-0303- Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 Don't have F-16, just found it interesting. The hook is for emergency use at airports that have Runway Arrestor Systems. Lots of non-naval fighters have arrestor hooks for that purpose. Now, there is nothing stopping someone from landing an F-16 or any other fighter on a carrier deck and using its arrestor system, which works the same way. The main issues are the proficiency required to do it and the ability of the airframe to take it. A carrier landing isn't really a landing; you more or less descend into the ocean and the deck gets in the way. So the airplane needs a pilot trained to do that sort of thing, and an airframe that can do it repeatedly, that is, land with a descent rate of >500 fpm, a "hard landing" for a normal airplane, without developing cracks here and there and everywhere after a few dozen times. No doubt that in theory, you could take a carrier qualified pilot, check him/her out in the F-16, and that pilot could shoot traps onto a deck with the F-16 using the hook (launching it is another matter in the absence of catapult link). But they wouldn't be able to do a lot of them before the airframe would be toast. https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/71065/can-an-f-16-land-on-an-aircraft-carrier-at-all Intel Core i7 3630QM @ 2.40GHz (Max Turbo Frequency 3.40 GHz) | 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz | 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M | 447GB KINGSTON SA400S37480G (SATA-2 (SSD))
mvsgas Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 That article is written in ignorance and is one of many spreading misconceptions. If ED want to add this to DCS, more power to them, but don't be fool by bad written articles. What would happen if this is ever attempted on a real life F-16, the landing gear would collapse, more than than likely the tension strut will rip out of the bulkhead ( this happened in the 555th FS while TDY on Decimomannu AB in the early 2000, and the aircraft was just park). Also the tire will burst and the tail hook will rip out if the pivot point or the "shoe" will rip off the hook. The tail hook on a F-16 is only 1/4" of a inch (6.35mm) thick and it can barely handle the emergency systems on the runway, even tho those systems have a lot longer slow down that the carrier ones. To whom it may concern, I am an idiot, unfortunately for the world, I have a internet connection and a fondness for beer....apologies for that. Thank you for you patience. Many people don't want the truth, they want constant reassurance that whatever misconception/fallacies they believe in are true..
Tom Kazansky Posted June 8, 2020 Posted June 8, 2020 That article is written in ignorance and is one of many spreading misconceptions. If ED want to add this to DCS, more power to them, but don't be fool by bad written articles. What would happen if this is ever attempted on a real life F-16, the landing gear would collapse, more than than likely the tension strut will rip out of the bulkhead ( this happened in the 555th FS while TDY on Decimomannu AB in the early 2000, and the aircraft was just park). Also the tire will burst and the tail hook will rip out if the pivot point or the "shoe" will rip off the hook. The tail hook on a F-16 is only 1/4" of a inch (6.35mm) thick and it can barely handle the emergency systems on the runway, even tho those systems have a lot longer slow down that the carrier ones. Some day when all features are done for the Viper I'd love to see exactly that behaviour in DCS when trying to land a Viper on a CV.
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