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A landing signal officer or landing safety officer (LSO), also informally known as paddles (United States Navy) or batsman , is a naval aviator specially trained to facilitate the "safe and expeditious recovery" of naval aircraft aboard aircraft carriers. [1]
The landing signal officer (LSO) is a qualified, experienced pilot who is responsible for the visual control of aircraft in the terminal phase of the approach immediately prior to landing. LSOs ensure that approaching aircraft are properly configured, and they monitor aircraft glidepath angle, altitude, and lineup.
From the beginning of aircraft landing on ships in the 1920s to the introduction of OLSs, pilots relied solely on their visual perception of the landing area and the aid of the Landing Signal Officer (LSO in the U.S. Navy, or "batsman" in the Commonwealth navies). LSOs used coloured flags, cloth paddles and lighted wands.
A signal lamp (also called an Signal Searchlight) is a visual signaling device for optical communication In the U.S. Navy , " signalman " (nicknamed "Sigs", "Flags", or "Skivvy Waver") was a job field combining both visual communications, and advanced lookout skills.
7588 Naval Flight Officer (NFO) Qualified EA-6B Electronic Warfare Officer [a] 7589 V/STOL Landing Signal Officer (LSO) [f] [h] (MOS merged into FMOS 7594 prior to 1 Oct. 2013) 7590 Landing Signal Officer Trainee [f] [h] (MOS merged into FMOS 7594 prior to 1 Oct. 2013) 7591 Naval Flight Officer (VMAW) [f] [h] (MOS redesignated to FMOS 7504 ...
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In November 1940, the U.S. Government acquired the land (around 1.1 km 2) that would eventually become Naval Air Station Oceana.At that time, the surrounding area was mainly farmland susceptible to flooding, but it served as a useful outlying field for the rapidly expanding naval air force headquartered at NAS Norfolk and allowed units to work up for deployments away from the crowded base there.
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