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)excellent) | 5pts

A point must be subtracted if:

• The airframe was damaged in the landing.
• The pilot had a bolter of his own fault.
• The pilot ignored the LSO waveoffwave-off 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.

No points are subtracted for a wave-off, but points subtracted for other reasons will be applied to the next trap.

Only one point may be subtracted and only one point may be added for the landing sequence.

There are four grades:

• Grade D - 1 pts average. (expected from ensign)
• Grade C - 2 pts average. (expected from luitennant)lieutenant)
• 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.