can not reproduce Arresting gear will not disengage from Tailhook. Slow rollback

[Jackjack171]

Greetings,

So lately, every time I trap in the Hornet, the arresting gear fails to drop free from the hook and instead begins a very slow retraction. It (arresting gear wire) never drops, no matter how far back it goes. Anyone else experience this?

[jaylw314]

IIRC, if you have any amount of braking, the wire will not drop from the hook.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

this usually happens for two reasons. 

Either your brakes are enabled slightly or your throttle does not actually go to idle when you reduce thrust. 

You may need to check your axis and may be recalibrate. 

thanks

[Tholozor]

Also ensure the Anti-Skid switch is off.

[Bankler]

In most cases when this happens, you can get unstuck by turning the nosewhel left and right (and repeat until unstuck).

[Jackjack171]

I wish I could say what it was, but I have no definitive proof (my failure to provide a track). My anti-skid was off. Axis and throttle had been checked as well. I think the patch fixed it. After the last patch, I tested the Hornet using a quick start Case 1 recovery and then, no more stuck bird on a wire! 

Thank you to all of you that rogered up. I really appreciate it.

[SPS48A]

Yeah, I've seen this too when the carrier operations are still in launch mode rather than having switched to recovery mode. If the people on the deck are still clustered around the catapults, you are still in launch configuration and I have seen the thing set there for 20 minutes still connected to the arresting cables. That said, I am not 100% sure what is needed to switch to recovery mode. I believe after you leave the carrier if you use radios to indicate inbound, that will cause it to switch to recovery mode/configuration. There may be other ways but I am not sure what those might be.