Mooch and Hozer discuss the U.S. Navy’s recent announcement that the future undergraduate jet trainer, the airplane that will replace the T-45 currently used in flight school to teach future carrier pilots, won’t be able to land at a 700 foot per minute decent rate like that used to touch down on aircraft carriers because the struts won’t be strong enough to take that level of punishment. Instead, student pilots will fly 700 feet per minute to a waveoff when conducting field carrier landing practice.The Navy has said simulators will be used to teach student pilots how to fly 700 foot per minute passes to touchdown. This announcement comes on the heels of the Navy’s decision to award flight student their Wings of Gold without carrier qualifying because the technology around precision landing mode used by fleet tactical aircraft make it unnecessary.Is this a smart move or a dangerous lowering of the training bar in the face of budget pressure?Subscribe to THE MOOCH REPORT, the channel’s weekly newsletter with updates and highlights, here: https://themoochreport.substack.comVisit Hozer’s author page at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-M…Get PUNK’S FORCE, the fourth novel in the Punk Series that was just released, here: https://www.usni.org/press/books/punk… (use the code PUNK40 at checkout for 40% off!) or here: https://www.amazon.com/Punks-Force-No…Buy one or all three of the rest of the PUNK series, Ward’s popular novels about life a Tomcat squadron, in KINDLE format here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R1MX8SY