Carrier Grades

Carrier grade medals are able to be lost and gained, depending on your performance.

A landing will be graded with points as follows:

• cut | 0 pts
• — (no-grade) | 2pts
• (OK) (fair) | 3pts
• OK (good) | 4pts
• OK_ (excelent) | 5pts

A point must be subtracted if:

• The pilot had a bolter of his own fault.
• The pilot ignored the LSO waveoff call with enough time to react.
• The abeam distance was more than 1.5 nm or less than 0.9 nm (5460ft).
• The pattern was flown unsafely.

A point must be added if:

• Total wind exceeds 10 knots.
• The crosswind component exceeds 5 knots.

Only one point may be subtracted and only one point may be added per trap.

There are four grades:

• Grade D - 1 pts average. (expected from ensign)
• Grade C - 2 pts average. (expected from luitennant)
• Grade B - 3 pts average. (expected from commander)
• Grade A - 4 pts average.

You drop a grade if you get below the average of the grade below yours, so this should not happen.

The average is taken from the best 4 landings out of the last 5.