For the last few weeks, @whareagle and I have been getting together every sunday to do some F-15 training! Usually, Whareagle goes on twitch to fly and I’ll be watching and providing comments directly on his cockpit actions. To get the day started, we loaded up my pillar of flames turning trainer. With just about half an hour worth of training, he managed to sustain a respectable 7g at 420 knots, leading to a ~16°/s turn with a radius of around 850 metres.
After that we loaded up the CAP training mission and covered a bit of theory on how to keep the air superiority near the frontline without passing into enemy air defense sectors. Once we covered that it was time to try something new! Fly that CAP mission together.
Since keeping control of the aircraft and keeping formation can be a little intense we quickly decided that I would take the wingman position instead, and whareagle lead us around the battlefield.
The disadvantage quickly became apperent as the flight lead turned in for waypoint 3 and would be crossing my nose, luckily I had the altitude to deconflict.
Dammit- i just noticed I forgot the 32nd under the Wolf’s head!
Do you want me to fix it?
Also the fact that there’s no “Wolfhound” writing on the other side… does it bother you? Is it realistic?
I couldn’t find another pic of those planes from the other side
Lemme know…
It’s absolutely fine man. You did a great job and made a dream come true! Most of the F-15’s didn’t have any Wolfhound markings at all and I am very happy with what I got!
None of these actually had the marks so, no big deal
After a summer hiatus we got back together to train for the 2nd time this fall!
I’ve sent @whareagle a few times out into the battlefield a few times on his own while monitoring him over the F2 view and on twitch. However he does still struggle a bit defending against ARH’s, and an R-77 did get him one time. However most of the time he got all bandits. Also went over how to better deal with helicopters. After the solo time we took to the skies together and worked together on destroying those bandits.
After completing the mission we’ve put our pro-editions of tacview to work and joined an online debriefing session. Pretty nifty stuff with laser pointers and markers to get your points across! We debriefed the mission we flew together and the solo mission where @whareagle ended up getting shot down about what went wrong.
