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Originally Posted by SEE
(Post 359132)
Ah, but we (the Spits) were told to intercept BFs by climbing to 4/5000m altitude whilst heading for the French coast and try to catch them climbing. In all fairness the rush to get airborne became a misplaced priority and lack of experience in these sort of organised encounters took its toll.
I made an error but you learn from these mistakes and make sure you don't repeat them. By the time I did get airborne having waited patiently behind the Hurris our mission objective was pretty well scupperred.
I would have thought that having fighter groups spread over more airfileds would allow them to get airborne and form up quicker. They could also form a 'big wing' if necessary far quicker.
As I said, this was my first experience and OK, only 1.4 kills but I would certainly like to join up with a Spit squadron and hone my group co-operation skills - flying solo is one thing but flying as part of a much bigger plan is wholly different. I will definitely be logging into next weeks match for sure and look forward to being part of Gromics group.
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I think its new concept for quite a few guys. We should have thought of the time factor to get the Spits up and away and given them room to do that but hindsight's a wonderful thing.
Its really important that we get the detail right in the leader briefings so don't be shy to put your point. To be honest with such a large map compared with the numbers available something is always going to slip through the net.
I know plans only survive up to the point of engagement with the enemy but we can try to get engaged on our terms.
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Originally Posted by cheesehawk
(Post 359131)
.....................Coordination between squadrons, at least on the blue side, historically was just done with pre-flight planning, each squadron was given their radio frequency, and not the other. Although I'm certain that some sort of common freq was available, there's many stories of squads jumping each other with no way to call the other one off. Not sure how it was done in the RAF.
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Yes, Ulrich Steinhilper was the man given the job of driving RT comms through and he even had problems with Galland (and the other 'Spaniards' as he called them) not wanting to know during the early period.
In the RAF the Squadrons may have heard eachother but control and direction mainly came from the ground from a Sector controller. We don't have that so we arrange for the leaders to talk to eachother, cutting out the middle man. |
