S3 Series

Was a learning experience I think. Could have been a better outcome had I held the 23rd and 4th a bit before launch.
Looks like a few ships got sunk, but we lost the buffs because the fighters had to rtb for fuel and ammo before
they got to tgt.
You guys did a great job for having so short a planning phase.
I think we had good coordination between groups an scored a decent number of ftr kills.
Thanks to all for a great job....<S>

<S> Pappy. Ya done good with the time available! Changing parameters of rides put any real planning off a bit, thanks for taking lead on this one! <S>

Kudos also to 4th FG pilot Billpe. He did better at flying a towed fighter plane with 20 mph over the wings than most I've seen On my FE it looked like he caught a one wire, then moved fore and aft on the boat about 80' for quite a little while. <S> Billpe. I can only hope that when they unloaded the CV that he got the safe landing that he actually made.


Billpe towed behind the USS Connex

Well me and billpe did practice low-n-slow manouvering duels before this S3. I can see he's taken it to another level completely .

/Robert
4th FG

~S~ Thanks for the lead papyb. Good job. The forward sweep did what it was supposed to, unfortunately our timing was not correct.

Pappy

It's not easy being Frame 1 CO and you did a great job. The first frame is always a learning one. I am the next one on the hot seat and learned a lot from frame 1.

<S>

That was quite fun 1st frame actually.

I must have landed decent strikes on at least 10 different cons.
At least 4 dove out with either engine oiled and or fuel leaks.
2 confirmed kills I think..

Went a bit gungho at the end because I came across 4 zekes in a tight group on the six of a striker at SL spraying away. Shot at them all but killed none.

Went a bit nutso fangs out then in frustration and lost my vator in the ensuing melee...
That's what happens at 3.30am when you really need to go to bed!

>S

LOL!
You must have been seeing lag.
My fisrt landing attempt resulted in a bolster, but caught the 2 wire on go around.
My second landing was spot on.
(was this towards the end of the game? If so, I was waiting on deck, catching a sea breeze and working on my tan while awaiting orders for a third sortie that never came)

<S> dewolf
~billpe

PS I was wondering about some lag last nite as I had a Zero in a very slight climb d2 in font of me going after Robert, and I seemed to shoot right through him with nary a ping! Or, more likely I need to go back to gunnery school.