Flying in a campaign
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So I am new to flying Falcon 4 so I have a question. I was counting the clock down in one of the campaigns when the red intercept screen came up. So as soon as I could I took off and got a picture from AWACS, needless to say I never engaged any enemy so I got back to my patrol area and followed my steer points back to Seosan. When the briefing came up I was called out for leaving my patrol area. So should I have taken off and followed my mission and not worried about the incoming attack? What is the correct procedure?
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Did you click the intercept button?
If you accept the intercept option, it puts you in a newly fragged flight, with its own different objective. Flying the intercept flight means you should try to attack and kill your assigned target. If you fly your originally planned mission instead, then correct procedure is to complete whatever objective your original flight had.
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Edit…reread post.
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at takeoff ask awacs vector to target; it may have already been shot down. If you leave your barcap waypoints even though ordered by awacs you will get a mission fail. I think it’s like 40 miles from waypoints. Always engage immediate threats first. Once you Winchester you can leave any mission and rtb.
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at takeoff ask awacs vector to target; it may have already been shot down. If you leave your barcap waypoints even though ordered by awacs you will get a mission fail. I think it’s like 40 miles from waypoints. Always engage immediate threats first. Once you Winchester you can leave any mission and rtb.
IIRC, for successful BARCAPs, you should :
- be on time in your patrol area ;
- stay on it (dont know the exact distance, 40NM seems ok though) and defend it until …
– time on station completed,
– or winchester/bingo, but then I’m almost positive a call to AWACS “Request relief” is required. Maybe not for winchester, but surely for bingo.
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Thanks for the clarification.