Remember all those times as a kid when your mom yelled at you for playing too many video games instead of doing homework? \u201cWell, look at me now, ma!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a crowning achievement for veteran gamers and tech nerds everywhere, Navy crew members remotely landed a 40,000-pound jet on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier using an ATARI joystick \u2014 no, not that kind, but close. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ATARI, or aircraft terminal approach remote inceptor, was successfully demonstrated for the first time ever last week aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln when crew members used the video game-like system to control an F\/A-18 during a touch-and-go, a Navy release said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou\u2019re effectively using little joystick controllers … and it\u2019s almost like you\u2019re playing a video game,\u201d said Buddy Denham, a senior engineer at NAVAIR and creator of ATARI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Created at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in 2016, ATARI allows landing signal officers, or LSOs, to take control of an aircraft and make necessary corrections during recovery operations from up to five miles away, the release said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017, the innovation was added to the F\/A-18, but until last week, it had only been tested on land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere was some nervousness because the sea state was so bad,\u201d said Lt. John Marino, a pilot from the Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23, and the first pilot to land on a flight deck using the new technology. \u201cBack on the airfield, testing was benign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe deck was pitching significantly and yawing and rolling,\u201d said Denham. \u201cIt was particularly difficult to land that day, and we showed it\u2019s possible to use this system even when the conditions aren\u2019t ideal.\u201d Navy crew members remotely landed a 40,000-pound jet on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":76038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,12,26,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3413],"class_list":["post-40468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"ZAJFPTNTTZATJAPQ5Q7N5DZ7V4","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/03\/30\/jet-remotely-lands-on-carrier-using-atari-joystick\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n
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