The only times I went 'up high' (65+) I lost both reheats and had to throttle the donks back to keep them alight - and I was almost ballistic...........and nowhere near 87k.
Orac - scratching at the 21 year old disappearing memory now, but I have to question that intercept you describe, as to close from 6 miles to firing range - about 1.5 miles IIRC - would require an overtake of around .2M to get there before the tanks were empty, ie about M2.3, which seems a touch high. Plus, of course, a F3 would be out of fuel after a 180x26
Personally I would have fired the controller
- wasn't the same one who used to roll me out ahead of the tanker, was it?
