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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: FiLtH on September 27, 2004, 08:16:19 AM
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I'd like to start a weekly meeting of bomber pilots, who like to fly in tight formations, for 1 hi alt large mission a week. Whether we do it in MA or CT I dont care, but Id love to see a bunch of us get together one night a week, have mission plans, hold a pre-flight briefing, fly out to high altitude, mass drop on a target and rtb for debriefing.
If interested please reply and we can get some folks together for this. My email is fluxputz@hotmail.com if you want to work on this with me.
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Hi, my name is John.
Hi john!
And I'm a rook. *Breaks out in tears*
It's ok John.
And I like to do bombers.
*GASP!*
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Nice one Laser :rofl
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Bomber Pilots:
An Endangered Species.
I'd like to do this, but I'm a knight.
Have you found something worth bombing yet?
I'd like to organize some missions too but there's not much roll for us these days.
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Originally posted by FiLtH
I'd like to start a weekly meeting of bomber pilots, who like to fly in tight formations, for 1 hi alt large mission a week. Whether we do it in MA or CT I dont care, but Id love to see a bunch of us get together one night a week, have mission plans, hold a pre-flight briefing, fly out to high altitude, mass drop on a target and rtb for debriefing.
If interested please reply and we can get some folks together for this.
Filth... I think you need to explain to most people that high altitude does not mean 4000 feet. :rofl
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Originally posted by Alpo
Filth... I think you need to explain to most people that high altitude does not mean 4000 feet. :rofl
You meant "400 feet," of course.
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Id try to join in Filth when possible.
I think I still have your Email, Ill shoot you one.
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Originally posted by Grimm
Id try to join in Filth when possible.
That's no suprise! You're CAF!
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LOL!!
Ya got me Horn!
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The problem I've always had is holding formation and gunning at the same time. As soon as enemy fighters appear the formation just seems to lose all cohesion.
As much as it seems like it would be taking skill away from the game, and autoformate function that would leave the non-lead bomber players free to gun and calibrate might be a good thing.
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Yeah this could be for anyone of any side that bombs. Seems there arent enough guys on one side who want to do this. So the CT would be a good place to start.
Im talking 20k or so altitude. If we got a good size group we could have different fighter squads do the escort and intercept roles each week. Kind of see who does best at each role.
I think weds. night at 8pm est would be a good time to do this.
As for staying in formation...we could bring gunners along..especially new guys who may want to try something fun, while they are getting the hang of the game. What Ive found tha tworks really well, is having the lead bomber set the course and the rest manually fly near him. This way you can stay within 50 ft of the guy the whole way. Then the lead bombardier sets the bombsight and everyone drops on his command. It does work..and with alot of bombers it would really cover the target. Plus it keeps everyone close all the way from IP to RTB.
I can create mission maps and send them out showing the target etc before weds nights. If a better night is preferred please say so. If interested shoot me an email at fluxputz@hotmail.com.
PS I do like fighters...but lately bombers have added a whole new part of the game to me..and it is challenging.
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Originally posted by DoKGonZo
You meant "400 feet," of course.
ironically enough, the past few times I've played this past week - fighting rooks, mostly, every buff formation i encountered was down low.
I think Pogo has your answer, DoK....
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/170_1096314111_pogoplaque.jpg)
and here's Pogo's take on the Rook's getting "ganged" by bishnits...
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/170_1096314030_surrounded.gif)
:D
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Yeah ... I know, Shane. Everyone hoovers around in B17's and Lanc's now.
As for relative odds and gang-ups, I trust what I see on the map more than I trust incomplete stats.
And that's kind of why I bailed from the MA. I can't fix it and it stopped being fun. I suppose if I still had my old furballin' skillz it wouldn't bother me as much - but I don't, so it does.
-DoK
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Good grief. That second cartoon looks almost unbelievably appropriate. Shopped?
DoK-- forget the stats. It's the chance placement of teams on this map. That's all.
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FWIW I still haven't figured out how to be effective with the new fangled bomb site either. Haven't tried all that often but it may be just beyond my attention span limits these days.
There was a really good tuturial posted in the Help topic, but the pictures were missing because (I guess) of forum restrictions on attachments. If anyone can reconstitute this thing with pictures and all I can convert it to a PDF or standalone web page and host it.
-DoK
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Forget those guys...I'm Game for a real bombing run every now and again...email me.
