As you know we have been holding training sessions as a squad for the past few
weeks, which has been interesting and good fun:).
The main point of what Witch and I have been focusing on so far is the attack
pair tactics of the bounce(double attack), after the bounce (loose deuce), and
yesterday the bracket. For the most part the training has been with Moose, Pod,
Bo, and one or two of the others when they can make it.
What is becoming apparent is across the squad people are at completely
different standards of flying the aircraft and understanding. You can go from
not knowing anything and starting from scratch, to knowing and understanding
but have not really done it much before. This comes from different experience
levels of playing flight sims.
Then there is the choice of aircraft options that we use, we have been teaching
energy tactics using the Tempest, but if we go online we might end up using
Yaks or 38’s, completely different style of fighting aircraft. Reference my
email on fighter aircraft, it has an impact on how we train. If we are going to
chose a 38 or Yak as our main aircraft then the tactics we are training guys
might not be the best use of those aircraft, or we might not be the best people
to get the most out of those aircraft training wise. This choice of aircraft
also brings up confidence in an aircraft and how to use it effectively, which
also makes 1vs1 training a must.
But I do think the big problem is that no matter what we teach/train for, if we
don’t use it and get practice on it, it is not going to get us very far in the
long run.
So aggressive energy pair tactics training might not be the best, if we
continually have guys going to flying bombers or escort missions, as they don’t
get to practice it. We really need to match up what we need to do, to match our
goal.
Must say many thanks to Pod, Bo, Moose, especially as they have came in hungry
for information and learning over the past few weeks, hope they are getting
something out of it all.
Colin
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