Hard to refuel ?
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I just wanted to note that Dash-80 didn’t do a barrel roll, like the guys in the OP video did. What it did, at least in the video I’ve seen, was a simple airleron roll. Those are two different maneuvers.
Sorry Dragon 1-1,
Check your resources. It is indeed a ‘barrel roll’, the aircraft completes a longitudinal revolution while following a helical flightpath (to maintain ~1g).
The other maneuver you are desribing is the ‘aileron roll’ <sp>, a roll along the longitudinal axis with no change in altitude.Reference here:
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I’d be willing to bet that’s exactly what’s going on here - more practice. The multiple attempts to connect are probably intentional. After all, why fly a sortie and refuel once when you can take the opportunity to do it three of four times? Fly to a recognised contact position then back out to do it again? Unfortunately, without comms or any idea what was briefed, we’ll never know for sure. Maybe the HAF are full of pilots who are shit at AAR!
It’s training.
For daytime AAR,a minimum of 3 successful contacts (dry or wet) are required for a pass.