[DCS World] Reaaaally BAD weather Landing. I had to use ACLS! 

Fun fact: During the Vietnam war, pilots were fitted with sensors to record the level of stress they were under during missions and they discovered that Nighttime/Low visibility/Poor weather carrier landings were more stressful to pilots than the enemy actively trying to kill them.

That deck jumped out of nowhere. Impressive

that last call "3 wire? yaa I can't do that" honestly, same bro, i'd just stay in the air till the weather clears up😅

"3-wire. Yeah, can't do that." "That's why I'm the pilot and you're the RIO, Jester."

after a lot of hour with F-14 and god knows how many times I do 0 visibility carrier landings in it, it still scares me, how to aft of the ship just forms up, it's amazing, gj man

What’s more impressive is the computer in the SPN-42 ACLS system when F-14 would do a fully auto approach had only 32K of memory. Been replaced with SPN-46 which has had many upgrades since mid 1980’s. SPN-42 was still used at a couple shore stations till 2012.

Anytime a pilot catches a 3 wire in bad weather they deserve a cookie 🍪

That’s a lot of faith to land blind with just instrumentation only… the carrier came out of nowhere

When I was stationed in England, back in the early 90's, at RAF Alconbury, I watched an A-10 do a 90° left turn. It was awesome to watch. He pulled the front up, then flipped upside down at a 90° left turn. Then, as he headed left, he flipped it back upright. This was before everyone had a cellphone with a camera on it. But even if I had a video camera with me, I had to know the 4 planes were going to fly-by in formation, and the one was going to do that maneuver. I was working, walking to the hazardous waste area to dump old oil from an oil change I just did on a vehicle in the shop.

Yeah a first time landing by instrument on a carrier, definitely is the pilot "coming to God" moment lmao I saw one in pitch black too and that's just scary af.

That was incredible. Nicely done man.

Holy smokes, yout can even see the super structure while on deck

That was intense. Well done.

Like they say in the Navy: There is no such a thing like bad weather, there is only bad equipment.

its like a horror film and the killer jumps out last second

Good shit, That's some amazing Piloting skills you got there

Jester: "Three wire. Yeah, can't do that." Me neither, dude. Especially not in that soup.

fantastic, i'm sure they wouldn't normally fly in those conditions :) well done

Awesome job, but I just realized I watched 3:50 seconds of nothing but fog.

That thumbnail...* chef's kiss *

“Ah, f**k me…..” Brilliant. 😂😂😂 Nice landing Sir. 👍🏼

Hell, that was worth a like and a sub. Brutal conditions!

Hot dam okay I am impressed on that one....dam deck came out of nowhere. lol

Extraordinary. Respect.

Nice IMC conditions. Good 3 wire trap.

Nicely done! 👍🏻🇺🇸

Loving that you still had to call clara in conditions like that

I give that landing a pucker factor of 11!!!

Holy freaking hell that was some really horrible weather! Didn't see s***. That backseat commentary is epic - "Just trying to casually distract you from landing!" :D

The indicator almost got blocked by the FLOLS UI

Impressive job. I'd have splattered on the front hull.

F18 PILOT: hold my icls

Amazing video.

Nice job!

I hate how impossible it is to ride the donut in the F-14. Just adds 250% extra unnecessary anxiety when landing in these conditions. The F-18 basically flies itself down with the power. The F-14 makes you wonder if you're going to slam the tail into the deck or fuck up and end up in the drink.

Absolutely incredible landing.....

Impressive ! GJ :)

That was terrifying.

get this man a video card

That’s amazing!!

F ME! Hahaha…. I’d be thinking the same thing after flying that blind and seeing the deck pop one sec before touch down!

Good job

Really nice landing! But I need these weather presets, they look amazing!

very impressive

And jester HAD to roast you for a three-wire.

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Hey nice work,man! I have only one question: How did u guys done radio effect?

Nice!

very cool

Omg. I need to get this already.

Holy crap. You don't see shit till youre practically wheels on deck.

Seeing that the HUD symbology is not moving fluid, this is really scary. Reminds me to earlier MSFS versions when I tried IFR and sucked bootie with the instrument graphics… Awesome work, that deck appearing from the dark is really scary. Are there wx minima for the ACLS? Whatever are they, this seemed below 😂

Impressive

Just as it stands in those conditions carrier flight operations would be suspended due to safety concerns. after all you don't even see the deck till you are touching it at that point. it's one thing to have 5 seconds of visibility because you have the time to assess if you will need to go around or not and react to those conditions but with such a small area of visibility a jet can slam into the deck before the pilot can react which wastes the navy's money. (what training the pilot and purchasing a new plane are expensive ventures)

Damn!, no altitude and speed on hud? Jeez not plane for me xd. Nice flying btw.

NO CHANCE that you could have called the ball or see the runway before. This is just a sim, but it scares me so much god damn...

autopilot is a wonderful thing.

Cat 3B stuff there. Landings only legends do.

Is Carlos sainz with binotto on vocals???

pure skill!

bro spawned from nowhere💀

Sorry the videos quite old, but how did you get the fog to look so good? Rn what ever I do it looks terrible.

amazing

may day, may day, losing frames, losing frames "bip bip frames banking bip bip" :))

dear god, ive tried this in an 18 in VR, I cant manage it cause i get crazy motion sickness

The F-14A/B hud is what stops me from learning this module. How do you cope with needing to look at steam gauges during combat, refueling, etc? I guess I'm a 4th gen baby. No such thing as information saturation in my book ;)

ACLS is autoland? Similar system is used for ILS cat II and above in civil aviation

Hey, my old ship The Vinson.

The landing was a jump scare

isnt 1/4SM a quarter of a Statute Mile (1.609km) ?

which button do you press to activate dad ACLS?

Well done sir. Edit - jester said it best at the very end. Ill add some context because im drunk. I wanted to be a naval aviator like my dad but gave up on my dream. I'm currently reading "get hard" by david goggins and i feel pathetic. Going to try and change my life.

Is that a player LSO?

wHaT gAmE iS tHiS for real though, that was noice.

thats just a summerday in iceland for the coast guard

assuming you can't trust the VV in this? it was always above the horizon line even though you were descending.

holy hell

👏👏👏

How?!

Fucking nice landing bro 3 wire And on the ball teh entire time down good jpb

What're u flying there?

this making being a pilot with poor eyesight possible

It’s all PLM nowadays whatever that is 😅

I wonder how pilots landed like this during WWII

WTF nice! lol

Amazing. I would crash into the carrier. Is it possible to land in this low visibiliy in real life?

Молодец!)

Seriously people ? He was on ALS…. ffs

Calm your tits everyone. There were no special pilot or sim-pilot skills involved here. He used ACLS (Automatic Carrier Landing System) as modeled in the DCS F-14. Yes, it lands the aircraft on to the carrier for you and, yes, that capability existed at the time.

Who are you talking to? Are those players playing as ATC?

how is it possible?

is this "FLOLS" also displayed in real life?

You coulda done that in manual mode! Nice vid though

ACLS not required for this landing. Just practice. :)

Holy fogs! Is this what blind people see?

I thought the f14 didn’t get the autopilot landing until the D model

What the hell

You could have made a one minute video that people would actually watch. Every single person skipped to the very end hahaha

14 FPS...

Is someone acting as ATC?