Re: Fighter Control - A Dark Art?
Orville,
Fella you should have joined up fifteen years ago - then I could have recommended it. Sadly, now there is a paucity of assets to control and what little control positions that are allocated in the UK go to training sorties for the F3 fleet/Euro-thingy and Valley. And believe me these are few and far between. ACMI (Air Combat Manoeuvring and Instrumentation) range has gone - replaced by RAIDS and EURITS pods. Basically the focus is on moving mud, or more correctly, sand. Mud movers, bless them, don't usually have a radar and if they do get in a fight with a proper fighter will get raped and die. Ergo, don't get ina fight and side-step or run away to fight another day.
I so wish I could recommend this as a career choice but you really would be better stacking shelves or flipping burgers - or just getting strapped into a jet and going flying.
And here speaks someone who has seen the brighter side of a CQWI(AD) ACMI!!
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