"Real" ACM tomorrow

[Terror]

AirCombatUSA

I'm doing "Phase I" tomorrow.  Hopefully my AcesHigh experience will be helpful in a real aircraft.

Terror

[Westy]

It certainly will!

Just start the engine, shove the throttle forward to the stop, set your auto-angle trim for best climb and go gO GO!  

At altitude (35,000 ft  for everyone knows ALT is LIFE) check your inflight dar for cons. Vector as needed. Watch for thie bogies icon and attack.....

And should you get into some turn fighting don't forget to utilize the engine toggle on/off trick to gain a turning advantage. Or lower your gear suddenly ight after to fool your enemy into an overshoot!!

[ra]

If you don't shoot down your opponent don't come back!

[Terror]

hehe.  OKOK.  Maybe not ALL of my AcesHigh experiences will pay off in a real aircraft, but maybe SOME of the basic manuevers will work the same???

Terror

[Red Tail 444]

Keep your squaddies informed!

[Sandman]

Lucky bastard.

Have fun. Be careful of HO.

[Flyboy]

hehe a p40 has batter performence then this plane

but i still envy you

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by Terror
hehe.  OKOK.  Maybe not ALL of my AcesHigh experiences will pay off in a real aircraft, but maybe SOME of the basic manuevers will work the same???

Terror

AH will help your basic understanding and ACM plenty (although you wont have the balls necessary to pull half the stunts you would in AH, even if you instructor would allow it, which he wont).  

Thats why pilots train on simulators.

[Terror]

I am hoping I get to experience these manuevers:

HammerHead
Snap Roll
Full Spin (4-5 turns at least)

I fully expect to get the basic manuevers:

Loop
Immelman
Lo/Hi YoYo
Split-S

I am also hoping to force a Scissors fight, but probably won't becuase the fight will not get that slow.

Terror

PS.  I am an 80hour PPL Student and hope to convince them to give me the "feel" of all these manuevers as a training exercise....

[Dago]

Have fun, should be a great experience.


dago

[Terror]

Results were 3-3 for six engagements.  One of my loses was a gimme to the other guy though because I was puking my guts up, but oh well it was really fun!  A 5G pull had me greying out quite nicely.  I didnt start my "grunting" early enough and started loosing color and got the "sparkleys".  (I was puking a few minutes later.)  

Even though my body didn't get along with the bouncing around, I am ready to do it again!  I want another shot.  In all of the fights except one, I had the advantage, but got greedy and ended up either floping the plane around or busting the hard deck trying to get a shot.   If you dont count busting the hard deck or the gimme due the loss of my stomach contents, the score would be 1-1.

Terror

[BUG_EAF322]

what does it cost?? Iit never mentions .

[jigsaw]

Originally posted by Terror

PS.  I am an 80hour PPL Student and hope to convince them to give me the "feel" of all these manuevers as a training exercise....

Look into an "Emergency Maneuver" training program, if you want to get the most out of it as a "training excercise."

Few that I know of are;

http://www.richstowell.com/

http://www.fcitraining.com/

I haven't flown with Rich, but he comes highly recommended by everyone that I've heard from.

Under the FCI link, go to the advanced flight training section. They have several "set" missions or you can do a fully customized version. When I flew with them we traded off the time of anything I could do in a normal category plane, like power off 180s, for more spins or aerobatics.
My favorite aero move to fly was a knife edge spin up. Favorite one that I was a "passenger" for was a Lomcevak. Most disorienting thing we did was an inverted spin.

[Terror]

Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
what does it cost?? Iit never mentions .

$995 is the normail price for each "phase".

Terror

[Vulcan]

just remember NO fluff'n HO'ING OK?

The netcode works way different IRL.