Some sensible detail about that 'low light flat deck F-35B landing' during DT-III some time back. Quotable Quote is excellent:
"Officials with the Pentagon’s F-35 program office remain tight-lipped about a troubling issue with the Joint Strike Fighter‘s helmet night-vision camera that forced a test pilot to land “in a fog” on an amphibious ship last fall. But they say improvements to the software in the pricey helmet are underway and will be ready for testing this fall. The problem landing came to light this month, when the Flight Test Safety Committee posted videos from a May workshop in McLean, Virginia to its website.... [excerpt below]
...In his presentation, Fields [Marine Lt. Col. Tom Fields, F-35 government flight test director] gave credit to the pilot, who positioned himself on the flight deck using two generators he remembered walking past on his way to the aircraft.
“I think his words later were, ‘screw you, ship, I’m landing on you,'” Fields said. “We got lucky. There is no way around it. We got very lucky that night.”
https://www.defensetech.org/2017/07/...landing-video/ Hope Hodge Seck July 19, 2017
"Video recently released by the Navy shows an F-35B pilot landing the aircraft "in a fog" aboard an amphibious ship in fall 2016 due to a problem with the night-vision camera on the helmet mounted display. (screen grab from U.S. Navy video)"