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05 January 2010

After Action Report for 5 January 2010.

Training and follow-up in Titanic Tuesday.

The evening started in the Training Arena working on hitting specific targets with rockets. This would be the definition of porking. Depending on your point of view a part of the game or a waste of time. I prefer to think of it as Prevent Ordinance Reaching Knightland :o) Anyway, we loaded up a few D Caddys with 50% fuel and 6 5" rockets. Using the air-spawn from A23 we made a couple practice attacks on A90, I believe was the target base. The strat was not repairing itself as quickly as it had a day earlier. As it was, the non-regeneration of targets was the big problem. We then moved to the Titanic Arena and as usual kicked a hornets nest.

   I had thought I made a screenshot of the map but I can't seem to find it. Seeing a picture is worth a thousand words..., one down and nine-hundred-ninety-four to go.
   We had enemy action on both the East and western fronts on arrival and headed west to hit a base. We gathered at A244 with a plan to hit the enemy base to the south, A217. Using the same crate we did in the TA we loaded up the Caddy with 50% fuel, a pair of thousand pound eggs and half a dozen rockets. First wave took off and headed south-southeast climbing. Mission was to hit and disable the fighter and vehicle hangers. Hangers were hit but a small defense force had assembled. We fought to the death and joined the second wave on next takeoff.
   Second wave was again heavy but this time the town was primary target. Using every type of ordinance we had the town was leveled. There still was a small amount of enemy resistance in the area.
   It was about time for the hangers to came back up so the third wave was to shut down the fighter and vehicle hangers again. The fighter hangers popped before we got there and a sizeable defense sprang up. I believve we had a goon come this wave and got near A217 town but the area was never suppressed to the pint where we had flight superiority, despite some assistance by other Knights. As was mentioned earlier, we were getting attacked from both sides so additional assistance was tough to come by. We continued fighting against stiff opposition but eventually most of the support dwindled shifting the balance of power.
It was definitely a 'kick the honest nest and see what happens' night.

Regarding next months training. I'd like us to practice some dog-fighting and get some constructive feedback for each fight. I'd like a few volunteers to act as trainers sort of I guess. We'd probably need three or four at a minimum and I'll be one of them even though this was never my strength being able to dissect a guys style and fight to see what's good or bad. I can usually spot a glaring mistake that throws a fight and hopefully that will be enough. So you former Air Warrior Trainers and those who can help let me know. We'll have a trainer fight a guy and try to give feedback on the fight. As gravy I suppose the 'trainer' could explain why they did a certain move or maneuver at a certain time or how the managed the fight to win it. Filming these fights and reviewing them in the next few days would reinforce any points that were presented to make us each more lethal. even though the views aren't perfect and you cant see all control inputs from the enemy watching the fight from his plane can be enlightening.

Fuzeman

Contiguous Mission Films
when viewed in sequence.

film 4 intentionally omitted as the photographer crashed on takeoff
All films are POV Luft (point-of view)

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Hello Gentlemen,

Tuesday came up sort of quick, as it has been recently for some reason.

Too late to ask what you guys need to work on so thats out.

Havn't finished my new maps spotlighting certain targets, so thats out. Tough to find colors on that palatte that work.

Thinking of practicing rocket attacks from altitude again and then going porking in TT.

So starting in the Training Arena at Bishop A23.

Plane will be P-51D, 50% fuel with rockets and plan will be to 1] get down to 12k alt 2] make pra tice roacket attacks on ammo bunkers. We will pair into wingmen teams and we will practice going in together and proceed with that attack. Going in together splits, or should, the field guns and give each a better chance of survival. On dive it may benefit you to chop throttle to line up your targets but speed and energy will help you clear that field ack when lower and egressing the target area and climbing back up to the group. At first it might be helpful to stay level to clear AAA and then start a steep climb, ROC~3 ish to regroup.

If we get there early we can have each wingman team pick a separate skin. P-47 D-40 or N would also fill this role with no radiator but it might not be as fast after attacking also. It does have almost twice the rocket load-out though. The D pony has the nice gun-sight, the default one for it, which is a nice one for high altitude rocket attacks in my opinion.

Again, being in the TA we will use a separate radio 5 channel, lets go with 189 Tuesday. An of course remember to use .radio 5 4 after training to retune to squad Vox.

After I get the new target ID maps done, we will try this again with 500lb bombs with targets being the troop barracks. While this mission is hitting ammo bunkers also hitting the radar might help our chances of survival.

fuzeman