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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 landing event.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.