Flight Path Overshoot

BASIC FIGHTER MANEUVERS (BFM)

CHAPTER TEN

As the attacker's nose becomes a threat again out of the high yo yo, the defensive student will

call "Nose on, pitch back right/left, lift vector on". When the attacker's aircraft reaches the

horizon, the OUI should call for a slice into the attacker. The defender's maneuvers, if properly

timed, should result in a less defensive position.

Attacker Action

Defensive Student response/ Defensive IP action

Call

Roll in/ low reversal

"Hard right, bogey right 5." Hard turn into bogey

Nose on out of low reversal

"Nose on."

Maintain hard turn into

bogey

Wings level, out of plane,

"Nose off, unload."

Ease turn, unload, get knots

high yo yo maneuver

back- energy addition

"Nose on, pitch back

Hard turn back into bogey

Attacker starts to commit

right/left lift vector on."

nose back to defender

(recognized by wings crack)

Attacker's aircraft reaches

"Slice right / left (into the

Slice into bogey

the horizon.

attacker) give me 280."

Follow on BFM as required

1014. FLIGHT PATH OVERSHOOT

This scenario will demonstrate an attack by a bogey that attacks with excessive closure which

results in an overshoot of the defender's extended six o'clock. This attack presents a reversal

opportunity for the defender.

This attack will be initiated with the attacker's standard roll-in off the perch and low reversal.

Out of the low reversal, the attacker will threaten the defender with his nose. The defensive

student will honor this threat with a "Nose On" ICS call to his pilot. This "Nose On" call will

initiate a harder turn into the threat aircraft, which will complicate the bogey's attack by

increasing their AOT and closure. As the bogey presses the attack, and enters the gun range, the

defensive student will call "Nose on, break right". The break turn will force the attacker to

overshoot the defender's flight path at close range (inside the control point).

Recognizing this close aboard flight path overshoot, the defensive student will capitalize on this

a reversal opportunity and call "Reverse, pull for his six, Bogey overshot". A timely reversal

(executed as the bogey flies through your six o'clock) may result in a follow-on 3-9 overshoot

and a role reversal in which the defender gains positional advantage. Another possibility is entry

into a neutral or defensive flat scissors.

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BASIC FIGHTER MANEUVERS (BFM)