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Before taking fuel you will need to establish a stable pre-contact position. This position needs to be held for a few seconds to be recognised by the boomer. You'll need to be 50 feet below at 30° down from the tanker. The best method to get that position correctly is to use the gun cross and the boom. The position of the boom tip gives you the location of the pre- contact position. Just follow the lower part of the boom by aligning the gun cross with it. The HUD side mounts are also a good cue. Align them with the engines of the refueller (inboard engines for the KC-135).

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You must tell the tanker that you are done refuelling. Use the Tanker menu: ‘y 3’ ‘Done Refuelling’. This removes your aircraft from the queue; only after you have done this will the tanker clear your wingmen to pre-contact.

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...Quick Flow procedures have been implemented for both AI and humans to expedite air refuelling operations. Quick Flow allows receivers to minimise refuelling time with maximum fuel transfer. The receiver flight will join on the left of the tanker with the flight lead moving to the pre-contact position. Remaining aircraft will proceed to the left observation position. Once the flight lead commences refuelling, the second aircraft in the air refuelling sequence should move to the On- Deck position.

The On-Deck position is normally flown as a route (left echelon) formation with approximately 10 feet spacing from the refuelling aircraft. The third and fourth receivers will remain in the observation left position.

When the lead jet completes refuelling it calls done on the radio (y 3) and moves to an observation position off the tanker’s right wing. Tanker ownership in multiplayer automatically transfers to the second receiver (if he is human). This can result in a noticeable ‘jump’ of the tanker as you take over multiplayer ownership of it.

The second receiver moves from the On-Deck position to the pre-contact or contact position as directed by the tanker (if the On-Deck formation was being flown correctly he would be cleared straight to contact).

The third receiver (if present) then moves to On-Deck and waits for the second to call done refuelling to follow the tanker direction to refuel. The left to right flow continues until all fighters have refuelled.

Additional receivers arriving prior to the first flight completing refuelling operations will remain in trail position until there is space at the left tanker observation position. There will only be a maximum of three jets waiting at left observation (including the On-Deck spot) at any one time any others waiting will be in trail until there is room for them to move up.

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Flight      Task     TO  TOT     IDM     VHF    TACAN   FL   

Weasel1     SEAD    1815 1830    11-14    15     11/74   210
Viper1      SEAD    1817 1830    21-24    16     12/75   190