Flightnight 6th August - Operation Man in the middle
For this weeks flight we are going to have a cooperative bit of fun to test our ability to fly to a timed waypoint.
Two sets of FGUKers will participate, one as a simulated ground attack, the other as a simulated fighter CAP.
The Fighter cap will be in Tornado F models and departing from RAF Leuchars (EGQL) in Scotland.
The ground attack flight of Jaguars will be departing from RAF Scampton (EGXP)
Both will be flying towards the same waypoint, overhead Witehaven on the North West coast of England.
The intention is to meet overhead Whitehaven at 5,000 feet.
The flights will then split again and head South West towards the Isle of Man and the simulated attack point of 3 antennas on the West side of the IOM, here: https://scenery.flightgear.org/app.php?c=Objects&a=view&id=176069
The Tornados will be need to be in a CAP racetrack pattern overhead the target point at 36,000ft
The Jaguars will head from Whitehaven at 100ft AGL, popping up to 3000ft 10 miles before the target before making a simulated attack run from 3 points of direction.
Once the attack flight have completed their runs the entire group will egress to the South East at 300ft as a formation and head to EGNO (Warton) for half time.
The second half of the flight we will head South West again towards the Mach Loop and have some low level fun in the Welsh valleys before finishing the evening at EGOD.
Do we have any volunteers for the Flight Lead positions?
Lantern Flight - Tornados at EGQL
Flight Leader -
Lantern 2-
Lantern 3 -
Lantern 4 -
Lantern 5 -
[more if needed]
Lion Flight - Jaguars at EGXP
Flight Leader -
Lion 2-
Lion 3 -
Lion 4 -
Lion 5 -
[more if needed]
If there's enough uptake I'll fly a coordinating role in a Nimrod. Otherwise I'll join the lesser populated flight or take a lead if nobody else fancies it
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I will fly Jag, if Im able to attend.
I don't have time but I have something for you.
Before the Flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAFrfw8kSj8
After the Flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_orj-I6k7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuRsw0Jjj5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmitvsoXgaI
I'll fly a Tonka!
VooDoo
Orthos for England and Scotland:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aDsv7_xsu6Rq3Nkuwq0LJr2T0hg2UpFI/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZU04s_qKCAjRtMaIIaFyobIeSxyEOcu9/view?usp=sharing
Note. These do not include Isle of Man.
So far we've got confirmed:
Lantern Flight - Tornados at EGQL
Flight Leader - StuartC
Lantern 2-
Lantern 3 -
Lantern 4 -
Lantern 5 -
Lion Flight - Jaguars at EGXP
Flight Leader - VooDoo
Lion 2-
Lion 3 -
Lion 4 -
Lion 5 -
I'll fly with a Jag incase they need help finding the target. Here's a photo of our simulated target should anyone want to acclimatise early on.
If you have OSM data turned on then the roads make it quite easy to find, it's on the hill just East of the "crook" in the road and the town of St Johns and the quarry can be seen quite easily in the distance. The simulated target is the small building and radio antenna on the hill you can see above the nose of the jag in the pic.
Some 2020.4 photoscenery for the missing IoM
OneDrive link
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmRcwtiRJxd98Rco6xelcOB85LmC?e=hfbTcE
I'll be in the Tornado
I'll be in the most excellent Jaguar.
But it may only be for the first 'Arf.
Sorry.
Porcy
On second thoughts, I may very well be in a Jaguar because the Tornado F model won't load for me...I think it s a case sensitive issue mostly. The Tornado GR4 works ok though