CVW-11 Case III: Deep Dive

[IceFire]

Case III: Deep Dive instructional presentation for the F/A-18C

Presented by: Spiceman, X.O. VF-41 'Black Aces' VCVW-11

 

 

[majapahit]

Yep, deck landing lights of Stennis not working 12-20-2018, 2.5.4.25729 update.

(Please make it work again, we love our landing lights).

BTW in a deep dark night, turn on your NVG night goggles and you're fine ("rshift - h" but do also define Gain up/down). If it's a thunder day and 10/10 clouds, all is grey, you have a bigger problem.

Edited December 27, 2018 by majapahit

[WindyTX]

Yep, deck landing lights of Stennis not working 12-20-2018, 2.5.4.25729 update.

(Please make it work again, we love our landing lights).

BTW in a deep dark night, turn on your NVG night goggles and you're fine ("rshift - h" but do also define Gain up/down). If it's a thunder day and 10/10 clouds, all is grey, you have a bigger problem.

Hmm we were discussing this on our squad as when we I flew with NVGs we were not allowed to have them on, for take off or landing, as if you ejected it would break your neck. So my question is did the F18c have the explosive disconnect for the NVG's and were they allowed them on for Landing ?

 

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[G B]

NVGs are not worn for launch or recovery.

[WindyTX]

Thanks

 

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[IceFire]

Woops, deleted my own message lol. Anyways yeah NVG's aren't used in CV Ops because there's simply no way to read the meatball with NVG's on. Even at night, the Meatball is your primary landing instrument unless ACLS being used. Even with the ACLS I'm sure a pilot would be constantly crosschecking the ACLS needles with the meatball and would uncouple it if necessary, or told to do so by the LSO's.

[majapahit]

Woops, deleted my own message lol. Anyways yeah NVG's aren't used in CV Ops because there's simply no way to read the meatball with NVG's on. Even at night, the Meatball is your primary landing instrument unless ACLS being used. Even with the ACLS I'm sure a pilot would be constantly crosschecking the ACLS needles with the meatball and would uncouple it if necessary, or told to do so by the LSO's.

IceFire, you will be correct of course concerning the RL flow of protocol landing things in deep dark nights, but I (the one who mentioned the 'solution' of night goggles),

 

simply mentioned this considering 1. a simulation situation wearing VR goggles that can only provide limited contrast 2. the DCS Stennis deck landing lights having a spell of not working.

 

I did land without NVG in a DCS - clouded - night (clouds make orientation even worse) by solely referencing the ICLS needles flying horizon and needles (and a vague VR goggles meatball guessing),

 

which by the way you, IceFire, are remarkably and amazingly good at, and is what I see actual jet pilots are all rather amazingly good at in their YouTube videos,

 

but in my case of a DCS - clouded - night this was a rather haphazard exercise crashing blindly into a black hole on the deck not even being able to distinguish the white deck lights and the Stennis island a vague towering shadow that flashed by to the right, hence my (temporal) idea regarding the lesser beings.

Edited December 28, 2018 by majapahit