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Military / Combat60 min lesson
Carrier Case I / II / III Recovery
Fly a Case I, II, or III recovery to an arrested landing — ball flying, meatball corrections, and power management on the groove.
About this lesson
Landing on the boat is a millisecond-scale exercise in power control. Your tutor sets up overhead break, marshal stack, or CCA approaches and coaches the groove.
Why a human tutor? Ball flying is micro-corrections at high workload. A tutor calls your power changes live until the scan becomes automatic.
What you'll learn
- ✓Case I overhead break and downwind
- ✓The groove — ball, lineup, AoA scan
- ✓Power corrections — burble and wave-off triggers
- ✓Case III CCA and needles approach
- ✓Bolters and waveoffs — what happened and what to do next
Prerequisites
- •DCS F/A-18, F-14, or similar naval aircraft
- •Comfortable flying the aircraft at approach speeds
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Prep material
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