Part II

INTERCEPT PROCEDURES TEXTBOOK

Developing a Game plan

While developing a game plan, keep the following information in mind:

1. Be aggressive on initial cuts. Round off GCI calls to your favor. The bogey must be

within the limits of the scope by 20 nm.

2. Some goals may be unattainable. Be aggressive at range, but control the intercept for the

FOX-1.

3. Use the buster if required, but don't forget to remove it when it is no longer needed. Your

ownship speed should be a part of your scan--if it is not, make it so!

4. Analyze TA quickly on initial contact (cut to AO). Reconvert if necessary.

5. If on a cut away with a target aspect goal, calculate LS (anticipate reaching the LS goal

first), monitor it throughout the run, and then turn to a 0 cut when the LS goal is attained

and remain there until the turn to AH is required.

6. There is no requirement to have the bogey on collision. Anticipate drifting TA prior to

lead and/or displacement.

PART II

Jinking Bogey

A "jinking bogey" is a bogey that changes heading, airspeed, and/or altitude during the

course of the intercept. At this point in the syllabus, the bogey will only jink in heading, and

only at the FOX-1 range. The fighter must be able to recognize and react to all bogey heading

jinks.

In conversions at VT-86, the bogey may jink toward the fighter as long as the bogey does not

change the DOP, or it may jink away from the fighter so as to increase TA to any aspect not to

exceed 50.

Spatial Relationships Created by a Heading Jink

Remember from IP-9 that the displacement points place the bogey roughly 25 degrees off CB

after the DT. As a result, the bogey is expected to drift at approximately the same rate for all

amounts of TA immediately after the DT.

If the bogey jinks in any direction, TA and LS are instantaneously changed. AO does not

change immediately. Following the FOX-1 and subsequent bogey jink, the displacement point

(AO) will be incorrect because it was determined by the TA prior to the jink. An instantaneous

change in AO will not be apparent. However, during the CT, the drift will appear as if the bogey

was overdisplaced or underdisplaced.

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