Carrier landings Decceleration & Pilots Head
Heheh. My first ever deck landings were aboard HMS Eagle on a farewell tour of these parts back on 10 Aug 1971. Being a sprog I was not allowed to stop and start so only carried out 4 rollers (no hook down). My first impression upon seeing my first carrier from the air 'frickin' small' eh. A few weeks later I saw MELBOURNE from that vantage to adjust my 'frickin' small'. My thoughts on EAGLE deck were 'this is rough' I guess a combo of rolling over the wires and the general depressions in the deck. In A4G I was working harder than a one armed paper hangar that day. 
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'3wire' mentioned the 4G arrest I think - here is a tidbit from F-35C on CVF never never: ['leave the landing light on'? WUT?]
"...The arresting wire system can stop a 25-tonne aircraft travelling at 150 miles per hour (240km/h) in just two seconds in a 300-feet (90m) landing area. Deceleration is up to 4Gs....” http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/De...ingLightOn.htm
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Interesting to note the comment during the last Grand Prix in Bahrain that the new cars are pulling over 5G laterally through the corners....
