CLOSE AIR SUPPORT (ECAS)
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FM 102-5-3
EMERGENCY CLOSE AIR SUPPORT REQUEST
Mission is as follows: Emergency Close Air Support, IP grid 063132. Guns only in support of SPECOPs CSAR. Be aware, on-scene commander reports enemy forces well within minimum safe danger close. You are authorized MSD danger close, commander’s initials Bravo Gulf. Two Ghosthawks en route for extract, no other friendlies in area. Team CCT will make contact for talk on, TYPE1 Control.
Wipeout A-164, Archer Flight, 1 of 1.
Task CAS on ALTCOM Command priority.
Altis Air Base mid runway ARP for rearm, repair, and medical.
You’re authorized rearm and retask to East Live Fire Range if you need flight hours.
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NOTES:
– Turn your music and radio volume up.
– You can ‘spacebar.x2’ from the cockpit to toggle a full screen ‘quick glance’ view of the UAV feed. This SADL/UAV link is meant to be a virtual replacement of the ‘TGP’ view on the MFCD. ‘spacebar.x2 again to exit it after a quick glance. Calibrating the link from the hanger will ensure you won’t have to mess with it in flight.
– Please read the initial briefing (or Journal) for tips and more information
– IMPORTANT: Some people have asked questions about how many OPFOR need to be taken out to succeed in the mission. The answer is: none. As long as you suppress the OPFOR enough for BLUFOR to make it to the extract choppers and get off the ground, you’re golden. In my experience, if there are more than 5 OPFOR, it’s probably not going to happen, but it is uncertain since it’s dynamic and happens differently each time. Remember though, BLUFOR are out of ammo… they’ll get shot in the back making their way to extract if you don’t suppress well enough. The timing of when BLUFOR moves to extract is variable as well. It depends on how close OPFOR is getting, etc. You’ll hear CCT say ‘We’re moving! We’re moving South!’ when they actually move. I achieve this through variable timing between radio calls, and making the actual move event consistent with the ‘moving’ radio call in the sqf.
TASK1 Success/Fail params:
FAIL: BLUFOR < 3 or CSAR choppers cannot move
SUCCESS: OPFOR = 0 or Choppers loaded and off the ground
