viperpunk
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I made it to the class; thanks for the help Buffdriver. There is a workbook and apparently a website. Oh by the way, it's not for fighter guys but we need it to teach IRC. But it has been a capes class for me and shown me that heavy guys fly tough approaches often and have no "get out of jail power" that I have in my aircraft so it makes sense to me why this is a big deal for guys who fly instruments in bad places in bad weather for a living. It's not weapons school, it's only two weeks long. But it's also not the same as what we learned in UPT, because I've never flown an NDB in Africa or a circling approach in South America, but they've never shot AMRAAM or Maverick. We argue all the time at who is better and what is more important but bottom line our communities are just different and impossible to compare.
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Has anyone been to Advanced Instrument School? I'm headed there tommorow but no one can tell me anything about it; I have orders and an airline ticket but that's it. Apparently it has moved from Randolph to OKC but it's not at Tinker, I've heard Will Rogers ANGB....? This is pretty much the most poorly planned TDY that I've ever been on so I'm hoping someone on here has been and can give me some advice on when and where to show up and where to stay. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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If I'm not mistaken you still have to be in the top 50% of your class to track 38s at SUPT. Otherwise they'll send you to T-1s and in search of another guard unit.
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Once a fighter pilot by Jerry Cook, Fast Movers by John Sherwood, and Wings of Fury by Robert Wilcox are all good reads. Warthog: Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War was written by William Smallwood, the same guy who wrote Strike Eagle and is also pretty good.
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So what is he basing his clearance on? Doesn't he need to see the target but not the aircraft under type 2?