Techniques for landing SU33 on CV?

[Steel Jaw]

No FPM, no meatball.

 

How best to trap?

 

Thanks!

[Stuge]

Use the ILS and flight director on hud for approach, it also gives a speed recommendation! You can even use autopilot for the landing, although what's the point really :)

The biggest risk is landing too short, before the first wire, since this will blow up your plane. (It's a bug yes). Because of this it's better to touch down too far and go around than too early and blow up. Hard landing is not a problem, it can take quite a hard touchdown. The most difficult part of the landing is making pitch corrections during the last few seconds. The plane responds slowly, with delay, and it's easy to first make a too strong correction in one way, and then overcompensate in another direction, causing either overshoot(which is ok) or a crash(not ok:)).

So control must be very precise. Once you've touched down, look from external view to see which wire you caught! For me it helps to try "feel"'the FPM even if it's not there, visualize where the FPM should be pointed at on the deck, and through that where the tailhook will hit by projecting the cockpit-to-tailhook distance onto the deck.