Wow that's a pretty wild go around! His hook came SO close - that could have been very bad, may not have had time to punch out if it grabbed it.
It doesn't look like a bad approach, I did notice an increase in sink rate as he came over the stern - maybe he felt it was too much sink - but those are tough airplanes, would have probably ended up with a hard touchdown, but not anything dangerous.
Pulling the power on one of those things in that configuration is sure to create a hell of a sink rate, lol.
I assume the video is YouTube? Anyone know what may cause it from not showing? All I have is a blank white space... This started happening earlier this week and still haven't figured out the issue.
Looks to me like it is just a squadron of 4 practicing wave-offs with a stationary ship and clear deck. Look again and you can see an aircraft dot coming around in the 90, another one on the downwind leg, and another one about 2 miles ahead of him going around again.
That would have been really bad though if his hook did catch. Can you say rubber band effect.
Well to my eye, unadjusted, it looks like his flight path would have made for a ramp strike. Certainly someone else thought so or he probably wouldn't have tried so hard not to touch the deck.
Beaker wrote:Well to my eye, unadjusted, it looks like his flight path would have made for a ramp strike. Certainly someone else thought so or he probably wouldn't have tried so hard not to touch the deck.
That is indeed a good possibility. And it takes a few seconds of course for the engines to spool up to full thrust again, in that case pulling up while waiting for thrust is pretty much the only thing left to do.
