Salute!
Good point, Vasco. May have to look up latest guidance.
My recollection was to hit the disconnect button, reduce power, drop low and back off. No movement left or right until altitude separation. The procedure was a bear at night in weather, but somehow thousands of us made it.
The 'nam gaggles usually had four lights close, And maybe another four-ship sitting alongside and high, waiting their turn. About an hour before first bombs dropped. We were talking about two hundred plane raids with maybe 4 or 5 tankers over Laos and another two tankers for the Navy dudes out over the S. China Sea.
The receptacle drill was usually like clockwork and my flight topped off in about 7 or 8 minutes, max.
Without the need for the boom, I feel the RN Bees have it made and can refuel two at a time on the '46".
Gums sends...