Originally Posted by
India Four Two
During a trip in August, from Canada to Wyoming, to see the total eclipse, I was mystified when my pilot said to the aircraft accompanying us "See you on Cheap Suits". All became clear when he dialed in 129.95!
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The other one is "go guns" which means switch to (1)30.3
When I was first introduced to formation flying in Chipmunks, there was a procedure which had never occurred to me, but the reason became immediately obvious. When changing formation lead, the current lead would brief the new lead on where we were and what was our heading.
The reason of course is that the rest of the formation have no idea where they are - they were just concentrating on station keeping
When passing lead the aircraft giving up the lead should provide a current position, the location of the arrival airport, and a traffic update
Eg, assuming a 4 ship formation where the lead of the second element ( Number 3) will take over as lead
"Lead three, over XXX, home plate your 3 o'clock for 15, traffic your 2 o'clock low no factor, take the lead..........GO!"