Long Range MA Sorties?

[stran]

I like to fly the shortest route with a full tank(no DT). I dont dive into the nearest furball in sight but i would get lonely if there wasnt at least one red guy in the sky. A good sortie for me is unloading all my ammo, rtb, and still have a capable plane to rearm and do it again. I think my experience is similar to yours, strip, just condensed.

[NCLawman]

A long sortie for me is to up an IL-2 and head for town to kill the M3, then RTB with a well earned victory.  If I am lucky there is 2 M3's and I get my name in lights.   

 

[MajWoody]

Good AAR Strip. We don't see many of those anymore. Sounds like a fun night. 

[Spikes]

Now where's Del to tell folks about that DGS sortie where the 38s landed on fumes after 3+Hours escorting bombers.

Best scenario hands down!

I also enjoyed escorting the 91st on their squad night with the 82nd. Once we flew 13 sectors up, 13 sectors back and I had to ditch in the water about a mile from base.

[Overlag]

a few guys in the 71st once upped 4 P47M's fully loaded to flew to a City/HQ area. we loiterd in that area picking off uppers who thought we were buffs, then had to fight our way out. 2 of us got home, and we were in the air a good 1hr30!

[mbailey]

Best scenario hands down!

I also enjoyed escorting the 91st on their squad night with the 82nd. Once we flew 13 sectors up, 13 sectors back and I had to ditch in the water about a mile from base.

Holy crow I remember that, That was a ton of fun   

[Reschke]

Does anyone fly long range missions in fighters anymore?

Today I logged on and jumped in MW with around 40 people to shake some rust off. Hadnt flown for three weeks nearly and wanted to enjoy the game a little. I upped a P-51B with 100% and drop tanks, then promptly set Normal Power. We climbed to around 17k and headed off towards a big fight about six sectors away. Cruising at around 380 dirty and 395 clean we made good time. Punched out an afk Spitfire and was jumped by two enemy cons climbing back up to cruise alt.

After try to shake them for a while the fight was joined by a few from the other side. This got a little interesting, shot down a unwary P-47D-11 who never saw me coming. A spitfire crosses my nose and I fire, hits sprites but no parts. Now I am fairly low but with some descent speed, a spot a zeke and 190 coalt. Still heavy with fuel (75%) I execute a zoom climb with not enough E and the 190 gets some shots off. After extending and climbing a bit I start to energy fight them a little bit.

The zeke latches on with to little of E and the 190 gets a bit too frisky.  Pulling hard to cut me off he kills his speed while the Zeke flounders and I roll over. Not wanting to force the shot on the Zeke I roll in on the Fw-190A5 and score a wingtip. Zooming back up I see the Zeke has positioned himself very poorly and I roll over into a high six shot. As I close he rolls inverted and flys a perfect path for my gun solution, score a Zero.

As I climb back up for the return trip home I fly near a vehicle base being bombed by a set of B-24s. Running low on gas and ammo at this point I take a calculated risk. Rolling onto the B-24s I see them pointing the wrong direction, I am still four sectors from home with a little over 3/8 tank of gas. Scoring a kill the first pass I climb back up for another run as he dives down to bomb. Following him down I see his drone catch fire, flackers.

Following him through the flak I score major hits but no parts come off, I hear the explosion as I zoomed back. As the spitfire apparently dies I recieve kill message number seven. Empty of fuel and ammo I set max cruise and head for home. While low on fuel I still had a fairly good reserve, it was needed as a 190 bounced me from up high. I was able to dive away and use my speed advantage to evade. Burning copious amounts of gas the 190 final gives up chase, I throttle back, it will be close.

In the end I landed with about 1 minutes worth of fuel after taking off with over an hours worth. Does anyone consider that fun, its a bit boring at times but its a real challenge to me. Fighting a Spitfire on 50% while having over 75% represents a serious challenge coalt. On the way home some people nagged me about flying all that way but I didnt care. It did make me wonder if I was that far out in left field though.

Any one do anything similar? Maybe we could join up sometime if so...

Strip

Yep I like to do that as well. I tend to do it in an F4U-1A since that is my ride but I seldom go more than 4-5 sectors from the CV or base I take off from. I can't say that I end up knocking down more than one or two other cartoon pilets but I get a couple most of the time.

[Yeager]

Mid War could easily exist with a grand total of three fields with a total distance from one another in such a way that a grab allowing 5000 feet or so would be just fine.

I beleive the VF15 would still flip the map for fun even if no other map existed <S>

So....to up six sectors away and come in at anything over 10,000 feet puts a big red flag on your beenie cap.
Lastly, do whatever makes you feel good.

[mechanic]

We have done some very long missions, some as long as 2 hours in the air. Memorable ones include bombers escorts in P47s, P51s, and most recently mosquitos. Usualy it's an hour of getting to target, 30 mins of fighting over target and then 30 mins to get everyone home and landed. It can really add alot of realism and excitement to be cruising along chatting away and then suddenly someone calls out a contact and everything explodes into action. I have some films of long range missions if you want me to post the action sections or even full 2 hour clips. I like long range stuff, kind of like our own mini senario in the MA. Mosquito missions tend to last a long time anyhow if you dont take damage.

[mia389]

I love flying long missions. They are limited in German A/C with 1.5 fuel burn. 

[thorsim]

the "lets take a bunch of buffs and go bomb the knits capitol" flights are one reason to like titanic tuesday ...

thanks B-17 guys that was fun/cool ...

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[Shuffler]

If you like flying that high it is better suited to one of the LW arenas.

Too boring and slow for my taste though.

Thought I'd add that flying in a Scenario like DGS was enjoyable but doesn't lend itself well to the MAs IMHO.

Also will add a point about the B-17 raid last night. They say they are looking for realism yet I heard several reports they were at 35K. 

[thorsim]

i said fun, it was something different and greatly appreciated by a lot of us, but you go ahead and make fun of people who's idea of fun is different from your "clearly superior type of fun" that everyone must feel exactly the same about or be ridiculed ...

after all these are the AH boards ...

If you like flying that high it is better suited to one of the LW arenas.

Too boring and slow for my taste though.

Thought I'd add that flying in a Scenario like DGS was enjoyable but doesn't lend itself well to the MAs IMHO.

Also will add a point about the B-17 raid last night. They say they are looking for realism yet I heard several reports they were at 35K. 

[Shuffler]

i said fun, it was something different and greatly appreciated by a lot of us, but you go ahead and make fun of people who's idea of fun is different from your "clearly superior type of fun" that everyone must feel exactly the same about or be ridiculed ...

after all these are the AH boards ...

  Who made fun of anyone. I stated a fact...  and I did not belittle anyone, I leave that up to folks like you.

I have noticed you like to accuse folks of things they don't do. I also know the crook is the one who thinks everyone is trying to steal from him.

[thorsim]

   <<< confused me ...

is not that some sort of passive aggressive way to say a bunch of stuff you don't have to type ...

if not well i guess i "misunderstood" you 

and i apologize