Have fun reading Bo :)
Witch
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On 2 Apr 2020, at 18:25, <bo@xxxxxxxxxxx> <bo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm very grateful to all of you who are training the rookies.
Each lesson, I have attended have been very good and very giving. I have
so much to learn.
I'm sorry that I was so unprepared at yesterdays training. I had not done my
homework, even Colin and Witch had made it clear what we were going to train.
Today I have printed out Shawns book and I will be better prepared for the
future training. Thank you very much for your patience.
When it comes to combat practice theory, I will be starting up from zero. I
have spend many years playing "arcade flightsims" without giving the basic
theory a thought.
It's fantastic to get this opportunity to learn. The learning curve is steep
and the reward (in my world) is huge. Its feels so close to "the real deal"
when flying missions in a squadron.
Being totally hooked at ww2 planes as long as I can remember, this is a
dream coming true 😊
Best regards
Bo
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Emne: [56raf_firebirds] Fighter Training long term
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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