Hi all,
I have some questions regarding how ‘restricted’ real combat missions would be, and how mission planning would be adjusted to this:
- When departing an airbase, would SID charts be followed for departure? If so, how would this part of the flight be planned with regards to a desired time on target? Would steerpoints be input in the DTC at various points of this charted departure?
- When in transit from friendly airspace to the mission area, would airways (such as A582 from the ferry mission described in the comms-nav-book) be utilised? If not, how are aircraft routes deconflicted?
- Finally, when returning from a mission, how restricted would a typical approach be? Are flights vectored by ATC, do they follow published charts independently, or will they fly to some IAF and then perform an overhead pattern, deconflicting traffic themselves?
I understand that inevitably things vary (airport size, density of sorties in airspace, etc) but I’m just very curious to see what a real declassified flight plan would look like.
Thanks for any input!
Nicolai