Pete Bonanni: The Art of the Kill

Turkey — A nickname for an F-14.

Turn circle — A path that an aircraft cuts through the sky when it turns.

Turn radius — A measure of how tight an aircraft is turning.

Turn rate — A measure of how fast an aircraft moves around a turn circle.

Turning room — The distance between your aircraft’s flight path and the bandit’s flight path. The more distance, the more turning room.

Two-circle fight — A 1V1 fight where two fighters come at each other head-on and make same direction turns (that is, both turn to their left) on the pass. This brings both fighters turning into each other completing two separate circles.

Uncage — Release or enable a missile seeker head to independently track the target after lock-on.

Vertical — Away from the earth. When you pull your aircraft into the vertical, you pull straight up.

VID — Visually Identify.

Weapons envelope — The area around the bandit where your missiles or gun is effective.

Winchester — Out of weapons.

Author: Pete Bonanni

Editors: Howard Bornstein, Robert Giedt and Marisa Ong

Graphic Designer: Carrie Galbraith

Illustrator: Lawrence Kevin

Product Management: Steve Blankenship

Product Marketing: Neil Johnston and Kathryn Lynch

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DLOs — Desired Learning Objectives

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Mud Hens — F-15Es

drag — a turn away from the enemy

merge — the point where the opposing fighters pass each other

snot locker — toward my nose

angels 18 — 18,000 feet altitude

Mach — the speed of sound

pucker factor — anxiety level

jink out — defensive maneuver against a gun attack

Turkey — F-14

perch setups — setups in front of the attacker

crawl back up into the cockpit — mentally catch up with the aircraft

alpha — angle of attack

The math involved to calculate turn radius is: TR (turn radius) = V 2/gG

V is the aircraft’s velocity in feet per second. Little g is gravity, and big G is the G the aircraft is pulling.

Turn rate = K G/V

K is a constant and big G and V are the same as in the equation for turn radius.

KCAS — knots, computed airspeed

nm — nautical miles

The Falcon 3.0 simulation features the most prominent aiming cue of EEGS, the EEGS funnel.

pitot boom — a sensor probe on the nose of the F-16

ILS — instrument landing system

SFO — simulated flameout

pitch back — a climbing high-G turn that ends with the aircraft heading in the opposite direction

split-S — a maneuver that rolls the aircraft 180° to an inverted position, pulls the nose through the horizon and ends up wings-level, heading in the opposite direction

GCI — ground control intercept

ACM — air combat maneuvering

AWACS — Airborne Warning and Control System