Communication procedures with one radio

[catt42]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on a SP mission where the player is the leader of a flight of two F-86's and is directed to intercept an enemy bomber by GCI. If the F-86 had two radios, the player could use them on two different frequencies, one for communicating with GCI and one for his flight, all at the same time. But it has only one radio.

So the question is: how this problem was solved in real life, in Korea for exemple? Would GCI give instructions directly on the flight's network, or would it use the guard frequency? Or would the flight leader tune his radio on GCI's frequency and communicate with his wingman with hand-signals only?

[Sweep]

If you train/standardize and plan enough you really don't need to say much over the radio to your flight.

 

You'd likely have both aircraft on the GCI frequency.

[Frederf]

Flight members would follow lead to the GCI channel.

[catt42]

Got it. Thanks