Archive for the 'F-16 Operations' Category
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Today’s mission was for Cash and I to go up and practice a maneuver we call "The Grease." I have no idea why we call it that. Maybe because someone thought it would be a slick way for us to get to a merge with a Bandit?
Cash and [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
The flight for today was another ACM hop with Kane as the lead and Gimbel as the wily Red Bandit. Since I was the only field grader in the flight, el Gimbel was looking forward to trying to gun me. I scoffed at the young whippersnapper (and fortune was kind in that I [...]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Here’s an interesting report from a new Stars & Stripes reporterette who got to fly at one of my alma matter squadrons.
The Air Force likes to try to make sure our Public Affairs staffs and some corresponding media personnel really understand what it’s like to operate in the aerospace environment. The [...]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
The mission for today was for me to be the ACM bandit for Kane and Drago. They asked me to pretend to be a Su-27 ‘Flanker,’ which would be relatively easy given our two-tank configurations which would limit our maneuverability somewhat. They wanted three intercepts to engagements and three defensive perch setups. No problem! [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Today’s missions were 2 x air combat maneuvering (ACM) with Lt Col Z once again. Col M and Crutch were to be our formidable Red Air adversaries. Lt Col Z and I would CAP in the center of the airspace and have the bandits go to either side, and we’d simply fly [...]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Fortune was with me today, I got on the schedule yet again for a BFM hop, this time with ‘Scooter.’ He wanted to work on his one-circle fights (Drat! There went my plan to play the fiendish MIL-power two-circle bandit!). He graciously offered to give me a blue engagement, though. I accepted [...]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
My new friend Anwyn passed along this tag that asks us to list eight of our habits (and then ‘tag’ eight other bloggers, which I’m not going to be able to do because I’ve only got three other friends in the blogosphere). I will honor the request to post eight of my [...]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Today was the final day of our bilateral exercise. The game plan for today was for our F-15Cs to join up with a four-ship of F-15Js from Chitose to play Red Air for another large-force employment exercise. It was basically the same scenario as yesterday, except the Red SAM was going to [...]
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Scrappy and I got paired up again today to help a strike package perform a simulated attack on a surface-to-air missile site. The plan was for a four ship of USAF F-15s and our two-ship of F-16CJs to take out an eight-ship of F-15Js simulating Red Air and proceed to the target [...]
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
I learned today that sometimes the best defense is your opponents’ defense.
Scrappy, Cash, Bender, and I all went out to defend an imaginary lane in the sky today. Four F-15Js from Chitose were to play our adversaries. Their job would be to try to shoot us down or get [...]
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