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SY Sublime "i guess a full load 66000lb f18 isnt classed as a heavy." Yours is not an uncommon story, military or civilian. I think you've heard the stories too, of folks who wanted jets and were slotted to rotary or other fixed wing. My grandson had that type of experience, out of MCRD, SD. He wanted to be a Rifleman, but they were so overloaded with candidates, he was "volunteered" to be an Assaultman. He later found out he liked it, because he got to blow things up. No matter how well we prepare, I guess it sometimes comes down to the luck of the draw and timing. I doubt if I'm telling you anything new as your f-18 is considered "large"(41k lbs to 300k lbs), while the "heavies" are over 300k lbs. Of course when you were delivering the "goods", with your f-18, it was to a targeted point and you might come back a little lighter:). With civie commercial, I think it would be a skoach different at taking on passengers and goods, to then drop off the same elsewhere:). With great respect to you, I am in no way busting your chops. I think I understand how you are feeling. It would seem to me if, that if you've got the aptitude to learn to fly in the first place, it should be a matter of being able, including with sim time, to transfer those skills and transition to another type of aircraft. What do I know. I used to work in the (Regular) USAF WX shack, then transferred with USAR Commo(Reserves). Be well sir. You may not have been doing what you wanted, but I, for one, can say, if you scored the 3 wire frequently enough, walked away from every landing, didn't get into hack and wore the uniform well, then I'll buy you a beer anytime. E-7 USAR, Ret.

And what we can't see is the pilot at the same time is constantly working the rudder pedals with his feet - every change to the power levers (those are in his right hand) requires rudder correction.

Yes, with a turboprop power is instant unlike a turbine engine that requires a spool up.

Yeup, you have instantaneous power from those T-56's because all you are doing is changing blade angle. The engines are already spun up. And its pretty impressive when all 9200 HP kicks in (Old school T-56-425 with the 4 bladed HS props. Great vid! Now an old former hummer guy 89-96'.

@Tucker Gary - Were you a pilot or an RO ("radar man"), and Seabats - they were VAW-111 Seabats at Miramar, right?

Yes. And they don’t take off, they launch. They are catapulted.

This is just a guess but the engines on the E-2 are identical which means they both spin in the same direction causing a yaw movement whenever the throttle is adjusted requiring rudder input to be used to counteract this yaw. Therefore trying to coordinate rudder inputs to correct for the engines and for an inperfect alignment might be difficult for pilots or might not be as effective as using roll due to adverse yaw because of the AoA

Also, E-2 engines are very powerful for the aircraft (a Navy requirement). The turbine section, at something in excess of a constant 13,000 rpm, powers huge 13-foot props through a reduction gearbox at, if I remember correctly, a constant 1138 RPM. Cockpit power levers control thrust not with throttle or turbine speed, but by changing the prop blade pitch angle and all power changes are felt instantaneously. You'll see the pilots moving those power levers quite a lot, especially as they get in close, and the E-2 has not yet had, though I believe it is planned for the near future, any sort of automatic or computer-controlled landing capabilities. Pilots have to continuously correct aileron, elevator, trim, power, and rudders.

It's because they had just entered the burble effect of the carrier where the carrier leaves a turbulence effect that the pilot has to correct for before touching down

@@sonniedae6398 No shit, really? Thanks Captain Obvious.

@@haywoodyoudome I mean to most people who don't understand even basic aerodynamics all turbulence means to them is unstable air on their airline flight and they don't know that lots of different things can cause it so not captain obvious, more like Lieutenant JG Know-It-All :)

@@sonniedae6398LMFAO LT JG Know-it-all.... awesome!

@@haywoodyoudome Always happy to provide a chuckle across the internet. Now if you'll excuse me a fully grown man just called DCS a video game and I need to complain for 40 minutes about why it's a flight sim and not a video game even though DCS can be used either way and usually is referred to as a game because it's simpler to say and has a more appropriate connotative meaning to what DCS is as a whole

He constantly puts in corrections, to keep the aircraft aligned (left/right) to the landing deck, on speed, and on the glide path to intercept the arresting cables. And then there are also constant gusts of wind for which he has to correct.