Where We Are Today. What Our Future Will Be.

TODAY

Hey Joker, you got a plane on your six. He looks to be at about 7000 ft. You better turn now. Hurry.

Crap, I didn't see him coming. where did he come from.

THE VERY NEAR FUTURE:

(Wing Leader): JOKER, BANDIT, 5' O CLOCK, ANGELS 7, BREAK RIGHT, EXECUTE. MOVE TO 092 EXCUTE IRON CROSS.

(JoKeR):ROGER. MOVE 092 IRON CROSS EXECUTE NOW.

This is where we need to go. This is how we will learn to communicate via TS. Why you ask??

1. Its short and to the point.

2. Its very discriptive in a lot less words.

3. Instead of guessing a direction to go, the order was given, and made it easier to understand what I should do to avoid the attcking enemy and put my wing leader in a attacking position.

Very soon, possibly by tommorow I will have a brevity code sheet for everyone to use.

This will should make our communication skill much more precise and give us very distict instructions on how to avoid trouble.

This will be very new for all of us, including myself. What we will have to do is come up with code names for the manuvers we will all be learning soon.

I'm sure some of you are alreaady aware of Iron Cross. This is a manuver where either a plane is approaching from the front or the rear. If the bandit(s) is coming from the front you and your wing will cross towards each other continuing until you get on the bandit(s) six. The bandit can only follow one plane at a time which leaves your wing open for manuvering into a killing poistion on the bandit. If two bandits same thing. Except the that each one of the bandits may follow each one of you or both follow one of you. Either way both your planes will try to get into firing position on the bandits six. I've tried it with Jonny and with Strife. It works pretty well, but it needs lot more practice.

By now each of you should have a copy of our flight manual. If not you need to download it and print it out so you can have it for reference. We should at this point start with some of the easy stuff and learn them to the best of our ablity, and then try to figure out how to counter each move so if it happens to us we can defeat it.

What we are going to try and do is to put together a serious competition team of 12 - 15 active pilots. These will be the pilots that fly in all of the competitions for the squad. We are going to become on of the best teams in the USAAC and in the International Arenas. This will not only benefit the pilots of the team, but it will also be a big benefit to all the other members of the squad, because they are going to learn from the competition team so they may also have the opportunity to fly in competitions. Wouldn't it be great to have 2 or 3 competiton teams within our squad??

I think it would be outstanding. We would probably never have a lack of pilots because everyone will want to be a part of the BSS.

So you may ask what we will be looking for in the pilots that get chosen to be a part of the competition team. Well in short, the meanest, nastiest, ruthless, blood curtiling, war mongering killers amoung us, not only that, but the ones the show dedication to the squad. The ones that show up to most Sunday practices. The ones that show that they truly have and intrest in seeing the squad progress. Anyone is eleigble. Age is not in question and for the most part we are all adults. So now is the time to start putting forth the effort if you want to be a member on the competiton team. Does this mean the you have to make every practice?? In short no, but if you can't make a practice you should be able to communicate that to the squad by either one of three ways.

1. Send and E-mail.

2. Post here in the forums or,

3. Contact someone on Team Speak.

Like I said earlier, for the most part we are all adults. So lets act like it.

Does this mean that only the best pilots will be apart of the competition team.

Well as much as I would like to say YES the answer is NO. It all depends on you and your ability to show up to squad functions and show that you are seriously interested in being a team player. \

If you don't make it on the "A" team, don't worry, your time will come. We will start a "B" team, and when we do we will most likely split the "A" team and put some of those pilots on the "B" team. To try to keep everyone on equal ground. What this means is a if "A" flys against "B" team it should come out a draw, but if either of these team where to compete againt another squad, our team would be the dominant team.

Ok, so it all sound like a dream. Well, Dreams become reality when you make it a goal and work towards it.

Lets Do IT!

JoKeR

XO/USA