Maritime augmented guidance with integrated controls for carrier approach and recovery precision enabling technology（MAGIC CARPET）is the latest manual carrier landing technology. On the basis of the review of MAGIC CARPET, the internal mechanism is further analyzed. Firstly, the development situation of MAGIC CARPET is introduced; secondly its design idea and key technologies are analyzed; thirdly its control structure is researched; fourthly its flight test and conclusions are introduced; fifthly its shortcoming is analyzed and suggestions for improvement are put forward; finally, the thoughts of MAGIC CARPET are summed up, and prospects for application are conducted. The thoughts and technologies of MAGIC CARPET are the certain tendency of manual carrier landing. And the combination of MAGIC CARPET technology and shipboard relative global position system technology shall be one of the tendency of automatic carrier landing.