Flight

Mission

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PRACTICE TACTICAL FORMATION FLYING AS WING AND LOOK AT TYPICAL STUDENT MISTAKES AND WAYS TO CORRECT

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ORM

• OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS / LIMITATIONS– CREW REST/ CREW DAY / WORK WEEK– WARM-UP ELIGIBILITY– PREVIOUS FLIGHT COMPLETE? – IP CURRENCY– READ AND INITIAL

• HUMAN FACTORS– LIFE STRESSORS / EXTERNAL FACTORS/ PERSONAL PROBLEMS– MEDICAL STATUS

• CREW DAY• CREW REST• NOURISHMENT• HYDRATION

• HAZARDS AND CONTROLS– ROUTINE– WHAT IS DIFFERENT TODAY?– WEATHER

• CURRENT OBSERVATIONS AND FORECASTS• CROSSWINDS• FUEL CONSIDERATIONS

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• EVT - A/C - ATC C/S – TAC C/S – CREW

• BRIEF / WALK / TAKEOFF / MARSHAL / LAND TIMES

• ATC CLEARANCE / DD-175

• FUEL PLAN / LADDER

• LINE / T/O / ABORT / RPM

• COMM PLAN

• NAV PLAN

• BINGO/DIVERT

• LCLS

ADMIN (CARD)

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ADMIN

• LAUNCH– WEATHER / NOTAMS / TFR / BASH– PREFLIGHT / START / MARSHAL / TAXI – TAKEOFF / JOIN-UP– ENROUTE PROCEDURES– RADALT USAGE

• RTB– FORMATION– RECOVERY– DIVERTS

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Tac Admin(Reference TW-2 TAC SOP)

• Push to Spread• G-Warm• FENCE Checks• Fuel and G• PADS• Knock It Offs• Battle Damage Checks

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Conduct

• Combat Spread• Check Turns• Cruise Turns• Shackle / Off Heading ShackleTurns• Tac Turns• In-Place Turns• Cross Turns• Loose Deuce Exercise• Gunsight Tracking

• LEAD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DO ANY TURN AT ANY TIME FOR AREA MANAGEMENT!

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CONTINGENCIES

Emergencies

• Abort• Rwy Dep/Gnd Ejection• Radio/ICS Failure • Loss of Navaids • Lost Plane/Lost Sight • System Failures • Disorientation • Bird Strike/Midair • SAR Procedures • Ejection • Crew Resource Management• Underrun/Overrun

Contingencies

• Fallouts• Weather• BASH

Training Rules• 10K’ Hard Deck• No guns inside 1000’ (CNATRA

Weapons Envelopes)• 500’ Bubble around all aircraft

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Recap

• Overall Flow• Questions

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STANDARD DEBRIEFING FORMAT

•THE FLIGHT LEAD OR PILOT-IN-COMMAND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ENSURING ALL FLIGHT OR CREWMEMBERS ARE THOUROUGHLY DEBRIEFED ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MISSION UTILIZING THE “S-P-B-E-MS-LL” FORMAT OUTLINED BELOW.

I. SAFETYII. PLANNINGIII. BRIEFIV. EXECUTIONV. MISSION SUCCESSVI. LESSONS LEARNED

DO NOT FORGET TO DO YOUR ASAP REPORT

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Flight Brief

• Brief

– a. QOD– b. Lost sight– c. VCR management– d. G-warm– e. Combat checks

• Introduce

– a. Combat checks– b. Voice communications– c. Combat spread– d. Check turns– e. Cruise turns– f. Shackle / Off Heading Shackle turns– g. Tac turns– h. In-place turns

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Flight Brief Cont.

– i. Cross turns– j. Loose deuce exercise– k. Gunsight tracking exercise– l. High yo-yo– m. Low yo-yo– n. Displacement roll– o. Unknown airspeed rendezvous– p. Lost sight

• Practice

– a. HUD management– b. Formation

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Flight Brief

• COMBAT SPREAD

• How to get there– Check your heading, generate

an airspeed advantage, and take a 10-15 degree cut away from lead using 10 kts excess for each 10 degrees of heading.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Check Turns – Into

• Turn will make you acute.• Multiple techniques to fix position.• Big Picture: Slow your down range

travel compared to lead, then fix your altitude and abeam distance.

– Away• Turn will make you sucked.• Big Picture: Increase your down range

travel compared to the lead (ie. lower your nose and increase your airspeed), then fix your altitude and abeam distance.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Shackle Turns– 14 unit level turn into lead,

putting the original heading on the 45 degree benchmark (or as appropriate to help fix your position).

– Maintain 300 kts keeping altitude separation from lead.

