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Mr Sweetman is clearly not on your Xmas card list, but he does make the valid point that once you hit the deck, you'd better wind down the thrust sharpish and hit the brakes - which leaves you nowhere to go in the event of "something" going awry. Not good on a shortish land field, a bit tricky one might surmise on a 250m-ish (or less depending on glideslope and whether you get to use the full deck length) narrow deck stuffed with armed and fuelled a/c in very close proximity.
I don't think anyone disagrees that RVL as a technique can increase bringback on Dave B. The question is whether it can be used operationally, with substantial recoveries. One would suspect that using the technique might increase the recovery interval, meaning more a/c in the pattern for longer, with consequent impact on fuel margins etc (negating bringback benefit?) Although its only "supposed" to be used in extremes - the place where those extremes occur is just where one is likely to want to use CVF + Dave and all the bells and whistles.
The thing that is worrying is the almost unseemly manner in which the RVL trials are being thought of as "the fix", rather than a promising experimental technique.