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F/A-18 landings with ship motion
I thought the whole series was great and enjoyed it tremendously. However, occasionally there were times that I thought it would have helped to have the pilots and crew discuss some of the more technical aspects of their jobs. This would have given a better insight into some of their everyday concerns. One of those times was when the pilots were having trouble landing their F/A-18's because of large ship motions in hour 7. Their is a system on the ship, the AN/SPN-46 Automatic Carrier Landing System, which is capable of landing the F/A-18 automatically. While this system may not have been certified for use for with very large ship motions, it would have likely made better landings than the pilots under those conditions. I would have liked to have seen comments which at least mentioned this system and say why they did not consider using it.
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