology.
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>>64201865
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
Indications are on the HUD. Picrel
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>>64201929
I think a bit more nuance is possible here considering that we were flying canvas biplanes back then
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Even with advanced guidance, do we still need officers yelling into phones?
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>>64202889
It'd be a lot of work replacing the yellophones with telephones they can telk into.
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>>64201865
>How do they do it?
Maritime Augmented Guidance with Integrated Controls for Carrier Approach and Recovery Precision Enabling Technologies (MAGIC CARPET)
> https://news.usni.org/2016/06/30/navys-magic-carpet-simplifies-carrier-landings-interim-fielding-fall
Video-game tier landing assist.
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>>64203201
The guy who came up with that acronym really earned his paycheck for that one.



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