Hi gents, i won't be flying coming Wednesday Night. Have fun and check
six!!!
Boot
Michael Colby schreef op 20.1.2020 17:07:
Gents,
We had a long debrief last night so I am not going to cover everything here,
also I think we will chat on TS over the next few days about our thoughts and
ideas.
So, to be short and concise from my perspective:
The worst of the bad:
As I fully expected, particularly on our first night of joint ops, lots of
hanging around at the beginning and wasting of time due to ts3 confusion,
server connection issues, Combat Box at peak server usage, a large number of
us all trying to get in together and staggered arrival times of pilots, etc,
etc.
One of the main knock-on effects of all this was us ending up with fighter
cover in the air burning too much fuel circling around waiting for the
bombers and then the fighters being on the edge all the time for the mission
due to low fuel state. This then effected the bomber routing which was
amended to accommodated low fuel for fighters and the fighters could not
perform so well to protect the bombers due to low fuel concerns. It was also
a great shame for Boot that he had a server disconnection on the way home,
that was such bad luck after leading the P38s so well.
The best of the good:
I have had a message from Bojack that his squadron had a good time and I
think we all enjoyed it too. We all want to do it again as expressed on TS
:)
We completed one combined strike attack mission with the following results:
A. Enemy 'Rally Point' ground target completely destroyed in one pass.
B. 2 x enemy fighters destroyed air-to-air (1 x manoeuvre kill to the
bombers and 1 x kill by fighter escort).
C. 1 x P38 lost to enemy fighter attack, but pilot bailed out and landed
safely without capture.
Organisational Perspective:
From an organisation perspective, there were many take-a-way's for me from
last night, but for now I would like to focus on and tackle the following 2
issues in the first instance:
1. Start time.
Even before last night, I have noticed that we often don't get the chance to
complete at least 2 good missions like we used to. Some times we only get
the chance to complete one decent mission and other times perhaps one decent
mission and a bit of a short scrappy one.
I think that one of the reasons for this is that the MP server maps have got
more sophisticated and bigger and enemy targets are now further away. Added
to this, we are now working with a larger numbers of pilots. I see all of
these things as being good by the way. Further more, our usual start time
tends to coincide with Combat Box server peak activity. Under these
circumstances, I think it is now time for us to adapt and change to a new
start time for our squad nights.
Therefore, I would like to leave our regular Wednesday (work day for some)
squad night start time as it is, with no change, but bring our regular Sunday
night squad night start time forward to 19.00 hrs GMT (20.00 hrs CET). This
change to take effect from next Sunday onwards.
With a Sunday start time of 19.00 hrs GMT and allowing for late arrivals and
mission planning, I would like to see us starting to take to the air by 19.15
hrs GMT. If pilots can't make 19.15 hrs GMT, then they can plan to arrive
ready for a second mission at an estimated time of somewhere between 20.15
and 20.30 GMT.
2. Favourite MP server.
I would like us to be ready to fly servers other then Combat Box. Even
though we prefer Combat Box and I think that we should fly it whenever we
can, with the number of pilots we have now we are constantly going to have
problems getting all of us on the same server. The Finish server was
mentioned on TS last night, so perhaps we can all have a look at that server
before next Sunday as a contingency if Combat Box is full.
Finally.
A big thank you to all of you for last night. Your patience, commitment,
team spirit, expertise and willingness to work a little outside our normal
comfort zone enabled a great evening. Special thanks to Boot for doing a
fantastic job as the bomber lead and to Phoenix for helping 322 with setting
up their TS.
Also, it was great to see the P38 pilots did so well to join up very quickly
after hitting the target.
Happy landings,
Talisman
