(Quote from Aardvark892 on M4T, Wed Oct 28, 2009 08:13 AM)
Well, I just returned from our 4 a.m. (PST) flight, and I had a BLAST!
There was a little hiccup right at the beginning, but once past that, everything worked well. I can tell you for sure now that the Capture the Flag concept works, and it’s a lot of fun. I changed the airplane type to Hurricane Mk. 1, and it seems like a better choice than the I-16 type 5.
Beebop, Fellop, Blitz, and me faced off, two to a team with Blitz and me flying from the red base. Fellop has turned out to be an excellent flyer, and a pretty good shot. Beebop unfortunately didn’t get to participate as much because we had a couple of visitors show up (we didn’t password-protect the game) and he spent a lot of time helping them get set up with TeamSpeak. One guy was from Russia; very competent flyer and shooter, but the language difference made it too difficult for us to explain how the CTF works, so he left soon after.
Another guy showed up, but after chatting “Hello!” didn’t say anything else and left shortly thereafter. Salute! To both of our visitors!
CplPflumm showed up too, but he had to reinstall 4.09, so he missed much of the action. Next time, Marine!
Good teamwork with me and Blitz got us ahead late in the game, and Red side won 3 to 2! I think Fellop’s gonna post some pictures soon… I spaced out taking any pix.
Once we wrapped up the CTF game, we tried out the practice Carrier Landing mission Beebop supplied; it’s a great way to practice carrier ops, and honestly, it’s a good way to learn how to land regardless of what type of airfield.
All in all a GREAT couple of hours, and it was effective, too.
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Time: 1800 GMT - 8
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 28
Location: CLASSIFIED
Flight Officer Gumball to :HF: Command:
Tonight's meeting was quite successful. The squad completed a rigorous capture-the-flag session, soon followed by a dogfight/trap-practice. My personal action report is as followed:
Gumball360: 1 kill to every 37.5 deaths. 0 flag scores. Failed TB-3 carrier landing. 2 messy pairs of underpants.
Related recon photos:
That is all, thank you.
-Flight Officer Gumball
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(Quote from fellop at M4T, Wed Nov 04, 2009 08:55 AM)
Flight Practice Wednesday Morning 4 November 1200hrs GMT and whatever the time was wherever you live.
Flight Group Pilots: Aardvark, Blitz, Fellop
Flight Report:
These three members of the infamous squadron The Hopeless Few met for
morning flying and general squadron practice, practice makes perfect
offered our gallant leader, a lot more practice I thought.
After a few technical difficulties we met up on a rather large map each
starting from a different airfield with the intent of finding each
other and having a general dogfight just for some fun. It was not long,
well after Blitz and Fellop had been shot down by AA guarding these
said airfields that we realised this map may not be a good idea.
However in the spirit of the Squadron [Hopeless] we flew on trying to
find each other.
Suddenly Aardvark spotted the other two pilots and in his far superior
and faster and better armed aircraft [well he is the leader] he then
shot down Blitz then turned on Fellop. After a few well aimed shots
that peppered Fellop’s cockpit.
Our gallant leader then decided to save ammunition and then disposed of Fellop by chopping his wing off by a rather close fly past.
Training then moved to another map and the three airmen practiced touch
and goes all went well until the normal bumpy landings and the odd
crash or two by Blitz and Fellop.
All in all a great time we had fun.
