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///AMG said:
IIRC one of the old contract sim instructors had me do it for fun on one of my first RAG bomb sims (I think there was a segue in there relating it somehow to the old days in Laos :) ), but no, it is not at all part of any syllabus that I have been in for the Hornet (RAG nor SFWT). I'm not worried about getting a couple bad hits, but I would like to be proficient enough in it beforehand that I'm not like throwing blue death outside of the range. Granted if my Z numbers are good, presumably the hits will at least been in the ballpark (winds dependant)
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Id do it if I were you. Ask your section lead, pending he's not a pansy, to do it next time at the range. If you find yourself in the situation I described in Afghan, that's not the first time you want to be slinging them around like that. And you don't want to be "that guy" who has to RTB because the green crap stopped working....especially when someone needs you.
 
I fully agree Mike, and I'd say I probably have enough experience with Auto and CCIP bombing now to be able to afford using some brain cells to learn this. I'll report back with results, after I consult my VT a/g FTI......I have long forgotten a lot of the manual bombing theory we learned there. All I remember is if you're steep go steeper, and shallow go shallower....but all those little ROT's for airspeed/alt corrections at release escape me at the moment. Should be fun though. People in this community get pretty wrapped up in the air-to-air side of the house, and while that stuff is certainly important in other ways (DCA, LFE, etc), I tend to feel like the A/G stuff gets kind of taken as a given, in spite of it being our reason for being. Granted some of the higher level air to air stuff is much more complicated conceptually and in practice, but I don't think it is really the percentage threat in this day and age.
 
///AMG said:
I fully agree Mike, and I'd say I probably have enough experience with Auto and CCIP bombing now to be able to afford using some brain cells to learn this. I'll report back with results, after I consult my VT a/g FTI......I have long forgotten a lot of the manual bombing theory we learned there. All I remember is if you're steep go steeper, and shallow go shallower....but all those little ROT's for airspeed/alt corrections at release escape me at the moment. Should be fun though.
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Steep and fast are good errors. Be on parameters prior to roll-in and it makes everything else easier. Trim nose down in the dive so you don't banana as you speed rapidly increases and get an early release sight picture (high release = short bomb). Add headwind to baseline mils, and subtract tailwind. Negate crosswind if at all possible, or compensate for it if you can't due to run in restrictions. And if you REALLY want to go PhD level, determine which station the bomb is going to come off of (if not centerline) and account for the off-centerline error as well a squib kick function. :)

I used to do this alot when 2-ship on the range, but I spent alot of my range time single-ship, being a FAC. You ever do single ship to the range or such?
 
greg1016 said:
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MLRS!!! Lawton, OK.........Dreadful
 
Where are the cool pics? Like a pic of someone's office cubicle in the military personnel office they work in? Or of the gym desk they hand out towels and and basketballs from?
 
bunk22 said:
My last trap in the C-2A, circa July 2006...though I'm CQing next month in the T-45C, it has been a while!

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Getting ready for last cat shot...

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You guys are allowed to do pictures on the boat like that? Are they outdated? Awesome shots but what about security/espionage/leaks etc...?
 
MikeD said:
Where are the cool pics? Like a pic of someone's office cubicle in the military personnel office they work in? Or of the gym desk they hand out towels and and basketballs from?
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Here's what one looks like when you are on a non-flying tour...such as spending 365 days in Busan, Korea...you can see the excitement on my bald face:

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My office now and there is a huge smile behind that mask!

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bunk22 said:
Good point but I assure you, nothing there that is classified and/or that your home country doesn't know about :)
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Heh. I watched a video of the Russians operating their Sukhois off their new carrier. To my admittely untrained eye, it looked a LOT more like a US CV than even, say, a British one does. I think maybe they've already seen the tapes.
 
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