Post by JG26_Irish on Jan 25, 2005 10:09:11 GMT -5
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Achtung all prospective pilots who would desire to try out for JG26. We do not expect you to be experts on day one, but experts are always welcome. However, what we really want are dedicated, team oriented pilots who are willing to learn and get better to take their skill to the next level. Don't be afraid to offer your own ideas for tactics and strategy as well. If you are a decent human being, we can train the rest.
Team Speak is required for comms. The tryout covers five basic skills. The following tests shall be used by all JG26 recruiter officers:
Settings: External view on, icons can be on or off, usually on, and mini map is on. Externals are for the instructor pilot to observe the student during certain manuvers and not to be used by the student. You are on your honor for this.
1. Basic Flight Skill: Student shall select any german aircraft of his/her choosing and take off, circle the field and land successfully. You have three attempts to make a safe landing.
2. Navigation and formation flight with Rotte Pair: Instructor and Student shall take off together and form up in a rotte pair and fly together to another airbase. Student should keep leader in sight and within approx. 500m remaining above and behind at 4-5 or 7-8 o'clock.
3. Aerial Gunnery: Student shall intercept a single bomber of instructor's choosing and attack until the bomber is successfully shot down. Student gets three aircraft and three lives to kill one bomber. This is to allow for the occasionaly lucky tail gunner. Instructor is looking for gunnery skill, and good tactical approach. B25, A20 or IL2 are all good choices of bomber. B17 is also a good one.
4. Aerial Combat Manuvering: Student shall select any german fighter aircraft and Instructor shall select any propellor fighter. The two shall take off and seperate by having one fly north and the other fly south for a few minutes. On the instructors call the fight is on and the student is to seek to engage and shoot down the instructor. This segment does not require the student to successfully kill the intstructor but it don't hurt. Instructor is seeking to evaluate the student's relative skill level as fighter combat pilot. This is a subjective judgment.
5. Dead stick landing in open territory: Student to take off and climb to 1000m, then cut engine and successfully land in open field. Seek to walk away without seriously damaging the aircraft. wheels up belly landings are acceptable, wheels down landing on road or highway or other flat smooth (i.e. Frozen river, etc.) area is a plus. This is to simulate long flight with flak or battle damage. Saving the pilot and the plane will often improve the odds in the next mission.
Once all five have been completed to the instructor's satisfaction the instructor shall make the decision to offer a pilot commission into JG26 or not. If offered and accepted, the new pilot shall choose his/her call sign and the instructor shall post for all to see in the general forum. New pilots are expected to train with their Stafel leaders on a regular basis to improve teamwork and procedure.
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