– Wait approx 2 sec then pull 14 units back to the original heading. (Vary the pull as appropriate to arrive back in position.)

– Corrections for sucked / acute.

• Off Heading Shackle Turns– Turn a lot = Time a little, etc

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CRUISE TURNS INTO WING

• Lead starts 30 degree AOB turn.

• Wing initiates level 10-20 degree AOB turn.

• Wing should pass about 2000’ in front of lead with a 15-20 degree heading differential.

• 2-4 seconds after lead disappears behind the wing, increase AOB to 45-60 degrees.

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CRUISE TURNS AWAY FROM WING

• Lead starts a 30 deg AOB turn.• Wing begins a 45-60 deg AOB

turn lowering the nose to accelerate.

• After around 45 deg of turn, wing should pass about 2000’ behind and slightly below lead with a 15-20 deg heading advantage and 25-30 kt airspeed advantage.

• Readjust AOB to 15-20 deg AOB.

• Continue to correct as necessary to arrive in position.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Tactical Turns– Into

• Wait until looking down lead’s intakes.

• Start a level 14 unit pull to the new heading while maintaining 300 kts.

• Adjust timing of turn, amount of pull, and airspeed as necessary to come out of turn in position.

– Away• Start a level 14 unit pull

to the new heading while maintaining 300 kts.

• Make adjustments to fix positioning.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• In-Place Turns– Into

• Make a level 14 unit turn for 180 deg, maintain 300 kts.

• Corrections for sucked / acute start.

– Away• Make a level 14 unit turn for

180 deg, maintain 300 kts.• Corrections for sucked / acute

start.• Do NOT float the turn when

belly up to lead!• With SA to Lead, can descend

in turn.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Cross Turns

– 17 unit pull at MRT as you key the mic to say “Hammer”.

– 500’ Bubble. – Use altitude to gain an

airspeed advantage and fix your position.

– Must have sight to turn past 180 deg.

– Corrections for sucked / acute start.

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Loose Deuce Exercise– MRT at Speed and Angels and kept throughout– Geometry / Comms

• High / Low cover, Reversals / Role swaps– “Splash the bandit”– KIO

• GST– “Hammer, setting up for GST”(16k/300KIAS/1.5NM abeam),

“Hammer set 350”, speed and angels, “check left/right 50”(into Lead), “reverse”, “H12 in from X.X ”, countdown DME, “fox-2”(at 1.0), “chaff / flare”

– MRT at “Fox 2”, AWE, tracking shots / snap shots– KIO

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Flight Brief (cont)

• Unkown A/S Rendezvous (Tactical Rejoin)– Continue flying good Tacform and resume DCS until Fence Out

(Master Arm- Safe , Combat checks)– Teaching students:

• When joining, make the rendezvous look like one that you have practiced before. Keep an altitude sanctuary until it is suit-cased.

• Lead will be setting the power (~80%) and turning to put the RTB heading on the nose. Take your time joining and make it look good.

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CNATRA WEAPONS ENVELOPE

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± 10° at 2000 ft

± 20° at 4000 ft

Control Zone

The goal of the fighter is to arrive in the control zone with range, angles, and closure under control. From there, he can maneuver to shoot the bandit.

Must have controlled entry into CZ with relative fuselage alignment. (No more than 20 degrees of misalignment in the front of the CZ and no more than 40 degrees of misalignment in the aft end)

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CZ relation to Guns WEZ

Note that the CZ and the Guns

Envelope do not overlap. You cannot

employ the gun from the CZ!!

Control Zone Snapshot Envelope Tracking Envelope

Work Tracking Guns Shots

Watch Closure.

Lead required for snapshot (pipper 1-2 plane lengths in front). Allows for quick shot and a lag back to safety of

the CZ to maintain offensive position.

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The Gunsight

1000ft (using 31’ wingspan)

Lead Angle Computing (LAC)

- Used for tracking non-maneuvering targets at 1000’ range. Must keep in reticle for >1 second. We don’t use it.

Real Time Gun Sight (RTGS)

- Used for tracking a maneuvering target by aiming and keeping the reticle pipper ahead of the target (snapshot).

- Software positioned on the point that a shell would reach in the time it takes the shell to travel 1000ft. If range > 1000’, you must shoot with enough lead for bullets to travel required distance.

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Estimating Range

1000 ftClosest shot range (Training Rules).

If wings overlap reticle, you’re too close!

1500 ftHeart of Gun Envelope

¾ of reticle

2000 ft½ of reticle

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Gunsight Tracking

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Solve for Plane of Motion

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Squeeze Trigger With Lead Established and lag to Control Zone

“Trigger Down……… “

“ SNAP ! ”

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