What’s worse than having a sleepwalker foul the landing area when you’re in close to at the ramp?
Two of them.
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Darwin Runner-UpsBy lex, on September 28th, 2011
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A fine example of target fixation
Probably wasn’t their fault at all to be honest. It was a foul deck at the start of the clip, my guess is it was still foul from the previous trap as the cam shifted from the wires to the plat. Because it was foul, they probably got clearance to cross knowing they didnt have time to catch the jet in the groove. I wonder why paddles didnt get rid of the jet sooner if it indeed was a foul deck and not foul because of the new ‘spectators’.
Yeah, you’re right. That was a late wave-off. Can’t know what paddles was waiting for.
Still, that “head on a swivel” thing applies.
I agree with the ‘head on a swivel’ practice for sure. One would think too that regardless of the deck condition(foul deck vs clear deck) that a ‘clear in the groove’ check would be done prior to crossing any foul line, I know I did that anytime I walked up off the 03 level to the roof, esp at night. Scary stuff, and uncommon for an FDNF boat.
I had to drive out onto the runway of the Morgan County Airport several times when preparing the plans for a lighting upgrade. I always stopped short of the runway and looked at the windsock and both runway approaches before driving out.
In our new Navy where everyone’s feeling are paramount, will that pilot be reprimanded for terrifying those nice young men?
Just curious, what phrase is radioed to the plane in this situation?
“Wave-off, Wave-off!” In this case, maybe in all caps.
There’s a “wave off” pattern on the landing light system too, as I recall.
You want Darwin Award nominees? Our friends out east want to help us with our artificial reef program… http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/world/meast/iran-navy/index.html?iref=allsearch
Time to, uh, polish my torpedoes.
hehehe…wow, we’ll get home field advantage. And how awesome will it be that we can stick to them from the moment they leave, all the way here, and all the way back. So nice they’ll let us play without making us take the trip every time!
Information Dissemination has an interesting take, that for all the bluster this “deployment” could be a nice cover for weapons smuggling:
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/09/iranian-naval-diplomacy-public.html
Bet those skivvies had to be changed…
Nope, they’re ruined. Toss ‘em.
I never cease to be amazed at what you skimmers and aviator types do for fun.
On MOVLAS too. Paddles brain was busy.
Daryle, no reprimand for pilot, he (she?) ain’t responsible for checking the deck, an if he was doing it right, probably never saw them…
Now a deck spotter like me…
Nose, I KNEW IT!
Meatball, Tilley, Angle of Attack….
Guess I’m not around enough anymore.
Everything is good…in moderation!
look left, look right, look left again
Wow, Three day old PLAT footage from a deployed CV…. on YouTube.
Did not catch that…
I can hear Boss from here.
Bet paddles got a guilt edged (read lots of four letter words) invitation to visit Prifly after this.
It wouldn’t have been a cordial invitation for coffee and stimulating repartee?
Depends on who is doing the stimulating…
I think our genial host has previously described what the conversation might have been like thusly: “It was a brief but fascinating conversation, so long as your definition of “conversation” is expansive enough to include an apoplectic 40-year old commander shouting spittle-flecked imprecations at an astonished and speechless 24-year old lieutenant junior grade in front of an odd assortment of other lieutenants and lieutenant commanders …”
With an occasional “Yes Sir!” from said LT wearing a very sheepish, and highly pained, expression on his face.
So you admit they’re odd. That was always my impression too.
Russian roulette?
Foul Deck Wave Off LSO safety story here:
http://www.hrana.org/documents/PaddlesSafetyGram.pdf
Good thing for those guys that Senator Inhofe wasn’t in the cockpit of the F-18.