I well recall my first ever deck landing, (Mar 28th 1974). So does the experienced observer who sat behind me. We made a long taxi into One wire as I recall. The target for the F4 was 3 wire.
The U Tube clip above features the dulcet tones of Peter Sheppard, the LSO, on the sight, Punchy Doust as Little F, and Bob Northard as Wings. Wilf Graham was Captain.
Before going to the deck for the first time, Peter showed new boys a few horror clips of past deck accidents. They illustrated errors such as wrong line-up, too low, flying the deck, etc etc. These certainly went some way to making the whole event more interesting. And, of course, there was a huge audience in Goofers with cameras at the ready. (Please God, do't let there be an accident, but if there is, can I be there with a camera?)
Ah. Heady days!