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I'd love to fly escort for you guys, either in a P-51D or a P-47, whichever is available based on the ENY... I wouldn't mind coming Rooks (or any country for that matter) for a night to do it either, so long as you gave me the heads up as to when you were doing it.
Doesn't matter to me if the flight takes 2 hours. Would be a BLAST.
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bump
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In!!!
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Sounds good FiLth...contact me tonight!
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we do it every week.
even better when we have the 367th with us. nothing like seeing 20+ bombers hi alt in formation with a ton of 51's in escort.
Tapakeg
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ops, Wed. a no go for me.
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I'd be very interested, FiLtH..... but 8pm Eastern on a work night is a bit too late for me.
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What about designating a bomber radio channel?
I have not really thought this through so bear with me.
What if we decide say channel 333 or whatever is an unofficial bomber channel.
You log in, tune 333 and see who's on.
Whoever is on that channel will be interested in joining a bombing mission, so you'd know you've got X people ready to go.
A quick shout see's who is on and ready for a mission. Set one up and away you go.
Each country would have it's own bomber channel.
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
Bomber Pilots:
An Endangered Species.
I'd like to do this, but I'm a knight.
Have you found something worth bombing yet?
I'd like to organize some missions too but there's not much roll for us these days.
*raises hand* i vote bombing knight hq!!!! o0o 0o0o
pick mee PICK MEEEE!!!!
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
Have you found something worth bombing yet?
*raises hand* i vote bombing knight hq!!!! o0o 0o0o
pick mee PICK MEEEE!!!!
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I'm a Rook bomber pilot, & I'll join in.
tbolt@onpoi.net
...assuming the time/day of the week is right.
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Flossy what nights would be best for you? Friday or saturday?
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Originally posted by FiLtH
Flossy what nights would be best for you? Friday or saturday?
Friday or Saturday is OK with no work next day. :)
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Hi, my name is John.
Hi john!
And I'm a rook. *Breaks out in tears*
It's ok John.
And I like to do bombers.
*GASP!*
:rofl
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Filth,
Any chance you can turn this into a rotating Buffin Rock and Rolling tour where every weekend all of you change countries, call your mission up on the channnel, up to 25-30k and teach everyone how its done? It might catch on as an institution. The once a month rook, knight , then bishop super buff mission. I don't fly buffs, but escort or attakin them at 25-30k takes big brass ones.
Last year I was in a 60+ buff mission as an escort. Once you are there, no nay saying or complaining can touch the sheer incredableness of the numbers and the action, and just being part of that many planes.:)
Just doing it, over and over again will gain support and help bring back the honored sim tradition of high alt buffin. IMHO;)
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Ya bustr that could be fun too. Looks like Friday night would be good. We should plane one this friday say...9pm est? We'll decide where later in the thread I guess.
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Oh Mighty Filthy one! It appears I have misplaced your Email Address. Could you shoot me one and I get you added again. Friday? Maybe Im back in baby!
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CHECK NEW THREAD TITLED "CT BOMBER PILOTS" for new info
Meeting Friday night 10-1 @ 9pm et
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Originally posted by FiLtH
I'd like to start a weekly meeting of bomber pilots, who like to fly in tight formations, for 1 hi alt large mission a week. Whether we do it in MA or CT I dont care, but Id love to see a bunch of us get together one night a week, have mission plans, hold a pre-flight briefing, fly out to high altitude, mass drop on a target and rtb for debriefing.
If interested please reply and we can get some folks together for this. My email is fluxputz@hotmail.com if you want to work on this with me.
AARRR!!, nuthin like a 10-12 buff, gunned, formation at 30k with spits, 51s and 38s escorts. Maybe a couple mossies for good measure.
My AW squad Flying Tigers 130th, used to do them all the time, with very devistating effects, and a lot of landed points.
We had some real tight formations, almost all planes within 100-200 of each other. Except for lead scorts.
Most of those runs were about 1.5 hour runs, some times two, getting to 30k before ever leaving the back side of the map. Travel over most furballs to the deepest most important targets, nail the living hell out of them, and cruse half way home at 30k, then slightly desend for speed to storm over the furballs back home to land.
GREAT time!
Anim
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I'm up for it. Reminds me of a few weeks ago when JB's squad and..well 25% of the rooks ran a 130 some B26 raid on 8 bases LOL.
Or the stuka raid, that was a blast. I bet if you checked out the overall kills on that one page that is now up, a good portion of those are just from that mission lol.
So count me in. I'm a very accurate level bomber so gettin up in the nose bleed section calms me.