durka-durka Posted January 29, 2024 Posted January 29, 2024 Saturday's Wing-Wide BVR training sortie was a success. Theater: Syria Squadrons: Hellcat (F/A-18c) x3 Nickel (F-16c) x4 Dude (F-15E) x4 Closeout (Human AIC) x1 Objective: After 3 weeks of training, give squadrons a sense of how BVR engagements would go using a human AIC. Process: Each squadron had a "lane" they used, running East to West tracks. Closeout, our human AIC, controlled the fight while also spawning new targets via Olympus. This allowed spawning of specific aircraft in favorable locations/separations so there was less waiting and more quality practice. One squadron would go "fight's on" while the other two squadrons reset and practiced their rejoin skills in their respective racetrack pattern. Time between rejoining and engaging was, on average, 5-7min. AAR: Afterwards, the whole group met up in Discord and reviewed TacView. Lessons Learned: it's better to keep a range fight than get into a disadvantageous position in an azimuth fight. In kindergarten terms? Pay attention to the trail element, and if he's on the left, crank right and vise versa. 492nd Squadron CO (F-15E): JTF-111 - Discord Link
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