By Kurt 'Froglips' Giesselman, MP Falcon 4.0 IP

  The helicopters are flying at low altitude. The DPRK knows this. Adjust the Intercept's altitude to 3-4000 feet. They would not climb to a 20 AGL assembly to attack helicopters flying at 500 feet only 20 miles away.

To make this a scramble we will leave the TOT locked and adjust the take-off time forward until the ingress flight path turns red then back off until it turns white again. If you check the Intercept's steerpoints you will see they are flying at or near full military power for the ingress. I have tried to get them to fly at full AB but the flight path always turns red at speeds over 500 knots.

Next we adjust the SEAD Escort's steerpoints to have them arrive at the intercept point close to when the bad guys will arrive. To do this we lock steerpoint six. We do not want to effect any changes in the SEAD's ingress. I found that I had to insert two extra steerpoints to 'slow' down the F-16s egress. When I test flew the mission, the time to shoot down the Su-25s actually burns up much of the time between steerpoint six, seven, and eight.

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I wish that Falcon gave us access to all the possible steerpoint actions for every steerpoint. Then we could set up a flight that began with some SEAD, then moved onto a HAVCAP, and ended with a Escort. It seems like this would be expected of a multi-role fighter. Nevertheless, keeping steerpoint six locked, adjust the SEAD flight's TOS at steerpoint nine until the Black Hawks and F-16s arrive at nearly the same time (the Su-27s arrive at the same time too!)

The end result should look something like the map below with everyone converging at the same time. If the Escort was not too sloppy with weapons management when they engaged the Su-25s they will have enough A-A left to take on two Su-27s. If they were less frugal then they can test their furball skills with gunsJ.

I hope that this mission building session will help everyone plan exciting and bug free missions. Watch for a series of special tricks for each mission type (very short articles, not like this tome).

Happy flying and watch your six,
Kurt 'Froglips' Giesselman
185th Reservoir Dogs
Falcon Instructor Pilot

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