Razor18 Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 Hi Badger, unless I'm missing something, in your missions I saw 4 ships around the carrier as visual markers of the overhead pattern, in the corners of the square, with the carrier in the middle. But according to the CNATRA P-816, in the "Overhead (Port) Holding" pattern, #1 is always overhead the carrier itself, #2 will be after a 90 degrees left (Port) turn starting above the carrier, #3 will be another 90 degrees turn (opposite to the carrier), and #4 will be after 270. So actually only 3 additional ships are needed, and they should be rather a corner points of a diamond (looking upwind on the BRC) with the carrier as #1, "starting point". You probably looked at the image only, but the image is wrong. Read the text below.
Badger633 Posted February 21, 2022 Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Razor18 said: Hi Badger, unless I'm missing something, in your missions I saw 4 ships around the carrier as visual markers of the overhead pattern, in the corners of the square, with the carrier in the middle. But according to the CNATRA P-816, in the "Overhead (Port) Holding" pattern, #1 is always overhead the carrier itself, #2 will be after a 90 degrees left (Port) turn starting above the carrier, #3 will be another 90 degrees turn (opposite to the carrier), and #4 will be after 270. So actually only 3 additional ships are needed, and they should be rather a corner points of a diamond (looking upwind on the BRC) with the carrier as #1, "starting point". You probably looked at the image only, but the image is wrong. Read the text below. Hi The four ships you refer to are not the markers for the holding stack. They are simply supporting ships so are both sides of the carrier. They are useful though as they are offset from the carrier by 1 nm so are a useful distance prompt for the down wind leg of the final port break just prior to trapping. In missions where Case 1 is operational you will note I have also placed three additional ships. These describe a 5nm circle on the port side of the carrier. One quadrant of the circle being overhead the carrier. The first additional ship then being placed 5nm 90 degrees port of the ship and the other two ships in the remaining two quadrants of that circle. These are the guide for the stack referred to in the mission briefs. You will note in missions where we have Case 3 in operation the additional ships describing the stack are not provided as they will not be used. Hope this helps clarify. Badger633 Edited February 21, 2022 by Badger633 F/A-18C Campaigns : The Serpent’s Head / The Serpent’s Head 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I9 9900K @ 5.0Ghz / Gigabyte 2080ti water force extreme / 32 Gb RAM Corsair Dominator Platinum 3600 / 2Tb Samsung 970 Evoplus NVMe M.2 / Thrustmaster Warthog Hotas / Thrustmaster Pedals / Valve Index.
Recommended Posts