Mission 01 complete!

[Dentedend10]

Hi,

I went into this mission ready to suck, and to refly later. Studied the materials, but haven't flown the F4 in a while let alone drop a bomb on target.

I was so immersed and focused, got a 100% on first try. As Reflected was saying, getting ToT right IS very satisfying.

On the way back I didn't have enough fuel left to get home, so decided to tank. As the tanker was getting close very slowly, I was looking at my fuel tanks deplete by the hundreds. Again, I hadn't done refueling in a while, and I knew that I wouldn't have a chance to mess around, have to plug. I managed to plug quickly luckily with a couple hundred pounds of fuel left, only disconnected once, and in the end survived the flight and made it home with enough fuel.

Proud of the score, and I know I'll be a much much better virtual pilot by the end of this campaign

Thanks for making such immersive and satisfying campaigns, we can tell how much effort went into it!

[Reflected]

Wow, congrats on the 100% Plugging with a few hundred lbs left is a real pucker factor! Mission 2 will be more difficult, because you'll be leading the flight, ToT will be entirely up to you

[Klunker]

I'm jealous! Flown it three times and keep getting worse.

  Got by the Sams on the first run, but later realized I bombed the wrong target, even missed that target to boot.  Got bagged by Sams on the next two, and had to divert to Tonopah both times for low fuel.  Can't figure out why I feel like I'm flying with my dumps on (may be related to the Wheels light/hyd pressure situation, but am guessing/or maybe hoping).I'm also thinking of dropping the ECM pod and getting an extra centerline tank because the ECM pod isn't helping me with the Smoky Sams.

Also haven't been able to get Jester to give me a radar lock on the DT mode during the mission on two different occasions.. I thought I must be doing something wrong, but then it worked just as advertised on a practice bombing mission except, not always because sometimes I get a constant message from Jester he's got a lock and it keeps on repeating that while flying the pattern. When DT didn't work during the Red Flag mission, Jester didn't respond at all (I also had a Wheels warning light which may be a contributing factor)

I'm thinking rebooting the game may fix the F4 bug because it did seem to fix it when I did that. The F4 does seem to be more temperamental than the other planes and may get out of alignment just as its INS does.

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[Dentedend10]

I got lucky with Smokey SAMs for sure, probably due to the randomization. I used Direct mode as directed by Jester, and put some numbers into the bombing table. Told Jester to recognize them, although I’m not sure he did. But it worked out for me