Mission 05 - air refuel story

[Dentedend10]

Hi,

Just thought I'd share my story. On the way back, we get to Arco, I have around 2500 lbs of fuel left. For some reason, I could not contact the tanker (could be vaicom-related, although in previous mission I did not have an issue contacting the tanker).

Gave up, figured I'll just divert. Checking Tacan, Tonopah over a 100 miles away.. Nellis was actually closer at around 90 nm, so decided to try to make it. It looked like quite a bit of a stretch. While gliding home, looked up bailout and ejection zones. Was set up for it ready to send it. I got to the primary ejection zone which is around 15 nm from Nellis. Still had some juice since I've been gliding at like 250 knots from 30 000ft. Nellis is only 14 nm now, and still have around 500 lbs left.. Continued at the recommended glide speed of 215 after jettisoning everything I had left on.

Made it straight in to Nellis. Made it to the parking spot with around 200 lbs, checklists all went well and got the debrief chalkboard. That was quite the sortie! Needless to say I failed the fuel management part.

Not sure why the radio didn't work this time. Tried channel 14 with Jester in Command, then tried channel 14 on the front radio with me in command. Arco wouldn't respond. Maybe the chief who put the new radio in needs to be grounded

Now gotta refly it to hit the target actually!

Edited May 2 by Dentedend10

[Reflected]

Maybe it's because Arco is a basket tanker on a different freq, it's Texaco that you need to contact/ use

Glad you made it back, though

[Dentedend10]

12 minutes ago, Reflected said:

Maybe it's because Arco is a basket tanker on a different freq, it's Texaco that you need to contact/ use

Glad you made it back, though

Maybe that’s what it was then. one day I can just hand signal hopefully 

[Dentedend10]

Btw, what's the tanker TACAN frequency for Texaco? I found in the inflight guide A/A TACAN 31/94 for AR 641 A. So I should be trying 31 or 94? I found it hard to find Texaco in the clouds during Mission 8, and my buddies just take off with afterburner for which I don't have enough gas

[Reflected]

In mission 8 you are leading a flight of 2, and 2 will stick to you until you reach the tanker. TACAN is 94, not A/A because that doesn't work properly in DCS.