Haha well not exactly… I was triggered by your statement about the equation. We have an equation that explains 100% why we can fly, it’s NS. We just have a little trouble solving it. So we derive from it something simple that works for laminar flow, and something else that we can solve other things on other scales… But in principle it’s all there.
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Oh yeah. In principle 
And for engineering NS equations works just great, even if they are so hard to solve that they in fact, sometimes can’t be.
Yes, there are equations that has given us computational fluid dynamics simulations that brings us very, very, close.
This article is a few years old, and it’s been even longer since I teached, so things have probably changed.
Some quotes.
Navier-Stokes equations and are infamous in the engineering and scientific communities for being specifically difficult to solve. For example, to date it has not been shown that solutions always exist in a three-dimensional domain
Physical wind tunnel experiments are currently indispensable for validating the results of CFD analyses.
But there isn’t one simple way of saying ”the wing is sucked up”, ”the air bounces of the bottom” (and this, kids, is what makes daddys airplane fly) like people think.
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Flying anywhere near mountains and the wind sped and direction is never a constant. Landing at both Gibraltar and Mull the windsocks all point in different directions. All that appears constant is that you will always have a tail wind on approach and windshear at the flare
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Finally…a picture!! Something I can believe in! 
I only go to restaurants with picture menus so I can point and grunt. 
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The carrier in Falcon turns ALOT. Honestly I don’t know if the turns are wind changes or positioning needs. I like to use dynamic weather so it could be either. In any case, as much as I find Falcon superior to DCS in most regards, if I had a choice between landing with winds across the deck or landing on a carrier that was in the process of a fast turn, I’d take the crosswind.
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It would be interesting if there could be a script similar to that old FSX Carriers script where you could give the fleet steering commands from a menu. Check the winds, then set it on the fly. At the very least…it would also be kind of cool if you could still use dynamic weather, but then on call up for the carrier landing, if the winds would temporarily shift to being down the deck or something. Certainly would be challenging for the marshal stack to have winds changing all the time though…
Can Combined Arms allow for giving ships new headings? 
No. We can only give the boats speed changes, ROE and state (Red/Green/Auto) - no targets, waypoints or otherwise.
There is a carrier script for turning into the wind, if you like scripting.
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Ah…too bad…I needed to get the sun out of my face…(that story is surely an urban legend right @Hangar200??..I like to believe it is true though!)
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Regarding the “How does an airplane fly…we really don’t know.” discussion among the real pilots…not really engendering a sense of confidence and comfort among us passengers…just say’n. 
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Don’t worry! We know enough.
Pull the stick back; houses get smaller. Push the stick forward; houses get bigger.
Simple, really.
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Can’t be too hard, there are a lot of Pakistani pilots without licenses… 
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We had one work for us. Briefly. Never got through type rating ground school before he was spotted
Probably is but… it is not quite as negative as it is as written. The JO that wrote it sounds like the same kind of JO who spends his time as OOD on the midwatch, writing his name with the ship (in the GCCS-M C2 system, you can see the ship’s previous track.)…that happens a lot. GCCS-M is linked so other ships can see it; I have seen similar shenanigans with ship tracks. Think of it like making crop circles, with a several hundred million dollar national asset.
I think I posted a similar sea story a while back. Don’t think I have deleted it yet…But I don’t know where it might be. If somebody stumbles across it, post the link.
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I assume “Go Navy - Beat Army” is an acceptable use of maneuvering the ship…
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Probably just Go Navy part, adding Beat Army might be too large.
This type of thing normally happens when the carrier is on station and the accompanying DDG has been assigned a “box” to operate in. They must sail around but are not allowed to leave the box. In the Gulf, the carrier ops box is as large as they can make it to allow for uninterrupted flight ops (our discussion on wind over the flight deck germane). That means the DDG box(es) are a bit small. The one I saw was just initials or something similar.
Crop circles are more a metaphor for the mindset of the individual driving the ship. Physically it resembles drawing with an Etch A Sketch
…request someone else provide the appropriate explanation of an Etch A Sketch for the millennials in the crowd.
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Does each captain have a “style” of maneuvering in the box or are there accepted and taught methods? I would imagine they have sensors that must be specifically “aimed” as their part or sector of responsibility?
We might have turned this into - ask the Navy people questions…typical Mudspike topic derail…
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‘94 born - had a pocket sized one as a kid, no explanation needed! The “screen” had a sort of grid on it, I always tried to make things “pixel” perfect.
