Sea State Control independent of wind force for pitching deck operations on the aircraft carrier

[Lau]

Often carrier operations will resume after the bad weather has just improved enough for carrier launch and recoveries with frightening pitching deck conditions, something that it is not possible to simulate at the moment without increasing relative wind over deck and making the airplanes land almost as choppers.

Best,

Lau

Edited March 15, 2024 by Lau

[Whirley]

+1

[Lace]

The simple compromise, which I've mentioned on other similar threads is to disassociate swell with chop.  Chop can be linked to wind, as in real life, and swell can be independently set.  Chop is largely cosmetic, and swell effects the vessel pitching, rolling and heaving movement.