CLS Carrier landing system ( Carrier ILS )
The spud locker...below the round down of the rear carrier deck...veggies and spuds kept in cool rooms either side of an alley way that leads...at least on some levels into the hangar deck.
There is a famous story of some F18 dude getting 'behind the drag curve' and impacting the back of the ship..only the cockpit and the surviving pilot ending up down the alley past/thru the spud lockers.
When he could stand?..promptly went upstairs and handed in his wings.
That was my last carrier "landing". Accepted. You have no further luck available for carrier flying.
Having spent many "interesting" hours flying sim CLS approaches...and if yr angle of attack/drag is not correct for yr power setting and yr airspeed drops off, eventually you cannot get the nose up..increase in angle of attack =more drag=more descent rate with any available power to make the deck.
So...the spud locker or the drink !!
Those Naval aviators who do all weather carrier approaches and landings on dark and stormy nights have got to be the VERY BEST.
Or the very dead.
Definitely a job for adrenilan junkies.
I dips me lid.!
