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[SEA STATE 6: “4 to “...Landing aids in benign conditions with good 6 metres wave height - Very rough & With SRVL now likely to he used visibility, it was apparent that Surface Wind speed from Table can be as a primary recovery technique the real task drivers for the from 27-33 knots” Sea State Table: on board CVF, there is an addi- manoeuvre were higher sea http://www.syqwestinc.com/sup- tional requirement to augment states and night/poor weath- port/Sea%20State%20Table.htm the baseline landing aids suite er conditions.” & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ with a landing aid appropriate to 6LPXODWRUÀ\LQJXQGHUWDNHQ Sea_state ] the SRVL approach manoeuvre. on both sides of the Atlantic, in- Existing systems were evalu- To this end QinetiQ has been cluding work at BAE Systems’ ated, including the US Navy’s contracted to research, concep- Warton Motion Dome Simulator Improved Fresnel Lens Optical tualise and prototype a new VLA in December 2007, had brought Landing System (IFOLS). “How- concept, known as the Bedford the problem into sharp relief. ever, the verdict on IFOLS was Array, which takes inputs “Quite simply, these simulations that it was reasonably expensive, from inertial references to showed that pilots would crash in not night-vision goggle compat- stabilise against deck mo- high sea state conditions without ible and, as a mechanical system, tions (pitch and heave). The a suitable stabilised visual refer- presented an additional main- software-controlled light- ence,” said Paines. “The need for tenance burden to the carrier,” ing pattern provides an aim- some sort of VLA optimised for says Paines. “So the concept of point for the recovering pilot. SRVL was therefore apparent.” the Bedford Array was conceived, Justin Paines, development Although an unstabilised ap- developed and fully tested in test pilot for QinetiQ, said: proach aid was looked at early around a year in direct response ³6WXG\ZRUNDQGVLPXODWRUÀ\LQJ on, the ‘top end’ (recovery in to MoD requirements.” The science behind the Bed- A trial of the Bedford Array and 19 November 2008 to prove ford Array – so called because concept was undertaken aboard the Bedford Array concept. In all, it was brainstormed at QinetiQ’s the aircraft carrier HMS Illus- 67 vertical landings and around Bedford lab – is deceptively sim- trious in November 2008, with 659/DSSURDFKHVZHUHÀRZQ ple. 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