castor troy
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Joined: 8/23/2004 From: Austria Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: castor troy what you shouldn´t miss in your example though is the fact that you could have run into the problem that most of your fighters on Cap (set to fly higher than the incoming sweep) perhaps haven´t managed to get to that height in time and were dived on. Don´t know, I didn´t watch your replay. With only 7 minutes warning that seems very likely. I noticed from my CAP tests that even if you have sweepers coming in at 5000' when the CAP is at 35,000' - even then, you will see the sweepers diving on victims and shooting them down. And in turn being dived on. I'm 95% sure that happens because the sweepers are shooting down scrambling aircraft right as they take off from the base. I suppose a test with decent Allied radar would perhaps answer that definitively, but really, it isn't all that relevant. I never figured out which estimation I should go with though. You get the message on top of the report like Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes but then you also get messages for each squadron individually and they usuall differ: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32810 , scrambling fighters between 32000 and 32810. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 35000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Raid is overhead 59th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 35000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Raid is overhead 77th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 35000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
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