CATCC

Acronym	Definition
CATCC	Carrier Air Traffic Control Center
CATCC	Centre Avançat de Teràpia Cognitiu-Conductual (Catalan: Advanced Centre of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; Barcelona, Spain)

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Sailors like Chapman and the rest of CATCC are on watch to make sure they do.

Bringing them home safe. (Seven)

602 I show you on and on, three-quarter mile, call the ball," CATCC said on Button 15.

Brake dancing in the LA

Our most critical challenge was to filter the information sent our way, managing the requests for information coming from the CATCC rep, approach control and the tanker.

A night in Oman

Once clear of the tanker, we got the squadron CATCC rep and the ship involved.

Bad waves: "Hornet rep, 405, I broke off my refueling probe."

His recovery was quite eventful, especially to the reps in CATCC.

My time of struggle: the tanker then reported that he had an error code and didn't think his system was going to give us any fuel. Our prospects of making it back to the ship were almost wiped out after this info, but we decided to at least attempt to take some gas

CATCC recognized my predicament and graciously gave me vectors.

Cut the MAF

We leveled at 16,000 feet, returned overhead the ship for troubleshooting, and contacted our representative in CATCC.

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As CATCC handed off the first aircraft to paddles, I heard, "601, slightly left of course, above glide slope, call the ball," to which the rightseater in the Hawkeye replied "clara.

For LSOs embarked at sea, no other phrase elicits more apprehension as these four words: paddles to the platform!

His CO is getting the hairy eyeball from CAG in CATCC while the other COs, XOs, and CATCC reps breathe a sigh of relief that it was not one of their pilots that just caused the carrier and its 5,000 plus people to steam into the wind for longer than expected.

Night carrier approach

I asked him to coordinate with the CATCC representative to let them know our situation.

Plenty of Chiefs, but no one in charge

The entire situation also was completely avoidable, from the decision to rig MOVLAS, to the CATCC rep checking on tankers and winds aloft, to the man in the cockpit "backing up the bingo numbers.

Back up the bingo: "310, at two miles, discontinue approach, level angels 1.2, cleared left to the downwind, heading 235."

All these things increased my level of situational awareness, not to mention a very helpful wingman and CATCC representative at the ship ready to help.