chinese J-15 T two seater

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16 hours ago, Flankerman said:

I raised the question - because the Russians tried to make a tandem two-seat deck landing trainer in a similar way to the PLANAF J-15S - combining a Su-33 with the two-seat cockpit from a Su-27UB

 

They hit a problem because the rear instructors eyeline is a few feet above that of the trainee in the front cockpit.

 

This doesn't matter on land (e.g. the Su-27UB trainer), but trying to train for landings on a carrier deck using a landing lens (Luna, Fresnel etc) to give the correct  glideslope,  the differing eyelines of the instructor and pupil caused a problem.

 

That's why they developed the side-by-side seating on the Su-33UB - in which both crew members have the same eyeline.

 

I wonder if the Chinese found this out the hard way???

 

Ken

 

 

Really? I thought the reason was easier communication like Su-24/34. That is interesting..