I don't specifically remember it, but I had the manual, and I was a voracious manual reader as a kid. I also remember the carrier landings being the hardest thing in any game I ever played. Felt like about a 1% success rate, and I never quite knew what separated a successful landing from an unsuccessful one that looked identical on approach.
Even some of the very early versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator had a carrier landing scenario that was somewhat realistic IIRC!
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Thats from version 4 I think, but I vaguely recall it even being in the earlier monochrome versions ...