Hi.
I'm wondering which references you guys use when flying fingertip and close trail formations?
Up until now, we've used three different ones and the one we've using now seems to work best: outboard aileron-hinge to tip of cowling, wing TE splits wing in two and opposite elevator just visible behind rudder.
The one on the pic below is the first one we used but that one placed the wingman too far aft: spinner to tip of wheelpant and opposite elevator just visible behind rudder.
For close trail, we're using the upper surface of the wing JUST visible and nose-tail separation.
By the way; I remember from the Airforce-flying that when we flew box-formations, # 2 and # 3 moved slighly aft of the normal finger-position so the box would look better. (more symetric)
Do you use different finger-ref's when flying box?
Looking forward to hear from you people....
I'm wondering which references you guys use when flying fingertip and close trail formations?
Up until now, we've used three different ones and the one we've using now seems to work best: outboard aileron-hinge to tip of cowling, wing TE splits wing in two and opposite elevator just visible behind rudder.
The one on the pic below is the first one we used but that one placed the wingman too far aft: spinner to tip of wheelpant and opposite elevator just visible behind rudder.
For close trail, we're using the upper surface of the wing JUST visible and nose-tail separation.
By the way; I remember from the Airforce-flying that when we flew box-formations, # 2 and # 3 moved slighly aft of the normal finger-position so the box would look better. (more symetric)
Do you use different finger-ref's when flying box?
Looking forward to hear from you people....