Serious question: are there any ejection-capable fighter or trainer aircraft in our inventory that recommend a landing with single MLG unsafe?
If you don’t have safety access, the AIB gives much of what you may need. I realize there are different seats, but one of the most important parts of this mishap (to me) is the failure of the seat. I think far too many people make go/no-go decisions without consideration for seat failure. I have seen people take too much unnecessary risk with a blind assumption that the seat will get them out of a bad spot if things go too far south.
If an approach end arrestment is available, the only configuration not recommended for landing the F-22 is one MLG down. Naturally the checklist covers its own ass by saying "if conditions are not favorable for landing consider ejection." Procedures are written for landing with any other gear configuration.
So, in the same circumstance as the Shaw accident the -1 would direct an approach-end arrestment as was attempted in that mishap; the Raptor also has the ACES II, which malfunctioned. All the more reason to have a missed cable gameplan and discuss it with any mutual support available. In this circumstance, that likely becomes going around and executing a go-around and executing a controlled bailout from an altitude that allows time to pull the manual override handle if necessary.
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If an approach end arrestment is available, the only configuration not recommended for landing the F-22 is one MLG down. Naturally the checklist covers its own ass by saying "if conditions are not favorable for landing consider ejection." Procedures are written for landing with any other gear configuration.
So, in the same circumstance as the Shaw accident the -1 would direct an approach-end arrestment as was attempted in that mishap; the Raptor also has the ACES II, which malfunctioned. All the more reason to have a missed cable gameplan and discuss it with any mutual support available. In this circumstance, that likely becomes going around and executing a go-around and executing a controlled bailout from an altitude that allows time to pull the manual override handle if necessary.