Calmly says the guy safely ensconced in 2nd deck and below spaces…far away from the flight deck.
First they have to remove the old non-skid. They do this with machines that essentially shoot thousands of steel BB-balls into the deck to break up the old non-skid. I think its some kind of vacuum too to suck the BB-balls back in to the machine to resume them again and again…still some get away and have to be policed up.
Creatures like us Intel types are denizens of the O-3 level–sleep, work, eat there– which is directly under the flight deck. I ask you to imagine the unholy racket that thousands of BB-ball being shot onto a steel deck which is directly above you head, makes, then times it by 3. I never really experienced the expression “I can’t hear myself think” until then.
When we were having our non skid replaced in '05 before deployment, Air and Deck had all their undesignated folks, and maybe their 3rds, all removing the old material from both the flight deck and the hangar deck with needle guns and small jackhammers. They started before we pulled in from our last I think COMPTUEX, after the air wing had flown home. You’re not kidding about the racket, and that ish carried all the way down to the plants.
We replaced the nonskid on USS GUAM (LPH-9) she was an old IWO JIMA (LPH-2) class. The whole thing was contracted out. After the nonskid is laid and drys, you paint alll the flight deck lines and symbols and stuff - for an LPH that’s basically all the landing spots, a centerline for harriers, warning lines around elevators and hatches, that kind of stuff. Also they paint the ship’s number up on the bow.
They get all their directions from a NATOPS manual for the LPH-2 class, that specifies in detail where each bit of paint goes…exactly. It also proved a helpful overall diagram…which provides a example of where the bow number should go.
So the work is done and air department is inspecting it. They get to the bow and there, correctly painted, is a big number 2…just like the example in the NATOPS manual for the LPH-2 class.
Air Boss - Looks good, except that’s not our number.
Contractor Foreman, flipping to the diagram in the NATOPS manual - It show a 2…right here.
Air Boss - Yeah…that’s the IWO JIMA [points to the island]…we are number 9, just like you see there.
They had to make a 2 into a 9 using black paint to hide the unwanted lines and white paint to fill in to make it a rather sad looking 9. The back painted over lines reminded me of when they adjust parking spaces in a parking lot and black out the old lines…you can still see what was there…
Back to the original point of these posts - is it the carrier or the jet? Has anybody tried to see if the Harrier does the same thing on this career - both slippage and rubber band stuff in multiplayer?
Gang - I just got paid, and I’m downloading the Hornet and Persian Gulf right now! I’ll be looking at the manuals and trying to figure it all out tonight!! YEA!
May be around sunday too, provided another stupid cb doesn’t decide to sit on top of home plate and someone’s president is blocking my primary alternate… yeah i am looking at you seppos
1- Aircraft no longer slide on the carrier deck, at any carrier speed.
2- STT track will not switch lock uncommanded.
3- RADAR SIL (radar silence) and STBY mode has been implemented. See image.
4- RWR display logic has been further improved, with critical threat lines added. See image.
5- Option on ME to select single or ripple release (was not in fact merged for last update)
6- DUD cue added for when HT or fuze setting is below current aircraft AGL. See image.
7- RWS page SET and weapon and count added when a weapon is in priority. See image.
8- Night Vision Goggles (NVG) added. See image.
9- Instrumented Carrier Landing System (ICLS) added. See image.
Looking forward to it…! I was supposed to leave DFW three hours ago, but my American Airlines flight has been pushed back to 8PM. We will be there one way or the other though!
There are a bunch of updates I’d want to see go into the radar before we even think about AMRAAM (LTWS and Track functionality chief among them). Otherwise a bunch of good info in there.
Agreed we need some more features to really take advantage of these but overall I’ve been pretty pleased with the rate at which we’re seeing fixes/features added.
I’m curious if it’ll be the same 120 modeling as with the Eagle or if they’ve tweaked it at all.
Wonder if they are going to roll out A/A systems first then come back and beef up Air to ground? As far as I know, we haven’t seen the ground side of the radar at all yet, have we?
My understanding is they’re doing AA Radar → ATFLIR (TGP) → AG Radar. We haven’t seen any part of the air ground radar except the tech demonstration they posted years back.
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