Squadron Quals

[DeltaMike]

If you're thinking about joining a squadron, and worry you don't have the basic skills, check out DCS Academy https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=254647

 

We focus on the basics. How to handle yourself in the pattern. Navigation using visual references, dead reckoning and navaids. Formation flying. Carrier ops. Interacting with ATC and AWACS. Bullseye calls. We don't teach weapons and tactics, your squadron leaders will train you up according to their doctrine. We just prepare you to come to the table tight and professional.

 

Squadron leaders -- while many of our instructors belong to squads, this is not a recruiting venue, we are just having fun. We are happy to help you out with some of the low level stuff if you like. Also, we are always on the lookout for instructors! It's really cool to watch the cadets go from having no idea how to even set up their flaps lever to doing a tight formation landing with all the right radio calls. We have NTTR set up as realistically as we can for the general public, with dynamic weather. We even parked a carrier out on the Colorado River lol!

 

For the really serious cadets we do most of our training in the C-101 EB, but there's a way to do it using community mods like the MB-339 and the A-4 for cadets that are saving up their money for a sleek F-16 or an awesome F-14 (and they will have the stick skills to keep that Tomcat in the air when we are done with them)