AAR - Quick-Flow?
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Any suggestions what could be used for cues??
One thing to keep in mind is that the on deck aircraft conducts the breakaway with respect to the receiver while anyone else breaks away with respect to the tanker. The on deck aircraft’s positioning should be compatible with a safe breakaway.
You lost me there, Frederf. Plain English version?
I managed to figure out how to take decent video from my monitor setup so here’s a little Quick Flow success, around 5 minutes into the video. Whoohoo!!
Annoyingly, it went up to 5K resolution on YouTube but now it only goes up to 1440… I wonder what gives?
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If anyone flies within 10’ of me EVERYONE WILL DIE! Lol
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I’ve heard put the AMRAAM tip on (or just under) the pilot’s helmet or the bare rail on the ejection warning triangle for bearing line. That narrows it down to a single degree of freedom. Longitudinal position I don’t have an official factoid but I’d say somewhere abeam the root of the nozzle feathers up to the air notch between the vertical tail and the fuselage. I mocked it up in photoshop. That should leave 10’ lateral room rail to rail. Now to crosscheck my gray matter against the BEM. “Rail tip (or missile forward fins) half way between ECS duck and forward edge of intake and square with the trailing edge of the nozzle.” I used quote marks but by no means is that verbatim. Not bad. My description had you more forward (and thus closer lateral) and stepped down slightly more but outside of the Thunderbirds I doubt any lead would notice which you used.
As for break away or break out that’s when there’s an immediate need for (usually vertical) separation for safety of flight. It’s a pretty big deal for AAR safety understandably. Anyway if tanker and receiver have to break away the various other aircraft are assigned to follow either the receiver or other tanker. On deck is in the same group as the receiver so during a breakaway maintain formation off receiver. Receiver (and on deck in formation with) breaks out low and tanker (and all those in formation with) break out high.
As an aside minimum separation for route is 2 ship widths.
While it is 10’ of wingtip lateral spacing actual corresponding parts of each aircraft are 63’ apart. It’s not as hard as the distance figure would indicate.
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I have got MP succesful quick flow sometime but I always wondered, does it matter how long the preceding AC takes to call top off? If he moves away too much before calling. My guess is that the only important thing -code wise- is your on deck position relative to the boom when he calls Y3?
Cheers
Tulkas