Virtual Carrier Air Wing 1

• Its early in the Afghan war, and VMFA 115 is stationed at Kandahar Airbase, set to take over a few grids for close air support duties at 17:15 local time.
• We own the sky, with established tanker tracks, no aerial threats and no enemy SAM sites.
• Despite all this, the Taliban have superior local knowledge and choose their engagements carefully, ambushing Coalition infantry when it best suits them.
• The Taliban also have extravagant bounties placed on capturing Coalition pilots; and camp out with old, Soviet SA-14s waiting for a jet to fly low and slow.  Maintain >15,000 ft [I recommend 20k+] outside of Kandahar Security Area. (MANPAD height of ~12,000 + ground can rise quickly 2-3k ft) https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/Threa ... MANPADS.29
  • Recommend setting your altitude warnings to at least 15,000 Ft.

• Take off, fly runway heading 233 until 21 DME, then turn to to your assigned grid sections and await tasking. 
  • WPTs #2 and #3 are available for a Racetrack Patrol (just reference points to keep you roughly in the middle of your AOR and not in a constant turn).
• Air support requests come in unpredictably and are handled via a Tasking Controller based on MGRS squares.  See PDF in the discord of how to click through the F10 menus (it will be intuitive in-mission, but I show it in detail).  You can use this menu to replay the task information, repeat coordinates, request smoke on the target, and request a flare on the target.  All flight members should join each task in order to receive updates and obtain information.
• Overall, you are armed with JDAMs and LGBs to handle a variety of situations.  For a stationary target unlikely to move (i.e. the first enemy targeted, or after enemies have taken cover in a new position) I recommend using a JDAM.  This preserves your LGBs for moving targets.

• Takeoff
  • Runway 233 (right turn from parking area Panther)
  • Fly heading 233 until 21 DME (point "DIRT" on the Kandahar plate), then turn to tanker or waypoints.
• Landing:
  • Kandahar Airbase
  • 75X
  • Radio (PRI: #1) 360.200
  • Active Runway: 23
  • Intercept 233 Radial prior to 21 DME on approach
  • Overhead Break Altitude: 1,500 feet
  • Traffic Pattern: Left (South)
  • Parking Area: Panther Ramp (southeast, same as starting area)
  • Alternate Airbases: All are friendly, but security perimeters unreliable elsewhere.
• Departure Order: (Whoever is ready first), Dodge/Ford are travelling further than Colt, so I'd get them up first if possible.
  • Airbase is central logistics hub for all of Afghanistan, check taxiways carefully for troops hurrying to transport helos and other jets in line to take off.
• Laser Codes:
  • -1 is on 1687
  • -2 is on 1686
  • -3 is on 1685
  • Double-check while you are on the ground before starting engines and correct (if needed) with the re-arm and repair window.  Everything should be set up correctly though.
  • Drones are circling in your MGRS area and will lase targets they find on 1688 if they are within range.
• Tankers: (Tank at leads discretion, all jets have 2 bags, CAS stations are ~100-150 miles from KHR and ~50-100 miles from tankers.  Colt at the shorter end of those distances and Dodge/Ford at the longer-end of those ranges).
  • Texaco KC-135 MRPS (Basket): 
    • At/Near Bulls
    • 251.000 AM
    • 51Y
    • Angels 25; Speed ~250 knots
  • Arco KC-130 (Basket): 
    • North of Bulls
    • 259.000 AM
    • 59Y
    • Angels 22; Speed ~250 knots
  • Shell KC-135 (Boom):
    • South of Bulls
    • 127.000 AM
    • 27Y
    • Angels 23; Speed ~280 knots
• AWACS: Darkstar on 254
• Weather & Time: Light & Scattered Clouds; takeoff time 17:15 local.
• Loading In: No idea why, but I always crash on my first load-in.  Hop back in and it should work.

Squirrel wrote: ↑Sat Aug 24, 2024 8:35 pm Ok....fine...I'll get the Afghan blanket...I mean map....it can be kind of pretty I guess....from the comfort of an F/A-18 that is