WEDNESDAY NIGHT PRACTICE REPORT

AT TONIGHT'S PRACTICE THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE SHOWED UP ON TIME AND READY TO FLY.

TALON, TANGO, HOLLYWOOD, COLDFIRE & JOKER.

WE PRACTICED CLIMBING TO ALTITUDE WITH ALL ON THE GE BASE.

WE TRIED SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS OF CLIMBING AND FOUND THAT A STRAIGHT HARD CLIMB RIGHT OFF THE DECK OUT TO THE US BASE WOULD PUT UP AT 10k. OUR ANGLE WAS APPROXIMATELY DOUBLE THE GRADIENT OR A TAD MORE. WE ALSO TRIED A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THING WHEN WE GOT OVER THE TOP OF THE US BASE. FIRST WE TRIED LEVELING OUT AND GAINING SPEED THEN CLIMBING HARD AT THE LAST MOMENT BEFORE REACHING THE EDGE OF THE MAP LIMIT. THAT BROUGHT US OUT AT APPROXIMATELY 19 TO 20k. WE ALSO TRIED CLIMBING STRAIGHT PAST THE US BASE AND CAME OUT AT ABOUT THE SAME AS LEVELING AND CLIMBING AGAIN.

THE SECOND PART OF THE PRACTICE WE DID SOME 2 VS 2. HOLLYWOOD WAS HAVING SOME CONNECTION PROBLEMS AND WAS WARPING ALL OVER THE MAP. TALON AND JOKER HOOKED UP TOGETHER ON SU AND WENT AGAINST COLDFIRE AND TANGO. FIRST ROUND WAS ALL SU. SECOND ROUND GE (TANGO AND COLDFIRE) CAME RIGHT AT US LIKE THORN DID THIS PAST SUNDAY. THE WERE ABLE TO TAKE BOTH OU US OUT ON SU. THIRD ROUND WE CHANGED TACTICS SLIGHTLY. THE SU TEAM WENT FOR A HARD CLIMB AS IN THE 1ST AND SECOND ROUND, WHEN WE SAW THAT GE WAS COMING RIGHT AT US WE ANGLED OUT TO THE FAR CORNER THE MAP LIMIT AND LOWERED THE NOSE OF OUR PLANE TO INCREASE SPEED BUT STILL CLIMB AT A HIGH RATE. WHEN I SAW THAT THE GE PLANES WHERE WITH IN ABOUT 5000 FT. THE SU TEAM WENT UP AND OVER ON GE TEAM. THEN DOVE DOWN INTO THEM AS THEY CAME UP I MISSED TANGO AS HE WAS COMING UP AND COLDFIRE ENGAGED WITH TALON. I CHANGED LOCKS AND LOCKED ON COLDFIRE GAVE TALON A COMMAND TO BREAK RIGHT WHICH HE DID AND THAT ALLOWED ME TO GET MY GUNS ON COLDFIRE . WHILE DOING SO TALON WAS ABLE TO GET SHOT ON TANGO WHICH WAS PERSUING ME. COLDFIRE GOT KILLED AND I THEN WENT IN AFTER TANGO.

SU WON THE ROUND.

ANOTHER THING WE WORKED ON WAS HAVING THE LEAD PLANE TO CALL YOUR TARGET. IF TALON WAS OUT FRONT HE'D TELL EM TO TAKE TANGO OR COLDFIRE. THIS WORKED REALLY GOOD. COLDFIRE AND TANGO HAD DECIDED TO CALL THEIR TARGETS WHILE ON THE GROUND.

PRACTICE WAS OVER AT 9:50 PM. IT WAS A GOOD PRACTICE AND I SAW NO REASON TO KEEP IT GOING ANY LATER.

THE ONLY PROBLEM DURING PRACTICES WAS ONE RUNWAY CRASH DURING TAKEOFF WITH ALL OF US ON THE GE BASE. THIS WAS NOT CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR BUT BY A SLOW INTERNET CONNECTION THAT HOLLYWOOD HAD AND HE JUMPED OUT IN FRONT OF TANGO.

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JOKER

OUT!

Happy now Boss??? Great.........so next time c0ldfire and me will fight seriously and will kick you both........rofl.......

JK m8s......it was a very good practice....we all learn a lot.....hope we can join more pilots next week.

I'm thinking that we or just me, dunno have some lag troubles when we are too many on TS.......could that be possible?

Tango