To: (Falcon3 Mailing list) Bcc: falcon3-outgoing Subject: Falcon3 Digest V1 : I29 Falcon3 Digest Volume 1 : Issue 29 Tue Oct 27 18:50:20 PST 1992 Send submissions to "falcon3@onion.rain.com" Send add/drop requests to "listserv@onion.rain.com" For an index of back articles that are available, send a message containing the line "send index from falcon3" to "netlib@onion.rain.com" Also, the archives are available via ftp from onion.rain.com [147.28.0.161] Today's Topics: PC wingman messages, Falcon books Chris Craig Re: attacking columns knutson@mcc.com (Jim Knutson) f3maps garton@jeeves.UCSD.EDU (Simon Garto ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Chris Craig Subject: PC wingman messages, Falcon books The patch to OFT, which brings the version to 3.01.1, is supposed to fix the PC speaker problems (missing IFF, etc). It should be on onion.rain.com, right? [[ Right -- It's in /pub/falcon3/programs/oftpt1.zip --Jeff ]] As Dave Masten pointed out, the Bonnani Falcon book is pretty useless. However, in the next month or so, two new F3 books are supposed to be released. Both books were written by folks that frequent Compu$erve's FSFORUM (Modern Air Combat). One book is written by Tom "KC" Bashem, published by The Waite Group, and is supposed to be out any time now. I forget the other author's name, unfortunately. Both books are supposed to go far beyond the F3 and OFT manuals, and I think both will come with a floppy disk full of Red Flag missions and other fun stuff. Chris ------------------------------- From: knutson@mcc.com (Jim Knutson) Subject: Re: attacking columns To really setup a tank column attack right, you need to figure out more than just how YOU want to carry out your attack. Ideally, it requires at least 3 flights (this is true of most CAS missions). The first flight to go in is a CAP flight that goes high and not directly over the target area. This is used to attact any air defenses (both on the ground and in the air) away from your other flights. The second flight to go in is a wild weasel flight loaded with harms and shrikes. Set your waypoint to SEAD if you have 3.01 (perhaps patch E will have this too) or CAS if you can't. This flight should come close to your column but not overfly it. I use about 3000' for altitude and 550 kts ingres, 650 exit speed. Falcon 3.0 through patch D may require using mavericks and CAS instead of harms/shrikes and CAS because of the way ground radar works in this version. The third flight to go in is your flight. Mop up what's left. The way points should be similar to the second flight as far as speed and altitude go. You probably want to arrange to have the flights approach the area from different directions though. You may also want to move the waypoint for this flight over the column if you plan on using CBUs. If you're using standoff weapons, you don't need to (nor do you want to) overfly the column. Jim Knutson | | knutson@mcc.com --=oOo=-- cs.utexas.edu!milano!knutson + Wk: (512) 338-3362 Check Six! ------------------------------- From: garton@jeeves.UCSD.EDU (Simon Garton) Subject: f3maps >From: castelin@ecn.purdue.edu (Sanjay J Castelino) >Subject: Falcon 3.01.01 > >I have a question for any of you folks out there. Has f3maps and the other >bunch of falcon extras been updated for 3.01.01 or do I have to wait to >try 'em out ? Yes I finally splurged and bought OFT. > thanks for the info. > Sanjay Yup ! I put a posting up about 3 days ago. I understand that falconer works with OFT, though I am not sure about it. F3maps doesn't work with 3.01.1 unless you have f3maps version 4.1 The version that works for OFT is 4.0 To upgrade this, use the patch f3mptc1.zip (or something like that) in /pub/falcon3/programs to patch the 4.0 version of f3maps. [[ It's in /pub/falcon3/programs/f3mptc.zip -- Jeff ]] Simon ------------------------------- [[ End of digest Volume 1 : Issue 29 ]]