Kudos to this pilot.



Lucky his hook didn't engage one of those wires.

He's lucky that aircraft is happy at that AoA. Close call!

So, what went wrong here? Looks like a huge pilot error.

I'm going to say massive pilot error, if it were anything else he likely wouldn't have been able to pull out of that.

Well he was coming in too low, fixing to nail the end of the boat.

His decent rate was too fast, but too low, I don't think so.

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.

@Panther, have you checked on multiple puters/browsers? The embed code shows up fine on my end and your profile is configured correctly.

Re: Extreme Carrier Waveoff; pitching deck could be another possibility for the "end game" sink rate and subsequent high AoA.

Different browser but not different PC. Seems to be related to the YouTube site being slow on my end. Everything else works fine except YT.

Funny it's working now.

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.

I don't think they have a meatball on that carrier do they? Shows how much power the 33 has in those engines. Maybe that's their wave off procedures.