Originally Posted by
franklin_m
From a cat shot perspective, we always used 60 feet and about 2 seconds to impact (after cold cat). I still remember from typical preflight brief (depending on temp, internal fuel, and stores): "145 kias off the end, 125 jettison stores, 114 jettison the airplane."
On my two cruises, we got lucky. No cold cats, but we did have one Sea King lost due to a snapped tail rotor shaft(several went down due to that in 1985, when we lost ours) and one man dead, sucked through the engine of an S-3A Viking