Slow Day at work, have questions
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Good Day, All,
I’m curious how the Group does the freq change from 15 to 6 and when you fence in.
Flying off The Boat, my normal flightplans have a waypoint 2 at about 30 miles out then waypoints 3 and 4 which are fairly close together and usually near Feet Dry.
I’ve been going Button 6 at wp2 and fencing in between 3 and 4. For longer missions I’ll set the Mavs for autopower 1-2 waypoints before the IP. I’m wondering how all that matches IRL, especially as the “34 zone” is sometimes right at the enemy coast.
I also have a question about the AVTR. My understanding is that you can either toggle with “f” or set to auto and first trigger detent will activate it. I don’t have a Cougar, but have mapped the FTD and it does not activate AVTR. I’ve tried it with Master Arm armed and safe. In fact, I’ve never seen FTD do anything(although I don’t generally manually lase) -
Put the AVTR on AUTO and pull the trigger to the detent, and it will start recording. It will stop after 30 seconds have elapsed from when you released the trigger.
For me, I have a freq change from uniform 3 to uniform 16, but thats just me. I plan to fence at the point where we need game faces on. I figure that is about 50 miles back from where its likely to encounter enemy of any kind. In Korea my fence checks often occur before takeoff. I like to plan my stpts for the flight plan - changes in profile deserve their own stpt. Planned fence checks deserve their own stpt. I dont actually use the auto power on feature, so I dont tend to plan stpts to take advantage of it.
Dont know how a lot of that would stack up for a RL WP pilot. Chances are good that a lot of the details that would be involved in translating the various OPLANs for Korea into OPORDs would involve details on practices that are not going to be shared.
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I used AVTR auto by trigger 1st recently and learned it requires master arm or sim. Safe doesn’t auto AVTR on trigger press. The lights will change to the “on” color on trigger activation (or by other means).
In my habit I “Flight, push tactical” at the low workload beyond the point where monitoring traffic is beneficial above inbound pattern heights. Fence check is similar. BMS is a very forgiving environment most of the time but don’t be afraid to get on tactical frequency and fence in as early as lineup if there’s any doubt. I’ve done tactical departures without lights ever turned on just because I was that paranoid. In reality I’m guessing there is a lot more care and coordination and commuting in from longer distances.