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[menendezdiego]

Today while messing around in one of the quick flights, I finally had that “OHHHH YEAAAAA” experience. JTAC had given me the cleared hot on a column of tanks, requesting Mavericks. Targeted the first tank with the Lightning Pod, selected Maverick, and fired all 4 Mavericks at the first 4 targets in the column in a matter of seconds. After the 4 had launched, I broke, popped flares, called off hot, and switched back to the Lightning Pod. T-minus 15…14…13…here it comes…here it comes…SHACK 1! The convoy scatters! 2 seconds later, SHACK 2, then 3, then 4, all in a matter of 5 seconds! I was really impressed that all 4 Mavericks met their mark, especially since the last 3 targets were scattering!

Seeing all 4 tanks go up in flames in a matter of seconds really got me excited. Imagine being in that column. One second you're rolling along, the next all 4 tanks are errupting in flames, and you have no idea where the threat came from. I LOVE THIS SIM!

Regards, Diego

[mic1184]

yeah nice, that's what it's all about! That's the biggest strength of the game modelling real-life procedures as faithful as possible. The feeling of accomplishment is unparalleled.

 

I had a similar experience last night practising night missions. Put a long column of trucks and APC moving along a road between two of those cities i can't pronounce and started from batumi with 2 65D, 6 CBU87 and LUU-2's and went searching. I tried out the difference using the TGP wide zoomed out and the 65D's wide as FLIR (as they did in the gulf war, calling it looking through straws). What a huge difference!

Although I had minor trouble with situational awareness (TAD is something those gulf war pilots would have loved too) searching for targets at night is a pain in the ass, even if you roughly know where they are. I was constantly pausing and unpausing TIR, zooming madly and treating the boat switch like a pinball. In the end i thought BHOT was better (clear weather) and sticked with it. Then I remembered someone saying to try the Air-Air mode of the TGP. Unfortunately it marks a lot of things with crosses so that wasn't very useful.

After about 15 mins I was getting unpatient and thought I'd done something wrong in the mission editor or it was beta bug that these tanks werent there.

I turned 180 and flew back to my IP, starting to follow the road all over. This time I was popping the LUU-2s near the road and it took me only another minute following the road at 180 knots to see the column clearly moving along the road at my 12. I broke and turned 180 to get some distance for my CCIP CR run. Set the CBU87 profile to RPL single 6 with a 100ft distance. didnt mess with the height or spin settings, as I don't really know good values.

So I lined up behind and started my run from 5k ft going down 5 deg at 200 knots so i could just see the pipper. Probably CCRP would have been more appropriate but it sometimes gives me an aborted message and i didnt want to mess up this run. so i hit the pickle over the last vehicle in line and leveled at 2k ft, the CBU came off nicely and I broke right at mil power going 20 deg up. turned my head to watch the spectacular fireworks.

 

Wow that was nice. A lot of fires burning. Hit pause, popped another beer, started dancing around, thought don't "hassle the mic" and made my way back to batumi. set up my ILS to 110.15 (this time it finally worked as i figured i had always forgotten to right click the freqency dial to power it on) and myself up for quite a long approach. Would be my first night landing. As I always start and land from batumi (dunno why) i knew where i had to be and followed the glide path without much trouble. then it dawned on the that i should switch on my lights. As i never bothered with lights so far i played around with the pinky. hit F2 and wasn't satisfied. Lowered my gear and flaps and started to search the Lights panel. Got a bit nervous as i couldnt find it. had to abort the light searching for touchdown. hmm didnt have ILS bars. whatever i saw the runway nicely and thought i was coming in good. gave me an altitude warning. no attitude indicators,WTF. thought i had messed some buttons in my search for landing lights. whatever. looked good, speed 130 knots. touched down. master caution. MFDs go black. A million warning lights on the panel. DAMN.

 

My gears werent out. Either I didnt hit F, T, H, B or V ionstead of G in the keyboard or something else wen't wrong.

 

As the approach was nice I still stopped in the middle of the runway. Thought "chief's not gonna be happy" switched stuff off opened canopy. thought it's good it's just a game .

 

mission accomplished.

 

best time I ever had with a flight sim.

[dane48]

Just yesterday I was flying a mission I had made and had taken out most of the targets. One more pass on some bmp's I think and then I would go back to my home base. But I was hit with multiple rounds. I had an engine fire and pulled the fire ring (I know it doesn't work) and knowing Kobuleti was only a couple of minutes away, I thought I could make it. Soon both engines were laboring and I knew I would have to put down. I was along the coast and and there was a nice road that paralleled it. Heart pumping, losing altitude and speed, I lowered the gear and aimed for the road. I made a decent landing and as I was coming to a stop i could see that there was a cliff or sidehill I guess you could call it. I thought I was going to tumble off the edge. And beside that, there was a bridge ahead. I stopped short of the bridge and came to rest on the edge of the road. I was about to shut down engines and all of a sudden I heard a hell of a crashing noise and me and my plane spun around about 180 degrees. I hit the F-2 button and a truck had slammed into me and took off my right wing. I posted a screenshot in that thread. Would have been nice to have Fraps on at the time

[Zag]

My most thrilling experience was in the shore campaign, mission 4. Because of the bad weather the satellites were useless, so I had to fly below the cloud deck (3500ft) along 3 routes and report the one that was used by the enemy to move its arsenal.

 

The flight to the first route was long and uneventful, I used the TGP to scout the highway and only encountered 2 or 3 vehicles. Later, awacs warned me of approaching bandits, so I got lower to avoid fighting them, but nothing, they shot 2 missiles at me, so i used terrain cover to escape and reengage, I fired both my AIM-9s and turned around to escape, my wingman wasn't as lucky.

 

I kept following my initial route, worried about the enemy fighters when I saw 3 AAA and a Sa-8 Spike on my RWR, things happened really fast, within seconds, a missile was heading towards me, so I broke right while releasing chaff and flares, but I got hit and lost my right engine and rudder it was hard to stabilize my aircraft, trimming helped a little but I still had to fight the controls, when I was confident enough, I shut down the right engine and put out the fire then switched on the cross feed.

 

I ran away as fast as I could and reported the route they were using. the flight back home was really hard, and the landing was ugly, i popped all my tires but the aircraft survived, my hands were shaking. I shut everything down and quit, mission successful, the debriefing showed that I was attacked by mig-29s and that both my missiles missed...

 

That was the most exiting mission I ever flew.