Japanese carriers and carrier procedures

[Dragon1-1]

Zero is, fundamentally, a naval aircraft, and as such, I'd expect we'll be flying from a WWII Japanese carrier most of the time. I'd expect them to use an approach pattern similar to what every other nation did, but I wonder what they did differently from the US and British carriers. Any info about how to realistically take off and land on a Japanese carrier would be appreciated.

[Hiob]

Not sure about that.
The Navy only switched to the base turn approach (instead of a straight in) as a solution to the obstructed view by the long nose of the corsair afaik. 
So basically it was invented during the pacifik theatre.

I assume the Japanese Navy used straigh in approaches for the most part.

[dcn]

There is a video about landing.

 

[Dragon1-1]

10 hours ago, Hiob said:

The Navy only switched to the base turn approach (instead of a straight in) as a solution to the obstructed view by the long nose of the corsair afaik. 

Not true, it's a normal way to land all warbirds at an airfield, including interwar ones that long predate corsair. Fat nosed fighters existed long before the Corsair. IIRC, the US copied the overall pattern from the Brits. I'm not sure it was around during WWI, but in WWII, fighters on land and at sea used the overhead break.

What Corsair did was basically a very short final where you rolled out seconds before hitting the deck. That was what they did differently to other aircraft. Others landed more like on an airfield.

Edited 2 hours ago by Dragon1-1