Figure 15 - P-8250086

INTERCEPT PROCEDURES TEXTBOOK

Figure 15

To recover control of the intercept, the fighter should command a "Hard as poss" turn to a

heading 30 degrees beyond the bogey heading and call "lost contact" to GCI. This brings the

fighter back towards the bogey flight path as rapidly as practical. Radar contact should be

anticipated near the nose, drifting toward bogey heading. If no contact is acquired within

approximately 5 seconds, and if no GCI information has yet been given, the fighter should turn

towards bogey heading with a "standard" turn. This entire procedure is called a "compass

recovery

Figure 16

The compass recovery is not a remedy for all break-lock or lost contact situations. If

the bogey had been allowed to drift cold with low target aspect (i.e. 5 TA displaced to 45, and

the bogey drifts off the scope), executing a compass recovery will place the fighter inside BFP,

possibly abeam the bogey, as shown below.