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Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« on: August 17, 2010, 08:30:13 AM »
Posted up on the Events FSO page.
http://www.ahevents.org/fso-current-next-event.html

Registration is open for new squads.

Registered squads can now update their squad information, change their pilot commitment, squad contacts, and move to inactive status is need be.

Dates are:
Frame 1, September 3rd
Frame 2, September 10th
Frame 3, September 17th

*Please note that the squads that are assigned Allied will be using air starts exclusively in the new Germany terrain. I strongly suggest everyone practices this before Frame 1.

Any questions or errors spotted, please post them up in here.
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2010, 10:12:53 AM »
412th updated.
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2010, 04:18:25 AM »
What will be the altitude of the air starts? I didn't see it mentioned.
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 06:47:40 AM »
All air starts on this map are 27K
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2010, 06:54:45 AM »
Why can't the Germans use air starts?  There are some if I'm not mistaken...
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2010, 09:28:18 AM »
Air starts are all allied (Bishops) getting bombers to altitude and formed up also the distances they would have to fly led to the Allied air starts.
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2010, 11:16:51 AM »
Air starts are all allied (Bishops) getting bombers to altitude and formed up also the distances they would have to fly lead to the Allied air starts.

Ok, I thought I had remembered some German air starts.  Never mind...
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2010, 04:41:44 PM »
needs G2's tbh. Dunno why you guys always through the fatty (g6) in.

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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2010, 07:36:10 PM »
Because G2s were long past by the time this setup is taking place.

On the surface it looks like an allied landslide with all US planes coming in at 35-40K and all spits and temps chasing down anything that tries to drop below 20. Been done before in FSO (different setup, same planes) and it's never pretty.

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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2010, 08:14:53 PM »
This one will be fun no doubt
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #10 on: August 19, 2010, 08:37:46 AM »
Updated.
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #11 on: August 19, 2010, 04:40:52 PM »
Because G2s were long past by the time this setup is taking place.

On the surface it looks like an allied landslide with all US planes coming in at 35-40K and all spits and temps chasing down anything that tries to drop below 20. Been done before in FSO (different setup, same planes) and it's never pretty.

But the G2's were still in use right to the end, and even though the G6 is a later model the G2 is a better perform imho.

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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #12 on: August 19, 2010, 08:29:48 PM »
At the end of the war you wouldn't find any G2s flying with the Luftwaffe outside of flight schools, as far as I recall.

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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #13 on: August 19, 2010, 09:23:44 PM »
But the G2's were still in use right to the end, and even though the G6 is a later model the G2 is a better perform imho.

Source?
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Re: Sept FSO - Should Have Been A Milk Run – Europe 1944
« Reply #14 on: August 19, 2010, 11:03:54 PM »
Source?

I read it somewhere :D

edit: got an osprey book showing II/JG3 operating G2's in April 1944.
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