Hold it. Since I just got Flaming Cliffs 2, can you add a flyable fixed winged aircraft to the mission first?

Yeah, he's doing it now for you. :yep:

Yes, I happen to be on TeamSpeak now...

I'm off in a short while, I'll be back on later though. As usual :cry:

Added it to the new CAS mission. Server back up.

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Nice to see so many lined up raring to go.

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Fencer v Dowly :arrgh!:

A-10C, coming up.

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Whilst waiting for my systems to align I have a peek at the other a/c. What's he firing at? I wondered. :hmmm:

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Ah, the poor Kiowa. Which despite the myriad holes and missing airframe still made it home okay - why do I not?

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Anyway, caught up with the two Hinds, and got them both with guns. :arrgh!:

Before promptly crashing.

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Off I go again, just as Arclight's approaching for his usual spot-on landing.

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Magic mirrors, can see through cloud. :|\\

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Hands up those who think they know how long this a/c continued flying for? :know: Correct - not long at all.

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Hawk2495 refuelling :woot:

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The end of a long and fruitful day, no damage other than my jetisoned canopy, not even a parking dent this week. :D

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Obviously we weren't going again and I couldn't be bothered to wait for the ladder to extend. :hmmm:

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Arclight not overly chuffed that I've just wrecked my a/c so close to his - his poor crew chief has only just recovered from repairing it after my ultra-low fly-by the other week scraped the paintwork! :roll:

From my point of view a very good night, only one a/c lost, no hung stores, didn't run out of fuel. :woot: Things are looking up.

That's not my fault, somebody moved the airfield several dozen kilometers away while I wasn't looking!

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We really tore apart the enemy airfield. Think this is Berbunch passing below after making our gun runs, ricochets hitting the water further down.

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3 succesfull landings. Some more succesfull than others, but any landing you can walk away from... means more work for your crew chief.

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No trading paint, I'm impressed. :O:

And the usual to wrap it up:

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Berbunch's flying circus.

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I nearly get hit in the head with an ejection seat. (My G-meter is lying! I swear!)

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And my aircraft has holes completely unrelated to any of my actions. :)

Ok, I survive a fight with 4 tors and a dog ear. Manage to take out the dog ear and 1 tor, five or six t-55s, numerous other ground targets. I RTB and get almost taken out by a bird...
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It doesn't look so bad. Chief shouldn't be too mad.. Except for having to replace the canopy, seat, rebuild the starboard engine, fix the nose gear. Nah shouldn't be that bad.

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Nice shots Herr und Arc. Yeah I think I got to take on about 100 lbs of fuel before I had to break off. That took forever. Every time I would be at speed and lined up, he decided change heading...lol

Yeah, think I'll change his path and give him a longer leg to fly, having the same trouble... Could slow him down a bit, but it's easier to nail the speed as it is now.

A bird? That explains it. Stuff like birdstrikes and random failures are on, but it is exceedingly rare. ;)


Anyone know what the real things fly at in terms of speed and altitude when refueling A-10? :06:

I'm not seeing much on the speeds for an A-10 refuel, but I would think that 250-270 knots sounds about right. Any higher and she would burn too much fuel just to stay with the tanker. Especially since the KC-135 can move at about 500 knots @ 30,000.

Now a question for Herr-Berbunch. What key do you have bound for your mic switch aft? I'm thinking you were using the wrong radio for contacting the tanker, but I could be wrong.

The VHF radio (bottom left hand side) set to 51.000, tried switching the r/hand knob to T R and A A T R, then press # to bring up the comms list.

If that is wrong then please do tell. :yep: