Combination Maneuver

AIR FORCE T-38 TRACK INTERMEDIATES

CHAPTER 2

205.

COMBINATION MANEUVER

a. Description

Combination Maneuvers, as the name implies, is nothing more than combining a series of

aerobatic maneuvers into a single evolution. A maximum of FOUR maneuvers may be "linked"

together.

b. General

The aerobatic training you receive is NOT intended to prepare you for the airshow circuit! As

previously discussed, aerobatic training IS taught to allow you to make the aircraft perform

precise and controlled maneuvers, flying the aircraft throughout more of its envelope.

By combining maneuvers, you will need to plan ahead to the second maneuver while

completing the first half. As always, maintain a constant and vigilant VFR scan, especially

during the maneuvers.

Energy management should be a part of the discussion so as to plan maneuvers to maximize

aircraft airspeed/altitude, while staying within the assigned airspace. This should be a major

consideration for which maneuvers are linked together and in what order.

Example: One-Half Cuban YBarrel Roll Y Immelman Y Split-S

c. Procedures

Perform all maneuvers IAW the procedures previously set forth for the maneuvers you intend

to fly. The SNA shall pre-plan his Combination Maneuvers and thoroughly brief his/her

intentions to the IP during the pre-flight briefing. While modifications and variations are

authorized during the flight, the intent is that impromptu and non-briefed Combination

Maneuvers NOT be accomplished.

206.

MAINTAINING AN AREA USING RADIAL/DME/ALTITUDE

In the Air Force, you will always be departing and arriving on an IFR clearance; you are not

cleared to maneuver until in your block of the MOA, in VMC. Maintaining the boundaries of

the area is the bottom line in UPT and your IP will not allow you to go out of the area because

that will result in an IFR violation on his wings. If you have to knock off a maneuver to stay

within the boundaries of the area then so be it, you must not go out of the area. In T-38

Formation, you are going to go to either the RoseHill MOA or R2915A at Eglin. You will work

these areas in radial/DME and from 5-10K MSL. You can pick up visual references to work

over if you want, but the area is defined by specific Radial/DME and altitude and that is the

standard you will be held to. At AF UPT, go out of the area, and you can expect to UNSAT the

ride. The secret to maintaining an area boundary is determining the "meat" of the area. Some

areas are wider than they are long, meaning that they are better to work back and forth with

radials keeping a fairly constant DME, or they are longer then they are wide, namely, you can

work along a center radial dialed in the IND-350 CDI, and then work back and forth in DME.

Set up inner limits for yourself when working the area so that you do not go past the real

T-38 PRECISION AEROBATICS 2-7