wrl11 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Your formation reference is to be forward enough to see the cockpit windows of the tanker. That means the pilots can see you. I usually stay below their wings, though I have seen pics with fighters holding slightly above the wing level. You always start on the left side of the tanker and work over to the hose on the right, even if its the right hose. Then move to the right reform area. 1st vAEW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nealius Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Make sure you have wake turbulence turned on in the options. Both have wake turbulence (all the planes do). It is on and I know they both have wake turbulence. I've gotten caught in it during rejoin when I'm not paying attention. What I'm saying is that I've never experienced turbulence while actually plugging up, which I thought was the question being asked.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draconus Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 If you follow correct procedures there is no point where you cross wake turbulence. You join up from below with minimum vertical separation of 1000ft until 1nm and visual contact, then climb up to observation area on the left of the tanker. You drop a little to precontact area - that's below wake turbulence too. Same with reform - move aft below, then right, fwd and up to join the formation. The correct formation in the reform is echelon right. The wingman AI doesn't follow this procedures (go straight for AAR) so you just have to watch out for him - afair he doesn't get in the way in the training mission. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX3060 Rift S T16000M TWCS TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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