A Lap Around The Boat

[TARPSBird]

Here is a video one of my old F-8 Crusader driver shipmates sent me. He liked it so I figure you will too. :) Helmet-mounted camera in a T-45C Goshawk. Launch off the pointy end, around the pattern, and trap on the blunt end. One of the best carrier clips I've seen in a while.
http://vholdr.com/video/lap-around-boat

[Toastmaker]

Quite good ! Thanks !

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[Bjoern]

Best carrier aviation video ever!

[Wing_Z]

Anyone watching this only once, or not rerunning bits of it...well I don't know.
Many thanks for the link.
:salute::applause::salute:

[Lionheart]

Now THAT is BRILLIANT!

Thanks for posting this. That is just too cool...



Bill

[exc141ac]

I enjoyed that.
Wish the camera had been a tad lower.
The trap is pretty . . . attention getting.

Thnx.

[TARPSBird]

I wondered about how much effect the helmet cam's focal length had on the viewer's perception of distance. When I do carrier ops in flight sim I always feel like I end up too far away when I am abeam the ship, but the helmet cam's view looked a lot like my screen view when I look off to my left. On the other hand, the view of the flight deck before launch made the CV's deck look absolutely gigantic. Now if I can get my landing approaches to go that smoothly I'll be real happy. :d

[TomSteber]

Freakin Awesome!!!!

Man, when he looks over at the boat when he's entering his downwind, that's when you go, "I gotta land on that!?"

[jmig]

Loved it! Awesome video! I agree Tom. when he keep checking his position, it was really real.

[PRB]

That was awesome. Notice how the ship is generating almost no wake at all? This was one of the things that I remembered about flight ops, probably because it was unexpected. I assumed the ship always steamed full speed into the wind during flight ops, and that isn't always so. They just make enough speed to generate the required wind over the deck, and if it's already windy out, that may not be very much speed at all. Good stuff.

[TARPSBird]

I've been away from real-world carrier aviation for so long, the vid was a nice refresher. I am still in awe of the tailhook aviators and aircrewmen who do it for a living. Same for the deck crews who dance that dangerous "flight deck ballet" during launch and recovery.

[aeromed202]

Where has this video been hiding??!! I got into FS via a huge interest in naval aviation and I've never found anything quite this good. My bar just went up a tad. Thanks loads.

Now if only FS water looked like that...

[Whitehawk]

Wow brilliant vid makes me want to jump back into FS!