The Navy Is Using ATARI To Remotely Control And Land Fighter Jets

The United States Navy is testing a new system called the ATARI onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln that allows the Landing Signals Officer (LSO) to take control of an aircraft on approach to the carrier.
The Navy has been working on developing the aircraft terminal approach remote inceptor (ATARI), but the system was only tested at sea for the first time this March. Conditions at sea were challenging to say the least.
“I was really impressed with LSO’s ability get me to touch down,” VX-23 test pilot Lt. John Marino, the first naval aviator to land using ATARI, said. “The conditions were really varsity, and it was really impressive the system worked the way it did. On a calm day, it would have been a little bit boring, but this was definitely more challenging.”
The Navy expects that ATARI could be used as a backup during contingencies to correct an aircraft’s glideslope from as far away as five miles. And while the system could be a useful backup for manned aircraft such a Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, ATARI might be especially useful for the day when unmanned aircraft start to operate from the flight deck.
“We don’t have unmanned carrier-based vehicles in the fleet today, but they are coming soon,” Dan Shafer, a Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) air vehicle engineer, said. “This is a potential alternative landing method and our system performed well.”

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