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News Flash! China loosing pilots and planes in droves as they try to learn carrier landings! LOL!!!

Between flight simulators and short take-off and landing drills, I suspect they have a lot of the training covered. It'll be interesting, though, to see the attrition rate from the mobile (and in-motion) airfield aspect of carrier take-offs and landings. I also have to wonder if ski-jump carriers like the Varyag have some equivalent of a cold cat failure.

Between flight simulators and short take-off and landing drills, I suspect they have a lot of the training covered.

How could they have that aspect covered? Even the Russians had a long and painful evolution trying to go from helos aboard ships, (the Moskova), to VSTOL (the Kiev), to finally fixed wing, (the Kuznetsov). The Chinese don't even have a fraction of that experience.

And then you have the interaction of the deck crew with aircraft taking off, landing, and taxiing. How are the Chinese going to handle that? Even the American navy with years of practical experience still has people getting blown over the side and crewmen walking into props and getting sucked into jet intakes due to the close proximity of men and machines on the flight deck. How will the Chinese handle that?