Air Combat Clip

Client Fighter Pilot: Eric

GUN EMPLOYMENT

AIR COMBAT ENGAGEMENT

Watch the Final Minute of this Engagement to a Gun Shot on the Bandit
Category (Basic, Advanced or Extreme): Basic Fighter Maneuvers

NOTE: EACH ADVANCED AIR COMBAT MISSION INCLUDES
SCORED ENGAGEMENTS LIKE THIS
THE ENGAGEMENTS ARE SCORED BASED ON RESULTS AND TIMING
THE MOST POINTS WIN THE TOP GUN TROPHY

What’s Happening? The cockpit scene you view on this clip is about 1/2 way through an air combat engagement that was initiated with a high-aspect head-on pass at approximately 7,000′ MSL (5,500′ above ground level) with a closing velocity of about 500 miles per hour. In this clip, Eric follows the Fighter Combat instructor pilot’s coaching from a position of slight advantage to a position of effectively employing a lethal gun attack on the adversary aircraft. Watch Eric fly and listen as Smo highlights various air combat concepts to Eric discussed the mission briefing for him to apply to the actual engagement. What to listen for in the audio commentary: lift vector control, energy management, straining against the g-force, hard deck awareness and various tips on conversion and transfer of energy between potential and kinetic reservoirs – concluding with the logical management of both energy and geometry to achieve positional advantage and employment of a lethal gun shot … enjoy!

Important Note:Without exception, all mission profiles are “challenge by choice” at Fighter Combat International. We will not put anyone through any maneuver without their expressed permission and expressed desire to do so. Each mission profile follows a building block approach from basic maneuvers working towards the client’s self-determined limitations. The customer chooses, at each stage of the building block process, whether to keep it basic and gentle or to move progressively towards the extreme.