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A SuperPak4 OCA Mission
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Horizontal Situation Display (HSD) is one of the most useful
MFD pages for maintaining SA. It shows your planned route,
waypoints, bulls-eyes, and direction. The large white arrow
always points due north and when the crap really hits the
fan in the Korean theater you will almost always be best advised
to put that white arrow behind you and beat feet south-bound
toward friendly airspace! In addition to showing you WHERE
you are, the HSD also can show you WHO is around you. Your
wingmen are depicted as blue symbols showing their data-linked
position.
Additionally, enemy contacts targeted
from within the flight (and maybe AWACS?) are sometimes depicted
as yellow contacts. Here we see the cluster of blue at the
bottom of the HSD is my flight. The co-centric rings are spaced
20 miles apart while in the 60 mile range setting.  My
flight-path and waypoints (actually called steer-points) are
depicted, the initial point (IP) is the square and the strike
location (the airfield) is the triangle.
While we cruise toward the target
area, keeping tabs on things with AWACS, I watch other flights
going about their business.  Below
right is a South Korean F-5 takes to the skies on a strike
mission of his own.
Getting the cockpit ready for the
strike is best accomplished during the relatively quiet ingress.
Punching up the air-to-ground mode (A2G) brings up the weapons
page on the right MFD. Using the push-buttons lining the MFD
I select the BLU-107 runway cratering bombs for my first pass.
I configure the weapons to come off the racks one at a time
with 900 feet of interval between impact points. (6 single,
900 feet, release pulses 6)
The booming voice of AWACS interrupts
me as he volunteers enemy air activity bearing 360 for 50
miles, a single MiG-29. Looking at my Radar Warning Receiver
(RWR) I see the carat and the 29 symbol denoting the threat.
Roughly correlating it to my radar picture I can pretty much
surmise that the MiG-29 is the farthest contact away on the
radar screen just outside the 30 degree right tick mark on
the radar.
We are now just outside of 40 miles
to the target and things start heating up. I order my wingmen
to fall into trail formation and keep my throttle at 100%
but not in burner in an attempt to quickly reach the target.
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