Landing Signal Officer
Carrier Qualification
Symbol
Meaning
Symbol
Meaning
Not enough right rudder
Turned too late
NERR
TTL
Turned too much
Not enough straight away
NESA
TTM
No hook
Turned too soon
NH
TTS
Not lined up
Too wide abeam
NLU
TWA
(
)
For emphasis (underline)
Not set up
NSU
Landed 3 points
Overshoot
OS
Overshot coming back
Over the top
OSCB
Power
Fly up through the glideslope
P
Pulled nose up
Fly down through the glideslope
PNU
In the turn
Rotate
ROT
IT
Rough
Out of turn (as aircraft
RUF
OT
starts to roll wings level)
Right to left
R-L
At the start (first one-third of
X
Settle
glideslope)
S
In the middle (middle one-third
Spotted deck
SD
IM
of glideslope)
Ship in turn
SHT
In close (last one-third of
IC
Slow
glideslope)
SLO
Stopped rate of descent
At the ramp
SRD
AR
Steep turn
To land
ST
TL
Too close abeam
In the wires
TCA
IW
Too much attitude
Over the wires
TMA
OW
Too much rate of descent
All the way
TMRD
AW
Figure 8: LSO GRADING SYMBOLS (2 OF 2)
(7-01) Original
Page 13
Previous Page
