PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

New report on the J-15: the carrier can operate 30 J-15, but for now the procedures are mature for only 10. J-15 cockpit was visible for a short time...

[video=youtube;t1o5HcMoOGo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1o5HcMoOGo[/video]

[video=youtube;h28Vv5c34B0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28Vv5c34B0[/video]

[video=youtube;boc9pVFUdAs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boc9pVFUdAs[/video]

[video=youtube;jS-stldzDBo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS-stldzDBo[/video]

[video=youtube;UYU5U3ayGE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU5U3ayGE8[/video]

^^^Snippets of info regarding the J-15

-There are three landing lights on the front landing gear of the J-15 (red, yellow, green) that can be used to judge if the plane is approaching correctly for landing.

-Landing speed is around 240Km/h



-Landing hook can pivot 18 degrees left or right.

- On training progress, currently Liaoning can operate 8-10 aircraft. (suggesting that a number of J-15 are available)

-Stated goal was to operate the Liaoning with 30 J-15.


J-15 cockpit:

no_name said:

- On training progress, currently Liaoning can operate 8-10 aircraft. (suggesting that a number of J-15 are available)

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That is as it looks like - sounds all very reasonable.

no_name said:

^^^Snippets of info regarding the J-15

- On training progress, currently Liaoning can operate 8-10 aircraft. (suggesting that a number of J-15 are available)

-Stated goal was to operate the Liaoning with 30 J-15.

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Then I hope we see her soon with 8-10 aboard. Perhaps on the long cruise this fall we have heard about.

It would be great to see her operating with 8-10 SU-33s aboard and I look forward to seeing those pictures.

So far the most we have seen are two...and possibly three, though we have not seen three at once.

no_name said:

^^^Snippets of info regarding the J-15

-There are three landing lights on the front landing gear of the J-15 (red, yellow, green) that can be used to judge if the plane is approaching correctly for landing.

-Landing speed is around 240Km/h



-Landing hook can pivot 18 degrees left or right.

- On training progress, currently Liaoning can operate 8-10 aircraft. (suggesting that a number of J-15 are available)

-Stated goal was to operate the Liaoning with 30 J-15.


J-15 cockpit:

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Those LCD displays are very nice.

It seems that the only thing restricting the number of J-15s operating onboard is the qualification of pilots.

SinoSoldier said:

Those LCD displays are very nice.

It seems that the only thing restricting the number of J-15s operating onboard is the qualification of pilots.

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... And the number of J-15s produced, and the inexperience of the deck crew in managing large numbers of aircraft.

LCD displays don't have much to do with J-15s operating either.
But on the subject of cockpits, J-15's actually looks a bit backwards compared to more recent jets of a similar era like advanced super hornet, Su-35, F-16E, or even J-10B.

Bltizo said:

... And the number of J-15s produced, and the inexperience of the deck crew in managing large numbers of aircraft.

LCD displays don't have much to do with J-15s operating either.
But on the subject of cockpits, J-15's actually looks a bit backwards compared to more recent jets of a similar era like advanced super hornet, Su-35, F-16E, or even J-10B.

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The lack of experience onboard can be slowly improved once they actually do start working with large numbers of jets. A constant production rate of those jets are a lot faster than crew training and qualification, which are done with the aid of Brazil.

The cockpit comment wasn't meant to go in tandem with the pilot comment, but since the subject is being talked about, it is important to realize that a cockpit cannot be judged purely by its looks. The most integral part of a modern cockpit would be the millions of lines of code typed for it. As of now the cockpit doesn't look like it's behind the game, and looks almost comparable to the one on the J-10B.

SinoSoldier said:

The lack of experience onboard can be slowly improved once they actually do start working with large numbers of jets. A constant production rate of those jets are a lot faster than crew training and qualification, which are done with the aid of Brazil.

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... Yet those are both limitations as serious, if not more so, than the number of qualified pilots PLAN has, in relation to the liaoning's ability to operate large numbers of aircraft.

Otherwise you can argue the number of qualified pilots isn't a limitation either, because that can be slowly improved just by training more of them.

The cockpit comment wasn't meant to go in tandem with the pilot comment, but since the subject is being talked about, it is important to realize that a cockpit cannot be judged purely by its looks. The most integral part of a modern cockpit would be the millions of lines of code typed for it. As of now the cockpit doesn't look like it's behind the game, and looks almost comparable to the one on the J-10B.

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Definitely true, for instance the F-22 has a cockpit with 4 individual screens instead of a panoramic display like the F-35 or advanced super hornet, or even the 3 large screens of J-10B and JF-17, but we should really use a common metric to compare them, and bringing in the invisible software component is a way to retain a sense that an inferior looking cockpit may not reflect its true combat potential.
So based purely on looks, it appears J-15's cockpit is a virtual transplant of J-11B's 5 mfd layout.