'Easy Street' F-35 pilots will be on easy street once JPALS is installed/certified everywhere or places where it counts the most initially. The X-47B used a special interim JPALS installation to do its thing automatically in the BUSH - that thread has details. Otherwise go here to read the long article:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post8035197
Read about JPALS on this forum and the X-47B thread to see how auto-landings for the Super Hornet and F-35C on CVNs may become the norm in some future time according to LSOs.