There’s a reason Top Gun’s opening scene was a night carrier landing. When they talked with fighter pilots about the most harrowing and terrifying aspect of being a fighter pilot, nearly every one responded with night carrier landings. That’s because F-14 Tomcat pilots land aircraft at night with no ambient light and little to no headlights. They’d be so high on adrenaline after they’d landed that their knees (and entire body) would be shaking.
Check out this video of F/A-18 pilots landing on an aircraft carrier at night with an INSANE pitching deck due to rough seas. One pilot even shows the intensity of the shaking after their landing.
USS LANGLEY (CVL-27) rolling sharply as she rides out a Pacific storm. Photographed from USS ESSEX (CV-9).
"The original photograph is dated January 13, 1945, but Morison, History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. 13, captions this view as having been taken during the Great Typhoon of December 18, 1944."