Try Landing On This - Heavy Seas

[Stray Cat]

Maybe this has been around before..... Salt water spray on the helicopter can't be a good thing.

 

[katricol]

wow...would'nt want to be out in those seas!!!

 

[highslice]

looks like they have the trim tabs all the way down so the bow cuts though the waves.:grin:

 

[C-SIDE]

Wow, for a carrier to pitch that much, those seas were pretty nasty. I wonder how my 27 foot Sundancer would handle that?

I was on the USS Halsey CG-23 and we hit some pretty nasty seas. Its fun for about an hour, but after that its a challenge just trying to walk down the p-way - many bumps and bruisers. It was always entertaining to see some of my shipmates get sea sick

 

[carterchapman]

I enjoyed all of my 426 carrier landings - the day ones, anyone can do - the night ones separated the men from the boys.

But the pitching decks really brought out the "menly men men, menly men men". The catapult officer would "shoot you" when the bow was down, so when the 4 seconds elapsed from his signal and the catapult fired, the bow would now be up.

Landing on a pitching deck separated the "deck spotters" from the "true believers" - the "true believers", listened to the LSO (Landing Signal Officer), while the "deck spotters" looked at the pitching deck and could never "get aboard".

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVgBayUfPJU&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkjqa18hwWY&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

Hampton and Scott - eat your hearts out!

 

[CJ Martin]

That first video brings back some memories onboard the late great USS America (CV-66). We did a trans-lant to the coast of Norway in '85, hiding from the Bear in a hurricane. Green water over the bow, short chow lines, good times...

-CJ

 

[carterchapman]

That first video brings back some memories onboard the late great USS America (CV-66). We did a trans-lant to the coast of Norway in '85, hiding from the Bear in a hurricane. Green water over the bow, short chow lines, good times...

-CJ

Short chow lines - ROTFLMAO!

Hard to believe they sunk the USS America...the trivia that I remember about her was she had the extra long catapults designed for McNamara's Navy F-111s...

 

[sbw1]

I seem to remember a You Tube video of a pair of choppers tied down on the bow of a carrier in very rough seas and one of them broke loose and got washed overboard. It was too rough to send a crew out to move them. Makes you wonder what they were doing out there to begin with.

 

[unklbuck]

carter chap--what did you fly?
and
you mean to tell me they would have flight operations in waves like that first video?
i can see flying in the wx with those last 2 videos, but no way in that first video, but what the heck does a tanker toad know.

 

[Hampton]

Makes you wonder what they were doing out there to begin with.

Where are they going to go? Any port in a storm?

 

[Hampton]

Hampton and Scott - eat your hearts out!

I'll have to watch at home. I'm sure it's eye opening. No jealousy here. You guys can have that stuff. I had the chance to go along in a TA-4 in S Texas. "Ride along on a carrier landing for someone else's practice? NO THANKS!"

 

[Four Suns]

Everytime a named storm heads into Norfolk/Hampton Roads, all the big Navy ships head out to sea...

 

[chuck1]

Everytime a named storm heads into Norfolk/Hampton Roads, all the big Navy ships head out to sea...

Much safer at sea then at port.