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Old 15th Jun 2011, 15:06
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Lonewolf_50
 
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Bear, the A in OODA is Act, not Agility.

For those unfamiliar, OODA is Observe, Orient, Decide, Act

You then go back to Observe, hence the loop. Your loop is a continuous process until the point where what you observe makes you decide to stop acting. At that point, in theory, you are at equilibrium, or have achieved the desired state of whatever it is you are doing, or trying to do.
Are you sure aircrews should study OODA? With patience and calm being part of the Air Bus check list, how will you fold AGILITY into the Loop?
bear, FFS, OODA describes what pilots DO when they fly.

Your instrument scan and your control inputs on a hand flown ILS or VOR in crap weather is a perfect application of OODA in flying. You have desirerd performance parameters (airspeed, altitude, position, course, heading, track, descent rate, glide slope, etc) and you make constant small corrections until you have iced the heding, power, nose attitude, trim, etc, to achieve the desired glide slope on course, on speed, needles centered, until MDA or DH and you Observe the runway, decide to land, or To Go Around. (Or you decide to cheat down a few feet to take a peak below mins and maybe it all ends in tears ... )

OODA came from a pilot, Boyd. No surprise, since it is what pilots do. He gave it a name. He applied it to dogfights, a similar process to the above: run through the OODA loop faster than your opponent (get inside his decision cycle) until you get into that sweet spot for Fox 2, and shoot.
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