How do other navies train carrier pilots when a new jet trainer is not required to make deck landings?
Short answerPilots can practise carrier approaches on land and then make their qualification landings in the operational aircraft.
NotesPilots can practise on a land runway configured to resemble a carrier before making qualification landings in their operational aircraft. The account is given from recollection rather than as a detailed comparison of each navy's syllabus. Most European carrier aviation is described as using the F-35B, with France and China also discussed. Early F-35B deck landings are said to tend too far forward because pilots worry about the carrier moving ahead beneath them.