Training Flight - Tues 31st May - Time on Target

[309 Geoff]

I enjoyed myself tonight. Thanks Richard and Paul for taking part.
Richard, show the image below to your Grand-daughter, and try to explain how clever her Grandad is.
It captures our positions at exactly 0500Z. The briefed TOT.
You are on time, over the target. I'm in your 7o'clock, approx 1 sec early. Paul in the 10o'clock, about 3 secs early. The 3 aircraft images to the right are our shadows.
I think we can call the mission a success, with that accuracy.

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[309 Geoff]

All,
Here is a 12min 1080p video, of our TOT training mission.
DCS replay failed. It show me crashing just after I overflew the target. I don't appear in our run and brake at Al-Dhafra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhZqzXhn_9M

Enjoy.

[Richard Rodgers]

The whole thing was a success for the TOT aspect. No question. Well done guys.

If you wish to get more anal about the TOT lark guys, we can really step things up so that the weapon will impact the target at desired time rather than use it as our overfly time.

I will have a fiddle with MAV-D and GBU-12 from various alts/distances to find out their flight time to impact. If I have enough data it should be fairly easy to create a crib sheet for each weapon so that you can then gear your release. The GBU-12 does have a setting so that the INS computer will calculate release point based on a set Time Of Fall figure, and it should alter that automatically based on your alt & speed.

Leave it with me.

Great video Geoff. Showed what can be achieved.