Dee-Jay Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Machalot said: I appreciate the speculation and assumptions, it's fun to come up with ideas and possibilities, but I was asking a real pilot for the actual answer. Deadpool gave you the best answer you can imagine. In ATP56B you will find everything. Basically, for fighter, either it is radar rejoin until visual. Or via TACAN distance (and/or bearing depending on TKR equipments) and/or ARCP based procedures. Most differences are if Tanker in on station performing racetracks or if it is an EnRoute rendez-vous (rejoin Echo IIRC). Edited May 5, 2021 by Dee-Jay ASUSTeK ROG MAXIMUS X HERO / Intel Core i5-8600K (4.6 GHz) / NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE 12GB / 32GB DDR4 Ballistix Elite 3200 MHz / Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB / Be Quiet! Straight Power 11 1000W Platinum / Windows 10 Home 64-bit / HOTAS Cougar FSSB R1 (Warthog grip) / SIMPED / MFD Cougar / ViperGear ICP / SimShaker JetPad / Track IR 5 / Curved LED 27'' Monitor 1080p Samsung C27F396 / HP Reverb G2 VR Headset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan_111sqn Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 Tankers normally will have a TACAN with a rotating antenna (AIR TACAN) to provide distance and bearing information to receivers. For fighters tipically a RV A is used, where the RV is done using radar vectors to tanker, and then the fighter with its radar just joins the formation. RV B and C are not normally used, normally tankers pilot have never done it, is used on emergencies or abnormal ops on the equipment. RV D is helpfull for heavy to heavy ops. Other RV are less tipical. And some countries have some internal procedures for the RV, but its similar to the standard ones. ATP56 have all the info. Now the doc is called ATP-3.3.4.2. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machalot Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Dee-Jay said: Deadpool gave you the best answer you can imagine. In ATP56B you will find everything. Basically, for fighter, either it is radar rejoin until visual. Or via TACAN distance (and/or bearing depending on TKR equipments) and/or ARCP based procedures. Most differences are if Tanker in on station performing racetracks or if it is an EnRoute rendez-vous (rejoin Echo IIRC). Yeah, I posted quickly on my phone from a campsite, and in hindsight what I wrote was pretty stupid in response to @deadpool. Edited May 5, 2021 by Machalot "Subsonic is below Mach 1, supersonic is up to Mach 5. Above Mach 5 is hypersonic. And reentry from space, well, that's like Mach a lot." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadpool Posted May 6, 2021 Author Share Posted May 6, 2021 2 hours ago, Machalot said: Yeah, I posted quickly on my phone from a campsite, and in hindsight what I wrote was pretty stupid in response to @deadpool. All good, mate. 1 1 Lincoln said: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Do not expect a reply to any questions, 30.06.2021 - Silenced by Nineline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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