Should I stay or should I go? Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love HSC.

[Gatordev]

True, but then again the 60S design made sense in that it wasn't meant to live onboard CRUDES, just needed to land to drop off the pony. I also think that the Kidd and Sprucans were on their way out when 60S was fielded. I never landed on either. Ticos were a tight fit but you just had to take your time, trust in your AWs, and use the force. I heard of people putting tailwheels in the nets but never personally flew with anyone who did it.

Absolutely, but the original question was why was the Seahawk different from the Blackhawk (...and then why the Sierra was back again). The Sierra config reasoning (or acceptance) was already covered, but the actual reason why anyone noticed was because of 25+ years of Seahawks doing Seahawk things in that config. I was just shedding light on why the Seahawk was different.

 

[RedFive]

I thought he might be looking for something different.

What I meant was, if you look at the type ratings on the FAA website, it'll say things like:
A/A-320
A/B-737
C/BV-107

Just curious what the nomenclature is for the leading letter.

The FFG-7 flight deck was certainly longer by several feet.

Spent quite a bit of time on FFG 41....had to do a running landing because of an engine EP. Good times, Shaggy!

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

It's not about the type of landing, but instead the size of the deck.

BTW, does Seahawk NATOPS contain something like rolling landing where the size of a deck allows that?

the Seahawk tail wheel is a tire and tube design

Seems to be also the response to a shift of a center of gravity backward in some configs, or no?

 

[DanMa1156]

BTW, does Seahawk NATOPS contain something like rolling landing where the size of a deck allows that?

Yes, and takeoffs. Have been in areas where I was a combination of high, hot, and/or heavy and had to utilize both as I couldn't even hover in ground effect.

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

Yes, and takeoffs

Hip (nickname "Eight", just like in a card gamble) is running on the nose wheel. Halo (though everyone here calls it "Cow") oppositely, from the main gears. USAF 60 Ghetto seems to run on a tail wheel. What about Seahawk? There's some beauty in a running takeoff of a helicopter, not like FW...

 

[Gatordev]

The typical order of contact points for a Seahawk for landing are tail wheel, left, right. For takeoff, hover or running, it's the opposite order.

I also would use the tail wheel as a way to spot the deck on a small boy. Technique only.

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

I also would use the tail wheel as a way to spot the deck on a small boy. Technique only.

BTW, this is the argument against the tailhook people's opinion that there's nothing in this world that resembles the arresting landing on a carrier

 

[Pags]

BTW, this is the argument against the tailhook people's opinion that there's nothing in this world that resembles the arresting landing on a carrier

Boat shows up in the last 30sec or so. No meatball, no autothrottles, no hud. There's a guy in the back helping you out in lieu of an LSO. Also, there's a wall in front of you at the end but you're hovering. Still requires precision, focus, and teamwork.

 

[taxi1]

I had put together the wing's E2-controlled EMCON recovery procedures on cruise, and spent a couple of days on board an Aegis to teach it to their controllers. Got a day hop with the helo det while there, and wanted to go at night to see a night recovery, but they said no pax on night flights. I was bummed. Looks challenging!

 

[Hair Warrior]

SSN CO: “Hold my drink...” <surfaces at north pole>

 

[squorch2]

and this is pinky time!

by far the most challenging aspect of flight were zero-illum unaided freedeck landings, which somehow always coincided with the boat juuuust inside roll limits.

 

[Pags]

SSN CO: “Hold my drink...” <surfaces at north pole>

I know nothing of sub ops but is there really a corollary?

 

[IKE]

I had put together the wing's E2-controlled EMCON recovery procedures on cruise, and spent a couple of days on board an Aegis to teach it to their controllers. Got a day hop with the helo det while there, and wanted to go at night to see a night recovery, but they said no pax on night flights. I was bummed. Looks challenging!

You got screwed by people not willing to intrepet 3710 correctly. "Passengers" are people on point-to-point flights, not serving as aircrew.
If you've got swims, and you're taking off from where you landed, you're not pax.

 

[Gatordev]

Boat shows up in the last 30sec or so. No meatball, no autothrottles, no hud.

I guess the HCO wanted to make it harder and didn't have the line-ups on. Or maybe it was just a FFG and they were broken.

 

[Max the Mad Russian]

I know nothing of sub ops but is there really a corollary?

My naval college classmate who surfaced Typhoon-class on the North Pole once said there was a week-long search for a place where the ice was thin enough that 50.000-tons behemoth could penetrate it. And sure enough, they met the very angry polar bears there who were like WTF, this black seal is big enough to fed us for long but hard enough to bite it out. Those bears are not Russians, they are just animals;-)