A - A Refueling..?
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I do best with the HUD dimmed to nothing but a glass plate. After that its just small inputs, patience and practice. It’s much like hovering a helicopter or flying a glider on tow. Once you get good it becomes increasingly hard to understand people who don’t.
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Oh okay. Sounds tedious.
Not as tedious as having a plane-load of weapons and not enough gas.
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Awesome. Only problem is when I’ve been in the campaign I’ve never been anywhere remotely close to a tanker anyway, it’s always been well over 100 miles away!
I should add - I’ve never really got past the first few missions of a campaign so that may change once air superiority is established so it’s safe for the tanker to get closer to the front.
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Not as tedious as having a plane-load of weapons and not enough gas.
That is true. Question, is AAR meant to be done before ingress or after egress? I would imagine after egress, but how do I keep my wingmen from RTB when they hit bingo and heading to alternate without trying for a tanker?
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That is true. Question, is AAR meant to be done before ingress or after egress? I would imagine after egress, but how do I keep my wingmen from RTB when they hit bingo and heading to alternate without trying for a tanker?
In ODS they often did both. But there were other things going on - like Aircraft stationed at one airfield being pushed to another airfield to standby until their launch times, where they would refuel, then launch and refuel again, then fly the mission and refuel on the way back in case their destination airfield was closed (which was apparently common from all the books I have read).
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That is true. Question, is AAR meant to be done before ingress or after egress? I would imagine after egress, but how do I keep my wingmen from RTB when they hit bingo and heading to alternate without trying for a tanker?
Edit the take off time to be 20 minutes earlier than the rest of the package, then schedule both in and out.
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I can give you a tip…for the 4.32 TE set your Fuel Flow to 3200 PPH and you will match the tanker speed. Dont go over 3600 when hooked up. You will creep up at 3400 then GENTLY throttle back to 3200 and the plane will lock on and you are fine. Works for me every time. Oh and its easier for me now in a turn than level
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So I have aa suggestion as this is how I finally was able to do it, and first off it just takes doing over and over again. This why real pilots have to practice it so much.
Anyway, my problem was always being to heavy handed. In the USMC, we would say “diddies” to help us remember something ie TAP RACK BANG! So when I am approaching the tanker about 0.5 nm out and have to make ANY type of adjustment I have to say to myself in my head “smooth stick”, and I do it for every single of adjustment no matter how small it may be. Same goes for the throttle, it is all microscopic adjustments. The other thing that helped me when learning was that if I needed to adjust anything throttle or stick, the input needed was 1/2 what I thought I needed, this way I wouldn’t overshoot. Try not to think so much about where the tanker is, but just fly to where you need to be and trust the boom to do its job. Honestly I probably did the TE 100 times before I felt what I would consider efficient.
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Try not to think so much about where the tanker is, but just fly to where you need to be and trust the boom to do its job.
Yep, just fly formation with the tanker in the correct position and let the boom operator do his thing.