Poorwise
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It was a joke. Did you miss the electric guitar emoji?
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Carriers Heading Into The Wind: What Angle?
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I saw the guitar. Most people put a wink or laughing emoji to show they are joking. Did you conduct the required admonition? ??
Poorwise
Wannabe
It was a play on words. You may know that Marshall is a 60-year-old brand of guitar amplifiers; a "Marshall stack" means an amp head on top of two speaker cabinets:
I'm already familiar with night & bad WX carrier landings, so no admonition needed. I did read at the article. It's well written, but it didn't have anything I didn't already know. ??
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I didn’t get that from your profile….just that you play with flight sims; therefore, I posted the article. So you’ve flown Carrier Case I, II, & III in the sim? Who acts as Strike, Approach and Tower when you fly around the carrier?
I still think you need to conduct the verbal admonition for the stretch of a joke. ??♂️??
Recently, I had a DCS guy telling me I was wrong about various aspects of CV ops in the YouTube comments section. Fairly amusing.
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I didn’t get that from your profile….just that you play with flight sims; therefore, I posted the article. So you’ve flown Carrier Case I, II, & III in the sim? Who acts as Strike, Approach and Tower when you fly around the carrier?
I still think you need to conduct the verbal admonition for the stretch of a joke. ??♂️??
Poorwise
Wannabe
Rimshot? Yes. It was meh humorous. An outright admonition? Matter of taste, maybe. ? It would have gone over better with guitar folk, but they would have razzed me since Marshall does not make PA systems.
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I didn’t get that from your profile….just that you play with flight sims; therefore, I posted the article. So you’ve flown Carrier Case I, II, & III in the sim? Who acts as Strike, Approach and Tower when you fly around the carrier?
I still think you need to conduct the verbal admonition for the stretch of a joke. ??♂️??
I have been playing guitar on-and-off starting with the local arts magnet high school's classical guitar program in 1985.
I "play" MS Flight Sim X and Lockheed-Martin's Prepar3d. Even though they are mere toys, to get the most enjoyment, I have read many books and websites about aviation. I learned a lot about the subject to the point that I laughed at Die Hard II awful depiction of ATC and how they moved the glideslope to make an airliner crash well short of the runway.
There are a lot of great and free add-ons, including carrier-related tools. There is a tool which will place a carrier anywhere you want, and another which does the same, but allows setting pitch/roll.
There is nothing for Strike, Approach or Tower, but there is a "LSO." The program is vLSO -- virtual Landing Signal Officer -- which is very cool. In addition to giving the pilot verbal assistance ("you're a little high" "work on your lineup" "you're slow") it has a "debrief" with a graphical display of lineup and glideslope. It will automatically set Case I, II, or III depending on time of day and ceiling. In addition to requiring a ball call (or you'll get a waveoff) it dings you if you are too close/wide abeam or long in the groove.
Learning to land on a sim carrier was very hard, and it took a lot of crashes before I got decent at doing it. I already knew naval aviators have the hardest and most-stressful flying task, but doing it in a sim gave me a new appreciation for what y'all do. Even though I can't be hurt or killed, my body tenses up starting one mile out.
I got hooked on naval aviation after the 1980 movie The Final Countdown. Back in the 1990s, I wanted to be a Naval aviator or a USAF pilot. I wound up choosing Army via ROTC and hoped to be branched in Aviation. However, I got booted on a medical in basic. As my health "progressed," I got to the point that I would not qualify for even a third-class FAA med cert. Oh, well...
If I ever get the $$$, maybe I'll try ultralights!
Poorwise
Wannabe
You mean to tell me that a simulation program has inaccuracies? Shocker! ?
I have to admit a little irritation. I made a good living writing programs, including a contact & order management system for a small business. My stuff was tight, and it worked right! Maybe it comes from professional pride. Something like that TV show with the Canadian home repair/renovator. When he sees substandard work, he tends to get a little irritated.
Compare a pilot (military or civilian) who doesn't use checklists because he thinks they are for amateurs. Oopsie! I forgot to lower the flaps.